Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

7th Annual Cinema-Scene Awards

2002


Best Picture
#1: The Pianist (dir: Roman Polanski)
#2: Songs from the Second Floor (dir: Roy Andersson)
#3: Bloody Sunday (dir: Paul Greengrass)
#4: Adaptation. (dir: Spike Jonze)
#5: Far from Heaven (dir: Todd Haynes)
#6: Y Tu Mamá También (dir: Alfonso Cuarón)
#7: Talk to Her (dir: Pedro Almodóvar)
#8: Time Out (dir: Laurent Cantet)
#9: Bus 174 (dir: José Padilha)
#10:
Insomnia (dir: Christopher Nolan)

Honorable Mentions:
The Piano Teacher (dir: Michael Haneke), The Kid Stays in the Picture (dir: Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgan), Domestic Violence (dir: Frederick Wiseman), Unfaithful (dir: Adrian Lyne), The Son's Room (dir: Nanni Moretti), 25th Hour (dir: Spike Lee), Rabbit-Proof Fence (dir: Philip Noyce), The Truth About Charlie (dir: Jonathan Demme), 24 Hour Party People (dir: Michael Winterbottom), Panic Room (dir: David Fincher), About Schmidt (dir: Alexander Payne), Devils on the Doorstep (dir: Wen Jiang), Femme Fatale (dir: Brian De Palma), Gangs of New York (dir: Martin Scorsese), The Hours (dir: Stephen Daldry), I'm Going Home (dir: Manoel de Oliveira), Read My Lips (dir: Jacques Audiard), Solaris (dir: Steven Soderbergh), The Rules of Attraction (dir: Roger Avery), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (dir: Peter Jackson), The Lady and the Duke (dir: Eric Rohmer), Heaven (dir: Tom Tykwer), Spirited Away (dir: Hayao Miyazaki), Moonlight Mile (dir: Brad Silberling), Lilo & Stitch (dir: Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders), Lovely & Amazing (dir: Nicole Holofcener), Minority Report (dir: Steven Spielberg), and Little Otik (dir: Jan Svenkmajer).

Best Director
#1: Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her)
#2: Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor)
#3: Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven)

#4: Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
#5: Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York)


Best Actor
#1: James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday)
#2: Michel Piccoli (I'm Going Home)
#3: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
#4: Aurélie Recoing (Time Out)
#5: Michael Caine (The Quiet American)


Best Actress
#1: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
#2: Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven)
#3: Cate Blanchett (Heaven)
#4: Maribel Verdú (Y Tu Mamá También)
#5: Diane Lane (Unfaithful)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Brian Cox (25th Hour)
#2: Alan Arkin (13 Conversations About One Thing)
#3: Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
#4: Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York)
#5: Ray Liotta (Narc)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Julianne Moore (The Hours)
#2: Meryl Streep (Adaptation.)
#3: Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing)
#4: Annie Girardot (The Piano Teacher)
#5: Parker Posey (Personal Velocity)


Best Original Screenplay
#1: Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
#2: Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)

#3: 24 Hour Party People (Frank Cottrell Boyce)
#4: Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
#5: Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Adaptation. (Charlie Kaufman)
#2: The Pianist (Ronald Harwood)

#3: The Hours (David Hare)
#4: The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
#5: The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary)


Best Cinematography
#1: Janusz Kaminski (Minority Report)
#2: Edward Lachman (Far from Heaven)
#3: Javier Aguirresarobe (Talk to Her)
#4: Ivan Strasburg (Bloody Sunday)
#5: Christopher Doyle (Rabbit-Proof Fence)


Best Film Editing
#1: The Rules of Attraction
#2: Insomnia

#3: 24 Hour Party People
#4: Bloody Sunday
#5: Gangs of New York


Best Original Score
#1: Far from Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
#2: Talk to Her (Alberto Iglesias)
#3: The Hours (Philip Glass)

#4: Songs from the Second Floor (Benny Andersson)
#5: CQ (Mellow)


Best Original Song
#1: "Gollum's Song" (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
#2: "Here to Stay" (24 Hour Party People)
#3: "Dragonfly" (CQ)
#4: "The Hands that Built America" (Gangs of New York)
#5: "Lose Yourself" (8 Mile)


Best Production Design
#1: Gangs of New York
#2: The Lady and the Duke
#3: Chicago

#4: Bloody Sunday
#5: Songs from the Second Floor


Best Costume Design
#1: Gangs of New York
#2: Far from Heaven
#3: Chicago
#4: The Cat's Meow
#5: The Lady and the Duke


Best Makeup
#1: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
#2: Gangs of New York
#3: The Pianist

#4: Frida
#5: Road to Perdition


Best Sound
#1: 24 Hour Party People
#2: Chicago

#3: The Pianist
#4: Y Tu Mamá También
#5: Gangs of New York


Best Visual Effects
#1: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
#2: Minority Report
#3: The Lady and the Duke
#4: Gangs of New York
#5: Simone

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary)


Best First Feature
Roman Coppola (CQ)


Worst Film of the Year
Dragonfly (dir: Tom Shadyac)
by David L. Blaylock