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'01 FiLM BiTCH Awards
The Winners 2/25/02
(Nominations were posted on 02/09/02)
In honor of the Olympics I'm handing out medals this year instead (also because I like to spread the wealth and if I don't do gold/silver/ bronze than Moulin Rouge! is a clear "sweeper" and I don't agree with sweeps...Honoring favorite cinematic achievements of 2001. 5 nominees in most categories. Semi Finalists and Finalists refer to achievements that were considered and are well regarded. The choice is often difficult.
Contenders I only think it's fair to show what I've seen. If you're dissappointed in my choices you can't just assume I didn't see something. That's what I always assume about the Academy voters! I don't think they see as many movies as devotees. So if you want a complete list of the 90 or so movies I saw in 2001 you can click here.
Major
Categories
/ Tech Categories / Extra
Categories / Best Scenes
Best
Picture
of the Year
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Hedwig
and the Angry Inch
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LOTR:
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Moulin
Rouge! |
In
the Mood For Love
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Mulholland
Drive
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John
Cameron Mitchell's visceral
rock musical superbly transfers to the screen without losing any of
its wit or nerve.
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Peter
Jackon's vision brought Middle Earth and its characters to life. An
epic that still connects on an intimate level.
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What
extravagance did Baz cook up this time? 'Truth. Beauty. Freedom. And
above all Love.' "Spectacular! Spectacular!". |
Wong
Kar Wai's artful meditation on infidelity, yearning, and emotional stasis.
Nothing short of masterful and mesmerizing.
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David Lynch's ultra hypnotic Hollywood nightmare became an instant neo-
classic. A remarkably fluid dream.
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Finalist:
Gosford
Park dir. Robert Altman
Full top ten list |
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OSCARS here.... |
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Best Director
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Wong
Kar Wai
In the Mood for Love |
David
Lynch
Mulholland Drive |
Baz
Luhrmann
Moulin Rouge! |
Robert
Altman
Gosford Park |
Peter
Jackson
The Fellowship of the Ring |
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For
romantic insight. For hypnotic filmmaking.
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For
the year's most thrilling puzzle. For his singular vision.
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For
triumphant 'real artifice.' For a thrilling musical. |
For
his choreographic panache. For his best film in years.
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For
fulfilling his enormous promise. For making it work.
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Finalist:
Wes
Anderson -The Royal Tenenbaums
Semi Finalists: Mann -Ali * Mitchell -Hedwig * Moodyson -Together * Field -In the Bedroom |
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Best Actress
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Stockard
Channing
Julie Styron The Business of Strangers |
Nicole
Kidman
Grace The Others & Satine Moulin Rouge! |
Naomi
Watts
Betty / Diane Mulholland Drive |
Charlotte
Rampling
Marie Under the Sand |
Renée
Zelwegger
Bridget Jones Bridget Jones' Diary |
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For
elevating the film to a character study. For illuminating, emerging
self-awareness beneath a tough shell.
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For
screaming, singing, dancing, seducing, and entrancing. For topping her
previous best twice in one year.
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For
pulling the rug out from under us not once but twice within the same
über successful stylized performance. |
For
keeping us guessing. For nuance, modulation, mystery, and doing just
about everything an actor can do right.
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For
annually
proving that she's our most gifted comedienne. For good
humor and charm as a "wanton
sex goddess".
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Finalists:
Kirsten
Dunst -crazy/beautiful * Sissy Spacek -In the Bedroom
Semi Finalists: Endre -Faithless * Cheung -In the Mood for Love * Smith -Series 7 * |
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Best
Actor
For the record
-the initial lineup here was 6 men: McGregor, Mitchell, Osment, Smith, Thornton,
and Wilkinson.
I could not drop anyone. But then I saw Denzel's work in Training Day and
I can't really have seven nominees...
so I dropped Smith and Thornton. But I hated doing it. A great year for leading
men this was.
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Ewan
McGregor
Christian Moulin Rouge! |
John
Cameron Mitchell
Hedwig Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
Haley
Joel Osment
"David" A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
Denzel
Washington
Alonzo Training Day |
Tom
Wilkinson
Matt Fowler In the Bedroom |
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For
amazing warmth, innocence, and depth as a naive poet caught up in
a bohemian storm. For being the only actor for the role. |
For
sharp as nails comic timing, punk nerve, and even dramatic heft. Bravura
in every usual sense of the word.
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For
astounding with virtuosity in what was clearly a difficult role. That
he didn't get any awards for this is a crime.
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For
turning our preconceived notions on their heads. For infusing new
energy into his already impressive craft. An electric and winning
star turn.
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For the best performance in the well acted film. For illiciting a
powderkeg's worth of emotions without histrionics.
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Finalists:
Billy Bob Thornton -The Man Who Wasn't
There & Will Smith -Ali
Semi-Finalists: Winstone -Sexy Beast * Leung -In the Mood for Love * Rylance -Intimacy * Hackman -The Royal Tenenbaums |
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OSCAR
Race
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Best Supporting Actress
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Frances
McDormand
Marion Crane The Man Who Wasn't There |
Marisa
Tomei
Natalie In the Bedroom |
Kate
Winslet
Iris Murdoch Iris |
Helen
Mirren
Mrs. Wilson Gosford Park |
Maggie
Smith
Countess of Trentham Gosford Park |
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For
laughing too loudly at jokes, ignoring her husband in the bath, and
understanding his confession. Great.
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For
inhabiting the soul of a sad and damaged woman. Tomei conveys guilt
and remorse with aching clarity.
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For
her unceasing vitality. Kate the great makes you believe that everyone
would fall in love with Iris. |
For
making restraint and total emotional avoidance deeply emotional. For
fascinating from outside the spotlight.
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For
glorious delivery of seriously funny quips...as usual Maggie all but
steals the film she's appearing in.
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Finalists:
Laura
Haring
-Mulholland Drive *
Cate Blanchett -The Man Who Cried *
Semi-Finalists: Redman -Sexy Beast * Huston & Paltrow -The Royal Tenenbaums * Gugino -Center of the World * Thomas & Watson -Gosford Park * Washington -Our Song |
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Best Supporting
Actor
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Jim
Broadbent
Harold Zidler Moulin Rouge! |
Ben
Kingsley
Don Logan Sexy Beast |
Jude
Law
Gigolo Joe A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
Sir
Ian McKellen
Gandalf the Grey The Lord of the Rings |
Owen
Wilson
Eli Cash The Royal Tenenbaums & Hansel Zoolander |
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For
his inspired tragicomic wind-up-toy showman. For over-selling each line
like his life depended on it. |
For
disappearing completely into his role. For spewing bile and middle management-style
self loathing.
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For
a beautifully realized but purposefully one-note creation. An actor
who gets his own charisma.
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For
a full bodied performance where a stock character might have been. For
mixing majesty and mischief.
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For
being comedy's current MVP and writing scripts too! For making even
tiny moments sing with good humor.
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Finalist:
Gael Garcia Bernal -Amores Perros
Semi Finalists: Stahl -In the Bedroom/Bully * Mortenson -Lord of the Rings * Wood -Lord of the Rings * Gandolfini -The Mexican * Shalhoub -The Man Who Wasn't There |
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Best Original Screenplay
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Gosford
Park
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The
Man Who Wasn't There
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Memento
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No
Man's Land
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The
Royal Tenenbaums
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Julian
Fellowes For nimbly interweaving character, theme, and wit. |
The
Coen Bros.
For existential noir comedy and then unexpected marital drama. |
Christopher Nolan.
For going backwards and still making a terrible sort of sense. |
Danis
Tanovic
For retaining its humanity while laughing at war's absurdity. |
Wes
Anderson & Owen Wilson
For singular style, memorable characters and moving comedy. |
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Semi
Finalists: Moulin Rouge! * Sexy Beast
* Together
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Best Adapted Screenplay
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The
Deep End
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Ghost
World
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Hedwig
and
the Angry Inch |
In
the
Bedroom |
Lord
of the Rings
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David Siegel Inspired by the novel "The Blank Wall" by
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
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Terry
Zwigoff
Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. |
John
Cameron Mitchell Expertly transferred and recalibrated from his
own play.
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Todd
Field and Rob Festinger Building quietly off of the short story
"Killings" by Andre Dubois.
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Peter
Jackson and Fran Walsh From the novel "The Fellowship of the
Ring" by JRR Tolkien. |
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Best Animated Film
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Waking
Life
Fox Searchlight |
Monsters,
Inc
Pixar |
Final
Fantasy
Columbia |
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Yet
another indication that the genre is ready to move beyond just kid flicks.
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Hilarious
and inventive with memorable characters. |
Not
a great film but it does advance the artform in significant tech ways.
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OSCAR
Race
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Best Foreign Language Film
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Faithless
(Sweden) |
In
the Mood for Love
(Hong Kong) |
No
Man's Land
(Bosnia) |
Together
(Sweden) |
Under
the Sand
(France) |
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Bergman's
incisive script and Liv Ullman's unsentimal directorial hand craft a
harrowing drama.
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Wong
Kar Wai's exquisite love story starring the year's most ravishing couple. |
Danis
Tanovic's absurdist satire of the lunacy of modern war. Important, entertaining,
and well crafted.
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Moodyson's
sweetly accessible ensemble of radicals in a commune. It's the year's
smartest comedy.
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Francois
Ozon's provocative and quiet nightmare of denial is superbly acted by
the legendary Rampling.
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Semi-Finalists:
Le Fabuleux Destin d' Amélie Poulain
(France) * Lagaan
(India)
* Audition (Japan) * Adventures of Felix (France) |
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OSCARS here.... |
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