2002 in film

history

The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between , Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, , Men in Black II, Analyze That, , Stuart Little 2, Blade II, the 3rd installment Austin Powers in Goldmember, the 10th installments Star Trek Nemesis and Jason X.

Top grossing films

Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2002. The top ten films of 2002, by worldwide gross in $USD, as well as the US & Canada, UK, and Australia grosses, are as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable" align="left" style="margin:auto;" !2002 Rank!!Title!!Studio!!Worldwide Gross!!U.S./Canada Gross!!U.K. Gross!!Australia Gross |- |1 | |New Line |$925,282,504 |$341,786,758 |$91,914,687 |$26,850,032 |- |2 |Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |Warner Bros. |$878,643,482 |$261,988,482 |$88,104,108 |$20,857,535 |- |3 |Spider-Man |Columbia |$821,708,551 |$403,706,375 |$45,780,340 |$16,890,782 |- |4 | |Fox |$649,398,328 |$310,676,740 |$58,762,764 |$18,632,998 |- |5 |Men in Black II |Columbia |$441,818,803 |$190,418,803 |$34,571,702 |$9,698,146 |- |6 |Die Another Day |MGM |$431,971,116 |$160,942,139 |$59,182,873 |$10,520,593 |- |7 |Signs |Touchstone |$408,247,917 |$227,966,634 |$25,004,129 |$6,475,864 |- |8 |Ice Age |Fox |$383,257,136 |$176,387,405 |$21,425,322 |$10,869,472 |- |9 |My Big Fat Greek Wedding |IFC Films |$368,744,044 |$241,438,208 |$20,927,227 |$15,168,243 |- |10 |Minority Report |DreamWorks / Fox |$358,372,926 |$132,072,926 |$31,388,860 |$6,584,824 |}

These numbers are taken from Box Office Mojo, including their »2002 Yearly Box Office Results.

2002 produced fifty-one films that have grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status. Seven films have grossed more than $400 million, reaching "international blockbuster" status.

has grossed $925.3 million, making it the eighth highest grossing film in history.

Events

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  • May - The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival.
  • May 3-5 - Spider-Man is the first film to make $100+ million during its opening weekend in the US unadjusted to inflation.
  • May 16 - opens in theater. Although a huge success, it is the only episode not to be the highest grosser of the year.
  • AmĂ©lie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet wins the 2002 Cesar Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, and Best Art Direction. AmĂ©lie also became the highest-grossing French-language film in the United States ever.
  • Another French-language film Brotherhood of the Wolf also became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States in the last two decades.

Awards

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" |- ! rowspan=2 width=200| Category/Organization !! colspan=2 width=250| 60th Golden Globe Awards
January 19, 2003 !! rowspan=2 width=250| 56th BAFTA Awards
February 23, 2003 !! rowspan=2 width=250| 75th Academy Awards
March 23, 2003 |- ! width=200| Drama !! width=200| Musical or Comedy |- | Best Film || The Hours || Chicago || The Pianist|| Chicago |- | Best Director || colspan=2| Martin Scorsese
Gangs of New York || Roman Polanski
The Pianist || Roman Polanski
The Pianist |- | Best Actor || Jack Nicholson
About Schmidt || Richard Gere
Chicago || Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York || Adrien Brody
The Pianist |- | Best Actress || Nicole Kidman
The Hours || Renée Zellweger
Chicago || Nicole Kidman
The Hours || Nicole Kidman
The Hours |- | Best Supporting Actor || colspan=2| Chris Cooper
Adaptation. || Christopher Walken
Catch Me If You Can || Chris Cooper
Adaptation. |- | Best Supporting Actress || colspan=2| Meryl Streep
Adaptation. || Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago|| Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago |- | Best Screenplay, Adapted || rowspan=2 colspan=2| About Schmidt
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor || Adaptation.
Charlie and Donald Kaufman ||The Pianist
Ronald Harwood |- | Best Screenplay, Original || Talk to Her
Pedro AlmodĂłvar || Talk to Her
Pedro AlmodĂłvar |- | Best Score || colspan=2| Frida
Elliot Goldenthal || The Hours
Philip Glass || Frida
Elliot Goldenthal |- | Best Foreign Language Film || colspan=2| Talk to Her
(Hable con ella) || Talk to Her
(Hable con ella) || Nowhere in Africa
(Nirgendwo in Afrika) |- | Best Animated Film || colspan=2| — || — || Spirited Away
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Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, Poland

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): :The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan, U.K. / Ireland

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan :Bloody Sunday, directed by Paul Greengrass, U.K. / Ireland

Films released in 2002

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Deaths

  • January 13 - Ted Demme, 38, director
  • February 15 - Kevin Smith, 38, television actor
  • February 21 - John Thaw, 60, actor
  • February 22 - Chuck Jones, 89, animator
  • February 27 - Spike Milligan, 83, comedian
  • March 27 - Milton Berle, 93, comedian
  • March 27 - Dudley Moore, 66, actor/comedian
  • March 27 - Billy Wilder, 95, filmmaker
  • April 9 - John Agar, 81, actor
  • April 16 - Robert Urich, 55, television actor
  • April 22 - Linda Lovelace, 53, porn star (Deep Throat)
  • June 5 - Dee Dee Ramone, 49, bassist/songwriter
  • June 29 - Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer/actress
  • July 5 - Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress
  • July 6 - John Frankenheimer, 72, director
  • July 9 - Rod Steiger, 77, actor
  • July 23 - Leo McKern, 82, actor
  • August 16 - Jeff Corey, 88, actor, television director
  • August 18 - Dean Reisner, 83, screenwriter
  • September 7 - Katrin Cartlidge, 41, actress
  • September 11 - Kim Hunter, 79, actress
  • September 14 LaWanda Page, 81, actress
  • September 16 - James Gregory, 90, actor
  • October 2 - Bruce Paltrow, 58, director
  • October 10 - Teresa Graves, 54, actress
  • October 25 - Richard Harris, 72, actor
  • November 3 - Jonathan Harris, 87, actor
  • November 18 - James Coburn, 74, actor
  • December 3 - Glenn Quinn, 32, actor
  • December 30 - Mary Brian, 96, actress

Wide-release movies

In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria: Dates given are U.S. and Canadian release dates.

January - March

{| class="wikitable" |+ "align=bottom" | ‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release |- bgcolor="#B0E0E6" align="center" | colspan="2" | Opening | width="17%" | Title | width="16%" | Studio | Cast & Crew |- | rowspan="8" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | J
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April - June

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L | rowspan="3" align="center"| 5 | Big Trouble || Touchstone Pictures || Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Tom Sizemore, Johnny Knoxville, Dennis Farina |- | High Crimes || 20th Century Fox || Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower |- | National Lampoon's Van Wilder || Artisan Entertainment || Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Kal Penn |- | rowspan="3" align="center" | 12 | Changing Lanes || Paramount Pictures || Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt, Amanda Peet |- | Frailty || Lions Gate Entertainment || Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter |- | The Sweetest Thing || Columbia Pictures || Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane, Jason Bateman, Parker Posey |- | rowspan="3" align="center" | 19 | Murder by Numbers || Warner Bros. || Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt |- | My Big Fat Greek Wedding ‡ || IFC Films || Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Ian Gomez |- | The Scorpion King || Universal Studios || Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill, Grant Heslov, Peter Facinelli, Ralf Moeller |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | 26 | Jason X || New Line Cinema || Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck Campbell, Jonathan Potts, Peter Mensah, Melyssa Ade |- | Life or Something Like It || 20th Century Fox || Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Stockard Channing, Christian Kane, Tony Shalhoub |- | rowspan="12" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | M
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July - September

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October - December

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R | rowspan="2" align="center" | 6 | Analyze That || Warner Bros. || Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Cathy Moriarty |- | Empire || Universal Studios || John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Delilah Cotto, Denise Richards |- | rowspan="4" align="center" | 13 | Drumline || 20th Century Fox || Nick Cannon, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, Zoe Saldana, Jason Weaver |- | The Hot Chick || Touchstone Pictures || Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence, Eric Christian Olsen, Sam Doumit |- | Maid in Manhattan || Revolution Studios || Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson |- | Star Trek Nemesis || Paramount Pictures || Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden |- | align="center" | 18 | || New Line Cinema || Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies |- | rowspan="3" align="center" | 20 | Gangs of New York || Miramax Films || Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Jim Broadbent |- | Two Weeks Notice || Warner Bros. || Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant |- | The Wild Thornberrys Movie || Paramount Pictures || Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave, Jodi Carlisle, Danielle Harris, Flea |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | 25 | Catch Me If You Can || DreamWorks || Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye |- | Pinocchio || Miramax Films || Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Carlo Giuffrè, Fichi d'India, Kim Rossi Stuart, Giorgio Ariani |}

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