A Metaphor: King Kong (2005)

Peter Jackson's metaphor for what it's like making movies for a mass audience.  Expectations/demands.

2002 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled March 16, 2013

                      For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 2002

1. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
2. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
5. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
6. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones)
7. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
8. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
9. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
10. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasenthakul)

Honorable Mentions: Voice of Hope (Maciej J. Drygas), K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow), Sunshine State (John Sayles), Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)

Best Actor

* Nicolas Cage – Adaptation.

Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York

Edward Norton – 25^th Hour

Sam Rockwell – Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Adam Sandler – Punch-Drunk Love

Best Actress

Kate Dollenmayer – Funny Ha Ha

Nicole Kidman – The Hours

* Diane Lane – Unfaithful

Julianne Moore – Far From Heaven

Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago

Best Supporting Actor

Cedric the Entertainer – Barbershop

Chris Cooper – Adaptation.

Vincent D’Onofrio – The Salton Sea

Barry Pepper – 25^th Hour

* Andy Serkis – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Punch-Drunk Love

Best Supporting Actress

Toni Collette – About a Boy

Edie Falco – Sunshine State

* Julianne Moore – The Hours

Samantha Morton – Minority Report

Meryl Streep – Adaptation.

Emma Watson – Punch-Drunk Love

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Punch-Drunk Love

Kathryn Bigelow – K-19: The Widowmaker

Brian De Palma – Femme Fatale

* Spike Jonze – Adaptation.

Aleksandr Sokurov – Russian Ark

Best Screenplay

* Adaptation. (Charlie Kaufman & Donald Kaufman)

Catch Me If You Can (Jeff Nathanson)

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson)

Minority Report (Scott Frank & Jon Cohen)

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Cinematography

Far From Heaven (Edward Lachman)

Femme Fatale (Thierry Arbogast)

Punch-Drunk Love (Robert Elswit)

Road to Perdition (Conrad L. Hall)

* Russian Ark (Tillman Büttner)

Best Editing

28 Days Later (Chris Gill)

Adaptation. (Eric Zumbrunnen)

Femme Fatale (Bill Pankow)

* I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Erin Nordstrom)

Minority Report (Michael Kahn)

Best Film Score

Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstiein)

* Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Howard Shore)

Punch-Drunk Love (Jon Brion)

Best Production Design

Catch Me If You Can

CQ

Devdas

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

* Minority Report

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

25^th Hour

About a Boy

* Gangs of New York

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Road to Perdition

2002 Films Seen (63 features as of 03.16.2013)

8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)

13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher, 2002)

25^th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)

28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)

About a Boy (Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz, 2002)

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)

Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)

Analyze That (Harold Ramis, 2002)

Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach, 2002)

Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002)

Barbershop (Tim Story, 2002)

Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)

The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)

Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)

Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002)

Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)

City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 2002)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney, 2002)

The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds, 2002)

Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito, 2002)

Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2002)

Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Callie Khouri, 2002)

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)

Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002)

Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)

Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)

Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002)

The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta, 2002)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones, 2002)

Ice Age (Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha, 2002)

Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers, 2002)

Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002)

K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002)

The Kid Stays in the Picture (Nanette Burstein & Brett Morgan, 2002)

Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (Bill Corcoran, 2002)

Lifeline (Victor Erice, 2002) [10 minute short]

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)

Maid in Manhattan (Wayne Wang, 2002)

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)

Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill, 2002)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick, 2002)

One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, 2002)

Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher, 2002)

The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002)

Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002)

The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary, 2002)

Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)

The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso, 2002)

Signs (M. Night Shyamalan, 2002)

Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)

Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002)

The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson, 2002)

Sunshine State (John Sayles, 2002)

Sweet Home Alabama (Andy Tennant, 2002)

Time Changer (Rich Christiano, 2002)

Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence, 2002)

Unfaithful (Adrienne Lyne, 2002)

Voice of Hope (Maciej J. Drygas, 2002)

2001 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled March 8, 2013

                      For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 2001

1. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. Ali (Michael Mann)
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
6. Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman)
7. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
8. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
9. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (Sogo Ishii)
10. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)

Honorable Mentions: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai), Gosford Park (Robert Altman), Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón), The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)

Best Actor
* Gene Hackman – The Royal Tenenbaums

Jack Nicholson – The Pledge

Will Smith – Ali

Billy Bob Thorton – The Man Who Wasn’t There

Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom

Best Actress

Halle Berry – Monster’s Ball

Maggie Cheung – In the Mood for Love

Catherine Keener – Lovely & Amazing

Audrey Tautou – Amélie

* Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive

Best Supporting Actor

* Jim Broadbent – Moulin Rouge!

Steve Buscemi – Ghost World

Jude Law – A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Ian McKellen – Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Tony Shalhoub – The Man Who Wasn’t There

Ben Stiller – The Royal Tenenbaums

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind

Cameron Diaz – Vanilla Sky

* Illeana Douglas – Ghost World

Frances O’Connor – A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Gwyneth Paltrow – The Royal Tenebaums

Maribel Verdú – Y Tu Mamá También

Best Director

Robert Altman – Gosford Park

Claire Denis – Trouble Every Day

* Peter Jackson – Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

David Lynch – Mulholland Drive

Steven Spielberg - A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Best Screenplay

Electric Dragon, 80.000V (Sogo Ishii)

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Frances Walsh, Phillipa Boyens & Peter Jackson)

Memento (Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

* The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson)

Best Cinematography

* Ali (Emmanuel Lubezski)

Electric Dragon, 80.000V (Kasamatsu Norimichi)

In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle & Mark Li Ping-bin)

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (Andrew Lesnie)

Mulholland Drive (Peter Deming)

Best Editing

Ali (William Goldberg, Lynzee Klingman & Stephen E. Rivkin)

Black Hawk Down (Pietro Scalia)

Memento (Dody Dorn)

* Mulholland Drive (Mary Sweeney)

Trouble Every Day (Nelly Quettier)

Best Film Score

* Amélie (Yann Tiersen)

In the Mood for Love (Mike Glalasso & Shigeru Umebayashi)

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore)

Mulholland Drive (Angelo Badalamenti)

Best Production Design

* A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Amélie

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

The Man Who Wasn’t There

The Royal Tenebaums

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

Gosford Park

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Memento

The Pledge

* The Royal Tenenbaums



2001 Films Seen (49 features as of 03.08.2013)

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)

Amélie (Jean-Pierre Juenet, 2001)

American Pie 2 (J.B. Rogers, 2001)

Baby Boy (John Singleton, 2001)

Bandits (Barry Levinson, 2001)

A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)

Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)

Blow (Ted Demme, 2001)

Bridget Jones’ Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001)

Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman, 2001)

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)

Electric Dragon 80.000 V (Sogo Ishii, 2001)

Frailty (Bill Paxton, 2001)

Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)

Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)

Hannibal (Ridley Scott, 2001)

Hearts in Atlantis (Scott Hicks, 2001)

Heist (David Mamet, 2001)

Hell House (George Ratliff, 2001)

I Am Sam (Jessie Nelson, 2001)

In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2001)

Iris (Richard Eyre, 2001)

Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston, 2001)

Life as a House (Irwin Winkler, 2001)

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)

Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001)

The Majestic (Frank Darabont, 2001)

The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen, 2001)

Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2001)

Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich, 2001)

Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

Monster’s Ball (Marc Forster, 2001)

The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001)

The Pledge (Sean Penn, 2001)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)

Schlock!  The Secret History of American Movies (Ray Greene, 2001)

The Score (Frank Oz, 2001)

Scotland, PA (Billy Morrissette, 2001)

Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 2001)

Swordfish (Dominic Sena, 2001)

Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001)

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)

Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)

What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)

Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)