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Critics Awards 2002/03

USA:
National Society of Film Critics

Best Picture: The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
Best Foreign-Language Picture: Y Tu Mamá También
    (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best Director: Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
Best Screenplay: Ronald Harwood – The Pianist
Best Nonfiction Film: Standing in the Shadows of Motown    (Paul Justman)
Best Cinematography: Far From Heaven, Ed Lachman
Best Actor: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken
   (Catch Me If You Can)
Best Actress: Diane Lane (Unfaithful)
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson
    (Far From Heaven)
Film Heritage Award "to Kino International for its theatrical release of the restored long version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and its DVD releases of Lang's Die Nibelungen and the special boxed set of classic D.W. Griffith silent features and shorts."
Special Citation: "to the UCLA Film and Television Archive for its long-lived and heroic work in film preservation, restoration, and resurrection, including its recent rehabilitation of rehearsal and test footage from Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter."
The National Society of Film Critics, which comprises 55 of the country's leading movie critics, and which is member of FIPRESCI, held its thirty-seventh annual award voting meeting beginning of January in New York City.

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Canada:
Toronto Film Critics Association

Best Picture: Adaptation
Best Director: P.T. Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love
Best Screenplay: Adaptation
    (Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman)
Best Performance, Male: Nicolas Cage, Adaptation
Best Performance, Female: Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Best Supporting Performance, Male: Chris Cooper,
    Adaptation
Best Supporting Performance, Female: Emily Watson,
    Punch-Drunk Love
Best Documentary: Bowling for Columbine
Best Canadian Film: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Best First Feature: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner,
    directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Canadian Film Centre head Wayne Clarkson was awarded the Clyde Gilmour Award for his contributions to the understanding of and appreciation of cinema in Canada. Clarkson was previously the head of the Toronto Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival).

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Canada:
Association Québécoise des Critiques de Cinéma

Best long feature film of 2002: Hable con ella, Pedro Almodóvar.

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Montevideo:
Uruguayan Section of FIPRESCI

Best Film, ex-aequo: Hable con ella (Talk to her) by Pedro Almodóvar / El color del paraíso (Color of Paradise) by Majid Majidi
Best Latinamerican Film: Coronación, Silvio Caiozzi
Opera Prima: No Man's Land, Danis Tanovic
Best Uruguayan Film: The Last Train, Diego Arsuaga
Special Prize: Mario Handler, for his career and the new film Aparte.

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USA:
The New York Critics Awards

Best picture: Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes
Best director: Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven
Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
Best actress: Diane Lane, Unfaithful
Best cinematography: Edward Lachman, Far From Heaven
Best supporting actor: Dennis Quaid, Far From Heaven
Best supporting actress: Patricia Clarkson, Far From Heaven
Best animated feature: Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki
Best first film: Roger Dodger, Dylan Kidd
Best foreign-language film: Y Tu Mamá También,
    Alfonso Cuarón
Best screenwriter: Charlie and Donald Kaufman, Adaptation
Best non-fiction: Standing in the Shadows of Motown,
    Paul Justman
Special award: Kino International's restoration of Fritz Lang's Metropolis
The Film Critics Circle, the oldest organization of its kind in the US, is made up of full-time movie critics from various New York publications. .

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USA:
The Boston Society of Film Critics

Best film : The Pianist
Best foreign language film: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Best director: Roman Polanski, The Pianist
Best documentary: The Kid Stays in the Picture
Best actor: Adrien Brody, The Pianist
Best actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
Best supporting actor: Alan Arkin, Thirteen Conversations
    About One Thing
Best supporting actress: Toni Collette, About a Boy and
    The Hours
Best screenplay: Charlie and Donald Kaufman, Adaptation
Best new filmmaker: Peter Care, The Dangerous Lives
    of Altar Boys
Best cinematography: Edward Lachman, Far from Heaven
Best film series: The Dark Worlds of Fritz Lang
    (Harvard Film Archive)
Rewind/Fast Forward: 20 Years of Work by Women in Film and Video/New England (Museum of Fine Arts) / Undercurrent: Neglected Works of the French New Wave (HFA) / Video Balagan (Coolidge Corner Theater) / The Emperor and the Wolf: The Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (Brattle Theater).
Disoveries/rediscoveries: Ace in the Hole (Brattle), Metropolis (Brattle), Photo to Send (HFA), Circumstance (MFA), Shelter (New England Film/Video Festival).
Commendations: To "My Father, The Genius" director Lucia Small for excellence in filmmaking by a local artist / To "Spirited Away" director Hayao Miyazaki for achievement in animation

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USA:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Best Picture: About Schmidt
Best Director: Pedro Almodovar, Talk to Her
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
    and Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt
Best Actress: Julianne Moore for both Far From Heaven
    and The Hours
Supporting Actor: hris Cooper, Adaptation
Supporting Actress: Edie Falco, Sunshine State
Best Screenplay: About Schmidt
Best Foreign Film: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Best Animated Film: Spirited Away
Special Citation: Lilo & Stitch
Best Musical Score: Elmer Bernstein, Far From Heaven
Best Production: Gangs of New York
Best Cinematography: Far From Heaven
Best Documentary: The Cockettes
New Generation Award: Lynne Ramsey

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Brazil:
Association of Film Critics of Rio de Janeiro

Best film shown in Rio in 2002:
Hable con ella, Pedro Almodóvar

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Germany:
Verband der Deutschen Filmkritik

Best film: Halbe Treppe, Andreas Dresen
Best first film: Das weisse Rauschen, Hans Weingartner
Best actor: Daniel Brühl, Das weisse Rauschen
    and Vaya Con Dios
Best actess: Martina Gedeck, Bella Martha
Best script: Almut Getto, Fickende Fische
Best camera: Frank Griebe, Heaven
Best music: Dieter Schleip, Der Felsen
Best editing: Hana Müllner, Der Felsen
Best documentary: Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer
Best short film: Neulich 3, Jochen Kuhn
Best experimental film: Das schlafende Mädchen,
    Corinna Schnitt

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Australia
The Film Critics Circle:

Best Music Score: Graham Tardif & Rolf De Heer (Songs Sung by Archie Roach) (The Tracker)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Christine Olsen (Rabbit Proof Fence)
Best Cinematography: Ian Jones (The Tracker)
Best Australian Short Film – Joint Award:
   Roundabout (directed by Rachel Griffiths, produced by Louise
   Smith)
   & The Only Person In The World (directed by Ben Chessell)
Best Documentary: A Wedding In Ramallah
    (produced & directed by Sherine Salama)
Best Editing: Mark Perry (Dirty Deeds)
Best Original Screenplay: Roger Monk (Walking On Water)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
    Simon Westaway (Australian Rules)
Critics Documentary Jury Panel:
   Making Venus (director Gary Doust, producer Tom Zubrycki)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Celia Ireland (Australian Rules)
Best Director: Phillip Noyce (Rabbit Proof Fence)
Best Actor: David Gulpilil (The Tracker)
Best Actress: Maria Theodorakis (Walking On Water)
Best Film: The Tracker (producers Rolf De Heer & Julie Ryan)
Best Foreign Language Film: Y tu mama tambien
Best Foreign Film – English Language: Mulholland Drive
The FCCA also acknowledged Emerging Talent from the graduating students of the AFTRS – the award went to Simon Chapman for his work in cinematography.

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Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Film Critics Society

Best Film: Chinese Odyssey 2002
Best Director: Peter Ho-sun Chan, for Three - Going Home
Best Screenplay: Hollywood Hong Kong
Best Actor: Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs)
Best Actress: Faye Wong (Chinese Odyssey 2002)

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Hungary
Hungarian Film Critics' Association

Best Supporting Actress: Ila Schütz in A Kind of America

Best Supporting Actor: György Gazsó in Sleepwakers and in Temptations

Best Actress: Ildikó Tóth for her role in Cloud Over the River Ganges

Best Actor: Zoltán Ternyák in Cloud Over the River Ganges

Best Young Documentary Director: Róbert Lakatos for Kingdom of Silence

Best Documentary: Tamás Almási for Our Cells

Best Short Film: No Hand, No Chocolate by Zoltán Kálmáchelyi, Zsolt Vég and Angéla Stefanovics

Special Prize for the most popular new Hungarian feature: A Kind of America by Gábor Herendi

Best Sound: Tamás Zányi in Hukkle

Best Cameraman: Gergely Pohárnok for Hukkle

Best Scenario: Zoltán Kamondi for Temptations

Best First Feature: Sleepwakers by Bence Miklauzic

Special Prize of the Hungarian film critics: István Szabó for Taking Sides

Best Direction: Ibolya Fekete for Chico

Best Picture: György Pálfi for Hukkle

Award for Lifetime Achievement for actor Iván Darvas

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Poland
Polish Section of FIPRESCI

Golden Reel for the best foreign film: "No Man’s Land" directed by Danis Tanovic.
Honorary Mention: "Gosford Park" directed by Robert Altman.
Golden Reel for the best Polish film (ex aequo):
"The Pianist" directed by Roman Polanski
"Edi" directed by Piotr Trzaskalski

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Russia
Kinotavr Company
Golden Aries 2002

Best film : Cuckoo, dir. Alexander Rogozhkin
Best director: Kira Muratova, «Chekhov Motifs»
Best script: Alexander Rogozhkin, «Cuckoo»
Best director of photography: Sergei Astakhov, «War»
Best design: Pavel Novikov, «Tale about Fedot»
Best film music: Alexei Rybnikov, «The Star»
Best actress: Anni-Kristina Iusso, «Cuckoo»
Best actor: Oleg Yankovsky, «The Lover »
Best supporting actress: Tatiana Lavrova, «Cinema about Cinema»
Best supporting actor: Yuri Kuznetzov, «Diary of Kamikadze»
Best debut film: The Kite, dir. Alexei Muradov
Best foreign film: Talk to Her, Spain, dir. Pedro Almodovar
Best actress in a foreign film: Isabelle Huppert, «8 Women» (France), dir. Francois Ozon
Best actor in a foreign film: Billy Bob Thornton, «The Man who wasn't there» (US), dir. Joel Coen

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France
Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma (SFCC)

Prix Georges Méliès (Best French film): Etre et Avoir by Nicolas Philibert
Prix Léon Moussinac (Best foreign film): Hable con ella (Talk to Her) by Pedro Almodovar
Best debut French film: Se souvenir des belles choses by Zabou Breitman
Best book on cinema written in French: Marc Cerisuelo, Preston Sturges ou le génie de l'Amérique (PUF, 2002)
Best book on cinema translated into French: Edward Baron Turk, Marcel Carné et l'âge d'or du cinéma français (L'Harmattan, 2002)
Best cinema album book: François Ede & Stéphane Goudet, Playtime (Cahiers du Cinéma, 2002)

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Argentina
Argentinean branch of FIPRESCI

Argentina:
Best film: El Bonaerense, by Pablo Trapero
Special mention: Bolivia, by Adrián Caetano

International:
Best film: Mulholland Drive, by David Lynch (USA/France)
Special mention: The Royal Tenenbaums, by Wes Anderson (USA)

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