2002 (75th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2002 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
Chicago, Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production; Miramax. (USA, Germany, Canada) Martin Richards, Producer.Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody in The Pianist, R. P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runtime LTD. Production; Focus Features. (UK, France, Poland, Germany)Actress in a Leading Role
Nicole Kidman in The Hours, Scott Rudin/Robert Fox Production; Paramount & Miramax. (USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany)Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago, Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production; Miramax. (USA, Germany, Canada)Directing
The Pianist, R. P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runtime LTD. Production; Focus Features. (UK, France, Poland, Germany) Roman Polanski.Animated Feature Film
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Chicago, Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production; Miramax. (USA, Germany, Canada) Art direction by John Myhre; set decoration by Gordon Sim.Cinematography
Costume Design
Chicago, Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production; Miramax. (USA, Germany, Canada) Colleen Atwood.Documentary
(Feature)
Bowling for Columbine, Salter Street Films/VIF 2/Dog Eat Dog Films Production; United Artists and Alliance Atlantis. (USA, Canada, Germany) Michael Moore and Michael Donovan.(Short Subject)
Twin Towers, Wolf Films/Shape Pictures/Universal/Mopo Entertainment Production. Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port.Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
Nowhere in Africa, MTM Medien & Television München Production; Zeitgeist Films. (Germany) Germany.Makeup
Frida, Ventanarosa in association with Lions Gate Films Production; Miramax. (USA, Canada, Mexico) John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba.Music
(Original Score)
Frida, Ventanarosa in association with Lions Gate Films Production; Miramax. (USA, Canada, Mexico) Elliot Goldenthal.(Original Song)
Lose Yourself from 8 Mile, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal. (USA, Germany) Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; lyric by Eminem.Short Films
(Animated)
(Live Action)
This Charming Man (Der er en yndig mand), M & M Productions for Novellefilm Production. (Denmark) Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen.Sound
Chicago, Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production; Miramax. (USA, Germany, Canada) Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee.Sound Editing
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production; New Line. (New Zealand, USA) Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins.Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production; New Line. (New Zealand, USA) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke.Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
The Pianist, R. P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runtime LTD. Production; Focus Features. (UK, France, Poland, Germany) Screenplay by Ronald Harwood.(Original Screenplay)
Honorary Award
To Peter O’Toole, whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters. [ [Statuette]]To Curt R. Behlmer and Richard B. Glickman for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]Scientific and Technical Award
(Academy Award of Merit)
To Alias/Wavefront for the development of a 3D animation, dynamics, modeling and rendering production tool known as Maya. With its significant and dominant impact on the motion picture industry, the Maya software package offers a robust and widely used commercial visual effects tool with a rich infrastructure for extension and customization.TO Arnold & Richter Cine Technik and Panavision Inc., for their continuing development and innovation in the design and manufacturing of advanced camera systems specifically designed for the motion picture entertainment industry. With a commitment that lies beyond the usual commercial considerations, these two manufacturers continue to lead the industry in developing and introducing products that have defined the state of the art in motion picture camera technology.(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Glenn Sanders and Howard Stark of Zaxcom for the concept, design and engineering of the portable Deva Digital Audio Disk Recorder. This innovated design employs advanced hard disk recording technology and digital audio techniques for use in both production and post-production recording applications.To Mark Elendt, Paul H. Breslin, Greg Hermanovic and Kim Davidson for their continued development of the procedural modeling and animation components of their Prisms program, as exemplified in the Houdini software package. Through a procedural building-block process, the Houdini software is used to simulate natural phenomena using particle effects and complex three-dimensional models.To Dr. Leslie Gutierrez, Diane E. Kestner, James Merrill and David Niklewicz for the design and development of the Kodak Vision Premier Color Print Film, 2393. This film stock provides filmmakers with enhanced color saturation, higher contrast and darker blacks, producing a bold, colorful “look” on the theater screen.To Dedo Weigert for the concept, Dr. Depu Jin for the optical calculations, and Franz Petters for the mechanical construction of the Dedolight 400D. This uniquely designed set light provides superior performance, reliability and ease of use. Combined with its excellent array of accessories, the Dedolight 400D is an outstanding engineering achievement.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Dick Walsh for the development of the PDI/DreamWorks Facial Animation System. This effective software simulation system is used to create and control natural, expressive, highly-nuanced facial animation on a wide range of computer-generated characters.To Thomas Driemeyer and to the Team of Mathematicians, Physicists and Software Engineers of Mental Images for their contributions to the Mental Ray rendering software for motion pictures. Mental Ray is a highly programmable computer-graphics renderer incorporating ray tracing and global illumination to realistically simulate the behavior of light in computer-generated imagery.To Eric Daniels, George Katanics, Tasso Lappas and Chris Springfield for the development of the Deep Canvas rendering software. The Deep Canvas software program captures the original brush strokes of the traditional background artist to render elements in three dimensions for animated films.To Jim Songer for his contributions to the technical development of video-assist in the motion picture industry. The work of Jim Songer from 1968 through 1973 led directly to the more widespread acceptance of video-assist in the motion picture industry.To Pierre Chabert of Airstar for the introduction of balloons with internal light sources to provide set lighting for the motion picture industry. These helium-filled balloons with internal arrangements for tungsten halogen and HMI light sources, are usable indoors or out, quick to set up, require essentially no rigging and provide a soft light that can cover a very large area.To Rawdon Hayne and Robert W. Jeffs of Leelium Tubelites for their contributions to the development of internally lit balloons for motion picture lighting. These helium-filled balloons with internal arrangements for tungsten halogen and HMI light sources, are usable indoors or out, quick to set up, require essentially no rigging and provide a soft light that can cover a very large area.