Date 24 February 2002 | Site Odeon Leicester Square | |
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Best Actor Russell CroweA Beautiful Mind |
The 55th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 24 February 2002 and honoured the best films of 2001.
Contents
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best Costume Design
- Best Director
- Best Editing
- Best Film
- Best Film British Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Best Makeup and Hair
- Best Music Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Production Design
- Best Short Film
- Best Short Film Animation
- Best Sound
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Visual Effects
- Awards breakdown
- Russell Crowe controversy
- References
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring won Best Film, Best Director for Peter Jackson, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Visual Effects. Russell Crowe won Best Actor for A Beautiful Mind, which also won Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly. Judi Dench won Best Actress for Iris and Jim Broadbent won Best Supporting Actor for Moulin Rouge!. Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2001.
Best Actor
Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress
Judi Dench – Iris
Best Adapted Screenplay
Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman
Best Cinematography
The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins
Best Costume Design
Gosford Park
Best Director
Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Editing
Mulholland Drive – Mary Sweeney
Best Film
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Film – British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)
Gosford Park
Best Foreign Language Film
Amores perros
Best Makeup and Hair
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)
Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries
Best Original Screenplay
Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
Best Production Design
Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Best Short Film
About a Girl
Best Short Film – Animation
Dog
Best Sound
Moulin Rouge!
Best Supporting Actor
Jim Broadbent – Moulin Rouge!
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind
Best Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Awards breakdown
Russell Crowe controversy
After winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Russell Crowe gave a speech in which he quoted a poem by Patrick Kavanagh. When the ceremony was broadcast, Crowe was upset that the poem was cut. He blamed the producer, Malcolm Gerrie, and confronted him about it. It was reported that the confrontation got physical and there was speculation that it would cost him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
The poem that was cut is a four line poem: