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55th British Academy Film Awards

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Date
  
24 February 2002

Hosted by
  
Stephen Fry

Site
  
Odeon Leicester Square

Best British Film
  
Gosford Park

55th British Academy Film Awards

Best Film
  
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Best Actor
  
Russell Crowe A 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.

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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

  • Jim Broadbent – Iris
  • Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Kevin Spacey – The Shipping News
  • Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom
  • Best Actress

    Judi Dench – Iris

  • Nicole Kidman – The Others
  • Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
  • Audrey Tautou – Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
  • Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

    Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman

  • A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman
  • Bridget Jones's Diary – Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding
  • Iris – Richard Eyre and Charles Wood
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson
  • Best Cinematography

    The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins

  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Bruno Delbonnel
  • Black Hawk Down – Sławomir Idziak
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Andrew Lesnie
  • Moulin Rouge! – Donald McAlpine
  • Best Costume Design

    Gosford Park

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Best Director

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

  • Robert Altman – Gosford Park
  • Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
  • Baz Luhrmann – Moulin Rouge!
  • Best Editing

    Mulholland Drive – Mary Sweeney

  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Hervé Schneid
  • Black Hawk Down – Pietro Scalia
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – John Gilbert
  • Moulin Rouge! – Jill Bilcock
  • Best Film

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Shrek
  • Best Film – British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)

    Gosford Park

  • Bridget Jones's Diary
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Iris
  • Me Without You
  • Best Foreign Language Film

    Amores perros

  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
  • Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado)
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • The Piano Teacher (La pianiste)
  • Best Makeup and Hair

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  • Gosford Park
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)

    Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries

  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Yann Tiersen
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Howard Shore
  • Mulholland Drive – Angelo Badalamenti
  • Shrek – Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell
  • Best Original Screenplay

    Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant

  • Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes
  • Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
  • The Others – Alejandro Amenábar
  • The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
  • Best Production Design

    Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)

  • Gosford Park
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Best Short Film

    About a Girl

  • Inferno
  • The Red Peppers
  • Skin Deep
  • Tattoo
  • Best Short Film – Animation

    Dog

  • Camouflage
  • Home Road Movies
  • Tuesday
  • The World of Interiors
  • Best Sound

    Moulin Rouge!

  • Black Hawk Down
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Shrek
  • Best Supporting Actor

    Jim Broadbent – Moulin Rouge!

  • Hugh Bonneville – Iris
  • Robbie Coltrane – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Colin Firth – Bridget Jones's Diary
  • Eddie Murphy – Shrek
  • Best Supporting Actress

    Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind

  • Judi Dench – The Shipping News
  • Helen Mirren – Gosford Park
  • Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
  • Kate Winslet – Iris
  • Best Visual Effects

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Shrek
  • Awards breakdown

    Most wins
  • 4 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • 3 Moulin Rouge!
  • 2 Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain), A Beautiful Mind, and Gosford Park
  • Most nominations
  • 7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • 4 Bridget Jones's Diary
  • 3 Black Hawk Down
  • 2 In the Bedroom, The Others, and Planet of the Apes
  • 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:

    References

    55th British Academy Film Awards Wikipedia