National Board of Review Awards 2002

Top 10 films

1. The Hours
2. Chicago (Academy Award for Best Picture)
3. Gangs of New York
4. The Quiet American
5. Adaptation.
6. Rabbit-Proof Fence
7. The Pianist
8. Far from Heaven
9. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
10. Frida

Top Foreign Films

1. Talk to Her
2. Y tu mamá también
3. 8 Women
4. City of God
5. El crimen del Padre Amaro

Winners

Best Film:

The Hours

Best Foreign Language Film:

Hable con ella (Talk to Her), Spain

Best Actor:

Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger

Best Actress:

Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven

Best Supporting Actor:

Chris Cooper - Adaptation.

Best Supporting Actress:

Kathy Bates - About Schmidt

Best Cast:

Nicholas Nickleby

Breakthrough Performance - Male:

Derek Luke - Antwone Fisher

Breakthrough Performance - Female:

Maggie Gyllenhaal - Secretary

Best Director:

Phillip Noyce - The Quiet American and Rabbit-Proof Fence

Best Debut Director:

Rob Marshall - Chicago

Best Screenplay:

Charlie Kaufman - Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Human Nature

Best Documentary Feature:

Bowling for Columbine

Best Animated Feature:

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)

Best Film Made For Cable TV:

The Laramie Project

Career Achievement Award:

Christopher Plummer

Special Award for Visionary Cinematic Achievement:

George Lucas

Special Filmmaking Achievement:

George Clooney, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Career Achievement - Music Composition:

Elmer Bernstein

Career Achievement - Cinematography:

Conrad Hall

Humanitarian Award:

Sheila Nevins (HBO)

William K. Everson Award For Film History:

Annette Insdorf, Films and the Holocaust

Freedom Of Expression:

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Ararat

Bloody Sunday

The Grey Zone

Special Recognition For Excellence In Filmmaking:

Frailty

The Good Girl

The Guys

Heaven

Igby Goes Down

Max

Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Real Women Have Curves

Roger Dodger

Sunshine State

Tadpole

Tully