San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2002
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The 7th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, given by the San Diego Film Critics Society
San Diego Film Critics Society
The San Diego Film Critics Society is an organization of film reviewers from San Diego-based publications.Each year the SDFCS meets to vote on their San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for films released in the same calendar year....

 on 20 December 2002, honored the best in film for 2002
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

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Winners

  • Best Actor:
    • Daniel Day-Lewis
      Daniel Day-Lewis
      Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for the latter...

       - Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...


  • Best Actress:
    • Julianne Moore
      Julianne Moore
      Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....

       - Far from Heaven
      Far from Heaven
      Far from Heaven is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....


  • Best Cinematography:
    • Road to Perdition
      Road to Perdition
      Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig...

       - Conrad L. Hall

  • Best Director:
    • Jill Sprecher
      Jill Sprecher
      -Biography:A graduate from University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in philosophy and literature, Sprecher relocated to New York to study film....

       - Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
      Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
      Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a 2001 American drama film directed by Jill Sprecher. The screenplay by Sprecher and her sister Karen focuses on five seemingly disparate individuals in search of happiness whose paths intersect in ways that unexpectedly impact their lives.-Plot:The film is...


  • Best Editing:
    • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
      Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
      Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a 2001 American drama film directed by Jill Sprecher. The screenplay by Sprecher and her sister Karen focuses on five seemingly disparate individuals in search of happiness whose paths intersect in ways that unexpectedly impact their lives.-Plot:The film is...

       - Stephen Mirrione
      Stephen Mirrione
      Stephen Mirrione is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic .-Life and career:...


  • Best Film:
    • Far from Heaven
      Far from Heaven
      Far from Heaven is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....


  • Best Foreign Language Film:
    • Talk to Her (Hable con ella)
      Talk to Her
      Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores...

       • Spain
      Spain
      Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...


  • Best Production Design:
    • Minority Report
      Minority Report (film)
      Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C...

       - Alex McDowell
      Alex McDowell
      Alex McDowell, RDI is British production designer and film producer.McDowell was born in Borneo to parents of English origin. He wanted to become a painter and studied at the Central School of Art in London. He founded Rocking Russian Design in 1978 and started his career designing album covers...


  • Best Screenplay - Adapted:
    • Adaptation.
      Adaptation.
      Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events...

       - Charlie
      Charlie Kaufman
      Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His film work includes Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York...

       and Donald Kaufman

  • Best Screenplay - Original:
    • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
      Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
      Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a 2001 American drama film directed by Jill Sprecher. The screenplay by Sprecher and her sister Karen focuses on five seemingly disparate individuals in search of happiness whose paths intersect in ways that unexpectedly impact their lives.-Plot:The film is...

       - Jill Sprecher
      Jill Sprecher
      -Biography:A graduate from University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in philosophy and literature, Sprecher relocated to New York to study film....

       and Karen Sprecher

  • Best Supporting Actor:
    • Chris Cooper
      Chris Cooper (actor)
      Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, Capote, The Town, The Kingdom, Syriana, October Sky, Seabiscuit, and...

       - Adaptation.
      Adaptation.
      Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events...


  • Best Supporting Actress:
    • Michelle Pfeiffer
      Michelle Pfeiffer
      Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's Scarface . Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work...

       - White Oleander
      White Oleander
      White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. It is a coming-of-age story about a child who is separated from her mother and placed in a series of foster homes. The book was a selection by Oprah's Book Club in May 1999 and became a 2002 film.-Plot summary:Astrid Magnussen is a...


  • Body of Work Award:
    • Isabelle Huppert
      Isabelle Huppert
      Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...

       - The Piano Teacher
      The Piano Teacher
      The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.- Plot :...

      , Les destinées sentimentales (a.k.a. Les Destinées), Merci pour le chocolat
      Merci pour le chocolat
      Merci pour le chocolat is a 2000 French thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Marie-Claire 'Mika' Muller* Jacques Dutronc - André Polonski* Anna Mouglalis - Jeanne Pollet...

       (a.k.a. Nightcap) and 8 Women
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