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The year 2002 in film saw the release of significant sequels take 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 Lost Dreams, Stuart Little 2 and Blade II. The year also saw the 3rd installment Austin Powers in Goldmember and the 10th installments Star Trek: Nemesis and Jason X.
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Events
- March 1 - Paramount Pictures unveils a new opening logo after 16 years of the previous one. The official logo was used from 2002 until December 21, 2011, and featured a temporary 90th Anniversary byline from March 1st to December 27th. The logo was slightly changed in 2010 and used until late 2011.
- May - The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival.
- May 3-5 - Spider-Man is the first film to make $100+ million during its opening weekend in the US unadjusted to inflation.
- May 16 - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones opens in theater. Although a huge success, it was the first Star Wars episode not to be the highest grosser of the year.
- Amélie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet wins the 2002 César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, and Best Art Direction. Amélie also became the highest-grossing French-language film in the United States ever.
- Another French-language film Brotherhood of the Wolf also became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States in the last two decades.
Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
2002 Wide-release films
January-March
April-June
July-September
October-December
Notable limited-release films
In addition to the wide-release films in the above list, the following films received a limited or regional release.
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- 6 Angels - (Japan)
- 8 Mile, starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer - (USA)
- 8 Women (8 Femmes), starring Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
- 13 Moons, starring Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Beals - (USA)
- 24 Hour Party People, starring Steve Coogan - (UK)
- 25th Hour, directed by Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox - (USA)
- 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy - (UK)
A-D
A
- Aankhen (Eyes), starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
- Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What's Up with Love?) - (Indonesia)
- Addicted (Jungdok), starring Lee Byung-hun - (South Korea)
- The Adversary (L'adversaire), starring Daniel Auteuil - (France)
- Alice
- Ali G Indahouse starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Charles Dance, Michael Gambon and Martin Freeman - (UK)
- All or Nothing, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Timothy Spall - (UK)
- Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony - (South Africa/USA)
- Amar te duele (Loving You Hurts) - (Mexico)
- Amen., directed by Costa-Gavras - (Germany/France/Romania)
- Angel on the Right (Farishtai kitfi rost) - (Tajikistan)
- Antwone Fisher, directed by and starring Denzel Washington - (USA)
- Ararat, starring Charles Aznavour and Christopher Plummer - (Canada/France)
- Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (Aro Tolbukhin: in the Mind of a Killer) - (Spain)
- L'Auberge espagnole (aka Pot Luck), starring Audrey Tautou - (France)
- Australian Rules - (Australia)
- Auto Focus, starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe - (USA)
- Avenging Angelo, starring Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe - (USA)
B
- Baader - (Germany)
- Back by Midnight, starring Rodney Dangerfield - (USA)
- Back to Babylon (?????? ??? ????) - (Iraq)
- Bad Guy (Nabbeun namja) - (South Korea)
- Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu - (USA)
- Balseros (Rafters) - (Spain)
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao cai feng or Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) - (China/France)
- Bang Bang You're Dead - (USA)
- Barbershop, starring Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Eve - (USA)
- Bend It Like Beckham, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - (UK)
- Beneath Clouds - (Australia)
- The Best Day of My Life (Il più bel giorno della mia vita), starring Virna Lisi - (Italy)
- Better Luck Tomorrow - (USA)
- Biggie & Tupac - (USA)
- Black and White, starring Robert Carlyle and Charles Dance - (Australia)
- Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul - (Thailand)
- The Blood Stained Route Map (Pimudun ryakpae) - (North Korea)
- Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt - (Ireland)
- Blue Gate Crossing (Lan se da men) - (Taiwan)
- Boat Trip, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Roger Moore - (USA)
- Bolívar Soy Yo (Bolivar is Me) - (Colombia)
- El Bonaerense (The Locksmith) - (Argentina/Chile/France/Netherlands)
- Book of Love - (USA)
- Bowling for Columbine, directed by Michael Moore - (USA)
- The Box of Life (Sunduq al-dunyâ) - (Syria)
- Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot) - (Israel)
- Bubba Ho-tep, starring Bruce Campbell - (USA)
- The Burial Society - (USA/Canada)
- Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) - (Brazil)
- Buying the Cow, starring Jerry O'Connell - (USA)
C
- Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright - (Italy/France/Spain/UK/Romania)
- Carrie - (USA)
- The Cat Returns (Neko no Ongaeshi) - (Japan)
- Champion - (South Korea)
- Chance, directed by and starring Amber Benson - (USA)
- Chat Room - (USA)
- Chen Mo and Meiting (Chen Mo he Meiting) - (China)
- Chicago, starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly - (USA) - Academy Award winner for Best Picture
- Chinese Odyssey 2002 (Tianxia Wushuang)), starring Tony Leung - (Hong Kong)
- Cinema Paradiso: The New Version - (Italy) - (director's cut re-release)
- City of Ghosts, directed by and starring Matt Dillon - (USA)
- City of God (Cidade de Deus) - (Brazil)
- The Clay Bird (Matir Moina), the first Bangladeshi film to be nominated for an Oscar
- The Coast Guard (Haeanseon) - (South Korea)
- Common Places (Lugares comunes) - (Argentina)
- Company (??????) - (India)
- The Confession (Itiraf) - (Turkey)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney, starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts - (USA)
- The Courtesan (Ca-bau-kan) - (Indonesia)
- Crackerjack - (Australia)
- Crazy As Hell, starring Eriq LaSalle - (USA)
- The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del padre Amaro), starring Gael García Bernal - (Mexico)
- Cry Woman (Ku qi de nü ren) - (China)
- The Cuckoo (Kukushka) - (Russia)
- Cypher, starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu - (USA)
D
- The Dancer Upstairs, directed by John Malkovich, starring Javier Bardem - (USA/Spain)
- The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, starring Emile Hirsch and Kieran Culkin - (USA)
- Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara), directed by Hideo Nakata - (Japan)
- Darkness, starring Anna Paquin and Lena Olin - (USA/Spain)
- Dead in a Heartbeat, starring Judge Reinhold and Penelope Ann Miller - (USA/Canada)
- Deathwatch, starring Jamie Bell - (UK/Germany)
- Dekada '70 - (Philippines)
- Devdas - (India)
- Dirty Deeds, starring Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman - (Australia)
- Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Audrey Tautou and Chiwetel Ejiofor - (UK)
- Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) - (Palestine/France/Morocco/Germany)
- Dog Soldiers, starring Sean Pertwee and Kevin McKidd - (UK)
- Dolls (????), directed by Takeshi Kitano - (Japan)
- Doing Time (keimusho no naka) - (Japan)
- Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - (Canada)
- Drunk on Women and Poetry (Chi-hwa-seon) - (South Korea)
- Durval Discos (Durval Records) - (Brazil)
E-K
E
- Elsewhere - (Austria)
- Emergency Act 19 (Gimgeubjochi 19ho) - (South Korea)
- Enlightenment Guaranteed (Erleuchtung garantiert) - (Germany)
- Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson - (USA)
- Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan - (Ireland)
- The Eye (Gin gwai), directed by the Pang brothers - (Hong Kong/Singapore)
F
- FUBAR - (Canada)
- Facing the Truth (At kende sandheden) - (Denmark)
- Far from Heaven, starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert - (USA)
- Fat Choi Spirit (Lik goo lik goo san nin choi), starring Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
- Fidel
- Fine Dead Girls (Fine mrtve djevojke) - (Croatia)
- The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, starring Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson - (USA)
- Flower & Garnet - (Canada)
- Frida, starring Salma Hayek - (Mexico/USA/Canada)
- Full Frontal, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring David Duchovny and Catherine Keener - (USA)
G
- Glowing Eyes (La chatte à deux têtes) - (France)
- God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (Ne dao bog ve?eg zla) - (Croatia)
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (Gojira tai Mekagojira) - (Japan)
- Goebbels und Geduldig - (Germany)
- The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal - (USA)
- The Good Thief, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Nick Nolte - (UK/France/Ireland)
- The Guru, starring Jimi Mistry and Heather Graham - (UK/France/USA)
H
- He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout), starring Audrey Tautou - (France)
- Hero (Ying xiong), directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung - (China/Hong Kong)
- Highway, starring Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair - (USA)
- Home Room - (USA)
- L'homme du train (The Man on the Train), directed by Patrice Leconte - (France)
- The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep - (UK/USA)
- House of Fools (Dom Durakov), directed by Andrei Konchalovsky - (Russia)
- Hukkle - (Hungary)
I-J
- I Am Dina (Jeg er Dina), starring Gérard Depardieu and Maria Bonnevie - (Norway/Sweden/France/Denmark)
- I Love You (Wo ai ni), directed by Zhang Yuan - (China)
- Igby Goes Down, starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Susan Sarandon - (USA)
- The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth - (UK)
- In America, directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou - (Ireland/UK)
- In the City Without Limits (En la ciudad sin límites) - (Spain)
- In This World, directed by Michael Winterbottom - (UK)
- Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou), starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
- Interstate 60, starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart - (USA)
- Intimate Stories (Historias mínimas) - (Argentina)
- InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (Eiga Inuyasha: Kagami no Naka no Mugenj?) - (Japan)
- Irréversible, starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel - (France)
K
- K-9: P.I., starring James Belushi - (USA)
- Kamchatka - (Argentina)
- The Kid Stays in the Picture, documentary on Robert Evans - (USA)
- A Kind of America (Valami Amerika) - (Hungary)
- Kiss the Bride - (USA)
- Kruté radosti (Cruel Joys) - (Slovakia)
L-Q
L
- The Laramie Project, starring Nestor Carbonell and Christina Ricci - (USA)
- Last Call, starring Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek - (USA/Canada)
- Laurel Canyon, starring Frances McDormand and Christian Bale - (USA)
- The Legend of Bhagat Singh - (India)
- Life Show (Sheng huo ziu) - (China)
- Light Drops (O Gotejar da Luz) - (Mozambique)
- Lilya 4-ever - (Sweden/Denmark)
- Loonies (Loenatik - De moevie) - (Netherlands)
- Lovers' Concerto (Yeonae soseol) - (South Korea)
M
- Madame Satã - (Brazil/France)
- The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan - (Ireland/UK)
- The Man from Elysian Fields, starring Andy García and Mick Jagger - (USA)
- The Man Who Saved Christmas, starring Jason Alexander - (USA)
- The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä), directed by Aki Kaurismäki - (Finland)
- Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) - (France)
- Marooned in Iraq (Gomgashtei dar Aragh) - (Iran)
- Marriage is a Crazy Thing (Gyeolhoneun michinjishida) - (South Korea)
- Marrying the Mafia (Gamuneui yeonggwang) - (South Korea)
- Mekhong Full Moon Party (Sibha kham doan sib ed) - (Thailand)
- Melinda's World
- Men with Brooms - (Canada)
- The Missing Gun (Xun Qiang) - (China)
- Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al Sol), starring Javier Bardem - (Spain)
- Moonlight Mile, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman - (USA)
- Morvern Callar, starring Samantha Morton - (UK)
- Mr. and Mrs. Iyer - (India)
- My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai) - (Hong Kong)
- My Mother's Smile (L'ora di religione) (Il sorriso di mia madre) - (Italy)
N
- Names in Marble (Nimed marmortahvlil) - (Estonia)
- Narc, starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta - (USA)
- New Best Friend, starring Mia Kirshner and Taye Diggs - (USA)
- Nicholas Nickleby, starring Charlie Hunnam, Nathan Lane, Jim Broadbent - (UK/USA)
- Noora (The Kiss of Life) - (Iran)
O
- Oasis (????) - (South Korea)
- Occident - (Romania)
- Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui - (chile)
- Old Men in New Cars (Gamle Mænd i Nye Biler) - (Denmark)
- On Line - (USA)
- On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Saenghwalui balgyeon) - (South Korea)
- Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) - (Denmark)
- Den osynlige (The Invisible) - (Sweden)
- Over the Rainbow (?? ? ????) - (South Korea)
P-Q
- Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, starring Kyra Sedgwick - (USA)
- People I Know, starring Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Téa Leoni and Ryan O'Neal - (USA)
- Philanthropy (Filantropica) - (Romania)
- Phone Booth, starring Colin Farrell and Forest Whitaker - (USA)
- The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody - (France/Poland/Germany/UK)
- Pokémon 4Ever (Gekij?ban Poketto Monsut? Serebyi Toki o Koeta Deai) - (Japan)
- Possession, starring Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow - (USA/UK)
- The Powerpuff Girls Movie - (USA)
- Public Enemy (Gonggongui Jeog) - (South Korea)
- Pumpkin, starring Christina Ricci - (USA)
- Punch-Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson - (USA)
- Pure, starring Keira Knightley - (UK)
- The Quiet American, starring Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine - (USA/Germany)
R-Z
R
- R.S.V.P. - (USA)
- Raaz (Secret) - (India)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce - (Australia)
- Rachida - (Algeria)
- Real Women Have Curves - (USA)
- A Red Bear (Un oso rojo) - (Argentina)
- Reign of Fire
- Respiro, starring Valeria Golino - (Italy)
- Ripley's Game, starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone - (USA/UK/Italy)
- Road Movie - (South Korea)
- Rose Red, starring Nancy Travis - (USA)
- Russian Ark (Russkij Kovcheg), directed by Alexander Sokurov - (Russia)
S
- Saathiya (Life Partner) - (India)
- Salomé, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
- The Salton Sea, starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio - (USA)
- Saving My Hubby (Gudseura Geum-suna) - (South Korea)
- The Sea (Hafið) - (Iceland/Norway)
- Second Name (El segundo nombre) - (Spain)
- Secretary, starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal - (USA)
- Secret Things (Choses secrètes) - (France)
- Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché) - (Canada)
- Sex Is Zero (Saekjeuk shigong) - (South Korea)
- Showboy - (USA)
- The Singles Ward - (USA)
- Skinwalkers, starring Wes Studi - (USA)
- The Skywalk is Gone (Tian qiao bu jian le) - (Taiwan)
- The Son (Le fils) - (Belgium/France)
- Spider, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne - (Canada/UK)
- Spirit of Korean Celadon (Chongjaui noks) - (North Korea)
- Spring Subway (Kaiwang Chuntian de Ditie) - (China)
- Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) - (China)
- Spun, starring Jason Schwartzman and Brittany Murphy - (USA)
- The Star (Zvezda) - (Russia)
- Steal, starring Stephen Dorff and Natasha Henstridge - (Canada/UK/France)
- Stevie - (USA)
- Stolen Summer, starring Aidan Quinn - (USA)
- Stones (Piedras) - (Spain)
- Suicide Club (Jisatsu Sakuru) - (Japan)
- Sunshine State, directed by John Sayles, starring Edie Falco and Angela Bassett - (USA)
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot), directed by Park Chan-wook - (South Korea)
T
- Tadpole, starring Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth - (USA)
- Talk to Her (Hable con ella), directed by Pedro Almodóvar - (Spain)
- Ten (Dah), directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran)
- Terra incognita - (Lebanon/France)
- Timequest - (USA)
- Together (He ni zai yi qi), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
- Tomorrow La Scala! - (UK)
- The Tracker, starring David Gulpilil - (Australia)
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger - (USA)
- The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) - (Japan)
- Two Men Went to War - (UK)
U-V
- Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet (??????????2 THE BLUE PLANET) - (Japan)
- The Uncertainty Principle (O Princípio da Incerteza) - (Portugal)
- Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) - (China)
- Uzak (Distant) - (Turkey)
- Valentín, starring Carmen Maura - (Argentina/France/Italy/Spain)
- The Visitor - (Australia)
W
- Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) - (Mauritania/France)
- Walking on Water - (Australia)
- War (Voyna) - (Russia)
- The Way Home (Jibeuro) - (South Korea)
- Welcome to Collinwood, starring Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy - (USA)
- Whale Rider, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes - (New Zealand/Germany)
- When Maryam Spoke Out (Lamma hikyit maryam) - (Lebanon)
- Where Eskimos Live (Tam, gdzie ?yj? Eskimosi) - (Poland/U.S.A./UK)
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself - (Denmark/UK)
- Women in the Mirror (Kagami no onnatachi) - (Japan)
XYZ
- Year of the Devil (Rok ?ábla) - (Czech Republic)
Films released in 2002 by country
- List of Argentine films of the 2000s
Notable deaths
Film Debuts
- Amanda Bynes - Big Fat Liar
- Kevin Hart - Paper Soldiers
- Kevin James - Pinocchio
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