2001 National Society of Film Critics Awards

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36th NSFC Awards

January 4, 2002

Best Film:
Mulholland Dr.

The 36th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 2002, honored the best in film for 2001. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series, the first of The Fast and the Furious franchise, the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the first of the Ocean's Trilogy, and the first of the Shrek franchise. Significant non-English language films released included Monsoon Wedding and Amélie.

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Winners

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Robert Altman, Best Director winner
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Gene Hackman, Best Actor winner
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Naomi Watts, Best Actress winner
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Steve Buscemi, Best Supporting Actor winner
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Helen Mirren, Best Supporting Actress winner
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Julian Fellowes, Best Screenplay winner

Best Picture

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Gosford Park
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

<i>Mulholland Drive</i> (film) 2001 American neo-noir film, written and directed by David Lynch

Mulholland Drive is a 2001 neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, who meets and befriends an amnesiac woman (Harring) recovering from a car accident. The story follows several other vignettes and characters, including a Hollywood film director (Theroux).

<i>Gosford Park</i> 2001 film by Robert Altman

Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Emily Watson. The story follows a party of wealthy Britons plus an American producer, and their servants, who gather for a shooting weekend at Gosford Park, an English country house. A murder occurs after a dinner party, and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants' and guests' perspectives.

<i>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</i> 2001 film directed by Peter Jackson

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It is the first instalment in The Lord of the Rings series, and was followed by The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003), based on the second and third volumes of The Lord of the Rings.

Best Director

1. Robert Altman – Gosford Park
2. David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
3. Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Robert Altman American film director and screenwriter

Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.

David Lynch American film director and artist

David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as "the most important director of this era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". His films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001) are widely regarded by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades, while the success of his 1990–91 television series Twin Peaks led to him being labeled "the first popular Surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In 2016, Mulholland Drive, was named the top film of the 21st century by the BBC following a poll of 177 film critics from 36 countries.

Peter Jackson New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter

Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other films include the critically lauded drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), the mockumentary film Forgotten Silver (1995), the horror comedy The Frighteners (1996), the epic monster remake film King Kong (2005), the supernatural drama film The Lovely Bones (2009), and the World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018). He produced District 9 (2009), The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), West of Memphis (2012), and Mortal Engines (2018).

Best Actor

1. Gene Hackman – The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Denzel Washington – Training Day
3. Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom

Gene Hackman American actor and novelist

Eugene Allen Hackman is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in The French Connection and Best Supporting Actor in Unforgiven. He won four Golden Globes, one SAG Award and two BAFTAs.

<i>The Royal Tenenbaums</i> 2001 film by Wes Anderson

The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. The film stars Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson. Ostensibly based on a non-existent novel, and told with a narrative influenced by the literature of J.D. Salinger, the story follows the lives of three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure in adulthood. The children's eccentric father Royal Tenenbaum (Hackman) leaves them in their adolescent years, returning to them after they have grown, and falsely claiming to have a terminal illness. Long after he was shunned by his family, Royal gradually reconciles with his children and ex-wife (Huston).

Denzel Washington American actor, screenwriter, director and producer

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received two Golden Globe awards, one Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Glory (1989) and Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller Training Day (2001).

Best Actress

1. Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive
2. Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
3. Charlotte Rampling – Under the Sand (Sous le sable)

Naomi Watts British actress and film producer

Naomi Ellen Watts is an English actress and producer. She made her screen debut in the Australian drama For Love Alone (1986) and then appeared in the Australian television series Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), Home and Away (1991), and the film Flirting (1991). After moving to the United States, Watts struggled as an actress for years, but managed to obtain parts in the films Tank Girl (1995), Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996), and Dangerous Beauty (1998), and the television series Sleepwalkers (1997–1998).

Sissy Spacek American actress and singer

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award.

<i>In the Bedroom</i> 2001 film by Todd Field

In the Bedroom is a 2001 American independent crime tragedy film directed by Todd Field from a screenplay written by Field and Robert Festinger, based on the short story Killings by Andre Dubus. It stars Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, and William Mapother. The film centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler (Wilkinson) is a doctor practicing in Maine and is married to Ruth Fowler (Spacek), a music teacher. Their son Frank (Stahl) is involved in a love affair with an older single mother Natalie Strout (Tomei). As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of an unimaginable tragedy.

Best Supporting Actor

1. Steve Buscemi – Ghost World
2. Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast
3. Brian Cox – L.I.E.

Steve Buscemi American actor, director and writer

Steven Vincent Buscemi is an American actor, comedian, director, and former firefighter. Buscemi has starred and supported in numerous successful Hollywood and indie films, including Parting Glances, New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World, Big Fish, and The Death of Stalin. He is also known for his appearances in the Coen brothers films Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise.

<i>Ghost World</i> (film) 2001 film by Terry Zwigoff

Ghost World is a 2001 black comedy film directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi. Based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay co-written by Clowes and Zwigoff, the story focuses on the lives of Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson), two teenage outsiders in an unnamed American city. They face a rift in their relationship as Enid takes interest in an older man named Seymour (Buscemi), and becomes determined to help his romantic life.

Ben Kingsley British actor

Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years. He has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film Gandhi, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has appeared in Schindler's List (1993), Twelfth Night (1996), Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Shutter Island (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Hugo (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), The Boxtrolls (2014), and The Jungle Book (2016).

Best Supporting Actress

1. Helen Mirren – Gosford Park
2. Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
3. Marisa Tomei – In the Bedroom

Best Screenplay

1. Julian Fellowes – Gosford Park
2. Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff – Ghost World
3. Christopher Nolan – Memento

Best Cinematography

1. Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin – In the Mood for Love (Faa yeung nin wa)
2. Peter Deming – Mulholland Drive
3. Roger Deakins – The Man Who Wasn't There

Best Foreign Language Film

1. In the Mood for Love (Faa yeung nin wa)
2. The Circle (Dayereh)
3. Amores perros

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse)
2. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
3. My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia)

Experimental Film Award

Film Heritage Award

Special Citation

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References

  1. ↑ Lyons, Charles (5 January 2002). "Nat'l Crix shift into 'Drive'". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Goodridge, Mike (6 January 2002). "Mulholland Drive is National Critics' choice". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "'Mulholland Drive' Picked by Critics Group". The New York Times. 6 January 2002. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Film critics' society honors 'Mulholland Drive' / 'Gosford Park' also wins awards". San Francisco Chronicle. 7 January 2002. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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