2002 in film

Highest-grossing films

Events

• March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo to celebrate it’s 90th anniversary.
• 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 – opens in theaters. Although a huge success, it was the first Star Wars film not to be the highest-grossing 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

2002 wide-release films

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Notable limited-release films

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• 13 Moons, starring Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Beals –
• 24 Hour Party People, starring Steve Coogan –
• 25th Hour, directed by Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox –
• 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy –
• 6 Angels –
• 8 Mile, starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer –
• 8 Women, starring Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart –

  A

• Aankhen, starring Amitabh Bachchan –
• Ada Apa dengan Cinta? –
• Addicted, starring Lee Byung-hun –
• The Adversary, starring Daniel Auteuil –
• Alice
• Ali G Indahouse starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Charles Dance, Michael Gambon and Martin Freeman –
• All or Nothing, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Timothy Spall –
• –
• Amar te duele –
• Amen., directed by Costa-Gavras –
• Angel on the Right –
• Antwone Fisher, directed by and starring Denzel Washington –
• Ararat, starring Charles Aznavour and Christopher Plummer –
• Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino –
• Australian Rules –
• Auto Focus, starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe –
• Avenging Angelo, starring Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe –

  B

• Baader –
• Back to Babylon –
• Bad Company, starring Anthony Hopkins, and Chris Rock –
• Bad Guy –
• , starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu –
• Balseros –
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress –
• Bang Bang You're Dead –
• The Banger Sisters, starring Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, and Geoffrey Rush –
• Barbershop, starring Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Eve –
• Bend It Like Beckham, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers –
• Beneath Clouds –
• The Best Day of My Life, starring Virna Lisi –
• Better Luck Tomorrow –
• Biggie & Tupac –
• Black and White, starring Robert Carlyle and Charles Dance –
• Blissfully Yours, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul –
• The Blood Stained Route Map –
• Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt –
• Blue Gate Crossing –
• Boat Trip, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Roger Moore –
• Bolívar Soy Yo –
• El Bonaerense –
• Book of Love –
• The Box of Life –
• Broken Wings –
• Bubba Ho-tep, starring Bruce Campbell –
• The Burial Society –
• Bus 174 –
• Buying the Cow, starring Jerry O'Connell –

  C

• Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright –
• Carrie –
• The Cat Returns –
• Champion –
• Chance, directed by and starring Amber Benson –
• Chat Room –
• Chen Mo and Meiting –
• Chicago, starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly – – Academy Award winner for Best Picture
• Chinese Odyssey 2002 ), starring Tony Leung –
• Cinema Paradiso: The New Version – –
• City of Ghosts, directed by and starring Matt Dillon –
• City of God –
• The Clay Bird, the first Bangladeshi film to be nominated for an Oscar
• The Coast Guard –
• Common Places –
• Company –
• The Confession –
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney, starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts –
• The Courtesan –
• Crackerjack –
• Crazy As Hell, starring Eriq LaSalle –
• The Crime of Father Amaro, starring Gael García Bernal –
• Cry Woman –
• The Cuckoo –
• Cypher, starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu –

  D

• The Dancer Upstairs, directed by John Malkovich, starring Javier Bardem –
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, starring Emile Hirsch and Kieran Culkin –
• Dark Water, directed by Hideo Nakata –
• Darkness, starring Anna Paquin and Lena Olin –
• Dead in a Heartbeat, starring Judge Reinhold and Penelope Ann Miller –
• Deathwatch, starring Jamie Bell –
• Dekada '70 –
• Devdas –
• Dirty Deeds, starring Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman –
• Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Audrey Tautou and Chiwetel Ejiofor –
• Divine Intervention –
• Dog Soldiers, starring Sean Pertwee and Kevin McKidd –
• Dolls, directed by Takeshi Kitano –
• Doing Time –
• –
• Drunk on Women and Poetry –
• Durval Discos –
• D-Tox, starring Sylvester Stallone and –

  E

• Elsewhere –
• Emergency Act 19 –
• Enlightenment Guaranteed –
• Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson –
• Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan –
• The Eye, directed by the Pang brothers –

  F

• Facing the Truth –
• Far from Heaven, starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert –
• Fat Choi Spirit, starring Andy Lau –
• Fidel
• Fine Dead Girls –
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, starring Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson –
• Flower & Garnet –
• Frida, starring Salma Hayek –
• FUBAR –
• Full Frontal, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring David Duchovny and Catherine Keener –

  G

• Glowing Eyes –
• God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen –
• Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla –
• Goebbels und Geduldig –
• The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal –
• The Good Thief, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Nick Nolte –
• The Guru, starring Jimi Mistry and Heather Graham –

  H

• He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not, starring Audrey Tautou –
• Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung –
• Highway, starring Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair –
• Home Room –
• The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep –
• House of Fools, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky –
• Hukkle –

  I–J

• I Am Dina, starring Gérard Depardieu and Maria Bonnevie –
• I Love You, directed by Zhang Yuan –
• Igby Goes Down, starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Susan Sarandon –
• The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth –
• In America, directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou –
• In the City Without Limits –
• In This World, directed by Michael Winterbottom –
• Infernal Affairs, starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau –
• Interstate 60, starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart –
• Intimate Stories –
• –
• Irréversible, starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel –

  K

• , starring James Belushi –
• Kamchatka –
• The Kid Stays in the Picture, documentary on Robert Evans –
• A Kind of America –
• Kiss the Bride –
• Kruté radosti –

  L

• The Laramie Project, starring Nestor Carbonell and Christina Ricci –
• Last Call, starring Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek –
• L'Auberge espagnole, starring Audrey Tautou –
• Laurel Canyon, starring Frances McDormand and Christian Bale –
• The Legend of Bhagat Singh –
• L'homme du train, directed by Patrice Leconte –
• Life Show –
• Light Drops –
• Lilya 4-ever –
• Loonies –
• Lovers' Concerto –

  M

• Madame Satã –
• The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan –
• The Man from Elysian Fields, starring Andy García and Mick Jagger –
• The Man Who Saved Christmas, starring Jason Alexander –
• The Man Without a Past, directed by Aki Kaurismäki –
• Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers –
• Marooned in Iraq –
• Marriage is a Crazy Thing –
• Marrying the Mafia –
• Mekhong Full Moon Party –
• Melinda's World
• Men with Brooms –
• The Missing Gun –
• Mondays in the Sun, starring Javier Bardem –
• Moonlight Mile, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman –
• Morvern Callar, starring Samantha Morton –
• Mr. and Mrs. Iyer –
• My Four Children –
• My Left Eye Sees Ghosts –
• My Mother's Smile –

  N

• Names in Marble –
• Narc, starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta –
• New Best Friend, starring Mia Kirshner and Taye Diggs –
• Nicholas Nickleby, starring Charlie Hunnam, Nathan Lane, Jim Broadbent –
• Noora –

  O

• Oasis –
• Occident –
• Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui –
• Old Men in New Cars –
• On Line –
• On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate –
• Open Hearts –
• Den osynlige –
• Over the Rainbow –

  P–Q

• , starring Kyra Sedgwick –
• People I Know, starring Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Téa Leoni and Ryan O'Neal –
• Philanthropy –
• Phone Booth, starring Colin Farrell and Forest Whitaker –
• The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody –
• Pokémon 4Ever –
• Possession, starring Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow –
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie –
• Public Enemy –
• Pumpkin, starring Christina Ricci –
• Punch-Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson –
• Pure, starring Keira Knightley –
• The Quiet American, starring Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine –

  R

• RSVP –
• Raaz –
• Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce –
• Rachida –
• Real Women Have Curves –
• A Red Bear –
• Reign of Fire
• Respiro, starring Valeria Golino –
• Ripley's Game, starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone –
• Road Movie –
• Rose Red, starring Nancy Travis –
• Russian Ark, directed by Alexander Sokurov –

  S

• Saathiya –
• Salomé, directed by Carlos Saura –
• The Salton Sea, starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio –
• Saving My Hubby –
• The Sea –
• Second Name –
• Secretary, starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal –
• Secret Things –
• –
• Sex Is Zero –
• Showboy –
• The Singles Ward –
• Skinwalkers, starring Wes Studi –
• The Skywalk is Gone –
• The Son –
• Spider, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne –
• Spirit of Korean Celadon –
• Spring Subway –
• Springtime in a Small Town –
• Spun, starring Jason Schwartzman and Brittany Murphy –
• The Star –
• VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
• Steal, starring Stephen Dorff and Natasha Henstridge –
• Stevie –
• Stolen Summer, starring Aidan Quinn –
• Stones –
• Suicide Club –
• Sunshine State, directed by John Sayles, starring Edie Falco and Angela Bassett –
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook –

  T

• Tadpole, starring Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth –
• Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodóvar –
• Ten, directed by Abbas Kiarostami –
• Terra incognita –
• Timequest –
• Together, directed by Chen Kaige –
• Tomorrow La Scala! –
• The Tracker, starring David Gulpilil –
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger –
• The Twilight Samurai –
• Two Men Went to War –

  U–V

• –
• The Uncertainty Principle –
• Unknown Pleasures –
• Uzak –
• Valentín, starring Carmen Maura –
• The Visitor –

  W

• Waiting for Happiness –
• Walking on Water –
• War –
• The Way Home –
• Welcome to Collinwood, starring Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy –
• Whale Rider, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes –
• When Maryam Spoke Out –
• Where Eskimos Live –
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself –
• Women in the Mirror –

  XYZ

• Year of the Devil –

  Films released in 2002 by country

• List of Argentine films of the 2000s

  Notable deaths

Film debuts

• Alexis Bledel – Tuck Everlasting
• Abigail Breslin – Signs
• Henry Cavill – The Count of Monte Cristo
• Jesse Eisenberg – Roger Dodger
• America Ferrera – Real Women Have Curves
• Tina Fey – Martin & Orloff
• Kevin Hart – Paper Soldiers
• Sally Hawkins – All or Nothing
• Kevin James – Pinocchio
• Anthony Mackie – 8 Mile
• Rachel McAdams – My Name Is Tanino
• Ellen Page – Marion Bridge
• Rosamund Pike – Die Another Day
• Eminem - 8 Mile