Their Best Actor choice was Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt, which opens on a wider release this weekend, and Best Actress went to Julianne Moore for Far From Heaven. Best Supporting Actor was another tie, this one between Chris Cooper for Adaptation and Dennis Haysbert for Far From Heaven. Best Supporting Actress went to Kathy Bates for About Schmidt. Best Screenplay went to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, while Best Adapted Screenplay went to Adaptation. The D.C. Critics even give an award for Biggest Disappointment ... it went to Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Let's move across the country over to the Las Vegas Critics, which announced their 2002 film awards recently. And yet another DIFFERENT film chosen as their best of the year ... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind took their Best Picture honor, while Peter Jackson picked up his first Best Director honor for the second Lord of the Rings installment. Daniel Day-Lewis took their Best Actor honor for Gangs of New York, and Nicole Kidman took the Best Actress prize for The Hours. John C. Reilly took Best Supporting Actor for three performances, in Gangs of New York, The Hours, and Chicago, and Susan Sarandon took Best Supporting Actress for two performances, in Igby Goes Down and Moonlight Mile. Their Best Foreign Film choice was Y Tu Mama Tambien, Best Screenplay was Igby Goes Down, and Best Documentary was Bowling for Columbine.
Moving on to some of the single critics top ten lists ... Jonathan Foreman of The New York Post had a tie for his choice of the best film of the year, between Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can and Monsoon Wedding. Access Hollywood's Clay Smith went with Far From Heaven as the year's best film, as did Lou Lumenick of The New York Post.
Two of the most well known critics around today, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, who host the syndicated show Ebert and Roeper And The Movies also released their top ten lists, and their upcoming show will highlight their top ten choices. Anyone who follows my columns knows of my respect and admiration for Roger Ebert, who I feel is our most literate, most passionate, and most reputable film critic in the business today. I must say that Ebert's Top Ten this year did take me by surprise, especially his choice of the best film of the year. Ebert chose Steven Spielberg's summer film Minority Report as the top film of the year, while Roeper went with Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. Minority Report did do well on Roeper's list, placing third, but I was surprised to see it top Ebert's list. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly a great film (not sure whether it will make my top ten or not), but that choice did surprise me. Here are their complete lists ...
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