55th British Academy Film Awards

The 55th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 24 February 2002 and honoured the best films of 2001.

55th British Academy Film Awards
Date24 February 2002
SiteOdeon Leicester Square
Hosted byStephen Fry
Highlights
Best FilmThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best British FilmGosford Park
Best ActorRussell Crowe
A Beautiful Mind
Best ActressJudi Dench
Iris
Most awardsThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4)
Most nominationsThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Moulin Rouge! (12)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring won Best Film, Best Director for Peter Jackson, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Visual Effects.[1] Russell Crowe won Best Actor for A Beautiful Mind, which also won Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly. Judi Dench won Best Actress for Iris and Jim Broadbent won Best Supporting Actor for Moulin Rouge!. Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2001. This ceremony is also notable for Eddie Murphy's nomination for his voice role as Donkey in Shrek, to date the only voice-over performance ever nominated in BAFTA history.[2]

Winners and nominees
Peter Jackson, Best Director winner
Russell Crowe, Best Actor winner
Judi Dench, Best Actress winner
Jim Broadbent, Best Supporting Actor winner
Jennifer Connelly, Best Supporting Actress winner
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Best Original Screenplay co-winner
Ted Elliott, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
Terry Rossio, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
Robert Altman, Outstanding British Film co-winner
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Best Film Not in the English Language winner

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Tim Sanders

Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash Jr.

Judi Dench – Iris as Iris Murdoch

Jim Broadbent – Moulin Rouge! as Harold Zidler

Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind as Alicia Nash

Amélie – Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman

The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins

Gosford Park – Jenny Beavan

Mulholland Drive – Mary Sweeney

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Owen, Peter King and Richard Taylor

Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries

Amélie – Aline Bonetto

Moulin Rouge! – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Roger Savage, Guntis Sics, Gareth Vanderhope and Antony Gray

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Jim Rygiel, Richard Taylor, Alex Funke, Randall William Cook and Mark Stetson

Gosford Park – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban and David Levy

Jump Tomorrow – Joel Hopkins (Writer/Director) and Nicola Usborne (Producer)

Dog – Suzie Templeton

  • Camouflage – Jonathan Bairstow and Jonathan Hodgson
  • Home Road Movies – Dick Arnall, Robert Bradbrook and Ian Sellar
  • Tuesday – Geoff Dunbar and Judith Roberts
  • The World of Interiors – Chris Shepherd and Bunny Schendler

About a Girl – Janey de Nordwall, Brian Percival and Julie Rutterford

Amores perros – Alejandro González Iñárritu

Statistics
Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
12 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!
9 Amélie
Gosford Park
7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6 Iris
Shrek
5 A Beautiful Mind
4 Bridget Jones's Diary
3 Black Hawk Down
2 In the Bedroom
Mulholland Drive
The Others
Planet of the Apes
The Shipping News
Films that received multiple awards
Awards Film
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3 Moulin Rouge!
2 Amélie
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park

Russell Crowe controversy

After winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Russell Crowe gave a speech in which he quoted a poem by Patrick Kavanagh. When the ceremony was broadcast, Crowe was enraged that the poem was cut. He blamed the producer, Malcolm Gerrie, and confronted him about it. It was reported that the confrontation got physical and there was speculation that it would cost him the Academy Award for Best Actor; Crowe later apologized and ultimately lost the Oscar to Denzel Washington for Training Day.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

The following poem that was cut is four lines:

"To be a poet and not know the trade,
To be a lover and repel all women;
Twin ironies by which great saints are made,
The agonising pincer-jaws of heaven."

See also

References
  1. "Lord of the Rings sweeps Baftas". BBC News. 24 February 2002. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  2. Shutt, Mike (20 October 2021). "Why More Award Shows Should Embrace Chaos Like the Wild 2001 BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Race". Collider. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  3. Deans, Jason (4 March 2002). "Crowe is Gerrie sorry". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2002.
  4. "Crowe 'clarifies' Bafta outburst". The Guardian. 28 February 2002. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
  5. Susman, Gary (5 March 2002). "Scary Crowe". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
  6. "The poet behind Russell Crowe's rage". BBC News. 5 March 2002. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
  7. Grossberg, Josh (27 February 2002). "Crowe Unleashes Hell at BAFTAs". E! Online. Retrieved 27 February 2002.
  8. Chang, Justin; Whipp, Glenn (23 March 2022). "Oscars flashback: Why no repeat of 2002's historic wins? And why it matters in 2022". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
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