Online Film Critics Society Awards 2001 Explained

5th Online Film Critics Society Awards

January 2, 2002

----Best Film:
Memento
Mulholland Drive

The 5th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2001, were given on 2 January 2002.^[1]

Top 10 films

1. Memento (tied for 1st place with Mulholland Drive)
2. Mulholland Drive (tied for 1st place with Memento)
4. Ghost World
5. In the Bedroom
6. Moulin Rouge!
7. The Man Who Wasn't There
8. Shrek
9. Gosford Park (tied for 9th place with The Royal Tenenbaums)
10. The Royal Tenenbaums (tied for 9th place with Gosford Park)

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

Memento
Mulholland Drive

• Ghost World
• In the Bedroom

Best Director

David Lynch – Mulholland Drive

• Joel Coen – The Man Who Wasn't There
• Todd Field – In the Bedroom
• Peter Jackson –
• Baz Luhrmann – Moulin Rouge!
• Christopher Nolan – Memento

Best Actor

Billy Bob Thornton – The Man Who Wasn't There

• Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind
• Guy Pearce – Memento
• Denzel Washington – Training Day
• Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom

Best Actress

Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive

• Thora Birch – Ghost World
• Nicole Kidman – The Others
• Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
• Tilda Swinton – The Deep End

Best Supporting Actor

Steve Buscemi – Ghost World

• Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast
• Jude Law – A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Ian McKellen –
• Tony Shalhoub – The Man Who Wasn't There

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind

• Scarlett Johansson – Ghost World
• Helen Mirren – Gosford Park
• Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
• Marisa Tomei – In the Bedroom

Best Original Screenplay

Mulholland Drive – David Lynch
The Others – Alejandro Amenábar

• Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes
• The Man Who Wasn't There – Joel and Ethan Coen
• The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

Best Adapted Screenplay

Memento – Christopher Nolan

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Steven Spielberg
• Ghost World – Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff
• In the Bedroom – Todd Field and Rob Festinger
• – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

Best Foreign Language Film

Amélie

• Fat Girl
• In the Mood for Love
• No Man's Land
• With a Friend Like Harry...

Best Documentary

Startup.com

• Down from the Mountain
• The Endurance
• The Gleaners and I
• Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

Best Animated Feature

Shrek

• Monsters, Inc.
• Waking Life

Best Cinematography

The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Janusz Kamiński
• – Andrew Lesnie
• Moulin Rouge! – Donald McAlpine
• Mulholland Drive – Peter Deming

Best Ensemble

Gosford Park

• Ghost World
• Ocean's Eleven
• The Royal Tenenbaums

Best Original Score

Mulholland Drive – Angelo Badalamenti

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence – John Williams
• – Howard Shore
• Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries
• Ocean's Eleven – David Holmes

Best Overall DVD

Moulin Rouge!

• Almost Famous Untitled: The Bootleg Cut
• Citizen Kane
• The Godfather Collection
• Shrek

Breakthrough Filmmaker

Christopher Nolan – Memento

• Todd Field – In the Bedroom
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Amores Perros
• Richard Kelly – Donnie Darko
• John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Breakthrough Performer

Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive

• Hayden Christensen – Life as a House
• John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Audrey Tautou – Amélie

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2001 Online Film Critics Society Awards. OFCS.