gARTh's 2001 Movie Awards

WINNERS: 2001

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Film:
A Beautiful Mind

Director:
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive

Actor:
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind

Actress:
Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge!

Supporting Actor:
Jude Law - A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind

Adapted Screenplay:
Todd Field & Robert Festinger - In the Bedroom

Original Screenplay:
Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan - Memento

Editing:
Black Hawk Down

Cinematography:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Stuntwork:
Black Hawk Down

Art Direction:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Costume Design:
Moulin Rouge!

Make-Up:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Visual Effects:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sound Mixing:
Black Hawk Down

Music - Original Score:
Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Music - Original Song:
Randy Newman - "If I Didn't Have You" - Monsters, Inc.

Music - Use of Previously Recorded Song; Feature:
José Feliciano, Nicole Kidman, Jacek Koman, Ewan McGregor & Richard Roxburgh (Sting) - "El Tango de Roxanne" - Moulin Rouge!

Music - Use of Previously Recorded Song; Trailer:
Billy Corgan - "Reflect (Time)" - From Hell

Animated Feature Film:
Monsters, Inc.

Documentary Feature Film:
Murder on a Sunday Morning

Foreign Language Film:
Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) - France

Animated Performance:
Mike Myers - Shrek

Villainous Performance:
Alan Ford - Snatch

Comedic Performance:
Will Ferrell - Zoolander

Cameo / Bit-Part Performance:
David Duchovny - Zoolander

Breakthrough Performance:
Dakota Fanning - I Am Sam

Breakthrough Filmmaker:
Richard Kelly - Donnie Darko

Cast:
Ocean's Eleven

Scene:
Training Day - The neighborhood turns their back on Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) after his fight with Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke).

Quote:
Memento - "I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different."

Tagline:
Hannibal - "The silence will be broken."

Poster Art: (select link to view)
Blow (One Sheet)

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Most Underrated Film:

Films that did not receive a wide release, were unsuccessful at the box office, were not nominated for any major awards or receive acclaim at any major film festivals, and were generally unknown to most audiences at the time of their release... but were well-liked by most critics and audiences that did happen to see them.

The Cat's Meow - Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Written by Steven Peros.

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Special Achievement Award:

Baz Luhrman and the cast and crew of Moulin Rouge!

Prior to 2008, I didn't write long-winded reasons why the film or person(s) won, but briefly:

This movie (even if it's not your thing), is one of the most ambitious and creative films in modern film history. It is quite possibly the most artistic mainstream film I've ever seen. The ideas involved are original, and unique (doubt you'll ever see anything like this again), and (even if it's not your thing) all those involved, from the director to the stars to the choreographers to the sound editors to the costumers to the production designers to the composer to the lighting techs, give 110%, bringing audiences something they truly had never seen before. Most people I know that don't enjoy the film either don't enjoy musicals in general or don't enjoy the songs used. That's all well and good and it's their opinion, but one cannot deny the creative genius and, well, balls it takes to pull a film like this off, much less make it as good as it is. To Baz Luhrman, I thank you for bringing back film musicals (two years before "Chicago" took all the credit) and for bringing them back in a way that celebrates not only the art of telling a story through song, but songs that are relevant to modern culture and in a style that celebrates the cinema, pop music, the theater, and the arts.