2002 in film

The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Little 2, Blade II, the 3rd installment Austin Powers in Goldmember, the 10th installments Star Trek: Nemesis and Jason X. 2002 is the only year in which a Star Wars and a Star Trek film were released in the same year.

Top grossing films
These are the top grossing films that were first released in 2002. The top ten films of 2002, by worldwide gross in $USD, as well as the US & Canada, UK, and Australia grosses are as follows:

These numbers are taken from Box Office Mojo, including their 2002 Yearly Box Office Results.

2002 produced fifty-one films that have grossed more than $100 million. Seven films grossed more than $400 million.

Events

 * 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 - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opens in theater. Although a huge success, it is the only Star Wars episode not to be the highest grosser 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
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
 * The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, Poland

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
 * The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan, U.K. / Ireland

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
 * Bloody Sunday, directed by Paul Greengrass, U.K. / Ireland

Wide-release films
In the film industry, a wide-release film is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in North America. The following films meet these criteria:

Dates given are North American release dates.

Films released in North America in 2002 include:
 * W: wide release (600 or more theaters)
 * L: limited release in select cities (fewer than 600 theaters)
 * R: re-release of previously released film
 * ‡: films that achieved wide-release status after initial release

Notable limited-release films
In addition to the wide-release films in the above list, the following films received a limited or regional release.

#
 * 6 Angels - (Japan)
 * 8 Women (8 Femmes), starring Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
 * 13 Moons, starring Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Beals - (USA)
 * 24 Hour Party People, starring Steve Coogan - (UK)
 * 25th Hour, directed by Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox - (USA)
 * 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy - (UK)

A-D

 * Aankhen (Eyes), starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
 * Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What's Up with Love?) - (Indonesia)
 * Addicted (Jungdok), starring Lee Byung-hun - (South Korea)
 * The Adversary (L'adversaire), starring Daniel Auteuil - (France)
 * Ali G Indahouse starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Charles Dance, Michael Gambon and Martin Freeman - (UK)
 * All or Nothing, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Timothy Spall - (UK)
 * Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony - (South Africa/USA)
 * Amar te duele (Loving You Hurts) - (Mexico)
 * Amen., directed by Costa-Gavras - (Germany/France/Romania)
 * Angel on the Right (Farishtai kitfi rost) - (Tajikistan)
 * Antwone Fisher, directed by and starring Denzel Washington - (USA)
 * Ararat, starring Charles Aznavour and Christopher Plummer - (Canada/France)
 * Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (Aro Tolbukhin: in the Mind of a Killer) - (Spain)
 * L'Auberge espagnole (aka Pot Luck), starring Audrey Tautou - (France)
 * Australian Rules - (Australia)
 * Auto Focus, starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe - (USA)
 * Avenging Angelo, starring Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe - (USA)

B
 * Baader - (Germany)
 * Back by Midnight, starring Rodney Dangerfield - (USA)
 * Back to Babylon (العودة إلى بابل) - (Iraq)
 * Bad Guy (Nabbeun namja) - (South Korea)
 * Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu - (USA)
 * Balseros (Rafters) - (Spain)
 * Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao cai feng or Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) - (China/France)
 * Bang Bang You're Dead - (USA)
 * Bend It Like Beckham, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - (UK)
 * Beneath Clouds - (Australia)
 * The Best Day of My Life (Il più bel giorno della mia vita), starring Virna Lisi - (Italy)
 * Better Luck Tomorrow - (USA)
 * Biggie & Tupac - (USA)
 * Black and White, starring Robert Carlyle and Charles Dance - (Australia)
 * Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul - (Thailand)
 * The Blood Stained Route Map (Pimudun ryakpae) - (North Korea)
 * Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt - (Ireland)
 * Blue Gate Crossing (Lan se da men) - (Taiwan)
 * Boat Trip, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Roger Moore - (USA)
 * Bolívar Soy Yo (Bolivar is Me) - (Colombia)
 * El Bonaerense (The Locksmith) - (Argentina/Chile/France/Netherlands)
 * Book of Love - (USA)
 * Bowling for Columbine, directed by Michael Moore - (USA)
 * The Box of Life (Sunduq al-dunyâ) - (Syria)
 * Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot) - (Israel)
 * Bubba Ho-tep, starring Bruce Campbell - (USA)
 * The Burial Society - (USA/Canada)
 * Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) - (Brazil)
 * Buying the Cow, starring Jerry O'Connell - (USA)

C
 * Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright - (Italy/France/Spain/UK/Romania)
 * Carrie - (USA)
 * The Cat Returns (Neko no Ongaeshi) - (Japan)
 * Champion - (South Korea)
 * Chance, directed by and starring Amber Benson - (USA)
 * Chat Room - (USA)
 * Chen Mo and Meiting (Chen Mo he Meiting) - (China)
 * Chicago, starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly - (USA) - Academy Award winner for Best Picture
 * Chinese Odyssey 2002 (Tianxia Wushuang)), starring Tony Leung - (Hong Kong)
 * Cinema Paradiso: The New Version - (Italy) - (director's cut re-release)
 * City of Ghosts, directed by and starring Matt Dillon - (USA)
 * City of God (Cidade de Deus) - (Brazil)
 * The Clay Bird (Matir Moina), the first Bangladeshi film to be nominated for an Oscar
 * The Coast Guard (Haeanseon) - (South Korea)
 * Common Places (Lugares comunes) - (Argentina)
 * Company (कम्पनी) - (India)
 * The Confession (Itiraf) - (Turkey)
 * Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney, starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts - (USA)
 * The Courtesan (Ca-bau-kan) - (Indonesia)
 * Crackerjack - (Australia)
 * Crazy As Hell, starring Eriq LaSalle - (USA)
 * The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del padre Amaro), starring Gael García Bernal - (Mexico)
 * Cry Woman (Ku qi de nü ren) - (China)
 * The Cuckoo (Kukushka) - (Russia)
 * Cypher, starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu - (USA)

D
 * The Dancer Upstairs, directed by John Malkovich, starring Javier Bardem - (USA/Spain)
 * The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, starring Emile Hirsch and Kieran Culkin - (USA)
 * Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara), directed by Hideo Nakata - (Japan)
 * Darkness, starring Anna Paquin and Lena Olin - (USA/Spain)
 * Dead in a Heartbeat, starring Judge Reinhold and Penelope Ann Miller - (USA/Canada)
 * Deathwatch, starring Jamie Bell - (UK/Germany)
 * Dekada '70 - (Philippines)
 * Devdas - (India)
 * Dirty Deeds, starring Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman - (Australia)
 * Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Audrey Tautou and Chiwetel Ejiofor - (UK)
 * Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) - (Palestine/France/Morocco/Germany)
 * Dog Soldiers, starring Sean Pertwee and Kevin McKidd - (UK)
 * Dolls (ドールズ), directed by Takeshi Kitano - (Japan)
 * Doing Time (keimusho no naka) - (Japan)
 * Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - (Canada)
 * Drunk on Women and Poetry (Chi-hwa-seon) - (South Korea)
 * Durval Discos (Durval Records) - (Brazil)

E-K

 * Elsewhere - (Austria)
 * Emergency Act 19 (Gimgeubjochi 19ho) - (South Korea)
 * Enlightenment Guaranteed (Erleuchtung garantiert) - (Germany)
 * Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson - (USA)
 * Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan - (Ireland)
 * The Eye (Gin gwai), directed by the Pang brothers - (Hong Kong/Singapore)

F
 * FUBAR - (Canada)
 * Facing the Truth (At kende sandheden) - (Denmark)
 * Far from Heaven, starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert - (USA)
 * Fat Choi Spirit (Lik goo lik goo san nin choi), starring Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
 * Fine Dead Girls (Fine mrtve djevojke) - (Croatia)
 * The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, starring Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson - (USA)
 * Flower & Garnet - (Canada)
 * Frida, starring Salma Hayek - (Mexico/USA/Canada)
 * Full Frontal, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring David Duchovny and Catherine Keener - (USA)

G
 * Glowing Eyes (La chatte à deux têtes) - (France)
 * God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (Ne dao bog većeg zla) - (Croatia)
 * Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (Gojira tai Mekagojira) - (Japan)
 * ''Goebbels und Geduldig - (Germany)
 * The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal - (USA)
 * The Good Thief, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Nick Nolte - (UK/France/Ireland)
 * The Guru, starring Jimi Mistry and Heather Graham - (UK/France/USA)

H
 * He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout), starring Audrey Tautou - (France)
 * Hero (Ying xiong), directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung - (China/Hong Kong)
 * Highway, starring Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair - (USA)
 * Home Room - (USA)
 * L'homme du train (The Man on the Train), directed by Patrice Leconte - (France)
 * The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep - (UK/USA)
 * House of Fools (Dom Durakov), directed by Andrei Konchalovsky - (Russia)
 * Hukkle - (Hungary)

I-J
 * I Am Dina (Jeg er Dina), starring Gérard Depardieu and Maria Bonnevie - (Norway/Sweden/France/Denmark)
 * I Love You (Wo ai ni), directed by Zhang Yuan - (China)
 * Igby Goes Down, starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Susan Sarandon - (USA)
 * The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth - (UK)
 * In America, directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou - (Ireland/UK)
 * In the City Without Limits (En la ciudad sin límites) - (Spain)
 * In This World, directed by Michael Winterbottom - (UK)
 * Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou), starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
 * Interstate 60, starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart - (USA)
 * Intimate Stories (Historias mínimas) - (Argentina)
 * InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (Eiga Inuyasha: Kagami no Naka no Mugenjō) - (Japan)
 * Irréversible, starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel - (France)

K
 * K-9: P.I., starring James Belushi - (USA)
 * Kamchatka - (Argentina)
 * The Kid Stays in the Picture, documentary on Robert Evans - (USA)
 * A Kind of America (Valami Amerika) - (Hungary)
 * Kiss the Bride - (USA)
 * Kruté radosti (Cruel Joys) - (Slovakia)

L-Q

 * The Laramie Project, starring Nestor Carbonell and Christina Ricci - (USA)
 * Last Call, starring Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek - (USA/Canada)
 * Laurel Canyon, starring Frances McDormand and Christian Bale - (USA)
 * The Legend of Bhagat Singh - (India)
 * Life Show (Sheng huo ziu) - (China)
 * Light Drops (O Gotejar da Luz) - (Mozambique)
 * Lilya 4-ever - (Sweden/Denmark)
 * Loonies (Loenatik - De moevie) - (Netherlands)
 * Lovers' Concerto (Yeonae soseol) - (South Korea)

M
 * Madame Satã - (Brazil/France)
 * The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan - (Ireland/UK)
 * The Man from Elysian Fields, starring Andy García and Mick Jagger - (USA)
 * The Man Who Saved Christmas, starring Jason Alexander - (USA)
 * The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä), directed by Aki Kaurismäki - (Finland)
 * Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) - (France)
 * Marooned in Iraq (Gomgashtei dar Aragh) - (Iran)
 * Marriage is a Crazy Thing (Gyeolhoneun michinjishida) - (South Korea)
 * Marrying the Mafia (Gamuneui yeonggwang) - (South Korea)
 * Mekhong Full Moon Party (Sibha kham doan sib ed) - (Thailand)
 * Melinda's World
 * Men with Brooms - (Canada)
 * The Missing Gun (Xun Qiang) - (China)
 * Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al Sol), starring Javier Bardem - (Spain)
 * Moonlight Mile, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman - (USA)
 * Morvern Callar, starring Samantha Morton - (UK)
 * Mr. and Mrs. Iyer - (India)
 * My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai) - (Hong Kong)
 * My Mother's Smile (L'ora di religione) (Il sorriso di mia madre) - (Italy)

N
 * Names in Marble (Nimed marmortahvlil) - (Estonia)
 * Narc, starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta - (USA)
 * New Best Friend, starring Mia Kirshner and Taye Diggs - (USA)
 * Nicholas Nickleby, starring Charlie Hunnam, Nathan Lane, Jim Broadbent - (UK/USA)
 * Noora (The Kiss of Life) - (Iran)

O
 * Oasis (오아시스) - (South Korea)
 * Occident - (Romania)
 * Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui - (chile)
 * Old Men in New Cars (Gamle Mænd i Nye Biler) - (Denmark)
 * On Line - (USA)
 * On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Saenghwalui balgyeon) - (South Korea)
 * Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) - (Denmark)
 * Den osynlige (The Invisible) - (Sweden)
 * Over the Rainbow (오버 더 레인보우) - (South Korea)

P-Q
 * Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, starring Kyra Sedgwick - (USA)
 * People I Know, starring Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Téa Leoni and Ryan O'Neal - (USA)
 * Philanthropy (Filantropica) - (Romania)
 * Phone Booth, starring Colin Farrell and Forest Whitaker - (USA)
 * The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrian Brody - (France/Poland/Germany/UK)
 * Pokémon 4Ever (Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Serebyi Toki o Koeta Deai) - (Japan)
 * Possession, starring Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow - (USA/UK)
 * The Powerpuff Girls Movie - (USA)
 * Public Enemy (Gonggongui Jeog) - (South Korea)
 * Pumpkin, starring Christina Ricci - (USA)
 * Punch-Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson - (USA)
 * Pure, starring Keira Knightley - (UK)
 * The Quiet American, starring Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine - (USA/Germany)

R-Z

 * R.S.V.P. - (USA)
 * Raaz (Secret) - (India)
 * Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce - (Australia)
 * Rachida - (Algeria)
 * Real Women Have Curves - (USA)
 * A Red Bear (Un oso rojo) - (Argentina)
 * Respiro, starring Valeria Golino - (Italy)
 * Ripley's Game, starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone - (USA/UK/Italy)
 * Road Movie - (South Korea)
 * Rose Red, starring Nancy Travis - (USA)
 * Russian Ark (Russkij Kovcheg), directed by Alexander Sokurov - (Russia)

S
 * Saathiya (Life Partner) - (India)
 * Salomé, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
 * The Salton Sea, starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio - (USA)
 * Saving My Hubby (Gudseura Geum-suna) - (South Korea)
 * The Sea (Hafið) - (Iceland/Norway)
 * Second Name (El segundo nombre) - (Spain)
 * Secretary, starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal - (USA)
 * Secret Things (Choses secrètes) - (France)
 * Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché) - (Canada)
 * Sex Is Zero (Saekjeuk shigong) - (South Korea)
 * Showboy - (USA)
 * The Singles Ward - (USA)
 * Skinwalkers, starring Wes Studi - (USA)
 * The Skywalk is Gone (Tian qiao bu jian le) - (Taiwan)
 * The Son (Le fils) - (Belgium/France)
 * Spider, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne - (Canada/UK)
 * Spirit of Korean Celadon (Chongjaui noks) - (North Korea)
 * Spring Subway (Kaiwang Chuntian de Ditie) - (China)
 * Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) - (China)
 * Spun, starring Jason Schwartzman and Brittany Murphy - (USA)
 * The Star (Zvezda) - (Russia)
 * Steal, starring Stephen Dorff and Natasha Henstridge - (Canada/UK/France)
 * Stevie - (USA)
 * Stolen Summer, starring Aidan Quinn - (USA)
 * Stones (Piedras) - (Spain)
 * Suicide Club (Jisatsu Sakuru) - (Japan)
 * Sunshine State, directed by John Sayles, starring Edie Falco and Angela Bassett - (USA)
 * Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot), directed by Park Chan-wook - (South Korea)

T
 * Tadpole, starring Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth - (USA)
 * Talk to Her (Hable con ella), directed by Pedro Almodóvar - (Spain)
 * Ten (Dah), directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran)
 * Terra incognita - (Lebanon/France)
 * Timequest - (USA)
 * Together (He ni zai yi qi), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
 * Tomorrow La Scala! - (UK)
 * The Tracker, starring David Gulpilil - (Australia)
 * The Trials of Henry Kissinger - (USA)
 * The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) - (Japan)
 * Two Men Went to War - (UK)

U-V
 * Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet (ウルトラマンコスモス2 THE BLUE PLANET) - (Japan)
 * The Uncertainty Principle (O Princípio da Incerteza) - (Portugal)
 * Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) - (China)
 * Uzak (Distant) - (Turkey)


 * Valentín, starring Carmen Maura - (Argentina/France/Italy/Spain)
 * The Visitor - (Australia)

W
 * Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) - (Mauritania/France)
 * Walking on Water - (Australia)
 * War (Voyna) - (Russia)
 * The Way Home (Jibeuro) - (South Korea)
 * Welcome to Collinwood, starring Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy - (USA)
 * Whale Rider, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes - (New Zealand/Germany)
 * When Maryam Spoke Out (Lamma hikyit maryam) - (Lebanon)
 * Where Eskimos Live (Tam, gdzie żyją Eskimosi) - (Poland/U.S.A./UK)
 * Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself - (Denmark/UK)
 * Women in the Mirror (Kagami no onnatachi) - (Japan)

XYZ
 * Year of the Devil (Rok ďábla) - (Czech Republic)

Films released in 2002 by country

 * List of Argentine films of the 2000s