2002 in film

Template:Year nav topic5 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.

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2002

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross
1.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	New Line Cinema	$926,287,400
2.	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Warner Bros.	$879,225,135
3.	Spider-Man	Columbia / Marvel	$821,708,551
4.	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones	20th Century Fox / Lucasfilm	$649,398,328
5.	Men in Black II	Columbia	$441,818,803
6.	Die Another Day	MGM	$431,971,116
7.	Signs	Touchstone	$408,247,917
8.	Ice Age	20th Century Fox / Blue Sky	$383,257,136
9.	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	IFC Films	$368,744,044
10.	Minority Report	DreamWorks / 20th Century Fox	$358,372,926

Events

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• 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

Category/Organization	8th Critics' Choice Awards January 17, 2003	60th Golden Globe Awards January 19, 2003		56th BAFTA Awards February 23, 2003	9th Screen Actors Guild Awards March 9, 2003	75th Academy Awards March 23, 2003
		Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Chicago	The Hours	Chicago	The Pianist	Chicago (cast)	Chicago
Best Director	Steven Spielberg Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report	Martin Scorsese Gangs of New York		Roman Polanski The Pianist	—	Roman Polanski The Pianist
Best Actor	Jack Nicholson About Schmidt Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York	Jack Nicholson About Schmidt	Richard Gere Chicago	Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York	Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York	Adrien Brody The Pianist
Best Actress	Julianne Moore Far from Heaven	Nicole Kidman The Hours	Renée Zellweger Chicago	Nicole Kidman The Hours	Renée Zellweger Chicago	Nicole Kidman The Hours
Best Supporting Actor	Chris Cooper Adaptation.	Chris Cooper Adaptation.		Christopher Walken Catch Me If You Can	Christopher Walken Catch Me If You Can	Chris Cooper Adaptation.
Best Supporting Actress	Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago	Meryl Streep Adaptation.		Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago	Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago	Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Adaptation. and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Charlie	About Schmidt Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor		Adaptation. Charlie and Donald Kaufman	—	The Pianist Ronald Harwood
Best Screenplay, Original				Talk to Her Pedro Almodóvar	—	Talk to Her Pedro Almodóvar
Best Score	Catch Me If You Can John Williams	Frida Elliot Goldenthal		The Hours Philip Glass	—	Frida Elliot Goldenthal
Best Foreign Language Film	'And Your Mother Too' (Y Tu Mamá También)	Talk to Her (Hable con ella)		Talk to Her (Hable con ella)	—	Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
Best Animated Film	Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)	—		—	—	Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)

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

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Julia Phillips	57	USA	Producer	Taxi Driver • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • The Sting • Steelyard Blues • Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
	2	Santanón	72	Mexico	Actor	The Fear Chamber • Isle of the Snake People
	6	Mario Nascimbene	88	Italy	Composer	The Vikings • Room at the Top •The Barefoot Contessa
	7	Avery Schreiber	66	USA	Actor	Robin Hood: Men in Tights • Dracula: Dead and Loving It • Galaxina • The Concorde ... Airport '79
	9	Bill McCutcheon	77	USA	Actor	Steel Magnolias • Family Business • Tune in Tomorrow • Vibes • W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
	12	Stanley Unwin	90	UK	Actor, Soundtrack	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Carry On Regardless • Press for Time • Inn for Trouble
	13	Ted Demme	38	USA	Director, Producer	Blow • Rounders • Life • The Ref • Beautiful Girls • Snitch
	17	Queenie Leonard	96	UK	Actress	Mary Poppins • Alice in Wonderland • One Hundred and One Dalmatians • My Fair Lady • Hatari! • And Then There Were None • Doctor Dolittle • The Uninvited
	19	Roy Conrad	61	USA	Actor	Patch Adams • Casino • The Wizard • Pink Cadillac • The Fan • Titan A.E.
	21	Peggy Lee	81	USA	Singer, Actress	Lady and the Tramp • Pete Kelly's Blues • The Jazz Singer
	29	Stratford Johns	81	UK	Actor	Cromwell • Wild Geese II
February	1	Hildegard Knef	76	Germany	Actress	The Snows of Kilimanjaro • Fedora • Murderers Among Us • Decision Before Dawn • The Dirty Dozen
	11	Barry Foster	74	UK	Actor	Frenzy • Ryan's Daughter • Maurice • Rancid Aluminum
	13	Waylon Jennings	64	USA	Singer, Actor	Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird • Moonrunners • Nashville Rebel • Mackintosh and T.J.
	18	Byrne Piven	72	USA	Actor	Being John Malkovich • Miracle on 34th Street • Very Bad Things • Trojan War
	20	Fredric Steinkamp	73	USA	Film Editor	Tootsie • Out of Africa • Scrooged • The Firm • Sabrina • Adventures in Babysitting • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
	26	Lawrence Tierney	82	USA	Actor	Reservoir Dogs • The Naked Gun • Junior • The Greatest Show on Earth • Prizzi's Honor • Armageddon • Tough Guys Don't Dance
	27	Spike Milligan	83	India	Actor	Life of Brian • The Big Freeze • History of the World, Part I
March	?	James Culliford	74	UK	Actor	The Trygon Factor • Quatermass and the Pit • Death Line
	1	Robert Weil	87	USA	Actor	The Little Mermaid • Moonstruck • Saturday Night Fever • The Hudsucker Proxy • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three • The French Connection • The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
	4	Claire Davenport	68	UK	Actress	Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi • The Elephant Man • The Return of the Pink Panther
	4	Eric Flynn	62	China	Actor	Empire of the Sun • Safari 3000
	4	Shirley Russell	66	UK	Costume Designer	Reds • Tommy • Hope and Glory • Enigma • FairyTale: A True Story
	11	David John	56	Template:Flagicon	Sound Mixer	The Princess Bride • GoldenEye • Bridget Jones's Diary • The Jackal • Entrapment • Anna and the King • The Saint • Rob Roy
	18	Denis Forest	41	Canada	Actor	The Mask • Cliffhanger • Eraser
	23	Richard Sylbert	73	USA	Production Designer	Chinatown • The Graduate • Rosemary's Baby • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • Dick Tracy • My Best Friend's Wedding • Carlito's Way • The Manchurian Candidate • Mobsters • The Bonfire of the Vanities • Mulholland Falls
	27	Milton Berle	93	USA	Actor, Comedian	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • The Muppet Movie • Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows • Journey Back to Oz
	27	Dudley Moore	66	UK	Actor	Arthur • 10 • Santa Claus: The Movie • Bedazzled • Derek and Clive Get the Horn • Like Father Like Son • Cяazy People
	27	Billy Wilder	95	Poland	Director, Screenwriter	The Apartment • Some Like It Hot • Sunset Boulevard • The Fortune Cookie • Stalag 17 • Sabrina • The Spirit of St. Louis • Avanti! • One, Two, Three
April	?	Michael Wolf	67	UK	Actor	The Assassination Bureau • A Bridge Too Far • Escape to Victory
	4	Harry O'Connor	44	USA	Stuntman	The Perfect Storm • XXX • Charlie's Angels • K-PAX • Air Force One • The Animal
	15	Robert Urich	55	USA	Actor	Magnum Force • Endangered Species
	17	James Copeland	84	UK	Actor	Torture Garden
	19	Reginald Rose	81	USA	Screenwriter	12 Angry Men • The Wild Geese • The Sea Wolves • Whose Life Is It Anyway?
	21	Terry Walsh	62	UK	Stuntman, Actor	Who Framed Roger Rabbit • Superman • Willow • The Spy Who Loved Me • Ever After • An American Werewolf in London • First Knight • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels • Never Say Never Again
	25	Michael Bryant	74	UK	Actor	Gandhi • Hamlet • Goodbye, Mr. Chips • The Miracle Maker
	28	John Wilkinson	82	Template:Flagicon	Sound Mixer	Platoon • Breakfast at Tiffany's • Wall Street • Marathon Man • The Bad News Bears
May	5	George Sidney	85	USA	Director	Viva Las Vegas • Showboat • Anchors Aweigh • Bye Bye Birdie
	11	Bill Peet	87	USA	Screenwriter	Dumbo • Peter Pan • Fantasia • Alice in Wonderland • The Sword and the Stone • Cinderella • One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	15	Bryan Pringle	67	USA	Actor	Brazil • Three Men and a Little Lady • Jabberwocky
	25	Pat Coombs	75	UK	Actress	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • Carry On Doctor • Carry On Again Doctor • Dad's Army • On the Buses
June	3	Sam Whipple	41	USA	Actor	The Rock • The Doors • Airheads • Blue City
	6	Desmond Cullum-Jones	77	UK	Actor	Dad's Army
	9	James Wheaton	78	USA	Actor	THX 1138
	28	Robert S. Mendelsohn	68	USA	Production Manager	Se7en • The Onion Field • Barb Wire
	29	Rosemary Clooney	74	USA	Singer, Actress	White Christmas • Radioland Murders • Deep in My Heart • Red Garters
July	4	Ivan Moffat	84	Cuba	Screenwriter	Giant • Black Sunday • Bhowani Junction • They Came to Cordura • Hitler: The Last Ten Days
	5	Katy Jurado	78	Mexico	Actress	High Noon • One-Eyed Jacks • Under the Volcano • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid • The Hi-Lo Country
	6	John Frankenheimer	72	USA	Director, Producer, Actor	The Manchurian Candidate • Ronin • Reindeer Games • French Connection II • The Island of Dr. Moreau • Birdman of Alcatraz • The General's Daughter
	9	Rod Steiger	77	USA	Actor	In the Heat of the Night • Mars Attacks! • On the Waterfront • Doctor Zhivago • The Amityville Horror • The Hurricane • The Longest Day • Oklahoma! • End of Days • Lion of the Desert • The Specialist
	9	Gerald Campion	81	France	Actor	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines • School for Scoundrels • Carry On Sergeant • The Sorcerers
	15	Philip Roth	72	USA	Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Harry and Tonto • What's Up, Doc? • The Baltimore Bullet • Linda Lovelace for President
	24	Maurice Denham	92	UK	Actor	Animal Farm • The Day of the Jackal
	26	Buddy Baker	84	USA	Composer	The Fox and the Hound • The Apple Dumpling Gang
August	5	Josh Ryan Evans	20	USA	Actor	How the Grinch Stole Christmas
	6	Katherine Schofield	63	UK	Actress	Nicholas and Alexandra • Lifeforce
	14	Peter R. Hunt	77	USA	Editor, Director	Goldfinger • Dr. No • From Russia with Love • The Ipcress File • Sink the Bismarck! • H.M.S. Defiant
	15	Yuriy Yakovlev	71	Bulgaria	Actor	The Past-Master • Gerlovo Event • A Peasant on a Bicycle • Farsighted for Two Diopters
	16	Jeff Corey	88	USA	Actor	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • True Grit • Little Big Man • Beethoven's 2nd • Conan the Destroyer • Color of Night
	23	Dennis Fimple	78	USA	Actor	Maverick • House of 1000 Corpses • King Kong • Stay Hungry • Down Periscope
	30	J. Lee Thompson	88	UK	Director	The Guns of Navarone • Cape Fear • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes • Death Wish 4: The Crackdown • Huckleberry Finn
September	3	Ted Ross	68	USA	Actor	The Fisher King • Police Academy • Arthur • The Wiz
	7	Katrin Cartlidge	41	UK	Actress	From Hell • Breaking the Waves • Topsy-Turvy
	7	Michael Elphick	55	UK	Actor	Cry of the Banshee • O Lucky Man! • The First Great Train Robbery • The Elephant Man • Krull • Gorky Park • Withnail and I • Little Dorrit • David Copperfield
	11	Kim Hunter	79	USA	Actress	A Streetcar Named Desire • Planet of the Apes • Storm Center • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil • The Seventh Victim
	16	James Gregory	90	USA	Actor	The Manchurian Candidate • The Flight of Dragons • The Love God? • Beneath the Planet of the Apes
	22	Carmen Phillips	65	USA	Actress	Easy Rider • Please Don't Eat the Daisies
October	3	Tad Horino	81	USA	Actor	Mulholland Drive • Red Sonja • Kung Pow! Enter the Fist • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
	4	Buddy Lester	85	USA	Actor	Ocean's 11 • The Nutty Professor
	13	Dennis Patrick	84	USA	Actor	Joe • House of Dark Shadows
	18	Chuck Domanico	58	USA	Musician	Midnight Run • The Truth About Cats & Dogs • The Edge • The Big Kahuna
	21	George Hall	85	Canada	Actor	Big Daddy • Mrs. Brown • From the Hip
	24	Charmian May	94	UK	Actress	Bridget Jones's Diary • The Dawning • Highlander: Endgame • Paper Mask
	25	Richard Harris	72	UK	Actor	Unforgiven • Gladiator • Camelot • The Guns of Navarone • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone • The Count of Monte Cristo • Mutiny on the Bounty • Patriot Games • The Cassandra Crossing • The Wild Geese • The Bible: In the Beginning • Caprice • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
	27	André de Toth	90	Hungary	Director, Screenwriter	House of Wax • The Gunfighter • Play Dirty • The Indian Fighter • Crime Wave
	28	Lawrence Dobkin	83	USA	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Patton • The Ten Commandments • The Defiant Ones • Johnny Yuma
	31	Raf Vallone	86	Italy	Actor	The Godfather Part III • El Cid • The Italian Job • The Other Side of Midnight • Lion of the Desert
November	1	Keith A. Wester	62	USA	Sound Engineer	The Rock • Air Force One • The Princess Diaries • Armageddon • Waterworld • The Perfect Storm • Orange County • G.I. Jane • Cradle 2 the Grave • Wayne's World 2
	3	Jonathan Harris	87	USA	Actor	Toy Story 2 • A Bug's Life • Lost in Space
	9	Merlin Santana	26	USA	Actor	Showtime
	14	Eddie Bracken	87	USA	Actor	The Miracle of Morgan's Creek • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Vacation • Oscar • Baby's Day Out
	18	James Coburn	74	USA	Actor	The Great Escape • Affliction • Monsters, Inc. • Eraser • Maverick • Snow Dogs • Young Guns II • Hudson Hawk • The Muppet Movie • Our Man Flint • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
	22	Parley Baer	88	USA	Actor	Dave • Space Case • The Young Lions • Last of the Dogmen
	24	Noel Davis	75	UK	Casting Director	Reds • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Ishtar • Jane Eyre • Incognito
	27	Billie Bird	94	USA	Actress	Home Alone • Dennis the Menace • Sixteen Candles • Ernest Saves Christmas • Jury Duty • Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
	27	Roger Kemp	71	UK	Actor	Superman II • Pink Floyd—The Wall • Dragonslayer
December	12	Brad Dexter	85	USA	Actor	The Magnificent Seven • The Asphalt Jungle • Shampoo • The Las Vegas Story • Run Silent, Run Deep
	14	Ruth Kobart	78	USA	Actress	Dirty Harry • Sister Act • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
	15	Arthur Jeph Parker	79	USA	Set Decorator	Silverado • Private Benjamin • The China Syndrome • The Shootist • Dragnet
	27	George Roy Hill	81	USA	Director	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • The Sting • Slap Shot • Hawaii • The Great Waldo Pepper

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

January - March

Opening			Title	Studio	Cast & Crew
J A N U A R Y
	4	W	Impostor	Miramax Films	Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio
	11	W	Orange County	Paramount Pictures MTV Films	Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison, Kyle Howard, Catherine O'Hara, Mike White
	18	W	Snow Dogs	Walt Disney Pictures	Dir: Brian Levant; Cuba Gooding, Jr., James Coburn, Nichelle Nichols, Joanna Bacalso, Sisqó
	25	W	The Count of Monte Cristo	Touchstone Pictures	James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, Dagmara Dominczyk
			Kung Pow! Enter the Fist	20th Century Fox	Steve Oedekerk, Jennifer Tung, Lung Fei, Leo Lee
			The Mothman Prophecies	Screen Gems	Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Debra Messing, Will Patton, Lucinda Jenney
			A Walk to Remember	Warner Bros.	Mandy Moore, Shane West
F E B R U A R Y
	1	W	Slackers	Screen Gems	Jason Schwartzman, Devon Sawa, Jason Segel, Mike Maronna, Jaime King, Laura Prepon
	8	W	Big Fat Liar	Universal Studios	Dir: Shawn Levy; Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison
			Collateral Damage	Warner Bros.	Dir: Andrew Davis; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, John Leguizamo, John Turturro
			Rollerball	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Dir: John McTiernan; Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews
	15	W	Crossroads	Paramount Pictures	Dir: Tamra Davis; Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd
			Hart's War	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Cole Hauser, Marcel Iureş
			John Q	New Line Cinema	Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods, Anne Heche, Eddie Griffin, Kimberly Elise
			Return to Never Land	Walt Disney Pictures	Blayne Weaver, Harriet Owen, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Kath Soucie, Roger Rees, Spencer Breslin, Bradley Pierce, Jim Cummings, Clive Revill, Dan Castellaneta
			Super Troopers	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brian Cox
	22	W	Dragonfly	Universal Studios	Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt, Kathy Bates
			Queen of the Damned	Warner Bros.	Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Paul McGann, Vincent Pérez, Lena Olin
M A R C H
	1	W	40 Days and 40 Nights	Miramax Films	Dir: Michael Lehmann; Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo
			We Were Soldiers	Paramount Pictures	Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Don Duong, Chris Klein, Keri Russell
	8	W	All About the Benjamins	New Line Cinema	Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Eva Mendes, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Chaplin, Valarie Rae Miller
			The Time Machine	DreamWorks	Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, Phyllida Law, Alan Young, Omero Mumba
	15	W	Ice Age	20th Century Fox	Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
			Resident Evil	Screen Gems	Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, Colin Salmon
			Showtime	Warner Bros.	Dir: Tom Dey; Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, William Shatner
	22	W	Blade II	New Line Cinema	Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Thomas Kretschmann, Leonor Varela, Danny John-Jules
			Ali G Indahouse	Universal Studios	Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Freeman, Michael Gambon
			Sorority Boys	Touchstone Pictures	Barry Watson, Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams, Melissa Sagemiller, Heather Matarazzo
		R	E.T.: 20th Anniversary Edition	Universal Pictures	Dir: Steven Spielberg; Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas
	29	W	Clockstoppers	Paramount Pictures	Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, French Stewart
			Death to Smoochy	Warner Bros.	Dir: Danny DeVito; Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Danny DeVito, Catherine Keener, Jon Stewart
			Panic Room	Columbia Pictures	Dir: David Fincher; Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto
			The Rookie	Walt Disney Pictures	Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Brian Cox

April - June

Opening			Title	Studio	Cast & Crew
A P R I L	5	W	Big Trouble	Touchstone Pictures	Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld; Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Tom Sizemore, Johnny Knoxville
			High Crimes	20th Century Fox	Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower
			National Lampoon's Van Wilder	Artisan Entertainment	Dir: Walt Becker; Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Kal Penn
	12	W	Changing Lanes	Paramount Pictures	Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt, Amanda Peet
			Frailty	Lions Gate Entertainment	Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter
			The Sweetest Thing	Columbia Pictures	Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane, Jason Bateman, Parker Posey
	19	W	Murder by Numbers	Warner Bros.	Dir: Barbet Schroeder; Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt
			The Scorpion King	Universal Studios	Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill, Grant Heslov, Peter Facinelli, Ralf Möller
		‡	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	IFC Films	Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Ian Gomez
	26	W	Jason X	New Line Cinema	Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck Campbell, Jonathan Potts, Peter Mensah, Melyssa Ade
			Life, or Something Like It	20th Century Fox	Dir: Stephen Herek; Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Stockard Channing, Christian Kane, Tony Shalhoub
M A Y	3	W	Deuces Wild	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Max Perlich
			Hollywood Ending	DreamWorks	Woody Allen, George Hamilton, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams, Peter Gerety
			Spider-Man	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Sam Raimi; Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris
	8	W	Unfaithful	20th Century Fox	Dir: Adrian Lyne; Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan
	10	W	The New Guy	Columbia Pictures	DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel
	16	W	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones	20th Century Fox	Dir: George Lucas; Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Frank Oz, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee
	17	W	About a Boy	Universal Studios	Dir: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz; Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Sharon Small
	24	W	Enough	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Michael Apted; Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen
			Insomnia	Warner Bros.	Dir: Christopher Nolan; Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan
			Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	DreamWorks Animation	Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi
	31	W	The Sum of All Fears	Paramount Pictures	Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ciarán Hinds, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan
			Undercover Brother	Universal Studios	Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Dave Chappelle, Denise Richards, Aunjanue Ellis, Neil Patrick Harris
J U N E	7	W	Bad Company	Touchstone Pictures	Dir: Joel Schumacher; Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock
			Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Warner Bros.	Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, James Garner
	14	W	The Bourne Identity	Universal Studios	Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Clive Owen
			Scooby-Doo	Warner Bros.	Dir: Raja Gosnell; Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Rowan Atkinson
			Windtalkers	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach
	21	W	Juwanna Mann	Warner Bros.	Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Kim Wayans, Ginuwine
			Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney Pictures	Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames
			Minority Report	20th Century Fox Dreamworks Pictures	Dir: Steven Spielberg; Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough
	28	W	Hey Arnold!: The Movie	Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies	Spencer Klein, Francesca Smith, Jamil Walker Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Tress MacNeille
			Mr. Deeds	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Steven Brill; Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, John Turturro

July - September

Opening			Title	Studio	Cast & Crew
J U L Y	3	W	Like Mike	20th Century Fox	Bow Wow, Brenda Song, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki
			Men in Black II	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld; Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson
			The Powerpuff Girls Movie	Warner Bros.	Cathy Cavadini; Tara Strong; Elizabeth Daily; Roger L. Jackson; Tom Kane; Tom Kenny; Jennifer Hale
	12	W	The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Neil Fanning, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham, Lachy Hulme, Aden Young
			Halloween: Resurrection	Dimension Films	Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Ryan Merriman, Daisy McCrackin, Katee Sackhoff
			Reign of Fire	Touchstone Pictures	Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Alice Krige
			Road to Perdition	DreamWorks	Dir: Sam Mendes; Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Daniel Craig
	17	W	Eight Legged Freaks	Warner Bros.	David Arquette, Kari Wührer, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E. Doug
	19	W	K-19: The Widowmaker	Paramount Pictures	Dir: Kathryn Bigelow; Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson
			Stuart Little 2	Columbia Pictures	Michael J. Fox, Melanie Griffith, Nathan Lane, Hugh Laurie, Geena Davis, Jonathan Lipnicki, James Woods
	26	W	Austin Powers in Goldmember	New Line Cinema	Dir: Jay Roach; Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Michael Caine, Seth Green, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Mindy Sterling, Verne Troyer
			The Country Bears	Walt Disney Pictures	Don Henley, Haley Joel Osment, Diedrich Bader, Queen Latifah, Elton John, Christopher Walken
A U G U S T	2	W	Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat	Paramount Pictures	Martin Lawrence
			The Master of Disguise	Columbia Pictures	Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, James Brolin, Brent Spiner, Bo Derek
			Signs	Touchstone Pictures	Dir: M. Night Shyamalan; Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
	7	W	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Dimension Films	Dir: Robert Rodriguez; Alexa Vega, Emily Osment, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino
	9	W	Blood Work	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus
			xXx	Columbia Pictures	Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson
	16	W	The Adventures of Pluto Nash	Warner Bros.	Dir: Ron Underwood; Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Pam Grier, Burt Young
			Blue Crush	Universal Studios	Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis, Sanoe Lake, Mika Boorem
	21	‡	One Hour Photo	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle
	23	W	Serving Sara	Paramount Pictures	Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell
			S1m0ne	New Line Cinema	Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts
			Undisputed	Miramax Films	Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker, Jon Seda, Wes Studi, Fisher Stevens
	30	W	FeardotCom	Warner Bros.	Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea
S E P T E M B E R	6	W	City by the Sea	Warner Bros.	Robert De Niro, Eliza Dushku, James Franco
			Swimfan	20th Century Fox	Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby, Clayne Crawford, Jason Ritter, Dan Hedaya
	13	W	Barbershop	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer
			Stealing Harvard	Columbia Pictures	Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Tammy Blanchard
	20	W	Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever	Warner Bros.	Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto
			The Banger Sisters	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush
			The Four Feathers	Paramount Pictures	Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou, Kate Hudson
			Trapped	Columbia Pictures	Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon, Dakota Fanning
	27	W	Sweet Home Alabama	Touchstone Pictures	Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Fred Ward, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place
			The Tuxedo	DreamWorks	Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs

October - December

Opening			Title	Studio	Cast & Crew
O C T O B E R	4	W	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie	Artisan Entertainment	Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki
			Red Dragon	Universal Studios	Dir: Brett Ratner; Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
	11	W	Brown Sugar	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe, Queen Latifah
			Knockaround Guys	New Line Cinema	Barry Pepper, Seth Green, Vin Diesel, John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper
			The Rules of Attraction	Lions Gate Entertainment	James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Kip Pardue, Clifton Collins, Jr., Kate Bosworth
			The Transporter	20th Century Fox	Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, François Berléand
			Tuck Everlasting	Walt Disney Pictures	Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley, Victor Garber
			White Oleander	Warner Bros.	Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renée Zellweger
	18	W	Abandon	Paramount Pictures	Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Whitmere, Fred Ward
			The 51st State	Screen Gems	Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Meat Loaf
			The Ring	DreamWorks	Dir: Gore Verbinski; Naomi Watts, Daveigh Chase, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox
	25	W	Ghost Ship	Warner Bros.	Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington, Ron Eldard, Karl Urban
			Jackass: The Movie	Paramount Pictures	Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Dave England, Jason Acuña
			The Truth About Charlie	Universal Studios	Dir: Jonathan Demme; Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins, Ted Levine, Lisa Gay Hamilton
			Time Changer	Five & Two Pictures	Dir: Rich Christiano; D. David Morin, Jennifer O'Neill, Hal Linden, Gavin MacLeod, Paul Rodriguez
N O V E M B E R	1	W	I Spy	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Betty Thomas; Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole
			The Santa Clause 2	Walt Disney Pictures	Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Krumholtz, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson
	6	W	Femme Fatale	Warner Bros.	Dir: Brian De Palma; Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas
	8	W	8 Mile	Universal Studios	Dir: Curtis Hanson; Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer
	15	W	Half Past Dead	Screen Gems	Morris Chestnut, Steven Seagal, Ja Rule, Kurupt
			Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Warner Bros.	Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, Jason Isaacs, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw, Julie Walters, Warwick Davis
	22	W	Die Another Day	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rick Yune, Rosamund Pike, Judi Dench, Will Yun Lee
			The Emperor's Club	Universal Studios	Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Embeth Davidtz, Rob Morrow, Edward Herrmann, Harris Yulin, Paul Dano
			Friday After Next	New Line Cinema	Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Don 'D.C.' Curry, Anna Maria Horsford, Clifton Powell
	27	W	Eight Crazy Nights	Columbia Pictures	Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Rob Schneider
			Extreme Ops	Paramount Pictures	Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell
			Solaris	20th Century Fox	Dir: Steven Soderbergh; George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur
			Treasure Planet	Walt Disney Pictures	Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Emma Thompson
			They	Dimension Films	Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jon Abrahams
D E C E M B E R	6	W	Analyze That	Warner Bros.	Dir: Harold Ramis; Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Cathy Moriarty
			Empire	Universal Studios	John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Delilah Cotto, Denise Richards
		L	Adaptation	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Spike Jonze; Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
	13	W	Drumline	20th Century Fox	Nick Cannon, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, Zoe Saldana, Jason Weaver
			The Hot Chick	Touchstone Pictures	Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence, Eric Christian Olsen, Sam Doumit
			Maid in Manhattan	Columbia Pictures	Dir: Wayne Wang; Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson
			Star Trek: Nemesis	Paramount Pictures	Dir: Stuart Baird; Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden
		L	About Schmidt	New Line Cinema	Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Kathy Bates
	18	W	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	New Line Cinema	Dir: Peter Jackson; Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies
	20	W	Gangs of New York	Miramax Films	Dir: Martin Scorsese; Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Jim Broadbent
			Two Weeks Notice	Warner Bros.	Dir: Marc Lawrence; Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant
			The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Paramount Pictures	Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave, Jodi Carlisle, Danielle Harris, Flea
	25	W	Catch Me If You Can	DreamWorks	Dir: Steven Spielberg; Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen
			Pinocchio	Miramax Films	Dir: Roberto Benigni; Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Carlo Giuffrè, Fichi d'India, Kim Rossi Stuart

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