55th British Academy Film Awards

55th British Academy Film Awards
Date	24 February 2002
Highlights
Best Film	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best British Film	Gosford Park
Best Actor	Russell Crowe; A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress	Judi Dench; Iris
Most awards	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4)
Most nominations	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring &; Moulin Rouge! (12)
	← 54th; BAFTA Awards; 56th →;

The 55th British Film Awards (BAFTA Awards), given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 24 February 2002, honoured the best in film for 2001.

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring won the award for Best Film, Best Director and Best Makeup & Hair. Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, was voted Best British Film of 2001. Russell Crowe won the award for Best Lead Actor in A Beautiful Mind. A Beautiful Mind also won the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Jennifer Connelly). Judi Dench won the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Iris. Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!) won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

Winners and nominees

Peter Jackson, Best Director winner

Russell Crowe, Best Actor winner

Judi Dench, Best Actress winner

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Jim Broadbent, Best Supporting Actor winner

Jennifer Connelly, Best Supporting Actress winner

Best Short Film - Animation

Dog

Best Sound

Moulin Rouge!

Best Supporting Actor

Jim Broadbent - Moulin Rouge!

Hugh Bonneville - Iris
Robbie Coltrane - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Colin Firth - Bridget Jones's Diary
Eddie Murphy - Shrek

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind

Best Visual Effects

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Awards breakdown

Winners (at least two awards won)

4 / 12 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Best Director, Film, Makeup & Hair and Visual Effects
3 / 12 Moulin Rouge! Best Sound, Best Film Music, Best Supporting Actor
2 / 5 A Beautiful Mind: Best Actor and Supporting Actress
2 / 8 Gosford Park: Best British Film and Costume Design
2 / 9 Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain): Best Original Screenplay and Production Design
1 / 1 Amores perros (Love's a Bitch): Best Foreign Language Film
1 / 1 The Man Who Wasn't There: Best Cinematography
1 / 2 Mulholland Dr.: Best Editing
1 / 6 Iris: Best Actress
1 / 6 Shrek: Best Adapted Screenplay

Losers (no awards but 2 or more nominations)

0 / 2 In the Bedroom
0 / 2 The Others
0 / 2 Planet of the Apes
0 / 3 Black Hawk Down
0 / 4 Bridget Jones's Diary
0 / 7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Russell Crowe controversy

After he won for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Crowe gave a speech in which he quoted a poem by Patrick Kavanagh. When the show was aired, Crowe was upset 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The poem that was cut was a four line poem:

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.

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55th British Academy Film Awards

Contents

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Director

Best Editing

Best Film

Best Film - British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Makeup and Hair

Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)

Best Production Design

Best Screenplay - Adapted

Best Screenplay - Original

Best Short Film

Best Short Film - Animation

Best Sound

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Visual Effects

Awards breakdown

Russell Crowe controversy

References

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