Oscar 2002 Articles

GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) Direction: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, from a story by Cocks. (Herbert Asbury’s Gangs of New York treads on some of the same territory shown in the [...]

THE HOURS (2002) Direction: Stephen Daldry Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins Screenplay: David Hare; from Michael Cunningham’s novel Oscar Movies Recommended Nicole Kidman, The Hours Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning The Hours uses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway (working title: "The Hours") as the link [...]

ROAD TO PERDITION (2002) Direction: Sam Mendes Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Dylan Baker, Ciarán Hinds, Liam Aiken Screenplay: David Self; from Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner’s graphic novel Oscar Movies Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Road to Perdition British director Sam Mendes won an Academy Award for his first film, American Beauty, [...]

ABOUT A BOY (2002) Direction: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz Screenplay: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Peter Hedges; from Nick Hornby’s novel Oscar Movies Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Hugh Grant, About a Boy "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a [...]