Friday, March 29

2002 AFI Awards – Movie of the Year Winner and Nominees

2002 AFI Awards – Movie of the Year Winner

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom

A New England couple’s college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.

Memento

Memento

A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer.

Monster's Ball

Monster’s Ball

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge!

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Shrek

Shrek

A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.

The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn’t There

A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife’s boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.