2002 AFI Awards – Movie of the Year Winner
![The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-peter-jackson-image.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-beautiful-mind-ron-howard-image.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/black-hawk-down-ridley-scott-image.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-bedroom-todd-field-image.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/memento-christopher-nolan-image.jpg)
Memento
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer.
![Monster's Ball](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/monsters-ball-marc-forster-image.jpg)
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!](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moulin-rouge-image.jpg)
Moulin Rouge!
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.
![Mulholland Drive](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mulholland-drive-david-lynch-image.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shrek-image.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-man-who-wasnt-there-joel-coen-ethan-coen-image.jpg)
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.