Retro Muriels: 2002

Best Picture:
8 Women
25th Hour
Songs From the Second Floor
Punch-Drunk Love
Russian Ark
Talk to Her
What Time Is It There?
Spirited Away
The Piano Teacher
Trouble Every Day

Best Director:
Spike Lee, 25th Hour
Francois Ozon, 8 Women
Roy Andersson, Songs From the Second Floor
Aleksandr Sokurov, Russian Ark
Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love

Best Lead Performance, Female:
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar
Sylvie Testud, Murderous Maids
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Summer Phoenix, Esther Kahn

Best Lead Performance, Male:
Nicolas Cage, Adaptation.
Ryan Gosling, The Believer
Danny Huston, ivans xtc.
Sam Rockwell, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Edward Norton, 25th Hour

Best Supporting Performance, Male:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
Brian Cox, 25th Hour
Andy Serkis, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Dennis Quaid, Far From Heaven
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 25th Hour

Best Supporting Performance, Female:
Isabelle Huppert, 8 Women
Meryl Streep, Adaptation.
Ronit Elkabetz, Late Marriage
Ludivine Sagnier, 8 Women
Emily Watson, Punch-Drunk Love

Best Screenplay:
25th Hour
Talk to Her
Y Tu Mama Tambien
8 Women
Adaptation.

Best Ensemble Performance:
8 Women
Monsoon Wedding
25th Hour
Far From Heaven
Talk to Her

Best Cinematography:
Far From Heaven (Edward Lachman)
Morvern Callar (Alwin Kuchler)
Punch-Drunk Love (Robert Elswit)
What Time Is It There? (Benoit Delhomme)
25th Hour (Rodrigo Prieto)

Best Music:
25th Hour (Terence Blanchard)
Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
Sex and Lucia (Alberto Iglesias)
Punch-Drunk Love (Jon Brion)
8 Women (Krishna Levy et al)

Best Cinematic Breakthrough:
Ryan Gosling (actor- The Believer)
Ludivine Sagnier (actor- 8 Women)
Danny Huston (actor- ivans xtc.)
Summer Phoenix (actor- Esther Kahn)
Steve Coogan (actor- 24 Hour Party People)

Best Body of Work:
Isabelle Huppert (actor- The Piano Teacher, 8 Women, Merci Pour le Chocolat, Les Destinées)
Steven Soderbergh (director- Solaris, Full Frontal; executive producer- Far From Heaven, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Insomnia, Naqoyqatsi)
Alberto Iglesias (composer- Sex and Lucia, Talk to Her)
Edward Norton (actor- 25th Hour, Death to Smoochy, Red Dragon)
Ludivine Sagnier (actor- 8 Women, My Wife Is An Actress)

Best Cinematic Moment:
25th Hour – last temptation of Monty
Talk to Her – “Shrinking Lover”
8 Women – “Message Personnel”
Songs From the Second Floor – airport
Punch-Drunk Love – opening scene
Minority Report – spiders
The Fast Runner – punching heads
Femme Fatale – slow motion legs
Cherish – “Private Eyes”
Brotherhood of the Wolf – the world’s greatest dissolve