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TTT/FOTR Win 5 Cinemarati Awards
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*THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS* WINS BEST FILM IN THE 2003 CINEMARATI AWARDS (New York City) -- Cinemarati: The Web Alliance for Film Commentary today chose *The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* as the Best Film of 2002 in the third annual Cinemarati Awards. Winners in 26 additional categories, recognizing the best cinematic efforts of last year, were also named. *The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* garnered four awards, including Best Film, Best Ensemble Cast, and Best Director for Peter Jackson. Also highly honored were Todd Haynes’ *Far From Heaven,* picking up five awards, including Best Lead Actress for Julianne Moore and Best Supporting Actor for Dennis Quaid. Dylan Kidd’s *Roger Dodger* won three awards, including Best Lead Actor for Campbell Scott, and Spike Jonze’s *Adaptation* received two awards: Best Supporting Actress for Meryl Streep and Best Adapted Screenplay for Charlie and Donald Kaufman. Roberto Benigni’s *Pinocchio* was doubly dishonored, named The Worst Film of the Year and Benigni himself bestowed with The Jar Jar Binks Award, for the "year's most inexplicable cinematic creation," for his 50-year-old boy-puppet. The complete roster of awards appears below. "I’m delighted that the Cinemarati Awards have recognized some genuinely worthy films of the year that haven’t received the attention they deserved," said founding member MaryAnn Johanson, of FlickFilosopher.com, "such as our Orson Welles Award to new director Zacharias Kunuk for his wonderful fantasy *Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner).* And it’s great to be able to point out the ascendancy of film criticism online, as with our Best Film Web Site winner, The Onion’s AV Club." Unlike other professional awards, the Cinemarati Awards are chosen through Cinemarati’s signature, one-of-a-kind "showdown" process, where nominees go head-to-head in matchups voted on by its Member Critics and held in full public view at Cinemarati’s international home on the internet (http://www.cinemarati.org). The 2003 Cinemarati Award Winners, as announced on Friday, February 21st, are listed below. Discussion on the winners and also-rans continues at the Cinemarati Roundtable (http://www.cinemarati.org/roundtable.) 2003 CINEMARATI AWARD WINNERS (Available online Friday, February 21st, 8:00AM Eastern at http://www.cinemarati.org/features/awards2003_winners.shtml) BEST FILM BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM BEST ANIMATED FILM BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM THE WORST FILM OF THE YEAR BEST DVD AWARD THE JOHN WATERS AWARD For the Year's Guiltiest Pleasure THE JAR JAR BINKS AWARD Dishonoring the Year's Most Inexplicable Cinematic Creation BEST LEAD ACTOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEST ENSEMBLE CAST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AWARD BEST DIRECTOR THE ORSON WELLES AWARD Honoring the Year's Best Directorial Debut BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST FILM EDITING OUTSTANDING DESIGN BEST SONG (Original or Adapted) BEST MUSICAL SCORE BEST FILM WEB SITE BEST OFFICIAL FILM SITE EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CRITICISM ROUNDTABLE FILM OF THE YEAR
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Y Tu Mamà También
Spirited Away
Bowling for Columbine
Pinocchio
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(Platinum Series Extended Edition)
Undercover Brother
Fifty-year-old Roberto Benigni as Pinocchio
Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Dennis Quaid, Far From Heaven
Meryl Streep, Adaptation
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Jesse Eisenberg, Roger Dodger
Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Zacharias Kunuk, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Pedro Almodovar, Talk to Her
Charlie and Donald Kaufman, Adaptation
Dylan Kidd, Roger Dodger
Edward Lachman, Far From Heaven
D. Michael Horton and Jabez Olssen, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Far From Heaven
"Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa," Monsoon Wedding
Elmer Bernstein, Far From Heaven
The Onion AV Club (http://www.theonionavclub.com/)
Minority Report (http://www.precrime.org/)
Amy Taubin, Film Comment
(chosen by the participants of the Cinemarati Roundtable) 25th Hour