55th British Academy Film Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 55

| award = British Academy Film Awards

| date = 24 February 2002

| site = Odeon Leicester Square

| host = Stephen Fry

| best_film = The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

| best_british = Gosford Park

| best_actor = Russell Crowe

| best_actor_film = A Beautiful Mind

| best_actress = Judi Dench

| best_actress_film = Iris

| most_wins = The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4)

| most_nominations = The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Moulin Rouge! (12)

| last = 54th

| next = 56th

}}

The 55th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 24 February 2002 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2001. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2001.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring won Best Film, Best Director for Peter Jackson, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Visual Effects.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1836096.stm |title=Lord of the Rings sweeps Baftas |publisher=BBC News |date=24 February 2002 |access-date=5 June 2022}} Russell Crowe won Best Actor for A Beautiful Mind, which also won Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly. Judi Dench won Best Actress for Iris and Jim Broadbent won Best Supporting Actor for Moulin Rouge!. Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2001. This ceremony is also notable for Eddie Murphy's nomination for his voice role as Donkey in Shrek, to date the only voice-over performance ever nominated in BAFTA history.{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/2001-bafta-best-supporting-actor-race-was-chaos/ |title=Why More Award Shows Should Embrace Chaos Like the Wild 2001 BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Race |first=Mike |last=Shutt |publisher=Collider |date=20 October 2021 |access-date=5 June 2022}}

Stephen Fry hosted the ceremony for the first time solo, after co-hosting with Mariella Frostrup the previous year.

Winners and nominees

File:Peter Jackson SDCC 2014.jpg, Best Director winner]]

File:Russell Crowe - Flickr - Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer (2).jpg, Best Actor winner]]

File:Judi Dench at the BAFTAs 2007.jpg, Best Actress winner]]

File:Jim Broadbent 2012.jpg, Best Supporting Actor winner]]

File:Jennifer Connelly 2010 TIFF.jpg, Best Supporting Actress winner]]

File:JP Jeunet.jpg, Best Original Screenplay co-winner]]

File:Terry Rossio (2009) (cropped).png, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner]]

File:Robert Altman - 1983.jpg, Outstanding British Film co-winner]]

File:Alejandro González Iñárritu 2014.jpg, Best Film Not in the English Language winner]]

=BAFTA Fellowship=

Warren Beatty, Merchant Ivory Productions and John Mills

=Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema=

Vic Armstrong

=Awards=

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Tim Sanders
Amélie – Claudie Ossard
A Beautiful Mind – Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
Moulin Rouge! – Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann and Fred Baron
Shrek – Aron Warner, John H. Williams and Jeffrey Katzenberg

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Direction}}

Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz Luhrmann – Moulin Rouge!
Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Amélie
Robert Altman – Gosford Park
Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind

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Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash Jr.

Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf

Jim Broadbent – Iris as John Bayley

Kevin Spacey – The Shipping News as Quoyle

Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom as Matt Fowler

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Actress in a Leading Role}}

Judi Dench – Iris as Iris Murdoch
Audrey Tautou – Amélie as Amélie Poulain
Nicole Kidman – The Others as Grace Stewart
Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget Jones
Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom as Ruth Fowler

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Jim Broadbent – Moulin Rouge! as Harold Zidler

Colin Firth – Bridget Jones's Diary as Mark Darcy

Eddie Murphy – Shrek as Donkey

Hugh Bonneville – Iris as Young John Bayley

Robbie Coltrane – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Rubeus Hagrid

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Actress in a Supporting Role}}

Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind as Alicia Nash
Helen Mirren – Gosford Park as Mrs. Wilson
Judi Dench – The Shipping News as Agnis Hamm
Kate Winslet – Iris as Young Iris Murdoch
Maggie Smith – Gosford Park as Constance, Dowager Countess of Trentham

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Amélie – Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes

Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce

The Others – Alejandro Amenábar

The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Adapted Screenplay}}

Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman
A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman
Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis
Iris – Richard Eyre and Charles Wood
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

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The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins

Amélie – Bruno Delbonnel

Black Hawk Down – Sławomir Idziak

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Andrew Lesnie

Moulin Rouge! – Donald McAlpine

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Costume Design}}

Gosford Park – Jenny Beavan
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – Judianna Makovsky
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
Moulin Rouge! – Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie
Planet of the Apes – Colleen Atwood

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Mulholland Drive – Mary Sweeney

Amélie – Hervé Schneid

Black Hawk Down – Pietro Scalia

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – John Gilbert

Moulin Rouge! – Jill Bilcock

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Makeup and Hair}}

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Owen, Peter King and Richard Taylor
Gosford Park – Sallie Jaye and Jan Archibald
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – Amanda Knight, Eithne Fennel and Nick Dudman
Moulin Rouge! – Maurizio Silvi and Aldo Signoretti
Planet of the Apes – Rick Baker, Toni G and Kazu Hiro

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Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries

Amélie – Yann Tiersen

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Howard Shore

Mulholland Drive – Angelo Badalamenti

Shrek – Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell

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Amélie – Aline Bonetto
Gosford Park – Stephen Altman
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – Stuart Craig
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Grant Major
Moulin Rouge! – Catherine Martin

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Moulin Rouge! – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Roger Savage, Guntis Sics, Gareth Vanderhope and Antony Gray

Black Hawk Down – Chris Munro, Per Hallberg, Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Karen Baker Landers

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – John Midgley, Eddy Joseph, Ray Merrin, Graham Daniel and Adam Daniel

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – David Farmer, Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Gethin Creagh, Michael Semanick, Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Shrek – Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Wylie Stateman and Lon Bender

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Special Visual Effects}}

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Jim Rygiel, Richard Taylor, Alex Funke, Randall William Cook and Mark Stetson
A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar and Michael Lantieri
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – Robert Legato, Nick Davis, John Richardson, Roger Guyett and Jim Berney
Moulin Rouge! – Chris Godfrey, Andrew Brown, Nathan McGuinness and Brian Cox
Shrek – Ken Bielenberg

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Gosford Park – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban and David Levy

Bridget Jones's Diary – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish and Sharon Maguire

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – David Heyman and Chris Columbus

Iris – Robert Fox, Scott Rudin and Richard Eyre

Me Without You – Finola Dwyer and Sandra Goldbacher

| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer}}

Jump Tomorrow – Joel Hopkins (Writer/Director) and Nicola Usborne (Producer)
Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes (Writer)
Late Night Shopping – Jack Lothian (Writer)
The Parole Officer – Steve Coogan and Henry Normal (Writer)
South West 9 – Richard Parry (Writer/Director)
Strictly Sinatra – Ruth Kenley-Letts (Producer)

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Dog – Suzie Templeton

Camouflage – Jonathan Bairstow and Jonathan Hodgson

Home Road Movies – Dick Arnall, Robert Bradbrook and Ian Sellar

Tuesday – Geoff Dunbar and Judith Roberts

The World of Interiors – Chris Shepherd and Bunny Schendler

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About a Girl – Janey de Nordwall, Brian Percival and Julie Rutterford
Inferno – Teun Hilte, Paul Kousoulides and Sharat Sardana
The Red Peppers – Lee Santana and Dominic Santana
Skin Deep – Andy Porter and Yousaf Ali Khan
Tattoo – Arabella Page Croft, Sara Putt, Jules Williamson and Jemma Field

valign="top" width="50%" colspan="2" | {{Award category|{{BAFTA Film Awards/colour}}|Best Film Not in the English Language}}

Amores perros – Alejandro González Iñárritu

Amélie – Claudie Ossard and Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Behind the Sun – Arthur Cohn and Walter Salles

Monsoon Wedding – Caroline Baron and Mira Nair

The Piano Teacher – Veit Heiduschka and Michael Haneke

Russell Crowe controversy

After winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Russell Crowe gave a speech in which he quoted a poem by Patrick Kavanagh. When the ceremony was broadcast, Crowe was enraged that the poem was cut. He blamed the producer, Malcolm Gerrie, and confronted him about it. It was reported that the confrontation got physical and there was speculation that it would cost him the Academy Award for Best Actor; Crowe later apologized and ultimately lost the Oscar to Denzel Washington for Training Day.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/mar/04/broadcasting1 |title=Crowe is Gerrie sorry |first=Jason |last=Deans |work=The Guardian |date=4 March 2002 |access-date=5 March 2002}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/feb/28/baftas2002film.baftasfilm |title=Crowe 'clarifies' Bafta outburst |work=The Guardian |date=28 February 2002 |access-date=12 November 2009}}{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/03/05/did-russell-crowe-commit-oscar-suicide/ |title=Scary Crowe |first=Gary |last=Susman |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=5 March 2002 |access-date=January 22, 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1856202.stm |title=The poet behind Russell Crowe's rage |publisher=BBC News |date=5 March 2002 |access-date=12 November 2009}}{{cite web |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/42924/crowe_unleashes_hell_baftas |title=Crowe Unleashes Hell at BAFTAs |first=Josh |last=Grossberg |work=E! Online |date=27 February 2002 |access-date=27 February 2002}}{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-03-23/oscars-2002-denzel-halle-poitier-beautiful-mind |title=Oscars flashback: Why no repeat of 2002's historic wins? And why it matters in 2022 |first1=Justin |last1=Chang |first2=Glenn |last2=Whipp |work=Los Angeles Times |date=23 March 2022 |access-date=5 June 2022}}