2003 Winners
Boston
Film Critics Awards
Monday, December
16, 2002
BEST FILM: The Pianist
BEST FOREIGN
LANGUAGE FILM: Y Tu Mama Tambien
BEST DIRECTOR:
Roman Polanski, The Pianist
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
The Kid Stays in the Picture
BEST ACTOR:
Adrien Brody, The Pianist
BEST ACTRESS:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTOR: Alan Arkin, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS: Toni Collette, About a Boy and The Hours
BEST SCREENPLAY:
Charlie and Donald Kaufman, Adaptation
BEST NEW FILMMAKER:
Peter Care, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Edward Lachman, Far from Heaven
BEST FILM SERIES:
The Dark Worlds of Fritz Lang (Harvard Film Archive) Rewind/Fast Forward:
20 Years of Work by Women in Film and Video/New England (Museum of Fine
Arts)
Undercurrent: Neglected
Works of the French New Wave (HFA) Video Balagan (Coolidge Corner Theater)
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
(Brattle Theater)
DISOVERIES/REDISCOVERIES:
Ace in the Hole (Brattle)
Metropolis (Brattle)
Photo to Send (HFA)
Circumstance (MFA)
Shelter (New England Film/Video Festival)
COMMENDATIONS:
To "My Father, The Genius" director Lucia Small for excellence
in filmmaking by a local artist
To "Spirited
Away" director Hayao Miyazaki for achievement in animation