2002
John Q
(2002)
James Kearns
2 wins & 8 nominations.
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Ju-on: The Grudge
(2002)
Takashi Shimizu, Bobby White (subtitles)
1 win & 1 nomination.
In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.
Minority Report
(2002)
Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Jon Cohen (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 68 nominations.
In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.
Narc
(2002)
Joe Carnahan
1 win & 8 nominations.
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?
One Hour Photo
(2002)
Mark Romanek
6 wins & 21 nominations.
Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state.
Red Dragon
(2002)
Thomas Harris (novel), Ted Tally (screenplay)
4 wins & 10 nominations.
FBI Agent Will Graham has been called out of early retirement to catch a serial killer, known by authorities as "The Tooth Fairy". He asks for the help of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, so that he can be able to catch "The Tooth Fairy" and bring him to justice. The only problem is that "The Tooth Fairy" is getting inside information about Graham and his family from none other than Dr. Lecter.
Returner
(2002)
Richard Epcar (dubbed version), Kenya Hirata, Takashi Yamazaki
2 wins & 3 nominations.
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Road to Perdition
(2002)
Max Allan Collins (graphic novel), Richard Piers Rayner (graphic novel), David Self (screenplay)
Won 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 70 nominations.
Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living.
So Close
(2002)
Jeffrey Lau
2 nominations.
A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
Solaris
(2002)
Stanislaw Lem (novel), Steven Soderbergh (screenplay)
2 wins & 11 nominations.
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Spun
(2002)
Will De Los Santos (screenplay), Creighton Vero (screenplay)
2 nominations.
A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(2002)
Jae-sun Lee, Jong-yong Lee, Mu-yeong Lee, Chan-wook Park
2 wins.
A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.
The Bourne Identity
(2002)
Tony Gilroy (screenplay), W. Blake Herron (screenplay), Robert Ludlum (novel)
3 wins & 4 nominations.
Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.
The Eye
(2002)
Yuet-Jan Hui, Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang
8 wins & 6 nominations.
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realized she could even see ghosts.
The Rules of Attraction
(2002)
Bret Easton Ellis (novel), Roger Avary (screenplay)
2 wins & 3 nominations.
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
xXx
(2002)
Rich Wilkes
4 wins & 13 nominations.
An extreme sports athlete, Xander Cage, is recruited by the government on a special mission.