2001 Awards

Quick Look

Check out the winners and other nominees from the 2001 Cosmo Awards:

Synopsis

At the second awards, held in 2002, most of the categories honored films from the previous calendar year.

While we were informally calling it the “Second Annual Cosmique Movie Awards” (a tradition that continued until a three year gap from the 2007 through 2009 film seasons), we had to decide how refer to it by year. The Academy Awards refer to their years based on when the Oscars are awarded, which seems kind of confusing. We decided to name ours based on the calendar year of the films. Thus, the 2001 Awards were held in the spring of 2002 to honor films released in the 2001 calendar year.

Two films – Gosford Park and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – tied for Best Film of 2001. Two actresses – Cate Blanchett for Bandits and Audrey Tautou for Amélie – tied for Best Actress, while two actors — John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Guy Pierce for Memento – tied for Best Actor. (In the early years of the awards especially, low voter turnout increased the chances of tied results.)

Two films were inducted into the Best Film of All Time Hall of Fame: All About Eve and Gone with the Wind. Maggie Smith was inducted into the Best Actresses of All Time Hall of Fame, while Cary Grant was named to the Best Actors of All Time Hall of Fame.

The founders of the awards were horrified to realize that at the previous year’s Lifetime Achievements, we failed to have categories for Directing and Screenwriting. Two special one-off Lifetime Achievements were awarded at the second awards, with Alfred Hitchcock being named Best Director of All Time, and All About Eve winning Best Film Script of All Time.

The nomination ballots had already been sent out when we also discovered that Best Director of a 2001 Film had been omitted. We decided to “appoint” nominees using a formula that factored in the number of Best Director nominations the film had received at other major awards as well as points for the number of Cosmo nominations the film received (weighted so that significant categories like Best Film were more valuable than other more fun categories like Best Villain). Robert Altman was named Best Director of a 2001 Film for Gosford Park.