2002 Awards

Quick Look

Check out the winners and other nominees from the 2002 Cosmo Awards:

Synopsis

At the 2002 Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers received a record 21 nominations and went on to win a record nine awards, but lost the Best Film of 2002 to Chicago. Rob Marshall also won Best Director for Chicago, continuing a trend whereby the Best Film winner usually also won Best Director.

Citizen Kane, Bette Davis, and Jimmy Stewart were all inducted into their respective Hall of Fame categories. No other special Lifetime Achievements were awarded.

Richard Gere was the first actor to receive both Lead and Supporting nominations for the same role (Chicago), reflecting a split opinion among Cosmo voters about the significance of his role. He lost to Adrian Brody for The Pianist and Chris Cooper for Adaptation, respectively.

Julianne Moore made Cosmo history by winning both Best Actress for Far From Heaven and Best Supporting Actress for The Hours.

At the 2002 awards, we also created a special category for Best Performance by a Young Actor or Actress in a 2002 Film (which went to a three-way tie for Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down, Gael García Bernal in Y Tu Mama También, and Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers). The category was not used the following year, and remained in retirement for another decade.

The Best Documentary award made its debut in 2002 (and was won by Bowling for Columbine). So many film sequels came out in 2002 that we felt compelled to create a Best Sequel award (won by The Two Towers), which was promptly retired.

This year we also added “just for fun” categories to honor the actors and actresses we thought were the sexiest (an award that, to be honest, we created specifically for Ian Somerhalder, though Viggo Mortensen ended up winning).