2001 in film

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For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 2001
4.1 Films released in 2001 by country
5 Deaths
6 Wide-release movies
6.1 January-March
6.2 April-June
6.3 July-September
6.4 October-December
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[edit] Events
August 8 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman get divorced.
November 2 - Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.

[edit] Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2001; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 2001 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.
2001Rank
Title
Studio
Box Office Gross
Total Int.l
U.S./Canada
U. K.
Australia
1.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Warner Bros.
$976,475,550
$317,575,550
£66,096,060
$41,610,399
2.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
New Line Cinema
$871,368,364
$314,776,170
£63,051,172
$46,192,563
3.
Monsters, Inc.
Buena Vista
$525,366,597
$255,873,250
£37,264,502
$25,345,632
4.
Shrek
DreamWorks
$484,409,218
$267,665,011
£28,856,683
$31,291,922
5.
Ocean's Eleven
Warner Bros.
$450,717,150
$183,417,150
£24,877,642
$22,234,443
6.
Pearl Harbor
Buena Vista
$449,220,945
$198,542,554
£14,225,440
$18,773,788
7.
The Mummy Returns
Universal Pictures
$433,019,785
$202,019,785
£20,323,326
$18,204,297
8.
Jurassic Park III
Universal Pictures
$368,780,809
$181,171,875
£18,108,325
$10,654,035
9.
Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox
$362,211,740
$180,011,740
£16,850,987
$11,645,152
10.
Hannibal
MGM
$351,692,268
$165,092,268
£21,422,605
$11,282,930
In total, seven films released in 2001 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status. This took the record from 1999, when six films reached IBMP status.
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind (Imagine Entertainment)
Achievement in directing: Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Best Actor: Denzel Washington - Training Day
Best Actress: Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent - Iris
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
Best Foreign Language Film: No Man's Land, directed by Danis Tanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / U.K. / Belgium
Best Animated Feature: Shrek, directed by Andrew Adamson, United States
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
Best Actor: Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Moulin Rouge!
Best Actor: Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge!
Other
Best Director: Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Best Foreign Language Film: No Man's Land, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / U.K. / Belgium
BAFTA Awards:
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Actor: Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress: Judi Dench - Iris
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio), directed by Nanni Moretti, Italy / France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair, India / U.S.A. / France / Italy / Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Intimacy (Intimité), directed by Patrice Chéreau, France / U.K. / Germany / Spain

[edit] Films released in 2001
15 Minutes
3000 Miles to Graceland starring Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ali, starring Will Smith
All Over the Guy
Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman
Amélie (from Montmartre) (5 Acad.Awards: ArtDir/ Cinematogr/ ForeignLang/ Orig.Scr/ Sound)
The American Astronaut with Johnny Depp
American Outlaws
American Pie 2
America's Sweethearts starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, John Cusack
Angel Eyes starring Jennifer Lopez
The Animal
Antitrust
The Art of Woo
Atanarjuat
Atlantis: The Lost Empire voice of Michael J. Fox
Avalanche Alley
Baby Boy
Bandits starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton
A Beautiful Mind - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture - starring Russell Crowe
Behind Enemy Lines I
The Believer
Black Hawk Down
Black Knight
Blow
Bridget Jones's Diary starring Renée Zellweger
The Brothers
The Bunker
Captain Corelli's Mandolin starring Nicolas Cage
Carving Out Our Name
The Cat's Meow
Cats & Dogs
Chaos (French)
Charlotte Gray
Corky Romano
CQ
Crazy/Beautiful
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Crush
The Day the World Ended
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Domestic Disturbance
Don't Say a Word
Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal
Double Take
Down to Earth
Dr. Dolittle 2, starring Eddie Murphy
Driven
Dumb Luck
Earth vs. the Spider
Elling - Golden Space Needle award (for 2002)
Elvira's Haunted Hills
L'Emploi du Temps (also known as Time Out)
Enemy at the Gates
Enigma
Escape from Hell
Evolution
Exit Wounds
The Fast and the Furious
Festival in Cannes
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Finder's Fee - Golden Space Needle award
The Fourth Angel
Frailty
Freddy Got Fingered
From Hell starring Johnny Depp
Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
Gasoline
Get Over It
Ghosts of Mars directed by John Carpenter, starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall and Joanna Cassidy
Ghost World
The Glass House
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Gosford Park
Hannibal
Hardball
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harvard Man
Head Over Heels
Heartbreakers with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver
Hearts in Atlantis
Heist
How High
How to Make a Monster directed by George Hwang, starring Clea DuVall, Steven Culp, Tyler Mane, Jason Marsden, and Karim Prince
Human Nature
In the Bedroom
Green Day: International Supervideos (DVD release: MTV collection)
Intimacy - Golden Bear award
Iris
Iron Monkey (English version - Chinese orig. release 1993)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jeepers Creepers
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Joe Dirt
Joe Somebody, starring Tim Allen
Josie and the Pussycats
Joy Ride
Jurassic Park III
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Kate & Leopold, starring Meg Ryan
Kiss of the Dragon
Kissing Jessica Stein
Kingdom Come
A Knight's Tale starring Heath Ledger and Paul Bettany
K-PAX, starring Kevin Spacey
Lagaan
Lan Yu
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie
The Last Castle
Late Marriage
Left Behind: The Movie (first released directly to video in 2000)
Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon
Life as a House
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - BAFTA Award for Best Picture
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Lovely & Amazing
Lucía y el sexo
Maangamizi: The Ancient One
The Majestic, starring Jim Carrey
Max Keeble's Big Move
Me Without You
Mean Machine
Metropolis
The Mexican starring Brad Pitt,Julia Roberts and James Gandolfini
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Millennium Actress
Mockingbird Don't Sing
Monkeybone
Monsoon Wedding - Golden Lion award
Monster's Ball starring Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton
Monsters, Inc. voices of John Goodman and Billy Crystal
Moulin Rouge!, starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Mulholland Drive
The Mummy Returns starring Brendan Fraser
The Musketeer
No Man's Land - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Not Another Teen Movie
Novocaine
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika), Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2002)
O
Ocean's Eleven starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Off The Map (DVD Release)
The One, starring Jet Li
Original Sin
Osmosis Jones
Out Cold, starring Jason London & Lee Majors
The Others, starring Nicole Kidman
Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck
Le Peuple Migrateur (also known as Winged Migration)
The Piano Teacher
Planet of the Apes starring Mark Wahlberg
The Pledge
Pokémon 3: The Movie (English version - Japanese orig. released 2000)
Princesa
The Princess Diaries, starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway
Rain
Rat Race
Recess: School's Out
Revolution OS
Riding in Cars with Boys
Rock Star
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shaolin Soccer
Save the Last Dance
Saving Silverman
Say It Isn't So
Scary Movie 2
Scratch
The Score
Scotland, Pa.
See Jane Run
See Spot Run
Serendipity starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale
Shallow Hal
She Creature
The Shipping News
Shrek - Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Someone Like You
The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) - Palm d'Or award
Sorum
Southern Comfort, a documentary film
Spirited Away - Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Golden Bear (both for 2002)
Spy Game starring Brad Pitt and Robert Redford
Spy Kids
Stuck
Summer Catch
Sur mes lèvres
Sweet November starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron
Swordfish starring John Travolta, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman
Taking Sides -(film only mentioned in article)
The Tailor of Panama
Thir13en Ghosts
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Tomcats
Training Day
Two Can Play that Game
Uprising
Va savoir
Valentine
Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz
Vidocq
Waking Life
War Photographer
The Wash
The Wedding Planner starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
What Time Is It There?
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes
Y tu mamá también
Yellow Hair 2
Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (My Sassy Girl)
Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller

[edit] Films released in 2001 by country
List of Argentine films:2001

[edit] Deaths
January 29 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor
February 7 - Dale Evans, actress
February 12 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer
February 19 - Stanley Kramer, 87, American movie director
March 15 - Ann Sothern, actress
April 2 - Jennifer Syme, entertainment industry employee
April 15 - Joey Ramone, 49, singer/guitarist/songwriter
June 3 - Anthony Quinn, 86, actor
June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor
June 28 - Jack Lemmon, 76, actor
June 28 - Joan Sims, 71, actress
August 25 - Aaliyah, 22, singer and actress
September 3 - Pauline Kael, 82, movie critic
October 28 - Grigori Chukhrai, Ukrainian film director
December 10 - Ashok Kumar, 90, actor, India

[edit] Wide-release movies

[edit] January-March
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month
Day
Title
Studio
Notes
JANUARY
12
Antitrust
MGM
Ryan Phillippe, Tim Robbins
Double Take
Touchstone/Buena Vista
Eddie Griffin, Orlando Jones
Save the Last Dance
Paramount
Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas
19
The Pledge
Warner Bros.
Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Aaron Eckhart
26
Sugar & Spice
New Line
James Marsden, Mena Suvari
The Wedding Planner
Columbia/Sony
Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey
FEBRUARY
2
Head Over Heels
Universal
Freddie Prinze, Jr., Monica Potter
Left Behind
Cloud Ten
Kirk Cameron, first released directly to video in 2000
Valentine
Warner Bros.
David Boreanaz, Denise Richards
9
Hannibal
MGM
Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
Saving Silverman
Columbia/Sony
Jack Black
16
Down to Earth
Paramount
Chris Rock, remake of 1941 film and 1978 film
Recess: School's Out
Walt Disney/Buena Vista
spinoff of Recess
Sweet November
Warner Bros.
Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, remake of 1968 film
23
3000 Miles to Graceland
Warner Bros.
Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner
Monkeybone
20th Century Fox
Brendan Frasier, Bridget Fonda
MARCH
2
The Mexican
DreamWorks
Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini
See Spot Run
Warner Bros.
David Arquette
9
15 Minutes
New Line
Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer
Get Over It
Miramax
Kirsten Dunst
16
Enemy at the Gates
Paramount
Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law , Ed Harris
Exit Wounds
Warner Bros.
Steven Seagal, DMX
23
The Brothers
Screen Gems/Sony
D. L. Hughley
Heartbreakers
MGM
Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Say It Isn't So
20th Century Fox
Chris Klein, Heather Graham
30
Someone Like You
20th Century Fox
Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman
Spy Kids
Dimension/Miramax
Antonio Banderas, Alexa Vega
Tomcats
Columbia/Sony
Jerry O'Connell

[edit] April-June
April 2001
April 6
April 13
April 20
April 27
May 2001
May 4
May 11
May 18
May 25
June 2001
June 1
June 8
June 15
June 22
June 29

[edit] July-September
July 2001
July 6
July 13
July 20
July 27
August 2001
August 3
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31
September 2001
September 7
September 14
September 21
September 28

[edit] October-December
October 2001
October 5
October 12
October 19
October 26
November 2001
November 2
November 9
November 16
November 23
November 30
December 2001
December 7
December 14
December 21
December 28