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2002 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures celebrated their 90th anniversaries in 2002.

## Highest-grossing films

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See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2002

The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 2002  Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross

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1  | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | New Line | $936,689,735
2  | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Warner Bros. | $878,979,634
3  | Spider-Man | Sony Pictures | $821,708,551
4  | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 20th Century Fox | $653,741,940
5  | Men in Black II | Sony Pictures | $441,818,803
6  | Die Another Day | MGM / 20th Century Fox | $431,971,116
7  | Signs | Buena Vista | $408,247,917
8  | Ice Age | 20th Century Fox | $383,257,136
9  | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | IFC | $368,744,044
10  | Minority Report | 20th Century Fox / DreamWorks | $358,372,926

2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar milestone, surpassing the previous year's record of two eight-hundred-million-dollar films. It also surpasses the previous year's record of having the most ticket sales in a single year (fueled by the success of various sequels and the first Spider-Man movie).

## Events

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* March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo that was used until December 2011 to celebrate its 90th anniversary.
* May – The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival.
* May 3–5 – Spider-Man becomes the first film to earn $100 million in one weekend. This surpassed the previous all-time opening weekend record held by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, as well as the previous May opening weekend record held by The Lost World: Jurassic Park.[2] The film went on to earn over $800 million worldwide, surpassing Batman to become the highest-grossing superhero film of all time and Men in Black to become Sony's most successful film.[3][4]
* May 16 – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones opens in theaters. Although a huge success, it was the first Star Wars film not to be the highest-grossing of the year.
* Amélie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet wins the 2002 César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, and Best Art Direction. Amélie also became the highest-grossing French-language film in the United States ever.
* Another French-language film Brotherhood of the Wolf also became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States in the last two decades.

## Awards

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Category/Organization | 8th Critics' Choice Awards
January 17, 2003 | 60th Golden Globe Awards
January 19, 2003 | 56th BAFTA Awards
February 23, 2003 | Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards | 75th Academy Awards
March 23, 2003

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Drama | Musical or Comedy
Best Film | Chicago | The Hours | Chicago | The Pianist | Chicago
Best Director | Steven Spielberg
Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report | Martin Scorsese
Gangs of New York | Roman Polanski
The Pianist | Rob Marshall
Chicago | Roman Polanski
The Pianist
Best Actor | Jack Nicholson
About Schmidt
Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York | Jack Nicholson
About Schmidt | Richard Gere
Chicago | Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York | Adrien Brody
The Pianist
Best Actress | Julianne Moore
Far from Heaven | Nicole Kidman
The Hours | Renée Zellweger
Chicago | Nicole Kidman
The Hours | Renée Zellweger
Chicago | Nicole Kidman
The Hours
Best Supporting Actor | Chris Cooper
Adaptation. | Christopher Walken
Catch Me If You Can | Chris Cooper
Adaptation.
Best Supporting Actress | Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago | Meryl Streep
Adaptation. | Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Adaptation. and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Charlie Kaufman | About Schmidt
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | Adaptation.
Charlie and Donald Kaufman | The Hours
David Hare | The Pianist
Ronald Harwood
Best Screenplay, Original | Talk to Her
Pedro Almodóvar | Bowling for Columbine
Michael Moore | Talk to Her
Pedro Almodóvar
Best Animated Film | Spirited Away | — | — | — | — | Spirited Away
Best Original Song | Lose Yourself
8 Mile | The Hands That Built America
Gangs of New York | — | — | Lose Yourself
8 Mile
Best Original Score | Catch Me If You Can
John Williams | Frida
Elliot Goldenthal | The Hours
Philip Glass | — | Frida
Elliot Goldenthal
Best Foreign Language Film | Y Tu Mamá También | Talk to Her | — | Nowhere in Africa

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, Poland

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan, U.K. / Ireland

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
Bloody Sunday, directed by Paul Greengrass, U.K. / Ireland

## 2002 films

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### By country/region

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* List of American films of 2002
* List of Argentine films of 2002
* List of Australian films of 2002
* List of Bangladeshi films of 2002
* List of British films of 2002
* List of Canadian films of 2002
* List of Chinese films of 2002
* List of French films of 2002
* List of Hong Kong films of 2002
* List of Indian films of 2002
* List of Bengali films of 2002
* List of Hindi films of 2002
* List of Kannada films of 2002
* List of Malayalam films of 2002
* List of Marathi films of 2002
* List of Punjabi films of 2002
* List of Tamil films of 2002
* List of Telugu films of 2002
* List of Japanese films of 2002
* List of Mexican films of 2002
* List of Nepalese films of 2002
* List of Pakistani films of 2002
* List of Russian films of 2002
* List of South Korean films of 2002
* List of Spanish films of 2002

### By genre/medium

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* List of action films of 2002
* List of animated feature films of 2002
* List of avant-garde films of 2002
* List of crime films of 2002
* List of comedy films of 2002
* List of drama films of 2002
* List of horror films of 2002
* List of science fiction films of 2002
* List of thriller films of 2002
* List of western films of 2002

## Births

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* January 4 – Tunisha Sharma, Indian actress (died 2022)
* January 18 – Samuel Joslin, British actor
* January 20
* Michael Barbieri, American actor
* January 30
* Tyla, South African singer
* Joshua Colley, American actor
* February 2 – Madina Nalwanga, Ugandan actress
* February 13 – Sophia Lillis, American actress
* February 23 – Emilia Jones, English actress, singer and songwriter
* March 4 – Jacob Hopkins, American actor
* March 10 – Júlia Gomes, Brazilian actress
* March 15 – Sam McCarthy, American actor
* March 27 – Ty Tennant, English actor
* April 2 – Emma Myers, American actress
* April 4 – Damian Hurley, English actor and model
* April 8 – Skai Jackson, American actress
* April 16 – Sadie Sink, American actress
* May 6 – Emily Alyn Lind, American actress
* May 7
* Andrew Barth Feldman, American actor
* Jake Bongiovi, American actor
* May 16 – Isaac Kragten, Canadian actor
* May 22 – Maisa Silva, Brazilian actress and television host
* May 26 – Georgie Farmer, English actor
* June 2 – Madison Hu, American actress
* June 3 – Eva Bella, American actress
* June 5 – Lewis MacDougall, Scottish actor
* July 2 – Abraham Attah, Ghanaian actor
* July 16 – Milly Shapiro, American actress and singer
* July 24 – Benjamin Flores Jr., American actor and rapper
* July 25 – Shunsuke Michieda, Japanese actor and singer
* August 1 – Oona Laurence, American actress
* August 12 – Iman Vellani, Pakistani-Canadian actress
* August 16 – Talia Ryder, American actress
* August 23 – Indiana Massara, Australian actress and singer
* August 30 – Raffey Cassidy, English actress
* September 6 – Asher Angel, American actor
* September 8 – Gaten Matarazzo, American actor
* September 13 – Chiara Aurelia, American actress
* September 20 - Gabriel LaBelle, Canadian actor
* September 22 – Cody Veith, American actor
* September 24 – Elijah Richardson, American actor
* September 27 – Jenna Ortega, American actress
* September 28 – Kyline Alcantara, Filipino actress, singer and television host
* September 30
* Levi Miller, Australian actor
* Maddie Ziegler, American actress
* October 9 – Choi Min-young, South Korean actor
* October 12 – Iris Apatow, American actress
* October 16 - Madison Wolfe, American actress
* October 26
* Julian Dennison, New Zealand actor
* Emma Schweiger, American actress
* October 28 – Lola Tung, American actress
* December 12 – Allegra Acosta, American actress
* December 13 – AC Bonifacio, Canadian actress, dancer, singer, vlogger
* December 17 – Guilherme Seta, Brazilian actor
* December 23 – Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor

## Deaths

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Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films

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January | 1 | Carol Ohmart | 74 | US | Actress |

* The Scarlet Hour
* House on Haunted Hill

1 | Julia Phillips | 57 | US | Producer |

* Taxi Driver
* The Sting

6 | Mario Nascimbene | 88 | Italy | Composer |

* The Vikings
* Room at the Top

7 | Avery Schreiber | 66 | US | Actor |

* Robin Hood: Men in Tights
* Caveman

9 | Bill McCutcheon | 77 | US | Actor |

* Steel Magnolias
* Family Business

11 | Henri Verneuil | 81 | Turkey | Director, Screenwriter |

* I as in Icarus
* The Sheep Has Five Legs

12 | Stanley Unwin | 90 | UK | Actor |

* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
* Carry On Regardless

13 | Ted Demme | 38 | US | Director, Producer |

* Blow
* Rounders

15 | Jeremy Hawk | 83 | UK | Actor |

* Elizabeth
* Stealing Heaven

17 | Queenie Leonard | 96 | UK | Actress |

* And Then There Were None
* Alice in Wonderland

19 | Roy Conrad | 61 | US | Actor |

* Patch Adams
* Casino

20 | Harold Kasket | 75 | UK | Actor |

* The Man Who Knew Too Much
* The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

21 | Peggy Lee | 81 | US | Singer, Actress |

* Lady and the Tramp
* Pete Kelly's Blues

23 | Howard A. Smith | 89 | US | Film Editor |

* Breakfast at Tiffany's
* The Delicate Delinquent

29 | Stratford Johns | 76 | UK | Actor |

* Cromwell
* Wild Geese II

29 | Harold Russell | 88 | Canada | Actor |

* The Best Years of Our Lives
* Inside Moves

February | 1 | Hildegard Knef | 76 | Germany | Actress |

* The Snows of Kilimanjaro
* Fedora

4 | George Nader | 80 | US | Actor |

* Congo Crossing
* Four Girls in Town

6 | Guy Stockwell | 68 | US | Actor |

* The War Lord
* Tobruk

7 | Diane Hart | 75 | UK | Actress |

* The Wicked Lady
* Happy Go Lovely

11 | Barry Foster | 74 | UK | Actor |

* Frenzy
* Ryan's Daughter

13 | Waylon Jennings | 64 | US | Singer, Actor |

* Nashville Rebel
* Moonrunners

15 | Lucille Lund | 88 | US | Actress |

* Prison Shadows
* The Black Cat

18 | Giustino Durano | 78 | Italy | Actor |

* Life Is Beautiful
* Lucky to Be a Woman

18 | Jack Lambert | 81 | US | Actor |

* How the West Was Won
* Kiss Me Deadly

18 | Byrne Piven | 72 | US | Actor |

* Being John Malkovich
* Miracle on 34th Street

19 | Gene Ruggiero | 91 | US | Film Editor |

* Around the World in 80 Days
* The Shop Around the Corner

20 | Fredric Steinkamp | 73 | US | Film Editor |

* Tootsie
* Out of Africa

21 | John Thaw | 60 | UK | Actor |

* Chaplin
* Sweeney!

22 | Chuck Jones | 89 | US | Animator, Director |

* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
* Gay Purr-ee

25 | Claire Davenport | 68 | UK | Actress |

* Return of the Jedi
* The Elephant Man

26 | Lawrence Tierney | 82 | US | Actor |

* Reservoir Dogs
* Dillinger

27 | Spike Milligan | 83 | India | Actor |

* Life of Brian
* The Big Freeze

28 | Mary Stuart | 75 | US | Actress |

* Adventures of Don Juan
* The Big Punch

March | 2 | Mary Grant | 85 | UK | Costume Designer |

* Sweet Smell of Success
* We're No Angels

4 | Eric Flynn | 62 | China | Actor |

* Empire of the Sun
* Safari 3000

4 | Shirley Russell | 66 | UK | Costume Designer |

* Reds
* Tommy

10 | Irene Worth | 85 | US | Actress |

* Deathtrap
* Lost in Yonkers

16 | Carmelo Bene | 64 | Italy | Actor, Director |

* One Hamlet Less
* Oedipus Rex

17 | William Witney | 86 | US | Director |

* The Crimson Ghost
* Adventures of Captain Marvel

18 | Denis Forest | 41 | Canada | Actor |

* The Mask
* Cliffhanger

23 | Richard Sylbert | 73 | US | Production Designer |

* Chinatown
* The Graduate

23 | James Culliford | 74 | UK | Actor |

* The Trygon Factor
* Quatermass and the Pit

26 | Louis M. Heyward | 81 | US | Producer, Screenwriter |

* The Abominable Dr. Phibes
* Pajama Party

27 | Milton Berle | 93 | US | Actor, Comedian |

* It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
* Who's Minding the Mint?

27 | Dudley Moore | 66 | UK | Actor |

* Arthur
* 10

27 | Billy Wilder | 95 | Austria | Director, Screenwriter |

* Some Like It Hot
* Double Indemnity

April | 2 | Jack Kruschen | 80 | Canada | Actor |

* The Apartment
* The War of the Worlds

3 | Roy Huggins | 87 | US | Screenwriter |

* Pushover
* Too Late for Tears

4 | Harry O'Connor | 44 | US | Stuntman |

* The Perfect Storm
* XXX

6 | Nobu McCarthy | 67 | Canada | Actress |

* The Geisha Boy
* Wake Me When It's Over

7 | John Agar | 81 | US | Actor |

* Sands of Iwo Jima
* Fort Apache

8 | María Félix | 88 | Mexico | Actress |

* Enamorada
* French Cancan

15 | Dave King | 72 | UK | Actor |

* Reds
* The Long Good Friday

16 | Alexander Doré | 78 | UK | Actor |

* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
* Casino Royale

16 | Robert Urich | 55 | US | Actor |

* Magnum Force
* Turk 182

17 | James Copeland | 84 | UK | Actor |

* Torture Garden
* The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

19 | Reginald Rose | 81 | US | Screenwriter |

* 12 Angry Men
* The Wild Geese

21 | Terry Walsh | 62 | UK | Stuntman, Actor |

* Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* Superman

22 | Linda Lovelace | 53 | US | Porn Actress |

* Deep Throat
* Linda Lovelace for President

23 | Carla Fry | 40 | US | Producer, Executive |

* The Mask
* Lost in Space

25 | Michael Bryant | 74 | UK | Actor |

* Gandhi
* Hamlet

28 | John Wilkinson | 82 | US | Sound Engineer |

* Platoon
* Breakfast at Tiffany's

May | 2 | Ron Soble | 74 | US | Actor |

* Papillion
* True Grit

5 | George Sidney | 85 | US | Director |

* Show Boat
* Annie Get Your Gun

8 | Lou Lombardo | 91 | US | Film Editor |

* The Wild Bunch
* Moonstruck

10 | Linda Francis | 62 | US | Casting Director |

* Swingers
* Prince of Darkness

11 | Bill Peet | 87 | US | Screenwriter |

* Dumbo
* Peter Pan

14 | Ray Stricklyn | 73 | US | Actor |

* Young Jesse James
* The Lost World

15 | Bryan Pringle | 67 | UK | Actor |

* Brazil
* Three Men and a Little Lady

23 | Dorothy Spencer | 93 | US | Film Editor |

* Stagecoach
* Cleopatra

25 | Pat Coombs | 75 | UK | Actress |

* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
* Carry On Doctor

June | 2 | Herman Cohen | 76 | US | Producer |

* I Was a Teenage Werewolf
* Berserk!

3 | Lew Wasserman | 89 | US | Studio Executive |
3 | Sam Whipple | 41 | US | Actor |

* The Rock
* The Doors

7 | Signe Hasso | 86 | Sweden | Actress |

* Where There's Life
* Johnny Angel

22 | Chang Cheh | 79 | China | Director, Screenwriter |

* The One-Armed Swordsman
* Vengeance

25 | Charles C. Bennett | 62 | US | Production Designer |

* New Jack City
* Drumline

26 | Dolores Gray | 78 | US | Actress |

* The Opposite Sex
* Designing Woman

28 | François Périer | 82 | France | Actor |

* Nights of Cabiria
* Orpheus

29 | Rosemary Clooney | 74 | US | Singer, Actress |

* White Christmas
* Red Garters

July | 4 | Ivan Moffat | 84 | Cuba | Screenwriter |

* Giant
* Black Sunday

5 | Katy Jurado | 78 | Mexico | Actress |

* High Noon
* One-Eyed Jacks

6 | John Frankenheimer | 72 | US | Director, Producer |

* The Manchurian Candidate
* Ronin

8 | Ward Kimball | 88 | US | Animator |

* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
* Mary Poppins

9 | Gerald Campion | 81 | UK | Actor |

* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
* Little Dorrit

9 | Rod Steiger | 77 | US | Actor |

* On the Waterfront
* In the Heat of the Night

15 | Phil Roth | 72 | US | Actor |

* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
* Harry and Tonto

17 | Harry W. Gerstad | 93 | US | Film Editor |

* High Noon
* Champion

23 | Leo McKern | 82 | Australia | Actor |

* A Man for All Seasons
* Ladyhawke

24 | Maurice Denham | 92 | UK | Actor |

* Animal Farm
* The Day of the Jackal

26 | Buddy Baker | 84 | US | Composer |

* The Fox and the Hound
* Napoleon and Samantha

August | 3 | Peter Miles | 64 | US | Actor |

* Quo Vadis
* Possessed

9 | Peter Matz | 73 | US | Composer, Arranger, Conductor |

* Funny Lady
* Marlowe

14 | Peter R. Hunt | 77 | UK | Film Editor, Director |

* On Her Majesty's Secret Service
* Dr. No

15 | Henry Batista | 88 | US | Film Editor |

* The Caine Mutiny
* Riders in the Sky

15 | Yuriy Yakovlev | 71 | Bulgaria | Actor |

* The Past-Master
* Farsighted for Two Diopters

16 | Jeff Corey | 88 | US | Actor |

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Little Big Man

18 | Dean Riesner | 83 | US | Screenwriter |

* Dirty Harry
* Play Misty for Me

23 | Dennis Fimple | 78 | US | Actor |

* King Kong
* House of 1000 Corpses

25 | Stanley R. Greenberg | 74 | US | Screenwriter |

* Soylent Green
* Skyjacked

30 | J. Lee Thompson | 88 | UK | Director |

* The Guns of Navarone
* Cape Fear

September | 3 | Ted Ross | 68 | US | Actor |

* The Wiz
* Arthur

5 | Cliff Gorman | 65 | US | Actor |

* All That Jazz
* Night and the City

7 | Katrin Cartlidge | 41 | UK | Actress |

* From Hell
* Breaking the Waves

7 | Michael Elphick | 55 | UK | Actor |

* Cry of the Banshee
* O Lucky Man!

11 | Kim Hunter | 79 | US | Actress |

* A Streetcar Named Desire
* Planet of the Apes

14 | LaWanda Page | 81 | US | Actress |

* Zapped!
* Friday

16 | James Gregory | 90 | US | Actor |

* The Manchurian Candidate
* The Sons of Katie Elder

18 | Hazel Brooks | 78 | South Africa | Actress |

* Body and Soul
* Arch of Triumph

22 | Carmen Phillips | 65 | US | Actress |

* Easy Rider
* Please Don't Eat the Daisies

27 | P.A. Lundgren | 91 | Sweden | Art Director, Production Designer |

* The Seventh Seal
* Through a Glass Darkly

28 | Whitney Blake | 76 | US | Actress |

* My Gun Is Quick
* -30-

October | 3 | Tad Horino | 81 | US | Actor |

* Mulholland Drive
* Red Sonja

4 | André Delvaux | 76 | Belgium | Director |

* The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
* Rendezvous at Bray

4 | Buddy Lester | 85 | US | Actor |

* Ocean's 11
* The Nutty Professor

8 | Phyllis Calvert | 87 | UK | Actress |

* Indiscreet
* Oh! What a Lovely War

9 | Charles Guggenheim | 78 | US | Documentarian |

* The Johnstown Flood
* Robert Kennedy Remembered

12 | Hilyard M. Brown | 92 | US | Art Director |

* Cleopatra
* The Night of the Hunter

13 | Keene Curtis | 79 | US | Actor |

* Macbeth
* Sliver

13 | Dennis Patrick | 84 | US | Actor |

* Joe
* House of Dark Shadows

18 | Chuck Domanico | 58 | US | Musician |

* Midnight Run
* The Truth About Cats & Dogs

21 | George Hall | 85 | Canada | Actor |

* Big Daddy
* Mrs Brown

23 | Adolph Green | 87 | US | Screenwriter, Lyricist, Actor |

* Singin' in the Rain
* My Favorite Year

23 | Nathan Juran | 95 | Romania | Director |

* The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
* 20 Million Miles to Earth

24 | Charmian May | 65 | UK | Actress |

* Bridget Jones's Diary
* The Dawning

24 | Peggy Moran | 84 | US | Actress |

* The Mummy's Hand
* King of the Cowboys

24 | Scott Plank | 43 | US | Actor |

* Holes
* Mr. Baseball

25 | Micheline Cheirel | 85 | France | Actress |

* Flight to Nowhere
* Cornered

25 | Richard Harris | 72 | UK | Actor |

* A Man Called Horse
* Gladiator

27 | André de Toth | 90 | Hungary | Director, Screenwriter |

* House of Wax
* The Gunfighter

28 | Margaret Booth | 104 | US | Film Editor |

* Mutiny on the Bounty
* The Way We Were

28 | Lawrence Dobkin | 83 | US | Actor, Director |

* Patton
* The Ten Commandments

29 | Marina Berti | 78 | Italy | Actress |

* Prince of Foxes
* Eager to Live

29 | Glenn McQueen | 41 | Canada | Animator |

* Toy Story
* Monsters, Inc.

30 | Lee H. Katzin | 67 | US | Director |

* What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
* Le Mans

31 | Raf Vallone | 86 | Italy | Actor |

* Bitter Rice
* The Godfather Part III

November | 1 | Keith A. Wester | 62 | US | Sound Engineer |

* The Rock
* Air Force One

2 | Lo Lieh | 63 | Indonesia | Actor |

* King Boxer
* The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

4 | Antonio Margheriti | 72 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter |

* Code Name: Wild Geese
* The Stranger and the Gunfighter

14 | Eddie Bracken | 87 | US | Actor |

* The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
* Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

17 | Marvin Mirisch | 84 | US | Producer |

* Romantic Comedy
* Dracula

18 | James Coburn | 74 | US | Actor |

* The Great Escape
* Affliction

22 | Parley Baer | 88 | US | Actor |

* The Young Lions
* The Ugly Dachshund

22 | Joan Barclay | 88 | US | Actress |

* The Singing Outlaw
* The Shanghai Cobra

22 | Adele Jergens | 84 | US | Actress |

* The Dark Past
* Down to Earth

24 | Noel Davis | 75 | UK | Casting Director |

* Reds
* Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

25 | Karel Reisz | 76 | Czech Republic | Director, Producer |

* The French Lieutenant's Woman
* Isadora

26 | Stanley Black | 89 | UK | Composer, Conductor |

* The Day the Earth Caught Fire
* The Trollenberg Terror

27 | Billie Bird | 94 | US | Actress |

* Sixteen Candles
* Dennis the Menace

27 | Wolfgang Preiss | 92 | Germany | Actor |

* The Longest Day
* A Bridge Too Far

29 | Daniel Gélin | 81 | France | Actor |

* The Man Who Knew Too Much
* Murmur of the Heart

29 | John Justin | 85 | UK | Actor |

* The Thief of Bagdad
* The Big Sleep

December | 2 | Edgar Scherick | 78 | US | Producer |

* The Stepford Wives
* The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

3 | Glenn Quinn | 32 | Ireland | Actor |

* Live Nude Girls
* Dr. Giggles

10 | Peter Tanner | 88 | UK | Film Editor |

* Kind Hearts and Coronets
* Hamburger Hill

12 | Brad Dexter | 85 | US | Actor |

* The Magnificent Seven
* The Asphalt Jungle

14 | Sidney Glazier | 86 | US | Producer |

* The Producers
* Take the Money and Run

14 | Ruth Kobart | 78 | US | Actress |

* Dirty Harry
* Sister Act

15 | Arthur Jeph Parker | 79 | US | Set Decorator |

* Silverado
* Private Benjamin

17 | James Hazeldine | 55 | UK | Actor |

* Pink Floyd – The Wall
* The Ruling Class

18 | Edward Norris | 91 | US | Actor |

* Career Girl
* Decoy

22 | Duke Callaghan | 88 | US | Cinematographer |

* Conan the Barbarian
* Jeremiah Johnson

22 | Susan Fleming | 94 | US | Actress |

* Million Dollar Legs
* Range Feud

22 | Clay Tanner | 71 | US | Actor |

* Rosemary's Baby
* The Outlaw Josey Wales

22 | Kenneth Tobey | 85 | US | Actor |

* The Thing from Another World
* The Candidate

27 | George Roy Hill | 81 | US | Director |

* The Sting
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

30 | Mary Brian | 96 | US | Actress |

* The Virginian
* The Front Page

## Film debuts

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* Fred Armisen – Like Mike
* Lake Bell – Speakeasy
* Jon Bernthal – Mary/Mary
* Abigail Breslin – Signs
* Kristin Chenoweth – Topa Topa Bluffs
* Priyanka Chopra – Thamizhan
* Martin Compston – Sweet Sixteen
* Jean Dujardin – Ah! Si j'étais riche
* Jesse Eisenberg – Roger Dodger
* Aida Folch – The Shanghai Spell
* Josh Gad – Mary and Joe
* Romola Garai – Nicholas Nickleby
* Javier Gutiérrez – The Other Side of the Bed
* Adèle Haenel – Les Diables
* Kevin Hart – Paper Soldiers
* Sally Hawkins – All or Nothing
* Emile Hirsch – The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
* Kevin James – Pinocchio
* Diane Kruger – The Piano Player
* Anthony Mackie – 8 Mile
* Rachel McAdams – My Name Is Tanino
* Elliot Page – Marion Bridge
* Nathan Phillips – Australian Rules
* Rosamund Pike – Die Another Day
* Clémence Poésy – Olgas Sommer
* Nathalie Poza – The Other Side of the Bed
* Manolo Solo – Everything in Place
* Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Tom & Thomas
* Natalia Tena – About a Boy
* Katt Williams – Friday After Next

## References

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1. ^ "2002 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
2. ^ Karger, Dave (May 6, 2002). "Spider-Man earns a record $114 million". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on February 20, 2022. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
3. ^ Gray, Brandon (May 20, 2002). "'Spider-Man,' 'About a Boy' Survive and Thrive Under 'Attack'". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 1, 2023. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
4. ^ "20 years ago, the best superhero franchise of all time changed movies forever". 3 May 2022. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2022.

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