8th Critics' Choice Awards

The 8th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 17, 2003, honoring the finest achievements of 2002 filmmaking.^[1]

This ceremony is particularly notable for the moment when Best Actor nominee Robin Williams came up on stage after being called upon by Best Actor co-winner Jack Nicholson, who claimed to be "baked", to assist him with his acceptance speech, culminating in what is considered to be the funniest moment in the awards' history.^[2][3][4][5] The moment was uploaded on YouTube in July 2009; it currently has over 4 million views.^[6]

Best Picture Chicago About Schmidt Adaptation. Catch Me If You Can Far from Heaven Gangs of New York The Hours The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Pianist Road to Perdition	Best Director Steven Spielberg – Catch Me If You Can / Minority Report Roman Polanski – The Pianist Martin Scorsese – Gangs of New York
Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (TIE) Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt (TIE) Robin Williams – One Hour Photo as Seymour "Sy" Parrish	Best Actress Julianne Moore – Far from Heaven as Cathleen "Cathy" Whitaker Salma Hayek – Frida as Frida Kahlo Nicole Kidman – The Hours as Virginia Woolf Diane Lane – Unfaithful as Constance "Connie" Sumner
Best Supporting Actor Chris Cooper – Adaptation. as John Laroche Alfred Molina – Frida as Diego Rivera Paul Newman – Road to Perdition as John Rooney	Best Supporting Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago as Velma Kelly Kathy Bates – About Schmidt as Roberta Hertzel Meryl Streep – Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
Best Young Actor/Actress Kieran Culkin – Igby Goes Down as Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. Tyler Hoechlin – Road to Perdition as Michael Sullivan Jr. Nicholas Hoult – About a Boy as Marcus Brewer	Best Digital Acting Performance Gollum – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Dobby – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Yoda – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Best Acting Ensemble Chicago The Hours My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Best Writer Adaptation. / Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – Charlie Kaufman About Schmidt – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Nia Vardalos
Best Animated Feature Spirited Away Ice Age Lilo & Stitch Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	Best Documentary Feature Bowling for Columbine The Kid Stays in the Picture Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Best Family Film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Rookie Tuck Everlasting	Best Foreign Language Film Y tu mamá también • Mexico Monsoon Wedding • India Talk to Her • Spain
Best Composer Catch Me If You Can / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / Minority Report – John Williams The Hours – Philip Glass The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Howard Shore	Best Song "Lose Yourself" – 8 Mile "Father and Daughter" – The Wild Thornberrys Movie "Hero" – Spider-Man

Freedom Award

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Denzel Washington – Antwone Fisher

Best Picture Made for Television

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Door to Door

• Live from Baghdad
• Martin and Lewis