2002 Top Ten
By: Joseph Judge
Everchanging. Last updated 2/28/2012.
Also seen: Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach) • Auto Focus (Paul Schrader) • Big Fat Liar (Shawn Levy) • Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth) • The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) • Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) • The Cat Returns (Hiroyuki Morita) • The Cat’s Meow (Peter Bogdanovich) • Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) • Chicago (Rob Marshall) • Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (John Kafka) • Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) • Gangster No. 1 (Paul McGuigan) • Ghost Ship (Steve Beck) • The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike) • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus) • Hey Arnold! The Movie (Tuck Tucker) • Ice Age (Chris Wedge) • Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine) • Men in Black II (Barry Sonnenfeld) • Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill) • My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick) • Orange County (Jake Kasdan) • Panic Room (David Fincher) • Pokémon 4Ever (Kunihiko Yuyama) • The Powerpuff Girls Movie (Craig McCracken) • Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman) • Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes) • Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov) • The Santa Clause 2 (Michael Lembeck) • Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell) • Showtime (Tom Dey) • Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) • Sorority Boys (Wallace Wolodarsky) • Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (Kelly Asbury/Lorna Coo) • Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (Robert Rodriguez) • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) • Stuart Little 2 (Rob Minkoff) • Swept Away (Guy Ritchie) • Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar) • Treasure Planet (Ron Clements/John Musker) • Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence) • Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne) • The Wild Thornberrys Movie (Cathy Malkasian/Jeff McGrath)
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01Hayao Miyazaki
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02Roman Polanski
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03Alfonso Cuarón
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04Peter Jackson
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05Todd Haynes
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06Spike Jonze
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07Tom Tykwer
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08François Ozon
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09Stephen Daldry
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10Dean DeBlois