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    Why Halle Berry deserved her Oscar win — and who didn’t — 20 years ago

    by Justin Chang and Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2022 5 minutes
    Halle Berry attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021, in Los Angeles.

    The worst Oscar wins don’t age well after 30 seconds; the best endure for decades. On the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Oscars, Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang and columnist Glenn Whipp put their heads together to relitigate the winners in eight major categories — and to offer their alternatives for what should have been nominated or won.

    Best Picture

    Winner: “A Beautiful Mind”

    “Gosford Park”

    “In the Bedroom”

    “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”

    “Moulin Rouge”

    Justin Chang: I know “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy got its due two years later, and I don’t care: “The Fellowship of the Ring” remains a thrilling stand-alone achievement and the best of these five nominees, and it deserved to win. That said, to my mind the two greatest films of 2001 were Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” and

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