--BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Ghost World, by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff. "Ghost World by a million miles," he says. "It's not a great pic or a heavy pic but it's just a pic I happen to love. It's a very familiar theme--alienated teenagers--and yet everything about it is totally original." Again, the mention of Mind set our writer off on another diatribe on filmmaking. "The writing is nothing in that movie," he laments. "I can't remember a single line from it. It was all tricks, and it's kind of sad that they didn't stretch their imagination to connect the film with scientific achievement."

--BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Monsters, Inc. He gives Shrek points for the verisimilitude of the characters to their voice-over counterparts, but he found the pilgrimage at the heart of the movie overlong and boring. "Monsters, Inc. is much more interesting visually than Shrek," he says. "Though it could have had a better script, this is a real adventure film. It was like a roller-coaster ride." Just like the Oscars themselves.

Originally posted Mar 22, 2002 Published in issue #645 Mar 22, 2002 Order article reprints
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