Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2002

Winners

• Road to Perdition
• * Runners-up: Adaptation., About Schmidt, Antwone Fisher, '

• Spike Jonze – Adaptation.
• Sam Mendes – Road to Perdition
• Denzel Washington – Antwone Fisher
• * Runners-up: Peter Jackson – ' and Rob Marshall – Chicago

• Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt
• * Runner-up: Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York

• Julianne Moore – Far from Heaven
• * Runner-up: Maggie Gyllenhaal – Secretary

• Chris Cooper – Adaptation.
• Dennis Haysbert – Far from Heaven
• * Runner-up: Paul Newman – Road to Perdition

• Kathy Bates – About Schmidt
• * Runners-up: Michelle Pfeiffer – White Oleander and Renée Zellweger – White Oleander

• Barbershop
• * Runner-up: My Big Fat Greek Wedding

• Nia Vardalos – My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• * Runners-up: Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón – Y Tu Mamá También, Brad Silberling – Moonlight Mile, and Chap Taylor and Michael Tolkin – Changing Lanes

• Charlie Kaufman – Adaptation.
• * Runner-up: Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz – About a Boy

• Lilo & Stitch
• * Runner-up: Ice Age

• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• * Runner-up: Standing in the Shadows of Motown

• Undercover Brother'
• * Runners-up: Blue Crush and Die Another Day''