Miramax Films remained one of the world’s leading independent film companies, receiving 15 Academy Award® nominations, the most of any studio, at last year’s Academy Awards®, including a record 11th Best Picture nomination over the past 10 consecutive years (1992-2001).

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In the Bedroom, nominated for five Academy Awards®, including
Best Picture, grossed $36 million in North America. Amélie, also nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Foreign Film, became the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in North America, totaling $33 million at the box office.

Dimension’s Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams brought in more than $85 million domestically, with a third installment, Spy Kids 3, scheduled for release in summer 2003.

Miramax’s releases in late 2002 included Gangs of New York, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney and starring Clooney, Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore; Chicago, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere; and Pinocchio, directed by and starring Academy Award®-winner Roberto Benigni.

In 2003, Miramax will offer Cold Mountain, directed and written
by Academy Award®-winner Anthony Minghella and starring Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law; Kill Bill, written and directed by Academy Award®-winner Quentin Tarantino, starring David Carradine, Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah and Lucy Liu; and Duplex, directed by Danny DeVito, starring Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller.

Dimension’s upcoming releases include Cursed, directed by Wes Craven, written by Kevin Williamson; Mindhunters, starring Val Kilmer, Christian Slater and LL Cool J; and Bad Santa, starring Academy Award®-winner Billy Bob Thornton.

Miramax Television earned its first Emmy nomination for the critically acclaimed HBO series Project Greenlight.

Miramax Books releases in 2002 included the New York Times number-one best-seller, Leadership, by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Christopher Rice’s New York Times best-seller, The Snow Garden, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon’s first novel for young readers and New York Times best-seller, Summerland, and Sandra Lee’s cookbook, Semi-Homemade.

Future Miramax Books releases include a highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times best-selling Artemis Fowl books, two untitled children’s novels by Chabon, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s memoirs, and Quentin Tarantino’s first novel, Kill Bill.