The 53rd Annual Christopher Award Winners

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2002 CHRISTOPHER LEADERSHIP AWARD

Rudolph W. Guiliani

2002 JAMES KELLER AWARD

Jacques d’Amboise

2002 SPECIAL AWARD

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

Aging with Grace, by David Snowdon, Ph.D. (Bantam Books)

Choosing Mercy, by Antoinette Bosco (Orbis Books)

Freedom’s Daughters, by Lynne Olson (Scribner)

An Hour Before Daylight, by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster)

John Adams, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, LLC)

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Preschool
Kiss Good Night, by Amy Hest, illustrated by Anita Jeram
(Candlewick Press)

Ages 6-8
Beatrice’s Goat, by Page McBrier, illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter
(Anne Schwartz Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Ages 8-10
Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech
(Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins Publishers)

Ages 10-12
Uncle Daddy, by Ralph Fletcher (Henry Holt and Company, LLC)

Young Adult
Soldier X, by Don Wulffson (Viking Children’s Books)

Witness, by Karen Hesse (Scholastic Press)

FILM

A Beautiful Mind (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Imagine Entertainment)
Director: Ron Howard; Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman; Producers: Brian Grazer & Ron Howard; Co-Producer: Maureen Peyrot; Executive Producers: Karen Kehela & Todd Hallowell

Iris (Miramax Films/BBC Films/Intermedia Films)
Director: Richard Eyre; Screenwriters: Richard Eyre & Charles Wood;Producers: Robert Fox & Scott Rudin; Executive Producers: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Guy East, David M. Thompson, Tom Hedley & Harvey Weinstein

Shrek (DreamWorks Pictures)
Directors: Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson; Screenwriters: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman & Roger S.H. Shulman; Producers: Aron Warner, John H. Williams & Jeffrey Katzenberg; Co-Producers: Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio; Executive Producers: Penney Finkelman Cox & Sandra Rabins; Co-Executive Producer: David Lipman

The Widow of Saint-Pierre (Lions Gate Films)
Director: Patrice Leconte; Screenwriter: Claude Faraldo; Producers: Gilles Legrand & Frédéric Brillion

TELEVISION & CABLE

Mother Dolores (ABC-TV – 20/20)
Director: George Paul; Writer: Bob Brown; Producer: Joe Pfifferling; Executive Producer: David T. Sloan

Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (PBS/WGBH Boston – American Experience)
Director: David Grubin; Writers: David Grubin & Geoffrey C. Ward; Producer: David Grubin; Series Executive Producer: Margaret Drain

Band of Brothers (HBO)
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel & Tony To; Writers: Erik Jendresen, Tom Hanks, John Orloff, E. Max Frye, Graham Yost, Bruce C. McKenna & Erik Bork; Producer: Mary Richards; Executive Producers: Tom Hanks & Steven Spielberg; Co-Executive Producers: Stephen E. Ambrose, Gary Goetzman & Tony To

Jazz (PBS/WETA Washington, DC)
Director: Ken Burns; Writer: Geoffrey C. Ward; Producers: Ken Burns & Lynn Novick; Co-Producers: Peter Miller & Victoria Gohl; Executive Producer: Ken Burns

The Lost Battalion (A&E)
Director: Russell Mulcahy; Writer: Jim Carabatsos; Producers: Avi Noam Levy, Tom Reeve & Romain Schroeder; Executive Producer: David Gerber;A&E Executive Producer: Michael Weisbarth

Taking Back Our Town (Lifetime)
Director: Sam Pillsbury; Writers: Monte Stettin, Susanna Styron & Bridget Terry; Executive Producer: Jinny Schreckinger

Uprising (NBC-TV)
Director: Jon Avnet; Writers: Paul Brickman & Jon Avnet; Co-Producers: Marsha Oglesby & Hester Hargett; Executive Producers: Jon Avnet, Raffaella De Laurentiis & Bill Haber; Co-Executive Producer: Lisa Lindstrom

Wit (HBO)
Director: Mike Nichols; Writers: Emma Thompson & Mike Nichols; Producer: Simon Bosanquet; Co-Producers: Julie Lynn, Charles F. Ryan & Michael Haley; Executive Producers: Cary Brokaw & Mike Nichols