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The 52nd Annual Christopher Award Winners

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BOOKS FOR ADULTS

Dark Midnight When I Rise, by Andrew Ward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Flags of Our Fathers, by James Bradley, with Ron Powers (Bantam Books)

It’s Not About the Bike, by Lance Armstrong, with Sally Jenkins (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

Life is So Good, by George Dawson & Richard Glaubman (Random House)

Ordinary Resurrections, by Jonathan Kozol (Crown Publishers)

With Love and Prayers, by F. Washington Jarvis (David R. Godine, Publisher)

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Ages 6-8
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?, by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mark Teague
(The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic Inc.)

 Ages 9-10
The Mousery, by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus
(Gulliver Books/Harcourt, Inc.)

Ages 11-12
The Yellow Star, by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Henri Sørensen
(Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.)

Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

Young Adult
The Wanderer, by Sharon Creech
(Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins Publishers)

FEATURE FILMS

Billy Elliot (Universal Focus)
Director: Stephen Daldry, Screenwriter: Lee Hall, Producers: Greg Brenman & Jon Finn, Executive Producers: Natascha Wharton, Charles Brand, Tessa Ross & David M. Thompson

Cast Away (20th Century Fox/DreamWorks)
Director: Robert Zemeckis, Screenwriter: William Broyles, Jr., Producers: Steve Starkey, Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis & Jack Rapke, Executive Producer: Joan Bradshaw

Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures)
Director: Gus Van Sant, Screenwriter: Mike Rich, Producers: Laurence Mark, Sean Connery & Rhonda Tollefson, Executive Producers: Dany Wolf & Jonathan King

My Dog Skip (Warner Bros.)
Director: Jay Russell, Screenwriter: Gail Gilchriest, Producers: Mark Johnson, John Lee Hancock, Broderick Johnson & Andrew A. Kosove, Executive Producers: Jay Russell & Marty Ewing

 Remember the Titans (Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films)
Director: Boaz Yakin, Screenwriter: Gregory Allen Howard, Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer & Chad Oman, Executive Producers: Mike Stenson & Michael Flynn •

TELEVISION & CABLE

American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt (PBS/WGBH Boston)
Director/Writer: Sue Williams, Producers: Kathryn Dietz & Sue Williams, Executive Producer: Judith Vecchione, Series Executive Producer: Margaret Drain

Baby (TNT)
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman, Writers: David Manson, Kerry Kennedy & Patricia MacLachlan, Producer: Cyrus Yavneh, Co-Producers: Patricia MacLachlan & Beth Nathanson, Executive Producers: David Manson & Glenn Close

Cancer: Evolution to Revolution (HBO)
Director/Writer: Joseph F. Lovett, Producers: Joseph F. Lovett & John Hoffman, Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins, Anthony Radziwill & Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Seeing Red (PBS/WGBH Boston/Granada Film)
Director: Graham Theakston, Writer: Chris Monger Producers: Pippa Cross, Neal Weisman, Jenny Edwards & Jeanna Polley, Series Executive Producer: Rebecca Eaton

Founding Fathers miniseries (The History Channel)
Directors: Mark Hufnail & Melissa Jo Peltier, Writers: Max M. Fletcher & Melissa Jo Peltier, Producer: Bonnie Peterson, Co-Producer: Cameo Wallace, Executive Producers: Mark Hufnail, Jim Milio & Melissa Jo Peltier, Series Executive Producer: Susan Werbe

Freedom Song (TNT)
Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Writers: Phil Alden Robinson & Stanley Weiser, Producer: Amanda DiGiulio Richmond, Executive Producers: Sean Daniel, Phil Alden Robinson, Danny Glover & Carolyn McDonald

The West Wing: Take This Sabbath Day (NBC-TV/Warner Bros. Television/John Wells Prod.)
Director: Thomas Schlamme, Writers: Aaron Sorkin, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr., & Paul Redford, Producers: Kristin Harms & Llewellyn Wells, Co-Producers: Rick Cleveland & Michael Hissrich, Executive Producers: Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme & John Wells