![]() ![]() I don ’t count Catch Me If You Can as a drama, even though I’d happily put the Leonardo DiCaprio/Tom Hanks/Christopher Walken-starring con-kid caper alongside any of 2002’s best films (ditto A.I.: Artificial Intelligence in 2001). Saving Private Ryan won Spielberg his second Best Director statute in 1999 but (controversially) lost Best Picture to Shakespeare In Love. And it would be the last such film not to get a Best Picture nomination. Amistad, an ambitious but disappointing story of a slave ship revolt, was the first straight-up Spielberg drama not nominated for Best Picture since the unjustly ignored Empire of the Sun in 1987. ![]()
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