London Film Critics Circle Awards 2002 - "Red Dragon" Martin Compston - "Sweet Sixteen" <br> Keira Knightley - "Bend It Like Beckham" London Film Critics Circle Awards 2002 The 23rd London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2002, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 12 February 2003. "About Schmidt" "All or Nothing" "Y Tu Mamá También" • Mexico Phillip Noyce - "The Quiet American" Christopher Nolan - "Insomnia" Andrew Bovell - "Lantana" Steven Knight - "Dirty Pretty Things" Michael Caine - "The Quiet American" Stockard Channing - "The Business of Strangers" Hugh Grant - "About a Boy" Lesley Manville
It girl film was planned as a special showcase for its popular star Clara Bow, and her spectacular performance introduced the term "It" to the cultural lexicon. The film plays with the notion that "It" is a quality which eschews definitions and categories; consequently, the girl portrayed by Bow is an amalgam of an ingenue and a femme fatale, with a touch of Madonna's latter day "Material Girl" incarnation. By contrast, Bow's rival in the script is equally young and comely (and rich and well-bred to boot), yet she doesn't have "It". Since the 1990s, "It Girl" or "It-Girl" has been used