After his film debut in "A Man Is Mostly Water", Yelchin's early roles in both film and television included "A Time for Dancing", "Delivering Milo", "House of D" and "Taken". Yelchin played Bobby Garfield in "Hearts in Atlantis" (2001), which is based on Stephen King's novel. In 2001, he played Dimitri Starodubov in "Along Came a Spider" with Morgan Freeman, for which he received a Young Artist Award (Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor) for this performance in 2002.