US (2001): Comedy/Romance
Featuring a blousy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation by Helen Fielding of her runaway bestseller. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears dissing her. Instead she embarks on a disastrous liaison with her raffish boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). Eventually, Bridget comes to wonder if she's let her pride prejudice her against the surprisingly attractive Mr. Darcy. Directed by Sharon Maguire. (Amazon.com)
1 nomination
· Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 2001: Renée Zellweger