The 2000s of movies in idealized Oscar form

Posted on | February 1, 2010 | No Comments

Cover of Hot Fuzz (Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]

In lieu of a decade in review type-piece about movies in February (the last decade was, like, a whole month ago!), I’ll take the Oscar’s newfound embracing of the top-10 format to do an all-decade Oscar list. Keeping in mind that I have my own standards in place, which I will defend if so asked. My all-Oscar nominees of the 2000s (winners in bold) is as follows:

Best Picture:

Dark Knight
Children of Men
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hot Fuzz
Memento
Million Dollar Baby
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
The Squid And The Whale
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Best Foreign Language Film:

2046
Barbarian Invasions
Counterfeiters
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Katyn
I Served The King Of England
Osama
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
The White Ribbon

Best Actor:

George Clooney – Up in The Air
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd
Paul Giamatti – Sideways
Ethan Hawke – Before Sunset
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Clive Owen – Children of Men
Tom Wilkinson – In The Bedroom

Best Actress:

Penelope Cruz – Volver
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins – Happy Go Lucky
Angelina Jolie – A Might Heart
Laura Linney – You Can Count On Me
Ellen Page – Juno
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive
Kate Winslet – Little Children

Best Supporting Actor:

Javier Bardem – No Country For Old Men
Michael Caine – Children of Men
Steve Coogan – Coffee and Cigarettes
Timothy Dalton/Jim Broadbent – Hot Fuzz
Paul Dano – There Will Be Blood
Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby
Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Jack Nicholson – The Departed
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress:

Cate Blanchett – Coffee and Cigarettes
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Zooey Deschanel – Almost Famous
Eva Green – Dreamers
Kate Hudson – Almost Famous
Leslie Mann – Knocked Up
Meryl Streep – Adaptation
Marisa Thomei – In The Bedroom
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain
Ziyi Zhang – Crouching Tiger

Best Direction:

Coen Brothers – No Country For Old Men
Alfonso Cuaron – Children of Men
Gullermo del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
David Fincher – Zodiac
Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Chris Nolan – The Dark Knight
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Steven Soderberg – Ocean’s 11
Edgar Wright – Hot Fuzz

Best Original Screenplay:

Kelly Masterson – Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright – Hot Fuzz
Diablo Cody – Juno
Sophia Coppola – Lost In Translation
Woody Allen – Matchpoint
Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan – Memento
Brad Bird – Ratatouille
Noah Baumbach – The Squid and The Whale
Seth Rogan & Evan Goldberg- Superbad
Charlie Kaufman – Synechdoche, New York

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman- Adaptation
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke – Before Sunset
Larry McMurty – Brokeback Mountain
Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton – Children of Men
William Monahan – The Departed
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
Michael Hanecke – Funny Games
Todd Field and Tom Perotta – Little Children
Brian Helgeland - Mystic River
Coen Brothers – No Country For Old Men

Best Special Effects:

Avatar
28 Days Later
The Dark Knight
Hot Fuzz
The Hurt Locker
Iron Man
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Lord of the Rings: Return Of The King
Pan’s Labyrinth
Spider-Man 2

Best Documentary:

The Aristocrats
Bowling For Columbine
The Fog of War
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Kill Your Idols
Rize
Sicko
Spellbound
Sugar
Super Size Me

Best Use of Music (Soundtrack/Score)

24 Hour Party People
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Departed
Hot Fuzz
High Fidelity
Lost In Translation
Observe and Report
Ocean’s 11
Slumdog Millionaire
There Will Be Blood

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