Tynan's Anger

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
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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