The Year in Film: 2001


Best Picture
#1: Mulholland Dr. (dir: David Lynch)
#2: Amores Perros (dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu)
#3: Faithless (dir: Liv Ullmann)
#4: The Royal Tenenbaums (dir: Wes Anderson)
#5: Under the Sand (dir: François Ozon)
#6: In the Mood for Love (dir: Wong Kar-Wai )
#7: In the Bedroom (dir: Todd Field)
#8: The Man Who Wasn’t There (dir: Joel Coen)
#9: Code Unknown (dir: Michael Haneke)
#10: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (dir: Steven Spielberg)

Honorable Mentions: 
Gosford Park (dir: Robert Altman), Ghost World (dir: Terry Zwigoff), Amélie (dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (dir: Patrice Leconte), No Man’s Land (dir: Danis Tanovic), Ocean’s Eleven (dir: Steven Soderbergh), The Pledge (dir: Sean Penn), Monsters, Inc. (dir: Pete Docter), Moulin Rouge (dir: Baz Luhrmann), Joy Ride (dir: John Dahl), With a Friend Like Harry (dir: Dominik Moll), Va Savoir (dir: Jacques Rivette), The Devil’s Backbone(dir: Guillermo Del Toro), Fat Girl (dir: Catherine Breillat), The Princess and the Warrior (dir: Tom Tykwer), Sobibor, 14 October 1943, 4 p.m. (dir: Claude Lanzmann), Zoolander (dir: Ben Stiller), Together (dir: Lukas Moodysson), The Gleaners and I (dir: Agnés Varda), Our Lady of the Assassins (dir: Barbet Schroeder), Shallow Hal (dir: Peter and Bobby Farrelly), Donnie Darko (dir: Richard Kelly), Bully (dir: Larry Clark), and What Time Is It There? (dir: Tsai Ming-liang).

Best Director
#1: David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.)
#2: Steven Spielberg (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
#3: Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love)
#4: Joel Coen (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
#5: Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge)
Best Actor
#1: William H. Macy (Panic)
#2: Haley Joel Osment (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
#3: Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)
#4: Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenenbaums)
#5: Jack Nicholson (The Pledge)
Best Actress
#1: Lena Endre (Faithless)
#2: Charlotte Rampling (Under the Sand)
#3: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr.)
#4: Tilda Swinton (The Deep End)
#5: Thora Birch (Ghost World)
Best Supporting Actor
#1: Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
#2: Emilio Echevarría (Amores Perros)
#3: Jude Law (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
#4: Erland Josephson (Faithless)
#5: Federico Luppi (The Devil’s Backbone)
Best Supporting Actress
#1: Gwyneth Paltrow (The Royal Tenenbaums)
#2: Goya Toledo (Amores Perros)
#3: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
#4: Cate Blanchett (The Shipping News)
#5: Frances O’Connor (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
Best Original Screenplay
#1: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
#2: Faithless (Ingmar Bergman)
#3: The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel and Ethan Coen)
#4: The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson)
#5: Amores Perros (Gillermo Arriaga Jordan)
Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Ghost World (Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff)
#2: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Ian Watson and Steven Spielberg)
#3: Memento (Christopher Nolan)
#4: In the Bedroom (Robert Festinger and Todd Field)
#5: With a Friend Like Harry (Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll)
Best Cinematography
#1: Janusz Kaminski (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
#2: Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love)
#3: Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
#4: Donald McAlpine (Moulin Rouge)
#5: Peter Deming (Mulholland Dr.)
Best Film Editing
#1: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
#2: Mulholland Dr.
#3: Moulin Rouge
#4: Amores Perros
#5: Sexy Beast
Best Original Score
#1: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (John Williams)
#2: Moulin Rouge (Craig Armstrong)
#3: Mulholland Dr. (Angelo Badalamenti)
#4: Amores Perros (Gustavo Santaolalla)
#5: Amélie (Yann Tiersen)
Best Original Song
#1: “Llorando” (Mulholland Dr.)
#2: “Vide Cor Meum” (Hannibal)
#3: “De Perros Amores” (Amores Perros)
#4: “Come What May” (Moulin Rouge)
#5: “Fly with Me” (The Princess and the Warrior)
Best Production Design
#1: Moulin Rouge
#2: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
#3: In the Mood for Love
#4: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
#5: Enemy at the Gates
Best Costume Design
#1: Moulin Rouge
#2: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
#3: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
#4: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
#5: In the Mood for Love
Best Makeup
#1: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
#2: Planet of the Apes
#3: Hannibal
#4: Ali
#5: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Sound
#1: Moulin Rouge
#2: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
#3: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
#4: Mulholland Dr.
#5: Swordfish
Best Visual Effects
#1: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
#2: Swordfish
#3: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
#4: Moulin Rouge
#5: Black Hawk Down

 

–The Honorary Awards–

Best Breakthrough Performance – Male
John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Best Breakthrough Performance – Female
Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr.)
Best First Feature
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros)
Worst Film of the Year
Pootie Tang (dir: Louis C.K.)