The Year in Film: 2000

Best Picture
#1: Werckmeister Harmonies (dir: Béla Tarr)
#2: Yi Yi (A One and a Two…) (dir: Edward Yang)
#3: Requiem for a Dream (dir: Darren Aronofsky)
#4: Wonder Boys (dir: Curtis Hanson)
#5: Traffic (dir: Steven Soderbergh)
#6: Dancer in the Dark (dir: Lars von Trier)
#7: The Virgin Suicides (dir: Sofia Coppola)
#8: Cast Away (dir: Robert Zemeckis)
#9: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (dir: Ang Lee)
#10: Pollock (dir: Ed Harris)

Honorable Mentions: The House of Mirth (dir: Terence Davies), Before Night Falls(dir: Julian Schnabel), Water Drops on Burning Rocks (dir: François Ozon), Battle Royale (dir: Kinji Fukasaku), George Washington (dir: David Gordon Green), Fantasia/2000 (dir: James Algar, Gaδtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt), Almost Famous (dir: Cameron Crowe), The Claim (dir: Michael Winterbottom), American Psycho (dir: Mary Herron), Chicken Run (dir: Peter Lord, Nick Park), High Fidelity (dir: Stephen Frears), Jesus’ Son (dir: Alison Maclean), You Can Count on Me (dir: Kenneth Lonergan), Panic (dir: Henry Bromell), Sound and Fury (dir: Josh Aronson), An Affair of Love (dir: Frédéric Fonteyne), Erin Brockovich (dir: Steven Soderbergh), Hamlet (dir: Michael Almereyda), Quills (dir: Philip Kaufman), Tigerland (dir: Joel Schumacher), Croupier (dir: Mike Hodges), Gladiator (dir: Ridley Scott), Girlfight (dir: Karyn Kusama), and Billy Elliot (dir: Stephen Daldry).

Best Director
#1: Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream)
#2: Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
#3: Curtis Hanson (Wonder Boys)
#4: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
#5: Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark)

Best Actor
#1: Michael Douglas (Wonder Boys)
#2: Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls)
#3: Geoffrey Rush (Quills)
#4: Tom Hanks (Cast Away)
#5: Christian Bale (American Psycho)

Best Actress
#1: Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)
#2: Björk (Dancer in the Dark)
#3: Michelle Rodriguez (Girlfight)
#4: Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)
#5: Cate Blanchett (The Gift)

Best Supporting Actor
#1: Michael Douglas (Traffic)
#2: James Woods (The Virgin Suicides)
#3: Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire)
#4: Tobey Maguire (Wonder Boys)
#5: Albert Finney (Erin Brockovich)

Best Supporting Actress
#1: Samantha Morton (Jesus’ Son)
#2: Jennifer Connolly (Requiem for a Dream)
#3: Catherine Zeta-Jones (Traffic)
#4: Kate Winslet (Quills)
#5: Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Best Original Screenplay
#1: Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
#2: You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Longergan)
#3: Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
#4: State and Main (David Mamet)
#5: Billy Elliot (Lee Hall)

Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Requiem for a Dream (Herbert Selby, Jr. and Darren Aronofsky)
#2: Wonder Boys (Steven Kloves)
#3: Traffic (Stephen Gaghan)
#4: Quills (Doug Wright)
#5: Before Night Falls (Lazaro Gomez, Carriles Cunnigham O’Keefe, and Julian Schnabel)

Best Cinematography
#1: Matthew Libatique (Requiem for a Dream)
#2: “Peter Andrews” (Traffic)
#2: Dante Spinotti (Wonder Boys)
#4: Edward Lachman (Erin Brockovichand The Virgin Suicides)
#5: John Mathieson (Gladiator)

Best Film Editing
#1: Requiem for a Dream
#2: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#3: Traffic
#4: The Virgin Suicides
#5: Gladiator

Best Original Score
#1: Requiem for a Dream (Clint Mansell)
#2: Dancer in the Dark (Björk)
#3: The Virgin Suicides (Air)
#4: Before Night Falls (Carter Burwell)
#5: Gladiator (Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard, and Klaus Badelt)

Best Original Song
#1: “I’ve Seen It All” (Dancer in the Dark)
#2: “A New World” (Dancer in the Dark)
#3: “Playground Love” (The Virgin Suicides)
#4: “Things Have Changed” (Wonder Boys)
#5: “In the Musicals” (Dancer in the Dark)