Best of 2000-2009

FILM:

Requiem for a Dream

Mulholland Drive

About Schmidt

There Will Be Blood

Far From Heaven

Inglorious Basterds

Brokeback Mountain

The Squid and the Whale

United 93

Pan's Labyrinth

Little Children

Lots of honorable mentions: Amelie, Wet Hot American Summer, Gosford Park, Up in the Air, City of God, The Departed, No Country for Old Men, LOTR trilogy, Letters from Iwo Jima, Chicago, Lost in Translation, Moulin Rouge, In the Mood for Love, Munich, Memento, The Hours, Dancer in the Dark, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, A History of Violence, Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2, Before Sunset, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, You Can Count on Me, Ratatouille, Michael Clayton, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, 25th Hour, Waltz with Bashir, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Punch Drunk Love, In America, In the Bedroom, etc etc.

Actress:

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream

Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive

Julianne Moore in Far From Heaven

Charlize Theron in Monster

Annette Bening in Being Julia

Helen Mirren in The Queen

Kate Winslet in Little Children

Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake

Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom

plus Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet in most of their 00's films.

Actor:

Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain

Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood

Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler

Sean Penn in Milk

John Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland

Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote

Tom Hanks in Cast Away

Nicolas Cage in Adaptation

Supporting Actress:

Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream

Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton

Meryl Streep in Adaptation

Patricia Clarkson in Far from Heaven

Virgina Madsen in Sideways

Cate Blanchett in The Aviator

Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There

Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Helen Mirren in Gosford Park

Holly Hunter in Thirteen

Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Christop Wentz in Inglorious Basterds

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

Dennis Quaid in Far From Heaven

William Hurt in A History of Violence

Chris Cooper in Adaptation

Benicio del Toro in Traffic

Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man

Jackie Earl Haley in Little Children

Jim Broadbent in Iris