The top-ranked films of the 2000's(with 2009 to add)
© 2009, William L. Sinclair
[Photo rt from the Oscar®-winning German film, The Lives of Others]
This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net that we compiled.
Total Ranked Films in the 2000's: 129, with one year to go (with 23 ranked 900 or lower, some will undoubtably drop out of the rankings)
- [ 2000 ] -
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon #152 - Lee, Ang (photo rt)2. Yi yi #221 - Yang, Edward
3. Memento #355 - Nolan, Christopher
4. Gladiator #388 - Scott, Ridley
5. Requiem for a Dream #459 - Aronofsky, Darren
6. Amores perros #488 - Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez
7. Snatch #606 - Ritchie, Guy
8. Werckmeister Harmonies #613 - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes
9. Almost Famous #676 - Crowe, Cameron
10. Chicken Run #784 - Park, Nick & Lord, Peter
11. Traffic #802 - Soderbergh, Steve
12. Under the Sand #919 - Ozon, Francois
13. Before Night Falls #954 - Schnabel, Julian
14. You Can Count On Me #960 - Lonergan, Kenneth
15. Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The #977 - Butler, George
Best Picture: Gladiator
- [ 2001 ] -
1. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The #84 - Jackson, Peter
2. Donnie Darko #226 - Kelly, Richard
3. Spirited Away #255 - Miyazaki, Hayao
4. In the Mood for Love #268 - Wong Kar-Wai
5. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le #431 - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
6. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (anime) #450 - Miyazaki, Hayao
7. Y Tu Mamá También #467 - Cuarón, Alfonso
8. Mulholland Dr. #475 - Lynch, David
9. Fast Runner, The #619 - Kunuk, Zacharias
10. Gosford Park #683 - Altman, Robert
11. Ghost World #754 - Zwigoff, Terry
12. Time Out #771 - Cantet, Laurent
13. I'm Going Home #888 - de Oliveira, Manoel
14. In the Bedroom #892 - Field, Todd
15. Children Underground #968 - Belzberg, Edet
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
- [ 2002 ] -
1. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The #144 - Jackson, Peter
2. City of God #191 - Meirelles, Fernando (photo rt)3. Pianist, The #199 - Polanski, Roman
4. Talk to Her #499 - Almodóvar, Pedro
5. Bloody Sunday #658 - Greengrass, Paul
6. Marooned in Iraq #852 - Ghobadi, Bahman
7. To Be and to Have #877 - Philibert, Nicolas
8. Ten #895 - Kiarostami, Abbas
9. Russian Ark #905 - Sokurov, Aleksandr
10. Son, The (Le Fils) #932 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
11. Sweet Sixteen #935 - Loach, Ken
12. About Schmidt #1009 - Payne, Alexander
Best Picture: Chicago
- [ 2003 ] -
1. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The #97 - Jackson, Peter
2. Finding Nemo #294 - Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee
3. Oldboy #371 - Park Chan-Wook
4. Lost in Translation #389 - Coppola, Sofia
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 #579 - Tarantino, Quentin
6. Mystic River #612 - Eastwood, Clint
7. Triplets of Belleville, The #625 - Chomet, Sylvain
8. American Splendor #680 - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert
9. Capturing the Friedmans #690 - Jarecki, Andrew
10. Best of Youth, The #700 - Giordana, Marco Tullio
11. Big Fish #773 - Burton, Tim
12. Fog of War, The #812 - Morris, Errol
13. Tarnation #839 - Caouette, Jonathan
14. Los Angeles Plays Itself #983 - Andersen, Thom
15. Festival Express #994 - Smeaton & Cvitanovich
16. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring #998 - Ki-duk Kim
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- [ 2004 ] -
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind #225 - Gondry, Michael (photo rt)2. Million Dollar Baby #261 - Eastwood, Clint
3. Incredibles, The #296 - Bird, Brad
4. Sideways #353 - Payne, Alexander
5. Downfall #482 - Hirschbiegel, Oliver
6. Hotel Rwanda #514 - George, Terry
7. Moolaadé #616 - Sembene, Ousmane
8. Before Sunset #668 - Linklater, Richard
9. House of Flying Daggers #710 - Yimou Zhang
10. Crash #751 - Haggis, Paul
11. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 #765 - Tarantino, Quentin
12. Nobody Knows #795 - Koreeda, Hirokazu
13. Maria Full of Grace #824 - Marston, Joshua
14. Turtles Can Fly #989 - Ghobadi, Bahman
Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby
- [ 2005 ] -
1. Brokeback Mountain #451 - Lee, Ang
2. Sin City #502 - Rodgriguez, Robert
3. Batman Begins #517 - Nolan, Christopher
4. V for Vendetta #643 - McTeigue, James
5. Capote #761 - Miller, Bennett
6. L'Enfant (The Child) #798 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
7. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit #819 - Park, Nick & Box, Steve
8. Fateless #828 - Koltai, Lajos
9. Murderball #842 - Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam
10. Grizzly Man #844 - Herzog, Werner
11. Street Fight #1007 - Curry, Marshall
Best Picture: Crash
- [ 2006 ] -
1. Pan's Labyrinth #154 - del Toro, Guillermo
2. Lives of Others, The #162 - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel (photo top)
(AA and BAFTA for foreign language film)
3. Letters from Iwo Jima #335 - Eastwood, Clint
4. Children of Men #455 - Merielles, Ferdinand
5. Queen, The #479 - Frears, Stephen
6. Prestige, The #484 - Nolan, Christopher
7. United 93 #686 - Greengrass, Paul
8. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan #713 - Charles, Larry
9. Once #745 - Carney, John
10. Away from Her #775 - Polley, Sarah
11. Little Miss Sunshine #786 - Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie
12. Deliver Us from Evil #909 - Berg, Amy
13. This Is England #928 - Meadows, Shane
14. Offside #980 - Panahi, Jafar
15. Half Nelson #1003 - Fleck, Ryan
Best Picture: The Departed
- [ 2007 ] -
1. No Country for Old Men #165 - Coen Ethan and Joel
2. There Will Be Blood #180 - Anderson, Paul Thomas
3. Ratatouille #239 - Bird, Brad & Pinkava, Jan
4. Departed, The #288 - Scorsese, Martin
5. Bourne Ultimatum, The #363 - Greengrass, Paul
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days #425 - Mungiu, Cristian
7. Into the Wild #588 - Penn, Sean
8. Persepolis #694 - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane
9. No End in Sight #731 - Ferguson, Charles
10. Flight of the Red Balloon, The #950 - Hsiao-hsien Hou
11. Edge of Heaven, The #971 - Akin, Fatih
12. Savages, The #975 - Jenkins, Tamara
13. Knocked Up #987 - Apatow, Judd
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
- [ 2008 ] -
1. WALL-E #181 - Stanton, Andrew
2. Slumdog Millionaire #232 - Boyle, Danny
3. Dark Knight, The #391 - Nolan, Christopher
4. Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The #439 - Schnabel, Julian
5. Gran Torino #472 - Eastwood, Clint
6. Wrestler, The #507 - Aronofsky, Darren
7. Class, The #597 - Cantet, Laurent
8. Waltz with Bashir #634 - Folman, Ari
9. Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The #667 - Fincher, David
10. Let the Right One In #679 - Alfredson, Tomas
11. In Bruges #708 - McDonagh, Martin
12. Man on Wire #712 - Marsh, James
13. Goodbye Solo #716 - Bahrani, Ramin
14. Hurt Locker, The #724 - Bigelow, Kathryn
15. Changeling #739 - Eastwood, Clint
16. Tulpan #759 - Dvortsevoy, Sergei
17. Gomorra #809 - Garrone, Matteo
18. Seraphine #900 - Provost, Martin
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Top Ranked for the Decade (with 2009 remaining to add)
1. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The #84 - Jackson, Peter
2. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The #97 - Jackson, Peter
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The #144 - Jackson, Peter
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon #152 - Lee, Ang
5. Pan's Labyrinth #154 - del Toro, Guillermo
6. Lives of Others, The #162 - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel
7. No Country for Old Men #165 - Coen Ethan and Joel
8. There Will Be Blood #180 - Anderson, Paul Thomas
9. WALL-E #181 - Stanton, Andrew
10. City of God #191 - Meirelles, Fernando
11. Pianist, The #199 - Polanski, Roman
Unranked best pictures: A Beautiful Mind, Chicago
My Favorites
1-Hero (China), 2-City of God (Brazil), 3-The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, 4-WALL-E, 5-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China), 6-Open Range, 7-Memento, 8-Requiem for a Dream (photo btm), 9-Traffic, 10-The Lives of Others (Germany), 11-Chicago, 12-Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, 13-Slumdog Millionaire, 14-Million Dollar Baby, 15-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 16-V for Vendetta, 17-In Bruges, 18-The Departed, 19-Nowhere in Africa (Germany), 20-Big Fish, 21-No Country for Old Men, 22-Finding Nemo, 23-A Wednesday (India), 24-Mystic River, 25-The Prestige and A Beautiful Mind (someone has to mention that, an unranked best picture winner. I also find it ludicrous that Yimou's Hero is unranked, top-grossing Chinese film in history, deservedly; in fact 2 of our 3 banner photos are from that, the bamboo one is House of Flying Daggers)
Jennifer Connelly and Jered Leto, in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000)
