Major award winning films of the 2000's (2000-2010)
[Updated after the 2011 Academy Awards]
The rank shown is the IMDB top 250 (n/r = not ranked)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy won 266 awards overall
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (03, 118 awards, #12) New Zealand
- Slumdog Millionaire (08, 108 awards, #121)
- No Country for Old Men (07, 98 awards, #120)
- Sideways (04, 95 awards, n/r)
- Dark Knight (08, 81 awards, #10)
- Brokeback Mountain (05, 81 awards, n/r)
- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (01, 80 awards, #19) New Zealand
- The Hurt Locker (09, 79 awards, n/r)
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (00, 77 awards, n/r) China
- Precious (09, 73 awards, n/r)
- Lost in Translation (03, 71 awards, n/r)
- Pan's Labyrinth (06, 71 awards, #75) Spain
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (02, 68 awards, #31) New Zealand
- Traffic (00, 64 awards, n/r)
- The Lives of Others (06, 62 awards, #57) Germany
- There Will Be Blood (07, 60 awards, #146)
- City of God (02, 59 awards, #18) Brazil
- The Queen (06, 59 awards, n/r)
- Inglourious Basterds (09, 59 awds, #90)
- The Social Network (10, 54 awards, #168)
- Juno (07, 54 awds, n/r)
- The Departed (06, 53 awds, #60)
- Amelie (01, 51 awds, #45) France
- Gladiator (00, 50 awds,#97)
- Million Dollar Baby (04, 49 awards, #150)
- The Pianist (02, 48 awards, #53)
- Wall-E (08, 46 awards, #47)
- Crash (05, 44 awards, #247)
- Volver (06, 44 awards, n/r) Spain
- Devdas (02, 44 awards, n/r) India
- Almost Famous (00, 44 awards, n/r)
- Mystic River (03, 43 awards, #224)
- Adaptation (02, 43 awards, n/r)
- Little Miss Sunshine (06, 43 awards, n/r)
- Avatar (09, 42 awards, #148)
- Memento (00, 42 awards, #30)
- Up (09, 42 awards, #94)
- The Incredibles (04, 41 awards, #195)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (07, 41 awards, #200)
- Chicago (02, 40 awards, n/r)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (04, 39 awards, #62)
- The Barbarian Invasions (04, 38 awards, n/r) Canada
- Milk (08, 36 awards, n/r)
- Inception (10, 36 awards, #6)
- The Secret in Their Eyes (09, 35 awards, #174)
- Finding Nemo (03, 35 awards, #166)
- The Last King of Scotland (06, 35 awards, n/r)
- Vera Drake (04, 33 awards, n/r)
- Gangs of New York (02, 33 awards, n/r)
- A Beautiful Mind (01, 31 awards, n/r)
- La Vie En Rose (07, 31 awards, n/r) France
- Goodbye Lenin! (03, 31 awards, n/r) Germany
- In the Mood For Love (00, 31 awards, n/r) Hong Kong
- The Wrestler (08, 30 awards, #159)
- Pirates: Dead Man's Chest (06, 30 awards, n/r)
- Whale Rider (03, 29 awards, n/r) New Zealand
- A Prophet (09, 29 awards, n/r) France
- Babel (06, 28 awards, n/r) Mexico
- American Splendor (06, 28 awards, n/r)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (04, 27 awards, n/r) Brazil
- No Man's Land (01, 27 awards, n/r) France-Bosnia
- In the Bedroom (01, 27 awards, n/r)
- Pirates: Curse of the Black Pearl (03, 26 awards, #238)
- Fahrenheit 911 (04, 26 awards, n/r)
- The King's Speech (10, 25 awards, #94)
- Atonement (07, 24 awards, n/r)
- Winter's Bone (10, 23 awards, n/r)
- Frozen River (08, 23 awards, n/r)
- Black Swan (10, 23 awards, n/r)
- United 93 (06, 21 awards, n/r)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence (02, 21 awards, n/r) Australia
- The Constant Gardener (02, 21 awards, n/r)
- Requiem for a Dream (00, 20 awards, #63)
- Toy Story 3 (10, 20 awards, #27)
- Vicky Christina Barcelona (08, 20 awards, n/r)
- An Education (09, 18 awards, n/r)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know (05, 18 awards, n/r)
- The Triplets of Belleville (03, 18 awards, n/r) Canada-France-UK-Belgium
- Nowhere in Africa (01, 18 awards, n/r) Germany
- Rachel Getting Married (09, 18 awards, n/r)
- Oldboy (03, 17 awards, #102) So. Korea
- The Inheritance (03, 17 awards, n/r) Sweden
- Monster (03, 17 awards, n/r)
- Sin City (05, 16 awards, #105)
- Junebug (05, 16 awards, n/r)
- Pirates: At Worlds End (07, 16 awards, n/r)
- A Very Long Engagement (04, 16 awards, n/r) France
- Turtles Can Fly (04, 15 awards, n/r) Iran-Iraq
- The Road Home (00, 15 awards, n/r) China
- Downfall (04, 15 awards, #93) Germany
- I'm Not There (07, 14 awards, n/r)
- Into the Wild (07, 13 awards, #145)
- Brothers (04, 13 awards, n/r) Denmark
- Gran Torino (08, 13 awards, #95)
- In Bruges (08, 13 awards, #201)
- Hotel Rwanda (05, 12 awards, #116)
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (07, 12 awards, n/r)
- Donnie Darko (01, 11 awards, #135)
- Jodhaa Akbar (08, 11 awards, n/r)
- The Chorus (04, 11 awards, n/r) France
- Spring Summer Fall Winter.. and Spring (03, 11 awards, n/r) So. Korea
- Water (05, 10 awards, n/r) India
- Alice in Wonderland (10, 10 awards, n/r)
- Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (02, 9 awards, n/r) India
- Together (02, 9 awards, n/r) China
- Thank You For Smoking (05, 9 awards, n/r)
- After the Wedding (06, 8 awards, n/r) Denmark
[This may not be complete, I may have some more to add yet.. Technically, 2010 should not be included, it's the first year of the next decade - I just wanted some of the current awards winners shown here for comparison with other recent years. ]
