Dirty Pretty Things 2002

Every year there are a huge number of movies that fly right under the radar of the average movie fan. movies that are great but just not that well known.

There are plenty of movie gems out there and hopefully this list will help you find some.

Feel free to submit new movies in the comments below.

This list contains movies/documentaries and short films. The list was originally created on IMDb. http://goo.gl/gHles

The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films list serves as a companion to the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 Greatest Films of all time list which, - by its nature - tends to have very few films from the 21st century in it. The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films list attempts to highlight and honour this century's most critically revered films and act as a sort of 'resting bay' for many great films that are likely to be included in the 1,000 Greatest Films list sooner or later.

Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury.htm

The 21st Century’s Most Acclaimed Films (including films from 2000!)
9th edition (March 2016)

List curated by Bill Georgaris on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

Source: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury.htm

NC17 | 18+ | R | A | MA [in English] + Independent Movies

D: Suggestive Dialog
E: Erotica
FV: Fantasy Violence (used only for the TV-Y7 level)
L: Coarse or crude Language
MA: Mature Audience
S: Sexual Situations
V: Violence

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List of Academy Award-winning since 1994 in:
- Best Picture - Best Director
- Best Actor/Actress - Best Supporting Actor/Actress
- Best Original Screenplay - Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Animated Feature Film - Best Animated Short Film
- Best Documentary Feature - Best Documentary Short Subject
- Best Live Action Short Film - Best International Feature Film
- Best Original Score - Best Original Song
- Best Sound Editing - Best Sound Mixing
- Best Production Design - Best Cinematography
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Best Costume Design
- Best Film Editing - Best Visual Effects

The list includes also nominations in the same categories.

Using IMDb advanced search, filtering only by English language.

Notable entries missing include:
The Rocker (2008)
What Planet Are You From (2000)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
RocknRolla (2008)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
The Humain Stain (2003)
Maos Last Dancer (2009)
Thirteen (2003)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Sunshine (2007)
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Chloe (2009)
Blindness (2008)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty

I might be a nihilist except that I don’t believe in anything.
― Mitchell Heisman

IMDB Top 1000 - 14/11/05

List of Nominees and Winners.

• Actor in a Leading Role

Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
Ben Kingsley in "House of Sand and Fog"
Jude Law in "Cold Mountain"
Bill Murray in "Lost in Translation"
Sean Penn in "Mystic River" - WINNER

• Actor in a Supporting Role

Alec Baldwin in "The Cooler"
Benicio Del Toro in "21 Grams"
Djimon Hounsou in "In America"
Tim Robbins in "Mystic River" - WINNER
Ken Watanabe in "The Last Samurai"

• Actress in a Leading Role

Keisha Castle-Hughes in "Whale Rider"
Diane Keaton in "Something’s Gotta Give"
Samantha Morton in "In America"
Charlize Theron in "Monster" - WINNER
Naomi Watts in "21 Grams"

• Actress in a Supporting Role

Shohreh Aghdashloo in "House of Sand and Fog"
Patricia Clarkson in "Pieces of April"
Marcia Gay Harden in "Mystic River"
Holly Hunter in "Thirteen"
Renée Zellweger in "Cold Mountain" - WINNER

• Animated Feature Film

"Brother Bear" Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
"Finding Nemo" Andrew Stanton - WINNER
"The Triplets of Belleville" Sylvain Chomet

• Art Direction

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" Art Direction: Ben Van Os; Set Decoration: Cecile Heideman
"The Last Samurai" Art Direction: Lilly Kilvert; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee - WINNER
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Art Direction: William Sandell; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
"Seabiscuit" Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Leslie Pope

• Cinematography

"City of God" Cesar Charlone
"Cold Mountain" John Seale
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" Eduardo Serra
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Russell Boyd - WINNER
"Seabiscuit" John Schwartzman

• Costume Design

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" Dien van Straalen
"The Last Samurai" Ngila Dickson
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor - WINNER
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Wendy Stites
"Seabiscuit" Judianna Makovsky

• Directing

"City of God" Fernando Meirelles
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Peter Jackson - WINNER
"Lost in Translation" Sofia Coppola
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Peter Weir
"Mystic River" Clint Eastwood

• Documentary (Feature)

"Balseros" Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech
"Capturing the Friedmans" Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
"The Fog of War" Errol Morris and Michael Williams - WINNER
"My Architect" Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr
"The Weather Underground" Sam Green and Bill Siegel

• Documentary (Short Subject)

"Asylum" Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
"Chernobyl Heart" Maryann DeLeo - WINNER
"Ferry Tales" Katja Esson

• Film Editing

"City of God" Daniel Rezende
"Cold Mountain" Walter Murch
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Jamie Selkirk - WINNER
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Lee Smith
"Seabiscuit" William Goldenberg

• Foreign Language Film

"The Barbarian Invasions" Canada - WINNER
"Evil" Sweden
"The Twilight Samurai" Japan
"Twin Sisters" The Netherlands
"Zelary" Czech Republic

• Makeup

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Richard Taylor and Peter King - WINNER
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Edouard Henriques III and Yolanda Toussieng
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

• Music (Original Score)

"Big Fish" Danny Elfman
"Cold Mountain" Gabriel Yared
"Finding Nemo" Thomas Newman
"House of Sand and Fog" James Horner
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Howard Shore - WINNER

• Music (Original Song)

"Belleville Rendez-vous" from "The Triplets of Belleville" Music by Benoît Charest; Lyric by Sylvain Chomet
"Into the West" from "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox - WINNER
"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from "A Mighty Wind" Music and Lyric by Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole
"Scarlet Tide" from "Cold Mountain" Music and Lyric by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello
"You Will Be My Ain True Love" from "Cold Mountain" Music and Lyric by Sting

• Best Picture

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers - WINNER
"Lost in Translation" Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola, Producers
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir and Duncan Henderson, Producers
"Mystic River" Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Clint Eastwood, Producers
"Seabiscuit" Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Gary Ross, Producers

• Short Film (Animated)

"Boundin’" Bud Luckey
"Destino" Dominique Monfery and Roy Edward Disney
"Gone Nutty" Carlos Saldanha and John C. Donkin
"Harvie Krumpet" Adam Elliot - WINNER
"Nibbles" Chris Hinton

• Short Film (Live Action)

"Die Rote Jacke (The Red Jacket)" Florian Baxmeyer
"Most (The Bridge)" Bobby Garabedian and William Zabka
"Squash" Lionel Bailliu
"(A) Torzija [(A) Torsion]" Stefan Arsenijevic
"Two Soldiers" Aaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks - WINNER

• Sound Editing

"Finding Nemo" Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Richard King - WINNER
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

• Sound Mixing

"The Last Samurai" Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek - WINNER
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Arthur Rochester
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David Campbell and Lee Orloff
"Seabiscuit" Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Tod A. Maitland

• Visual Effects

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke - WINNER
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Dan Sudick, Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness and Robert Stromberg
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Terry Frazee

• Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

"American Splendor" Written by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
"City of God" Screenplay by Braulio Mantovani
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson - WINNER
"Mystic River" Screenplay by Brian Helgeland
"Seabiscuit" Written for the Screen by Gary Ross

• Writing (Original Screenplay)

"The Barbarian Invasions" Written by Denys Arcand
"Dirty Pretty Things" Written by Steven Knight
"Finding Nemo" Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds; Original Story by Andrew Stanton
"In America" Written by Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan
"Lost in Translation" Written by Sofia Coppola - WINNER

This is the list that Spike Lee distributes to his graduate students at NYU every year.

Spike says: "I've Been A Professor At The NYU Graduate Film For The Past 15 Years.The 1st Day Of Every Class I Hand Out My List Of Films That I Feel You Must See If You Want To Make Films. Please Look At This List And See What You Might Have Missed. As I Tell My Students If You Want Your Film "Game" To Be Tight You Must Have Seen Great Movies, World Cinema, It Just Can't Be Hollywood Films. Educate Yourself. Learn. Grow. Evolve. Make Great Films.

Peace, Onward And Upward,

Spike Lee."

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Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year

Nominadas Oscars 2000-Hoy