HollyWood Movies based on Popularity
List of Nominees and Winners.
Javier Bardem in "Before Night Falls"
Russell Crowe in "Gladiator" - WINNER
Tom Hanks in "Cast Away"
Ed Harris in "Pollock"
Geoffrey Rush in "Quills"
Jeff Bridges in "The Contender"
Willem Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire"
Benicio Del Toro in "Traffic" - WINNER
Albert Finney in "Erin Brockovich"
Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator"
Joan Allen in "The Contender"
Juliette Binoche in "Chocolat"
Ellen Burstyn in "Requiem for a Dream"
Laura Linney in "You Can Count on Me"
Julia Roberts in "Erin Brockovich" - WINNER
Judi Dench in "Chocolat"
Marcia Gay Harden in "Pollock" - WINNER
Kate Hudson in "Almost Famous"
Frances McDormand in "Almost Famous"
Julie Walters in "Billy Elliot"
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Tim Yip - WINNER
"Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas" Art Direction: Michael Corenblith; Set Decoration: Merideth Boswell
"Gladiator" Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Crispian Sallis
"Quills" Art Direction: Martin Childs; Set Decoration: Jill Quertier
"Vatel" Art Direction: Jean Rabasse; Set Decoration: Françoise Benoît-Fresco
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Peter Pau - WINNER
"Gladiator" John Mathieson
"Malèna" Lajos Koltai
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Roger Deakins
"The Patriot" Caleb Deschanel
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Tim Yip
"Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas" Rita Ryack
"Gladiator" Janty Yates - WINNER
"102 Dalmatians" Anthony Powell
"Quills" Jacqueline West
"Billy Elliot" Stephen Daldry
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Ang Lee
"Erin Brockovich" Steven Soderbergh
"Gladiator" Ridley Scott
"Traffic" Steven Soderbergh - WINNER
"Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport" Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer - WINNER
"Legacy" Tod Lending
"Long Night’s Journey into Day" Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann
"Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker
"Sound and Fury" Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg
"Big Mama" Tracy Seretean - WINNER
"Curtain Call" Chuck Braverman, Steve Kalafer
"Dolphins" Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
"The Man on Lincoln’s Nose" Daniel Raim
"On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom" Eric Simonson, Leelai Demoz
"Almost Famous" Joe Hutshing, Saar Klein
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Tim Squyres
"Gladiator" Pietro Scalia
"Traffic" Stephen Mirrione - WINNER
"Wonder Boys" Dede Allen
"Amores Perros" Mexico
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Taiwan - WINNER
"Divided We Fall" Czech Republic
"Everybody Famous!" Belgium
"The Taste of Others" France
"The Cell" Michèle Burke, Edouard Henriques
"Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas" Rick Baker, Gail Ryan - WINNER
"Shadow of the Vampire" Ann Buchanan, Amber Sibley
"Chocolat" Rachel Portman
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Tan Dun - WINNER
"Gladiator" Hans Zimmer
"Malèna" Ennio Morricone
"The Patriot" John Williams
"A Fool In Love" from "Meet the Parents" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"I’ve Seen It All" from "Dancer in the Dark" Music by Björk; Lyric by Lars von Trier and Sjon Sigurdsson
"A Love Before Time" from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Music by Jorge Calandrelli and Tan Dun; Lyric by James Schamus
"My Funny Friend and Me" from "The Emperor’s New Groove" Music by Sting and David Hartley; Lyric by Sting
"Things Have Changed" from "Wonder Boys" Music and Lyric by Bob Dylan - WINNER
"Chocolat" David Brown, Kit Golden and Leslie Holleran, Producers
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong and Ang Lee, Producers
"Erin Brockovich" Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, Producers
"Gladiator" Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig, Producers - WINNER
"Traffic" Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Laura Bickford, Producers
"Father and Daughter" Michael Dudok de Wit - WINNER
"The Periwig-Maker" Steffen Schäffler, Annette Schäffler
"Rejected" Don Hertzfeldt
"By Courier" Peter Riegert, Ericka Frederick
"One Day Crossing" Joan Stein, Christina Lazaridi
"Quiero Ser (I want to be...)" Florian Gallenberger - WINNER
"Seraglio" Gail Lerner, Colin Campbell
"A Soccer Story (Uma Historia de Futebol)" Paulo Machline
"Cast Away" Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
"Gladiator" Scott Millan, Bob Beemer, Ken Weston - WINNER
"The Patriot" Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Lee Orloff
"The Perfect Storm" John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, Keith A. Wester
"U-571" Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Rick Kline, Ivan Sharrock
"Space Cowboys" Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
"U-571" Jon Johnson - WINNER
"Gladiator" John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey - WINNER
"Hollow Man" Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, Stan Parks
"The Perfect Storm" Stefen Fangmeier, Habib Zargarpour, John Frazier, Walt Conti
"Chocolat" Screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Written by Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus and Tsai Kuo Jung
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
"Traffic" Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan - WINNER
"Wonder Boys" Screenplay by Steve Kloves
"Almost Famous" Written by Cameron Crowe - WINNER
"Billy Elliot" Written by Lee Hall
"Erin Brockovich" Written by Susannah Grant
"Gladiator" Screenplay by David Franzoni and John Logan and William Nicholson; Story by David Franzoni
"You Can Count on Me" Written by Kenneth Lonergan
Best Movies of the Decade
Updated 04.16.24 according to IMDB
Shortlist from The Oscars 2000-2004 nominees.
Netflix Genre
Straight from the book of the same title, an essential list for film buffs and more casual movie lovers alike. Titles are ranked here based on when they appear in the book, which is divided by the genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller, War and Western, then further organized by year released.
Work in progress
I well remember being taken to Blazing Saddles at the age of 10, when I was far too young to understand most of the jokes. At the same time, I could see how important Blazing Saddles was to my parents and their friends. They quoted from it for months—years—afterward.
As much as savoring a particular joke, I realize now, they were trying to reclaim that initial, joyful shock to the system. There’s not a film on the WGA’s 101 Funniest Screenplays that doesn’t produce such an unexpected jolt, if not a sustained quake, and for the same reasons Blazing Saddles did—by transgressing accepted norms.
One question that this list asks, however: Should a great comedy simply be gauged by the laughter it elicits? “Satire is what closes on Saturday night,” George S. Kaufman famously quipped. A number of the comedies on this list went under-appreciated at the box office and by critics; years, if not decades, had to pass before the work began to receive its due. This was as true for Buster Keaton’s The General as it was nearly half a century later for Harold and Maude, and 30 years after that for Office Space.
The oldest movie on the list is Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), while the most recent is Bridesmaids, released in 2011. The latter also has the distinction of being written by two women—Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, working in slapstick, a genre historically dominated by men. Bridesmaids comes in at no. 16, immediately after When Harry Met Sally, written by the legendary Nora Ephron. Comedy screenwriting has long been a playground that women and writers of color have not had enough time in. The work of Richard Pryor on Blazing Saddles, Tina Fey on Mean Girls, Amy Heckerling on Clueless, and Hagar Wilde, co-writer of Bringing Up Baby, makes you wonder what a list would be if the playground had been more inclusive all along.
In the end, the variety of films on the list—as different as Being There is to Airplane! or Duck Soup is to Fargo—indicates how difficult it is to gauge a great comedy by any set of particular criteria. Better to say the best comedy writers and comedians are like astronauts, launching themselves beyond the ozone layer of the tasteful and the expected in order to find the forbidden or the outrageous or the merely uncomfortable. Whether that produces an outrageous comedy like Mrs. Doubtfire or a satire like Dr. Strangelove, the goal is still provocation. And truth.
Written by Paul Brownfield
2015-11-15
Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year
The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 2000 in film and took place on March 25, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and was directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actor Steve Martin hosted the show for the first time. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Renée Zellweger.
Gladiator won five awards including Best Picture. Other winners included Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Traffic with four awards, and Almost Famous, Big Mama, Erin Brockovich, Father and Daughter, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, Pollock, Quiero ser (I want to be...), U-571, and Wonder Boys with one. The telecast garnered almost 43 million viewers in the United States.
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