My personal awards

As of right now (they'll change in 15 seconds), with all Oscar nominees in their respective categories taken out. Sometimes, I don't nominate any of the Oscar nominees (Best Picture 2004). Sometimes, I nominate several of the Oscar nominees (Best Actress 2006). Note that if a person was nominated for an Oscar for one performance while also having another strong one in that year (like Nicole Kidman in '01), I didn't let the actor into my lineup for that year; also, I didn't count TV movies, notably Angels in America, Wit, and Something the Lord Made. In preference order. For now, up to and including 2003, I'll do the rest later:

2000
Best Picture
Requiem for a Dream
You Can Count on Me
Best in Show
Wonder Boys
The House of Mirth

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Amores perros
Lars von Trier, Dancer in the Dark
Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides
Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count on Me

Best Actor
Christian Bale, American Psycho
Billy Crudup, Jesus' Son
Clive Owen, Croupier
Forest Whitaker, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Michael Douglas, Wonder Boys

Best Actress
Renee Zellweger, Nurse Betty
Ziyi Zhang, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cate Blanchett, The Gift
Gillian Anderson, The House of Mirth
Michelle Pfeiffer, What Lies Beneath

Best Supporting Actor
Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me
Jeffrey Wright, Shaft
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Almost Famous
Jack Black, High Fidelity
Bill Murray, Hamlet

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream
Samantha Morton, Jesus' Son
Kirsten Dunst, The Virgin Suicides
Kate Winslet, Quills
Goya Toledo, Amores perros


2001
Best Picture
In the Mood for Love
Lantana
Shrek
Memento
Zoolander (ask me how serious I am.)

Best Director
Wong Kar-Wai, In the Mood for Love
Christopher Nolan, Memento
Stephen Spielberg, AI: Artificial Intelligence
Todd Field, In the Bedroom
Alejandro Amenabar, The Others

Best Actor
Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge!
Haley Joel Osment, AI: Artificial Intelligence
Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love
Jake Gyllenhaal, Donnie Darko
Anthony LaPaglia, Lantana

Best Actress
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr.
Charlotte Rampling, Under the Sand
Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love
Lena Endre, Faithless
Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom

Best Supporting Actor
Steve Buscemi, Ghost World
Jude Law, AI: Artificial Intelligence
Brian Cox, L.I.E.
Will Ferrell, Zoolander
Justin Theroux, Mulholland Dr.

Best Supporting Actress
Laura Elena Harring, Mulholland Dr.
Gwyneth Paltrow, The Royal Tenenbaums
Kerry Armstrong, Lantana
Scarlett Johansson, Ghost World
Uma Thurman, Tape


2002
Best Picture
25th Hour (this movie was so robbed, in so many categories)
Talk to Her
Minority Report
Adaptation.
Y tu mama tambien

Best Director
Spike Lee, 25th Hour
Spike Jonze, Adaptation.
Stephen Spielberg, Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can
Alfonso Cuaron, Y tu mama tambien
Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven

Best Actor
Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger
Edward Norton, 25th Hour
Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can
James Nesbitt, Bloody Sunday
Robin Williams, One Hour Photo

Best Actress
Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Meryl Streep, The Hours
Catherine Keener, Lovely and Amazing

Best Supporting Actor
Dennis Quaid, Far from Heaven
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch-Drunk Love
Barry Pepper, 25th Hour
Ray Liotta, Narc
Brian Cox, 25th Hour

Best Supporting Actress
Toni Collette, The Hours
Samantha Morton, Minority Report
Miranda Richardson, Spider
Emily Watson, Punch-Drunk Love
Michelle Pfeiffer, White Oleander


2003
Best Picture
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Big Fish
Finding Nemo
City of God
Love Actually

Best Director
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Robert Altman, The Company
Andrew Jarecki, Capturing the Friedmans
Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later
Tim Burton, Big Fish

Best Actor
Hayden Christensen, Shattered Glass (lol?)
Kevin Spacey, The Life of David Gale
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things
Russell Crowe, Master and Commander: And the Rest of This Title Got Lost Somewhere
Robert Downey Jr., The Singing Detective

Best Actress
Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation *
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill, Vol. 1 *
Zooey Deschanel, All the Real Girls
Evan Rachel Wood, thirteen
Cate Blanchett, Veronica Guerin
* tied.

Best Supporting Actor
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass
Bill Nighy, Love Actually
Kevin Bacon, Mystic River
Bobby Cannavale, The Station Agent
Hugh Grant, Love Actually

Best Supporting Actress
Natalie Portman, Cold Mountain
Laura Linney, The Life of David Gale
Lucy Liu, Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Catherine O'Hara, A Mighty Wind
Emma Thompson, Love Actually

TBC when I'm not so darn tired

2000

2000. Another bad year cuz I might as well get 'em done with.

Best Picture
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. You Can Count on Me
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4. Traffic
5. Best in Show
6. The House of Mirth
7. Wonder Boys
8. Gladiator
9. George Washington
10. Amores Perros (Iñárritu's best, and it's not even close)

Best Director
1. Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Darren Aronofsky for Requiem for a Dream
3. Steven Soderbergh for Traffic and Erin Brockovich
4. Ridley Scott for Gladiator
5. Lars von Trier for Dancer in the Dark
6. Kenneth Lonergan for You Can Count on Me
7. Mary Harron for American Psycho
8. Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu for Amores Perros
9. David Gordon Green for George Washington
10. Sofia Coppola for The Virgin Suicides

Best Actor
1. Christian Bale in American Psycho
2. Billy Crudup in Jesus' Son
3. Clive Owen in Croupier (Cliiiiive. <3)
4. Russell Crowe in Gladiator (I'll defend him to the death)
5. Tom Hanks in Cast Away (him too)
6. Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls
7. Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys
8. Ed Harris in Pollock
9. Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot
10. Geoffrey Rush in Quills

Best Actress (quality-wise excellent, quantity-wise pretty shitty...I can't think of anyone other than these 9 that I'd really want to nominate)
1. Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream
2. Laura Linney in You Can Count on Me
3. Renee Zellweger in Nurse Betty
4. Gillian Anderson in The House of Mirth
5. Cate Blanchett in The Gift
6. Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich (no, she didn't deserve the Oscar but it's hardly embarassing to say the least)
7. Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath
8. Michelle Rodriguez in Girlfight
9. Michelle Yeoh in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Michelle...?)

Best Supporting Actor
1. Mark Ruffalo in You Can Count on Me (not supporting. Ignore this.)
2. Benicio del Toro in Traffic
3. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire
4. Jeffrey Wright in Shaft (!!!)
5. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator
6. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich
7. Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty
8. Ian Holm in Joe Gould's Secret
9. Michael Douglas in Traffic
10. Tobey Maguire in Wonder Boys

Best Supporting Actress
1. Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream (years later, still standing as the best performance of the new millennium...and I don't even like Jennifer Connelly)
2. Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock
3. Samantha Morton in Jesus' Son
4. Kate Winslet in Quills
5. Ziyi Zhang in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6. Parker Posey in Best in Show
7. Catherine Deneuve in Dancer in the Dark
8. Laura Linney in The House of Mirth
9. Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides
10. Frances McDormand in Almost Famous

Best Screenplay
1. You Can Count on Me
2. American Psycho
3. The House of Mirth
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Nurse Betty
6. Traffic
7. Amores Perros
8. Billy Elliot
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. George Washington

Please note, all: Almost Famous blows, except the acting...and even there, Patrick Fugit was sooo dull and Kate Hudson wildly overpraised. Still, everyone else pretty much rocked. Maybe I'm just mad because of how they used "Tiny Dancer" (yes, I love Elton John, now let's move the fuck on)... oh. and if you asked me to see any of these movies again or Chocolat, I'd probably say Chocolat. Yeah, it's only deserving of a C+ movie-wise, but it's warm and adorable...and keep in mind, this is from someone who hates Johnny Depp (GASP!) and who just kind of half-shrugs when she hears Juliette Binoche's name (GASP!).