My Awards (2000-2009)

Happy New Years, everybody!

Now that I've had exactly one year to mull it over, I've decided on a special class of personal awards encapsulating the years 2000 to 2009, and present it to you, my readership, has a souvenir of my 34-week countdown of the best films of the decade. Enjoy!

Winners italicized:

Best Picture
Finding Nemo
Finding Neverland
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge!
The Pianist

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will be Blood
Joel & Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings
Baz Luhrmann – Moulin Rouge!
Roman Polanski – The Pianist

Best Actor
Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Bill Murray – Lost in Translation
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose
Scarlet Johansson – Lost in Translation
Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge!
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Jim Broadbent – Moulin Rouge!
Tommy Lee Jones – No Country for Old Men
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Andy Serkis – The Lord of the Rings

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett – The Aviator
Ellen Degeneres – Finding Nemo
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
Mo'Noque – Precious
Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago

Best Acting Ensemble
Almost Famous
The Dark Knight
Finding Neverland
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge!

Best Original Screenplay
Finding Nemo
Lost in Translation
Memento
Pan's Labyrinth
WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay
Children of Men
Finding Neverland
The Lord of the Rings
No Country for Old Men
Up in the Air

Best Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James
Children of Men
The Dark Knight
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Lord of the Rings

Best Film Editing
Black Hawk Down
Chicago
City of God
The Hurt Locker
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Production Design
Gangs of New York
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge!
Pan's Labyrinth
Spirited Away

Best Costume Design
Chicago
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gangs of New York
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge!

Best Original Score
Finding Nemo
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Lord of the Rings
Pan's Labyrinth
There Will Be Blood

Best Original Song
“Come What May”* – Moulin Rouge!
“Falling Slowly” – Once
“The Wrestler” – The Wrestler
“The Weary Kind” – Crazy Heart
“I Need to Wake Up” – An Inconvenient Truth

Best Sound Mixing
Black Hawk Down
Master and Commander
No Country for Old Men
The Pianist
WALL-E

Best Sound Editing
Avatar
King Kong
Master and Commander
Transformers
WALL-E

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Lord of the Rings

Best Makeup
District 9
The Lord of the Rings
Pan’s Labyrinth

Best Animated Feature
Finding Nemo
Ratatouille
Spirited Away
Up
WALL-E

Best Foreign Language Film
Amelie
City of God
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Pan’s Labyrinth
Spirited Away

Best Documentary Feature
Bowling for Columbine
The Cove
An Inconvenient Truth
March of the Penguins
Sicko

*Yes, I know that "Come What May" was actually written and intended for Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1995), but seeings as no one heard it until Moulin Rouge!, I'm calling it original.