by Allan Fish
Best Picture A One and a Two, Taiwan (5 votes)
Best Director Wong Kar-Wai, In the Mood for Love (5 votes)
Best Actor Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love (6 votes)
Best Actress Bjork, Dancer in the Dark (7 votes)
Best Supp Actor Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire (6 votes)
Best Supp Actress Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream (7 votes)
Best Cinematography Christopher Doyle, etc, In the Mood for Love (13 votes)
Best Score Clint Mansell, Requiem for a Dream (8 votes)
Best Short Heart of the World, Canada, Guy Maddin (3 votes)
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2001
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Best Picture/Director
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (US…Steven Spielberg)
À ma soeur (France…Catherine Breillat)
Amélie (France…Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (US…Jonas Mekas)
As White as in Snow (Sweden…Jan Troell)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Canada…Zacharias Kunuk)
Band of Brothers (US …various)
Batang West Side (Philippines…Lav Diaz)
Behind the Sun (Brazil…Walter Salles)
Black Hawk Down (US…Ridley Scott)
Brief Crossing (France…Catherine Breillat)
Bully (US…Larry Clark)
Chico (Hungary…Ibolya Fekete)
The Child and the Soldier (Iran…Seyyed Riza Mir Karimi)
Conspiracy (UK…Frank Pierson)
Daddy’s Girl (UK…Irving Allen)
The Devil’s Backbone (Spain…Guillermo del Toro)
Dog Days (Austria…Ulrich Seidl)
Domestic Violence (US…Frederick Wiseman)
Donnie Darko (US…Richard Kelly)
Éloge de l’Amour (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Enigma (UK…Michael Apted)
From the Queen to the Chief Executive (Hong Kong…Herman Yau)
Ghost World (US…Terry Zwigoff)
Gosford Park (UK/US…Robert Altman)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (US/UK…Chris Columbus)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (US…John Cameron Mitchell)
In a Land of Plenty (UK…David Moore, Hattie MacDonald)
In the Bedroom (US…Todd Field)
In Vanda’s Room (Portugal…Pedro Costa)
Kandahar (Iran…Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
L.I.E. (US…Michael Cuesta)
The Lady and the Duke (France…Eric Rohmer)
Lagaan (India…Ashutosh Gowariker)
Lantana (Australia…Ray Lawrence)
Last Orders (UK…Fred Schepisi)
Late Marriage (France…Dover Koshashvili)
The Lawless Heart (UK…Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Version) (US/New Zealand (2002)…Peter Jackson)
Lost and Delirious (Canada…Léa Pool)
Lovely and Amazing (US…Nicole Holofcener)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (US…Joel Coen)
Millennium Actress (Japan…Satoshi Kon)
Millennium Mambo (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Monsoon Wedding (US…Mira Nair)
Monsters Inc. (US…Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman)
Moulin Rouge! (Australia/US…Baz Luhrmann)
Mulholland Dr. (US…David Lynch)
Murder on a Sunday Morning (France/US…Jean-Xavier de Lestrade)
No Man’s Land (Bosnia…Danis Tanovic)
Nowhere in Africa (Germany…Caroline Link)
Oui, mais… (France…Yves Lavandier)
Perfect Strangers (UK…Stephen Poliakoff)
The Piano Teacher (France…Michael Haneke)
Porto of my Childhood (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)
Pulse (Japan…Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Quo Vadis? (TV version) (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
The Road (Kazakhstan…Dareshan Omirbayev)
Roberto Succo (France/Italy…Cédric Kahn)
The Royal Tenenbaums (US…Wes Anderson)
Sex and Lucia (Spain…Julio Medem)
Shrek (US…Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
Silence…en tourne (France/Egypt…Youssef Chahine)
Sobibor (France…Claude Lanzmann)
The Son’s Room (Italy…Nanni Moretti)
Spirited Away (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)
Suicide Club (Japan…Shion Sono)
The Tailor of Panama (US/Ireland…John Boorman)
Tape (US…Richard Linklater)
Three Businessmen (UK…Alex Cox)
Time Out (France…Laurent Cantet)
Utsab (India…Rituparno Ghosh)
Va Savoir (France…Jacques Rivette)
Visitor Q (Japan…Takashi Miike)
Waking Life (US…Richard Linklater)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Japan…Shohei Imamura)
The Way we Live Now (UK…David Yates)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (France/Portugal…Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas)
Winged Migration (France…Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Dubats)
Y Tu Mamá También (Mexico…Alfonso Cuaron)
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Best Actor
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Kenneth Branagh Conspiracy TV
Stefano Cassetti Roberto Succo
Russell Crowe A Beautiful Mind
Jean-Claude Dreyfus The Lady and the Duke
Ryan Gosling The Believer
Jake Gyllenhaal Donnie Darko
Gene Hackman The Royal Tenenbaums
Anthony LaPaglia Lantana
Damian Lewis Band of Brothers TV
Ewan MacGregor Moulin Rouge!
John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Nanni Moretti The Son’s Room
Haley Joel Osment A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Sean Penn I Am Sam
Robert Pugh In a Land of Plenty TV
Aurelien Recoing Time Out
Will Smith Ali
David Suchet The Way We Live Now TV
Billy Bob Thornton The Man Who Wasn’t There
Patrick Timsit Love Street
Denzel Washington Training Day
Tom Wilkinson In the Bedroom
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Best Actress
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Jeanne Balibar Va Savoir
Halle Berry Monster’s Ball
Thora Birch Ghost World
Judi Dench Iris
Emilie Dequenne Oui, mais…
Emmanuelle Devos Sur mes Lèvres
Kerry Fox Intimacy
Martina Gedeck Mostly Martha
Isabelle Huppert The Piano Teacher
Catherine Keener Lovely & Amazing
Nicole Kidman Moulin Rouge!
Nicole Kidman The Others
Juliane Köhler Nowhere in Africa
Laura Morante The Son’s Room
Sarah Pratt Brief Crossing
Christina Ricci Prozac Nation
Lucy Russell The Lady and the Duke
Sissy Spacek In the Bedroom
Tilda Swinton The Deep End
Emma Thompson Wit TV
Maribel Verdu Y Tu Mama Tambien
Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive
Reese Witherspoon Legally Blonde
Renée Zellweger Bridget Jones’s Diary
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Best Supporting Actor
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Alan Arkin 13 Conversations About One Thing
Peter Boyle Monster’s Ball
Jim Broadbent Iris
Jim Broadbent Moulin Rouge!
Steve Buscemi Ghost World
Brian Cox L.I.E.
Shaun Dingwall In a Land of Plenty TV
Michael Gambon Perfect Strangers TV
James Gandolfini The Mexican
Ethan Hawke Training Day
Ian Holm The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bob Hoskins Last Orders
Eddie Izzard The Cat’s Meow
Jude Law A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Boguslaw Linda Quo Vadis?
Ian McKellen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Benoit Magimel The Piano Teacher
William Mapother In The Bedroom
Tony Maudsley In a Land of Plenty TV
Bill Nighy Lawless Heart
Jeremy Northam Gosford Park
Sidede Onyulo Nowhere in Africa
Stanley Tucci Conspiracy TV
Jon Voight Ali
Ray Winstone Last Orders
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Best Supporting Actress
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Kerry Armstrong Lantana
Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind
Kirsten Dunst The Cat’s Meow
Dakota Fanning I Am Sam
Annie Girardot The Piano Teacher
Raven Goodwin Lovely & Amazing
Ellie Haddington Lawless Heart
Laura Elena Harring Mulholland Dr.
Shirley Henderson The Way We Live Now TV
Scarlett Johansson Ghost World
Helen McCrory In a Land of Plenty TV
Mary McDonnell Donnie Darko
Helen Mirren Gosford Park
Emily Mortimer Lovely and Amazing
Najwa Nimri Sex and Lucia
Piper Perabo Lost and Delirious
Miriam Shor Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Claire Skinner Perfect Strangers TV
Brooke Smith Series 7: The Contenders
Maggie Smith Gosford Park
Uma Thurman Tape
Marisa Tomei In the Bedroom
Emily Watson Gosford Park
Michelle Williams Me Without You
Kate Winslet Iris
Kaye Wragg In a Land of Plenty TV
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Best Cinematography
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Javier Aguirresarobe The Others
Diane Baratier The Lady and the Duke
Norman Cohn Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Kiko de la Rica Sex and Lucia
Roger Deakins The Man Who Wasn’t There
Bruno Delbonnel Amélie
Peter Deming From Hell
Peter Deming Mulholland Dr.
Slawomir Idziak Black Hawk Down
Janusz Kaminski A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Lesnie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Donald McAlpine Moulin Rouge!
John Mathieson Hannibal
Steven Poster Donnie Darko
Gernot Roll Nowhere in Africa
Eduardo Serra Rue des Plaisirs
Robert Yeoman The Royal Tenenbaums
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Best Score
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Michael Andrews Donnie Darko
Craig Armstrong Moulin Rouge!
Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Dr.
Patrick Doyle Gosford Park
Joe Hisaishi Spirited Away
Michael Kamen Band of Brothers TV
Jan A.P.Kaczmarek Quo Vadis? TV
Mark Mothersbaugh The Royal Tenenbaums
Jocelyn Pook, Harvey Brough In a Land of Plenty TV
Randy Newman Monsters Inc.
Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Yann Tiersen Amélie
John Williams A.I. Artificial Intelligence
John Williams Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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Best Short
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The Accountant (US…Ray McKinnon)
Ambush (US…John Frankenheimer)
Cat Soup (Japan…Tatsuo Sato)
Chosen (US…Ang Lee)
Copy Shop (Austria…Virgil Widrith)
Father and Daughter (Belgium…Michael Dudok de Wit)
The Follower (Hong Kong…Wong Kar Wai)
In Public (China…Jia Zhangke)
Lovesong (US…Stan Brakhage)
Mad World (France…Michel Gondry)
Star (UK…Guy Ritchie)
Star Guitar (France…Michel Gondry)
Thanksgiving (US…Alex R. Johnson)
Tooth Fairy (US…Joe Harris)
You Rock My World (US…Paul Hunter)
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Best Picture: A. I. Artificial Intelligence
Best Director: David Lynch (Mullholland Drive)
Best Actor: Haley Joel Osment (A. I. Artificial Intelligence)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Brian Cox (L.I.E.) -tie-
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Best Cinematography: Norman Cohn (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner)
Best Score: Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring)
The 2001 Hall of Fame: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Mullholland Drive; Gosford Park; The Son’s Room; Spirited Away; Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring; Atanajuat (The Fast Runner); Iris; L.I.E.; Lagaan; The Piano Teacher; Va Savoir; Monster’s Inc.; Ghost World; In the Bedroom
YAY!
Best Picture: Donnie Darko
Best Director: Richard Kelly – Donnie Darko
Best Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal – Donnie Darko
Best Actress: Naomi Watts – Mulholland Dr.
Best Supporting Actor: Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connely – A Beautiful Mind
Best Cinematography: Mulholland Dr.
Best Score: The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Best Short: Sounds from a Town I Love
Top 5 of 2001:
1. Donnie Darko
2. Spirited Away
3. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
4. Mulholland Dr.
5. K-PAX
Five of my favorite movies came out this year. Very hard to decide overall…
Best Picture: Mulholland Drive
Runner ups: AI: Artificial Intelligence, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Piano Teacher, Gosford Park
Hard to say which year is better top to bottom, but I find 2001 superior than 2000 when it comes to my top heavy films.
A great year, no question about it. But, let’s face it: there is only one real choice here:
PICTURE: MULHOLLAND DR., Moulin Rouge!, In The Bedroom, Donnie Darko (NOT the directors cut, but the original), Gosford Park, The Piano Teacher, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Ghost World, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Time Out, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lantana, Spirited Away, Series 7: The Contenders, The Son’s Room, No Man’s Land, Monsters Inc., The Man Who Wasn’t There, Black Hawk Down, Enigma, Conspiracy, Murder on a Sunday Morning, Winged Migration, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Lovely and Amazing, The Deep End, Buffalo Soldiers, Waiting for Godot, War Photographer, Amelie, The Tailor of Panama, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Wet Hot American Summer, The Cat’s Meow, The Devil’s Backbone, Va Savoir, Wit, Session 9, Frailty, Zoolander, Intacto, Lagaan, The Believer, The Others, Ali, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Hell House, Training Day, Waking Life, Crazy/Beautiful, The Grey Zone, Daddy and Them, Iris, L.I.E., Home Movie, Monster’s Ball, Shaolin Soccer, Heist, Dogtown and Z-Boys, How High, Sugar and Spice, From Hell, Legally Blonde, Spy Kids, Pootie Tang, The Princess Diaries
DIRECTOR: David Lynch, MULHOLLAND DR. (2nd: Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, followed by: Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko; Michael Haneke, The Piano Teacher; Todd Fields, In The Bedroom; Robert Altman, Gosford Park; John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Alfonso Cuaron, Y Tu Mama Tambien)
ACTOR: John Cameron Mitchell, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2nd: Tom Wilkinson, In The Bedroom, followed by: Ryan Gosling, The Believer; Gene Hackman, The Royal Tenenbaums; Will Smith, Ali; Ewan MacGregor, Moulin Rouge!; Denzel Washington, Training Day; Haley Joel Osment, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
ACTRESS: Naomi Watts, MULHOLLAND DR. (2nd: Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher, followed by: Sissy Spacek, In The Bedroom; Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge!; Thora Birch, Ghost World; Emma Thompson, Wit; Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball; Tilda Swinton, The Deep End )
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Steve Buscemi, GHOST WORLD (2nd: Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, followed by: Jim Broadbent, Iris; Jude Law, A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Brian Cox, L.I.E.; James Gandolfini, The Mexican; Paul Rudd, Wet Hot American Summer; Lafayette Montgomery, Mulholland Dr.)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Helen Mirren, GOSFORD PARK (2nd: Brooke Smith, Series 7: The Contenders, followed by: Marisa Tomei, In The Bedroom; Laura Elena Harring, Mulholland Dr.; Maggie Smith, Gosford Park; Scarlett Johansson, Ghost World; Emily Mortimer, Lovely and Amazing; Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (2nd: Donald McAlpine, Moulin Rouge!, followed by: Bruno Delbonnel, Amelie; Slawomir Idziak, Black Hawk Down; Peter Deming, Mulholland Dr.; Steven Poster, Donnie Darko; Robert Yeoman, The Royal Tenenbaums)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Craig Armstrong, MOULIN ROUGE! (2nd: John Williams, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, followed by: Patrick Doyle, Gosford Park; Angelo Badalamenti, Mulholland Dr.; Michael Andrews, Donnie Darko; Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Mark Mothersbaugh, The Royal Tenenbaums)
SHORT FILM: THANKSGIVING (Alex R. Johnson) (2nd: And I Will Not Leave You Before I Die (Maciaj Ademek); Incidental Park Zones and You (John Marriott); The Accountant (Ray McKinnon); Japanese Myths (Eric Forrest))
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Julian Fellowes, GOSFORD PARK (2nd: Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko, followed by: Alfonso Cuaron and Carlos Cuaron, Y Tu Mama Tambien; David Lynch, Mulholland Dr., Loring Mandel, Conspiracy; Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, The Royal Tenenbaums; Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet, Time Out; Daniel Minahan, Series 7: The Contenders)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, GHOST WORLD (2nd: Todd Field, Robert Festinger and Andre Dubus, In The Bedroom, followed by: Ian Watson and Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Andrew Bovell, Lantana; Michael Haneke, The Piano Teacher; Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Tom Stoppard, Enigma; Andrew Davies, John le Carre and John Boorman, The Tailor of Panama; Gregor Jordan, Eric Weiss and Mora Maccoby, Buffalo Soldiers
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade) (2nd: Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Dubats), followed by: War Photographer (Christian Frei); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Jan Harlan); Hell House (George Ratliff); Home Movie (Chris Smith); Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM: THE PIANO TEACHER (Austria/France/Germany, Michael Haneke) (2nd: Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico, Alfonso Cuaron), followed by: Time Out (France, Laurent Cantet); The Son’s Room (Italy, Nanni Morretti); No Man’s Land (Bosnia and Hersegovina/France, Denis Tanovic); Amelie (France, Jean-Pierre Jeunet); The Devil’s Backbone (Mexico, Guillermo Del Toro); Va Savoir (France, Jacques Rivette))
ART DIRECTION: MOULIN ROUGE!, Gosford Park, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Man Who Wasn’t There
COSTUME DESIGN: MOULIN ROUGE!, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Gosford Park, The Affair of the Necklace, The Royal Tenenbaums
FILM EDITING: BLACK HAWK DOWN, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Dr., Donnie Darko, Series 7: The Contenders, In The Bedroom
SOUND: MULHOLLAND DR., Black Hawk Down, Monsters Inc., Moulin Rouge!, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
ORIGINAL SONG: “One Day I’ll Fly Away‘ from MOULIN ROUGE! (music and lyrics by Will Jennings and Joe Sample) (2nd: “Come What May” from Moulin Rouge! (music and lyrics by David Baerwald), followed by: “Vanilla Sky” from Vanilla Sky (music and lyrics by Paul McCartney); “If I Didn’t Have You” from Monsters Inc. (music and lyrics by Randy Newman))
ADAPTATION SCORE/SCORING OF A MUSICAL: Stephen Trask, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2nd: Craig Armstrong, Moulin Rouge!)
SPECIAL EFFECTS: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Moulin Rouge!
MAKEUP: PLANET OF THE APES, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!, Hedwig and The Angry Inch
ANIMATED FEATURE: SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki), Monsters Inc. (Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich), Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
Dean, if I thought myself that there really was only “one” choice here, I most assuredly would not have voted for A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. I gave my director prize to David Lynch, and agree it’s a great film, but I simply do not buy the prevailing critical view that it’s the best film of the decade. I don’t. Still, I knew before the voting commenced on this year that it was a shoe-in and the early voting is exactly what I expected. MULLHOLLAND DRIVE is cinematic brilliance and endlessly fascinating, but Spielberg’s film (for me one of his greatest works) reached my on an emotional level that few films achieve. I argued my point for the film here:
https://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/spielbergs-a-i-artificial-intelligence-a-story-of-unrequited-love/
I love MULLHOLLAND DRIVE (it’s my #2 film of the year) but I just don’t worship it as others do. Fair enough.
I agree Sam (other than your mistaken belief in not worshipping MD lol). AI is a great alternative choice (as are three or four others).
Thanks Maurizio. Well, I can’t really argue that MULLHOLLAND DRIVE isn’t a very great film (it is!) but my argument as you detected was more that there are a few very great films released in 2001. My own Number 1 films of the decade will be coming up next year in 2002.
Of course, Sam, I really mean there is only one choice for ME here. I love A.I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE as well, and respect your decision to choose it as your top film. But, again, for ME, the film falters on a few points: (1) some of the early scenes with David and his new family have a stiff phoniness about the performances, most notably with the other kids in the film (Osment is great throughout, though), and with the performances of the parents (Sam Robards, in particular, though I do think Frances O’Connor has moments of brilliance, as in the touching bonding scene and the shattering sequence where she is compelled to abandon David). My biggest complaint with the film comes with the unnecessarily goofy Fleshfair sequence, with the Chris Rock robot and that heavy metal band onstage; this should have been a much grittier, and more horrifying, scene than it was portrayed. (Though the sequence has some undeniably chilling moments, I think here Spielberg was afraid to show a “child” in so much danger, so he had to undermine his film’s own point by protecting the audience from feeling too much fear for him.) I also wince at the Disney-esque Dr. Know animation, and the inclusion of Robin Williams’ voice (which brings me out of the movie, and is emblematic of the kinds of things Spielberg-haters hate about Spielberg). I know many have a problem with the last sequence, with the sentient robots reviving David after many eons underneath the ocean, but I adore it and feel the movie would not be nearly as profound (as it certainly is) without such a conclusion. Again, I love the movie–its bold ideas and sure craft triumph over any faults it might have (in my nominations, I included Osment as Best Actor, Law as Supporting Actor, the score, the adapted screenplay, the sound and special effects). In fact, I love many different kinds of films from this year (as you can well see). But, again, for me, nothing comes close to MULHOLLAND DR. as the best film of the year. It’s not even a contest. Lynch’s work, frankly, just leaves all others in the dust. http://filmicability.blogspot.com/2008/11/film-81-mulholland-dr.html
Dean, A.I. is not a perfect film (few are) but for me the positive qualities overwhelm the minor flaws, as I tried to pose in my essay. Your essay on MULLHOLLAND is excellent, and you are most fair enough to say for “ME.”
In reviews or opinion pieces of any stripe, the “for me” is always implied, and rarely needs to be articulated. I also add: some films are obviously more perfect than others…
Best Picture: Mulholland Dr,
Best Director: David Lynch- Mulholland Dr.
Best Actor: Gene Hackman- The Royal Tenenbaums
Best Actress: Naomi Watts- Mullholland Dr
Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi- Ghost World
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith-Gosford Park
Best Cinematography: The Man Who Wasn’t There
Original Screenplay: Gosford Park
Adapted Screenplay: Ghost World
Best Picture: Mulholland Drive
2. Amélie
3. The Son’s Room
4. The Man Who Wasn’t There
5. Donnie Darko
Best Director: David Lynch (Mullholland Drive)
Best Actor: Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
Best Score: Yann Tiersen (Amélie)
Pic- Mulholland Drive
Dir- Lynch
Actor- Denzel Washington- Training Day
Actress- Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive
Supp Actor- Broadbent – Iris
Supp Actress- Uma Thurman- Tape
Cinematography- McAlpine-Moulin Rouge!
Score – Armstrong – Moulin Rouge!
Wow. Just wow. Had my whole ballot written out on a smartphone and then when I lost wi-dither entire thing disappeared. 😦 I’ll wait till I’m on a real computer tonight to start from scratch. Sometimes I hate the Internet.
Wi-dither? DITHER? That’s what “wi-fi” autocorrects to? I hate technology even more now, and feel it is mocking me back haha.
Best Picture: Gosford Park
Best Director: Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Best Actor: Haley Joel Osment (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent (Iris)
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
Best Score: John Williams (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
Best Short: Chosen (Ang Lee)
Best film: Mulholland Drive
Best director: David Lynch
Best Actor: Denzel Washington, Training Day
Best actress: Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Best supporting actor: Steve Buscemi, Ghost World
Best cinematography: Roger Deakins, The Man Who Wasn’t There
Best score: Craig Armstrong, Moulin Rouge
Film: ‘Mulholland Dr.’ RU: ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ (hotter, sexier than ‘Mulholland’); have not seen Bogdanovich’s ‘The Cat’s Meow’ which has been reliably praised.
Director: David Lynch RU: Alfonso Cuaron
Actor: Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom) RU: shared by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien)
Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) Forgive me, Naomi Watts
S. Actor: Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
S. Actress: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Photography: Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
2001…what a synch
Best Picture: Mulholland Drive
Best Director: David Lynch for Mulholland Drive
Best Actor: Denzel Washington for Training Day
Best Actress: Naomi Watts for Mulholland Drive
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent for Iris
Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst for The Cat’s Meow
Best Cinematography: Peter Deming for Mulholland Drive
Best Score: Angelo Badalemento for Mulholland Drive
and WORST PICTURE: Moulin Rouge! (sorry, just had to throw that in there, ha ha)
Ok, let’s try again…
Agreed that Mulholland Dr is the film with the greatest impact from the year, one that is already surpassing Blue Velvet as *the* Lynch film (if you must have only one), and the increasingly undisputed high point of 21st Century American cinema. But it’s also a bit of a swan song for the U.S. of A. … on my own list at least there’s a good chance it will be the last American narrative feature to claim top spot, maybe the last American feature period. Only 2007 will challenge that assertion, and we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
While my #1 is definitely the most significant movie of the year as far as film culture is concerned, the film with the greatest influence on the 00s pop culture aesthetic/sensibility as a whole, the Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction of this decade if you will, is my #3.
Feature: Mulholland Dr
2. Y Tu Mama Tambien
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. AI: Artificial Intelligence
5. Spirited Away
Director: David Lynch, Mulholland Dr
Short: I shall return (with space on my weekly schedule now cleared, I actually plan to watch each and every nominee from now and practice what I preach, haha)
Actor: Denzel Washington, Training Day
Actress: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr
Supp. Actor: Steve Buscemi, Ghost World
Supp. Actress: Lucy Tulugarjuk, Atanarjuat
Cinematography: Robert Yeomen, The Royal Tenenbaums
Score: Angelo Badalamenti, Mulholland Dr
Screenplay: Mulholland Dr
Editing: Blow
Use of Music: Star Guitar (A REALLY tough year for this category. Moulin Rouge is the obvious pick, but I’m also very fond of the chillingly ethereal 50s lip-syncs in Mulholland Dr, “Blinded by the Light” montage in Blow, the Nico needledrop – among others – in Tenenbaums, the “Still D.R.E.” cue in Training Day, and many of the sounds in Y Tu Mama Tambien; and the moody use of “Mad World” in Donnie Darko; maybe it feels unfair to give it to a music video – which by its very definition uses music well – but Gondry’s work for the Chemical Brothers syncs every fluctuation in the track with an element of the passing landscape, so yeah there it is. Plus it saves me from having to choose between the others 😉 ).
Ensemble: the cast of The Royal Tenenbaums
Scene: What’s behind the dumpster at Winkie’s?, Mulholland Dr
Line: “Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What this book presupposes is…maybe he didn’t?”, The Royal Tenenbaums (an endlessly and hilariously quotable movie, the Anderson film whose humor is most laugh-out-loud funny)
Oh and in mentioning the best “use of music” sequences, I forgot the wrenching “Llolando” reimagining of Roy Orbison in the Club Silencio. If I were picking only amongst features, that would probably put MD over the edge.
Short: Star Guitar
Watched quite a few selections, but gave up on watching them all when I realized I couldn’t see the Jia. 😦 Still, my vote goes to the one I’d originally seen, see “Use of Music” comment above for why. Mesmerizing music video.
Strike the above.Switching my vote to:
Short: The Follow so that with Peter’s vote it gets 2. I’d give the video the edge, but then no film would have more than 1 vote and I don’t want to see no winner in the shorts category. So I’ll use my vote as a tiebreaker.
(After I wrote this, some latecomers put Lee’s film over the edge. My tiebreaker no longer necessary, let the records show I reverted my vote back to Star Guitar.)
Another strong year; this was a particularly good year for actress. I feel almost guilty about adding another vote for Mulholland Drive though – looking at the results, it seems to be moving rapidly into the realm of the overrated. It’s a clear enough favorite for 2001, but not by that much of a margin, I don’t think – this isn’t 1986 or 2006, years where Lynch has no competition.
PICTURE: Mulholland Drive
DIRECTOR: David Lynch
LEAD ACTOR: Gene Hackman, Royal Tenenbaums
LEAD ACTRESS: Jeanne Balibar, Va Savoir
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Bill Nighy, Lawless Heart
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laura Elena Harring, Mulholland Dr.
SHORT: In Public, Jia Jian-ke
SCORE: Angelo Badalamenti, Mulholland Dr.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Deming, Mulholland Dr.
Plus bonus picks:
Script: The Royal Tenenbaums
Music/Sound: The Royal Tenenbaums, again.
Best Takashi Miike film (I saw three of them from 2001, after all): Ichi the Killer (and Tadanobu Asano is a pretty close runner up to Hackman for best actor, I’d say. Best makeup anyway.)
Two of my favorites of the year–A Place on Earth and Trouble Every Day–are missing.
Picture / A Place on Earth
Director / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Pulse
Actor / Denzel Washington / Training Day
Actress / Jean Balibar / Va Savoir
Supporting Actor / Jamie Foxx / Ali
Supporting Actress / Beatrice Dalle / Trouble Every Day
Peter No. 2 here………
Best Film: Gosford Park
Best Director: Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Best Actor: Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Sup. Actor: Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Best Sup. Actress: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Best Cinematography: Peter Deming (Mulholland Drive)
Best Score: Angelo Badalementi (Mulholland Drive)
Best Short: The Follower (Wong Kar Wai)
Picture: Ghost World
Director: Michael Haneke – The Piano Teacher
Actor: Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom
Actress: Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher
Supporting Actor: Michael Gambon – Gosford Park
Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
Cinematography – The Piano Teacher
This year was quite difficult. Tried to include selections from films that are in my all-time favourites list: The Piano Teacher, Ghost World and Gosford Park
Pic – Amélie (France…Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Director – Spirited Away (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)
Actor – Gene Hackman The Royal Tenenbaums
Actress – Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive
Supp Actor – Ian McKellen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Supp Actress – Scarlett Johansson Ghost World
Cinematography – Bruno Delbonnel Amélie
Score – Yann Tiersen Amélie
Best Film: Sex And Lucia . Best Director: David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.). Best Actor: Anthony Lapaglia (Lantanna). Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher). Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent (Iris And Moulin Rouge!). Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst (The Cat’s Meow).
Best Picture: Utsab
Best Director: Rituparno Ghosh (Utsab)
Best Actor: Gene Hackman (Royal Tenenbaums)
Best Actress: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
Best Supporting Actor: Branko Đurić (No Man’s Land)
Best Supporting Actress: Rituparna Sengupta & Madhabi Mukherjee (Utsab)
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
Best Score: Angelo Badalamenti (Mulholland Drive)
Top 10:
1. Utsab/The Festival (dir. Rituparno Ghosh)
2. No Man’s Land
3. Monsoon Wedding
4. Mulholland Drive
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
6. The Man Who Wasn’t There
7. Amelia
8. The Devil’s Backbone
9. Y Tu Mama Tambien
10. The Piano Teacher
Runners-Ups: Dekha (Goutam Ghose), Nowhere in Africa, Sex & Lucia, Gosford Park, etc.
Short films update:
Just added Jia’s “In Public” which I can’t wait to watch! (thanks weepingsam for the h/t)
And deleted the German title which was just a clip from Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, oddly enough.
I can’t get the Jia clip to work. When I click on it, just plays an ad followed by random short films, none of which have anything to do with the title in question. Anyone know what’s up with Film Annex site?
I’m not as sanguine as some about this year but it had its moments.
Best Picture: Mulholland Dr.
Best Director: Wes Anderson
Best Actor: Gene Hackman, Tenenbaums
Best Actress: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr.
Supporting Actor: Voight, Ali
Supporting Actress: Harring, Mulholland Dr.
Cinematography: Yeoman, Tenenbaums
Score: Shore, LOTR.
My top ten for 2001:
1. Mulholland Dr. – David Lynch
2. Eloge de l’Amour – Jean-Luc Godard
3. The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson
4. Ghost World – Terry Zwigoff
5. Va Savoir – Jacques Rivette
6. The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke
7. I’m Going Home – Manoel de Oliveira
8. The Lady and the Duke – Eric Rohmer
9. Trouble Every Day – Claire Denis
10. Millenium Mambo – Hou Hsiao Hsien
Best Picture: Mulholland Dr.
Best Director: David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.)
Best Actor: Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Best Actress: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr.)
Best supporting actor: Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Best supporting actress: Gwyneth Paltrow (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Best Cinematography: Peter Deming (Mulholland Dr.)
Best Score: Angelo Badalamenti (Mulholland Dr,)
Best Film: Artificial Intelligence
Best Director: Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Best Actor: Gene Hackman (Royal Tenenbaums)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
Best Score: Angelo Badalamenti (Mulholland Drive)
Best Short: Chosen
BEST PICTURE: MULHOLLAND DRIVE
BEST DIRECTOR: David Lynch for MULHOLLAND DRIVE
BEST ACTOR: Ryan Gosling for THE BELIEVER
BEST ACTRESS: Naomi Watts for MULHOLLAND DRIVE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jim Broadbent for IRIS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Helen Mirren for GOSFORD PARK
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins for THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE
BEST SCORE: Angelo Badalamenti for MULHOLLAND DRIVE
BEST SHORT: MAD WORLD.
Best Film: Mulholland Drive
Best Director: David Lynch
Best Actor: Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent (Iris)
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Best Cinematography: Peter Deming (Mulholland Drive)
Best Score: Angelo Badalamenti (Mulholland Drive)