Best of the Decade:
2000s

Director of the Decade:
Sofia Coppola

The Virgin Suicides (2000), Lost in Translation (2003),
Marie Antoinette (2006)

Actor of the Decade:
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Almost Famous (2000), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Love Liza (2002), 25th Hour (2002), Owning Mahoney (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), Capote (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), The Savages (2007), Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Doubt (2008), Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Actress of the Decade (TIE):
Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts

Kidman:
Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Others (2001), The Hours (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Birth (2004), Dogville (2004), Margot at the Wedding (2007)

Watts:
Mulholland Drive (2001), The Ring (2002), 21 Grams (2003), We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), The Painted Veil (2006), Eastern Promises (2007), Funny Games (2007)

New Voice of the Decade:
Park Chan-wook

Writer/Director: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2003), Oldboy (2005), Lady Vengeance (2006), Thirst (2009)

Producer of the Decade:
Scott Rudin

Wonder Boys (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Orange County (2002), The Hours (2002), School of Rock (2003), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Village (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Team America: World Police (2004), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Notes on a Scandal (2006), No Country for Old Men (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Margot at the Wedding (2007), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), Doubt (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Screenwriters of the Decade:
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After
Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009)

Cinematographer of the Decade:
Emmanuel Lubezki

Ali (2001), Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002), The New World (2005), Children of Men (2006), Burn After Reading (2008)

Composer of the Decade:
Howard Shore

The Cell (2000), The Yards (2000), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Panic Room (2002), Spider (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Aviator (2004), A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), Doubt (2008)

Editor of the Decade:
Sally Menke

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Death Proof (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Production Designers of the Decade:
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), The Aviator (2004), The Black Dahlia (2006), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Costume Designer of the Decade:
Emi Wada

Taboo (2000), Hero (2004), House of Flying Daggers (2004)

Top 20 Films of the Decade

1. Morvern Callar (dir: Lynne Ramsay; 2003)

2. No Country for Old Men (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; 2007)

3. Mulholland Drive (dir: David Lynch; 2001)

4. In the Mood for Love (dir: Wong Kar-Wai; 2001)

5. The New World (dir: Terrence Malick; 2005)

6. Beau Travail (dir: Claire Denis; 2000)

7. Marie Antoinette (dir: Sofia Coppola; 2006)

8. Two Lovers (dir: James Gray; 2009)

9. The Virgin Suicides (dir: Sofia Coppola; 2000)

10. Police, Adjective (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu; 2009)

11. There Will Be Blood (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson; 2007)

12. Rachel Getting Married (dir: Jonathan Demme; 2008)

13. Y Tu Mama Tambien (dir: Alfonso Cuaron; 2002)

14. Yi Yi (dir: Edward Yang; 2000)

15. Talk to Her (dir: Pedro Almodovar; 2002)

16. Fat Girl (dir: Catherine Breillat; 2001)

17. Inglourious Basterds (dir: Quentin Tarantino; 2009)

18. Zodiac (dir: David Fincher; 2007)

19. My Winnipeg (dir: Guy Maddin; 2008)

20. The Son (dir: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2003)

the year-end project:
2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1950 - 1954, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s