2007 - There Will Be Blood 2006 - The Departed 2005 - Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Million Dollar Baby 2003 - 21 Grams 2002 - Chicago 2001 - Memento 2000 - Almost Famous 1999 - The Insider
Best 10 Films of 2008 - as of December 29, 2008
1. Revolutionary Road 2. The Dark Knight 3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4. Slumdog Millionaire 5. WALL•E 6. In Bruges 7. Milk 8. Frost/Nixon 9. Shine A Light 10. Burn After Reading
Best Director Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood 2006 - Martin Scorsese, The Departed 2005 - Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Alexander Payne, Sideways 2003 - Fernando Meirelles, City of God 2002 - Rob Marshall, Chicago 2001 - Christopher Nolan, Memento 2000 - Stephen Soderbergh, Traffic 1999 - Michael Mann, The Insider
Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood 2006 - Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed 2005 - Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby 2003 - Sean Penn, Mystic River 2002 - Adrien Brody, The Pianist 2001 - Tom Wilkinson, In The Bedroom 2000 - Russell Crowe, Gladiator 1999 - Russell Crowe, The Insider
Best Actress Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
2007 - Julie Christie, Away From Her 2006 - Helen Mirren, The Queen 2005 - Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line 2004 - Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003 - Naomi Watts, 21 Grams 2002 - Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven 2001 - Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive 2000 - Elen Burstyn, Requiem For A Dream 1999 - Annette Bening, American Beauty
Best Supporting Actor Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
2007 - Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men 2006 - Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine 2005 - Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Thomas Haden Church, Sideways 2003 - Sean Astin, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002 - Paul Newman, Road to Perdition 2001 - Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2000 - Benicio del Toro, Traffic 1999 - Al Pacino, The Insider
Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2007 - Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There 2006 - Rinko Kikuchi, Babel 2005 - Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain 2005 - Cate Blanchett, The Aviator 2003 - Renée Zellweger, Cold Mountain 2002 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago 2001 - Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind 2000 - Kate Hudson, Almost Famous 1999 - Julianne Moore, Magnolia
Best Ensemble The Dark Knight
2007 - No Country For Old Men 2006 - The Departed 2005 - Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Sideways 2003 - 21 Grams 2002 - Chicago 2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2000 - Almost Famous 1999 - Magnolia
Best Original Screenplay Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
2007 - Brad Bird, Ratatouille 2006 - Paul Greengrass, United 93 2005 - George Clooney & Grant Heslov, Good Night and Good Luck 2004 - Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003 - Guillermo Arriaga, 21 Grams 2002 - Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven 2001 - Guillame Laurant & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amélie 2000 - Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous 1999 - Alan Ball, American Beauty
Best Adapted Screenplay Justin Haythe, Revolutionary Road
2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood 2006 - William Monahan, The Departed 2005 - Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan, Before Sunset 2003 - Braulio Mantovani, City of God 2002 - Ronald Harwood, The Pianist 2001 - Rob Festinger & Todd Field, In The Bedroom 2000 - Stephen Gaghan, Traffic 1999 - Eric Roth & Michael Mann, The Insider
2007 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2006 - Pan’s Labyrinth 2003 - City of God 2001 - Amélie
Best Music Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard, The Dark Knight
2007 - Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood 2006 - Javier Navarette, Pan’s Labyrinth 2005 - Gustavo Santaolalla, Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Rolfe Kent, Sideways 2003 - Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002 - Danny Elfman, Chicago 2001 - Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2000 - Nancy Wilson & Various, Almost Famous 1999 - Thomas Newman, American Beauty
Best Film Editing Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
2007 - Christopher Rouse, The Bourne Ultimatum 2006 - Christopher Rouse, United 93 2005 - Claire Simpson, The Constant Gardener 2004 - Stephen Schaffer, The Incredibles 2003 - Stephen Mirrione, 21 Grams 2002 - Martin Walsh, Chicago 2001 - Dody Dorn, Memento 2000 - Stephen Mirrione, Traffic 1999 - Dylan Tichenor, Magnolia
Best Cinematography Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
2007 - Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2006 - Emanuel Lubezki, Children of Men 2005 - Rodrigo Prieto, Brokeback Mountain 2004 - Robert Richardson, The Aviator 2003 - Cesar Charlone, City of God 2002 - Conrad L. Hall, Road to Perdition 2001 - Bruno Delbonnel, Amélie 2000 - Stephen Soderbergh, Traffic 1999 - Dante Spinotti, The Insider
Best Overall Art Direction/Production Design The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2007 - Atonement 2006 - Children of Men 2005 - King Kong 2004 - The Aviator 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002 - Chicago 2001 - Amélie 2000 - Gladiator 1999 - American Beauty
Outstanding Achievement in Film for Visual Effects & Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2007 - for Originality of Vision: Todd Haynes, I’m Not There 2006 - for Producing, Directing & Composing: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima 2005 - for Producing, Directing, Writing & Performance: George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck & Syriana 2004 - for Originality of Vision: Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003 - for Cinematic Adaptation: Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King 2002 - for contribution to Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall, Road to Perdition 2001 - for Breakthrough Performance: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr. 2000 - for Music: Almost Famous 1999 - for Technical Craft: The Matrix
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I still have several things to see but films I think will make my top ten list would be: Man On Wire, WALL-E, A Christmas Tale, Milk, Let the Right One In, The Dark Knight
Films that could make my top ten list but I have some doubt about it are: Slumdog Millionaire, The Visitor, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Water Lilies
Movies I still want to see before making a top ten list: The Class, Gomorra, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (should be seeing that tomorrow), Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Waltz with Bashir, The Wrestler
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Posts: 27188 | Location: Phoenix, AZ | Registered: February 02, 2003
Picture: 1.: Milk 2.: The Dark Knight 3.: Slumdog Millionaire 4.: Happy-Go-Lucky 5.: Wall-E
Grammy 2010: Album of the Year -- Whitney Houston - I Look to You Oscar 2010: Best Actress In a Leading Role -- Marion Cotillard - 9 Emmy 2010: Guest Actress in a Comedy Series -- Catherine O'Hara - Curb Your Enthusiasm
24fanatic's Top 10 (No Order): ----------------------------- 1. Revolutionary Road 2. Slumdog Millionaire 3. Hunger 4. Gommorah 5. The Blockbusters (Wall-E / The Dark Knight) 6. The Comedies (Vicky Christina Barcelona / Happy-Go-Lucky) 7. Rachel Getting Married 8. Milk 9. The Curious Case of Bejamin Button 10. The Visitor
Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire (Runner-up: Wall-E)
Best Director Gus Van Sant - Milk / Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight (TIE) (Runner-up: Jonathan Demme - Rachel Getting Married)
Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road (Runner-up: Sean Penn - Milk)
Best Actress Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road (Runner-up: Michelle Williams - Wendy & Lucy)
Best Supporting Actor Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road (Runner-up: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight)
Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz - Vicky Christina Barcelona (Runner-up: Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Bejamin Button)
Best Adapted Screenplay Frost/Nixon (Runner-up: Slumdog Millionarie)
Best Original Screenplay Rachel Getting Married (Runner-up: The Visitor)
Best Original Score Slumdog Millionaire (Runner-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Best Original Song Tennesse - "Right to Dream", Mariah Carey & Willie Nelson (Runner-up: The Wrestler - "The Wrestler", Bruce Springsteen)
Best Foreign Film Gomorrah (Runner-up: A Christmas Tale)
Best Animated Film Wall-E (Runner-up: Kung Fu Panda)
Best Breakthrough Performer (Male) Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire (Runner-up: Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road)
Best Breakthrough Performer (Female) Rebecca Hall - Vicky Christina Barcelona & Frost/Nixon (Runner-up: Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky)
For Your Grammy Consideration: Kanye West for "Heartless" and 808's & Heartbreak Adele for "Hometown Glory" Taylor Swift for "You Belong With Me" & Fearless Maxwell for "Pretty Wings" & BLACKsummer'snight Kings of Leon for "Use Somebody" The Cast of GLEE for "Don't Stop Believin' " Mariah Carey for "Obsessed"
I will be making my final decisions and editing this post as I see more films.
In the meantime, I will post my Best of... lists beginning with the year 1998.
BEST OF 1998
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
Elizabeth Gods And Monsters Hilary And Jackie The Opposite Of Sex Out Of Sight Primary Colors Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare In Love A Simple Plan The Truman Show
Best Actor
Ian McKellen, Gods And Monsters
Best Actress
Emily Watson, Hilary And Jackie
Best Supporting Actor
Billy Bob Thornton, A Simple Plan
Best Supporting Actress
Lisa Kudrow, The Opposite Of Sex
Best Director
Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
Best Screenplay
The Opposite Of Sex (Don Roos)
BEST OF 1999
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
American Beauty Being John Malkovich Boys Don't Cry The Cider House Rules Election Girl, Interrupted Magnolia The Sixth Sense South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut The Talented Mr. Ripley
Best Actor
Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
Best Actress
Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
Best Supporting Actor
Tom Cruise, Magnolia
Best Supporting Actress
Cameron Diaz, Being John Malkovich
Best Director
M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense
Best Screenplay
American Beauty (Alan Ball)
BEST OF 2000
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
Almost Famous Best In Show Cast Away Erin Brockovich Gladiator Nurse Betty Pollock Requiem For A Dream Traffic Wonder Boys
Best Actor
Tom Hanks, Cast Away
Best Actress (TIE)
Ellen Burstyn, Requiem For A Dream Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Finney, Erin Brockovich
Best Supporting Actress
Frances McDormand, Almost Famous, Wonder Boys
Best Director
Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich, Traffic
Best Screenplay
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
BEST OF 2001
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
A Beautiful Mind Bridget Jones's Diary The Deep End Ghost World Gosford Park In The Bedroom Memento Monster's Ball Moulin Rouge Mulholland Drive
Best Actor
Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress
Renee Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary
Best Supporting Actor
Jim Broadbent, Bridget Jones's Diary, Iris, Moulin Rouge
Best Supporting Actress
Kate Winslet, Iris
Best Director
Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge
Best Screenplay
Memento (Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan)
BEST OF 2002
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
About Schmidt Adaptation Bowling For Columbine Catch Me If You Can Chicago Far From Heaven The Good Girl The Hours My Big Fat Greek Wedding The Pianist
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage, Adaptation
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven, The Hours
Best Supporting Actor
Ed Harris, The Hours
Best Supporting Actress
Meryl Streep, Adaptation, The Hours
Best Director
Rob Marshall, Chicago
Best Screenplay
Chicago (Bill Condon)
BEST OF 2003
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
Cold Mountain The Cooler Finding Nemo House Of Sand And Fog In America Kill Bill, Volume 1 Monster Mystic River Thirteen 21 Grams
The Aviator Closer Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Garden State Kill Bill, Volume 2 Maria Full Of Grace Mean Girls Million Dollar Baby Ray Sideways
Best Actor
Jamie Foxx, Collateral, Ray
Best Actress
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland
Best Supporting Actor
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Best Screenplay
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman)
BEST OF 2005
Top 10 Films (in Alphabetical Order)
Batman Begins Brokeback Mountain Capote Crash Good Night And Good Luck A History Of Violence Junebug North Country Transamerica Walk The Line
Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk The Line
Best Actress
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
Best Director
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain (Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana)
BEST OF 2006
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
Babel Blood Diamond Children Of Men The Departed Dreamgirls The Last King Of Scotland Little Miss Sunshine Notes On A Scandal The Pursuit Of Happyness The Queen
Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland
Best Actress
Judi Dench, Notes On A Scandal
Best Supporting Actor
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Best Screenplay
Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)
BEST OF 2007
Top 10 Films (In Alphabetical Order)
American Gangster Atonement Into The Wild Juno Knocked Up Michael Clayton No Country For Old Men Once Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Best Screenplay
Juno (Diablo Cody)
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Still to See: Dark Knight, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Rachel Getting Married, The Visitor, Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Reader, Burn After Reading, Defiance, In Bruges, Happy-Go-Lucky
I still have to see The Wrestler, Waltz with Bashir, Doubt, and The Reader before I can finalize my top 10 list and favorite performances. Wall-E, Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road, and Happy-Go-Lucky will certainly be on my list somewhere.
Anyways here are my picks from this year and past years (2008 are subject to chance):
Best Picture 2008-Wall-E 2007-There Will Be Blood 2006-Pan's Labyrinth 2005-Brokeback Mountain 2004-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003-Lost In Translation
rest of the top 10 (alphabetical): Happy-Go-Lucky Hunger Iron Man Let The Right One In Milk Rachel Getting Married Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire Tear This Heart Out
Best Director 2008-Andrew Stanton for Wall-E 2007-Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2006-Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth 2005-Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain 2004-Michel Gondry for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003-Sophia Coppola for Lost In Translation
Best Ensemble 2008-Milk 2007-Juno 2006-Babel 2005-The Squid and The Whale 2004-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003-The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Best Lead Actor 2008-Michael Fassbender for Hunger 2007-Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood 2006-Christian Bale for The Prestige 2005-Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote 2004-Jim Carrey for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003-Bill Murray for Lost In Translation
Best Lead Actress 2008-Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky 2007-Amy Adams for Enchanted 2006-Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada 2005-Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice 2004-Kate Winslet for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003-Uma Thurman for Kill Bill vol. 1
Best Supporting Actor 2008-Eddie Marsan for Happy-Go-Lucky 2007-Tom Wilkison for Michael Clayton 2006-Sergi Lopez for Pan's Labyrinth 2005-Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain 2004-Clive Owen for Closer 2003-Benicio del Toro for 21 Grams
Best Supporting Actress 2008-Rosemarie DeWitt for Rachel Getting Married 2007-Jennifer Garner for Juno 2006-Rinko Kikuchi for Babel 2005-Amy Adams for Junebug 2004-Natalie Portman for Closer 2003-Holly Hunter for Thirteen
Best Adapted Screenplay 2008-Slumdog Millionaire 2007-There Will Be Blood 2006-Children of Men 2005-Brokeback Mountain 2004-Spider-man 2 2003-The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Best Original Screenplay 2008-Rachel Getting Married 2007-Juno 2006-Pan's Labyrinth 2005-The Squid and the Whale 2004-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003-Lost In Translation
Achievement in Cinematography 2008-The Fall 2007-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2006-Pan's Labyrinth 2005-Batman Begins 2004-The Aviator 2003-City of God
Best Foreign Film 2008-Let The Right One In (Sweden) 2007-4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Romania) 2006-Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico) 2005-Paradise Now (Palestine) 2004-The Sea Inside (Spain) 2003-City of God (Brazil)
Best Animated Film 2008-Wall-E 2007-Ratatouille 2006-Monster House 2005-Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2004-The Incredibles 2003-Finding Nemo
I do not want to disappoint our Japanese public, especially Godzilla. Hahaha! I'm just kidding, I know he doesn't care what humans do.
I am loathe to admit this, but for me at least, 2008 has been filled with terrific performances in average to above-average films. I hesitate to list even five so far:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Wall-E Mongol (I know, last year, technically)
The other films I'm thinking of were elevated by first-class performances.
The one's I found the most entertaining wouldnt make a lot of people's radar.
Rounding out five: Man on Wire fifth placed tied with about a dozen films.
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Posts: 13924 | Location: canada | Registered: December 22, 2005
Mongol is 2008 technically. It did not have a 2007 qualifying run.
(To be exact - Babypook of course is Canadian, and has no reason to go by US release dates. Usually they parallel the US, but it is a sovereign nation that need not follow US "rules" such as they are...)
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1. WALL-E 2. The Dark Knight 3. Frost/Nixon 4. Milk 5. Gran Torino 6. Rachel Getting Married 7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall 8. The Visitor 9. Slumdog Millionaire 10. Iron Man
Note: I have not yet seen Revolutionary Road or The Wrestler.
FYC: "Up" for Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director
