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post Apr 9 2020, 01:49 AM
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hi.gif guys, shocker that I'm coming into this forum with a movie related thread!

over the next few days, I will be exploring the film world from 2000 to 2009! I'll go through the biggest box office hits of the year, the iconic classics these years spawned, the oscars and notable events in each of these years!

I hope y'all enjoy and plz comment memories you have of films during this time, memorable cinema experiences, and your fave films of each year as we go through each year! <3
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post Apr 9 2020, 06:49 AM
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omg this is the decade for Harry Potter!!

I feel it was definitely the start the franchise era that has obviously just spiralised out of control in the next decade
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I hope Mean Girls will pop up wub.gif
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Dodgeball is legit my fave comedy from the decade so I want that to appear kink.gif

Also I’m one of 5 people in the world who stans the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I watched it so many times, it’s probably my most watched film ever!! Also had A Series of Unfortunate Events on repeat - I actually love it in its own special world even now we have the full Netflix series!
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Mid-late noughties is when I started getting into film, properly! Excited to read these Sam!
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I can’t wait for this! I didn’t go to then cinema as much in the 00s because I was constantly poor so when I did it was always a film that made a lasting impression on me!

Personal highlights:
Toy Story 2 (first cinema experience of the 00s)
The remaining Star Wars prequels
Shrek 1 and 2
All the Harry Potters
All of Lord Of The Rings
Spider-man 1 and 2
Tomb Raider (both of them)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Casino Royale
Batman: The Dark Knight
I, Robot
The Village
Signs
Meet the Parents/Fockers
Dodgeball
White Chicks
Mean Girls
Star Trek
The Grinch
Elf
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I spent all of the 00s as a child so the films I'll have anything to say about will either be family films or ones that I saw after the 00s were over so Harry Potter and the Disney/Pixar cannon will hopefully feature here!
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QUOTE(Karen 🥂 @ Apr 9 2020, 08:52 AM) *
Also I’m one of 5 people in the world who stans the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

that was a big fave when I was young - annoying how it gets such a bad rep, whereas I wasn't all too keen on the original film the one time I watched that.
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The decade was certainly defined by Pixar and Harry Potter for me, but there were a lot of great movies worth reminiscing about. I hope you're a fan of the Dark Knight x
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Hurry up Shazza. I'm literally in this forum because of THIS!
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sorry was gonna do a few tonight but other things came up aha! Imma do 2000 now and then we'll have

Friday: 2001, 2002, 2003
Saturday: 2004, 2005, 20069
Sunday: 2007, 2008, 2009
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2000


Box Office Hits
Big Momma's House - the start of Martin Lawrence's franchise, I loved this when I was younger but I doubt its holds up nowadays kink.gif
Charlie's Angels - another iconic franchise with three killer lead actresses (Diaz, Barrymore and Liu) and an iconic Destiny's Child anthem to boot made this a big success
Chicken Run - an aardman classic, this became the highest grossing stop motion animated film ever!
Dinosaur - one of Disney's less appreciated films but still did solid business at the box office!
How The Grinch Stole Christmas - the biggest grossing film in America of 2000 (making a massive $260m!)
Meet The Parents - another franchise starter and big box office hit, with an all star ensemble
Mission Impossible: II - the biggest film worldwide of 2000 with $546m!
Scary Movie - another classic franchise making it's start in 2000! the cast is comedy gold in this classic spoof on horror movies
The Perfect Storm - one of those big summer blockbusters that tbh idk too much about!
What Lies Beneath - same with this one but ik it stars Michelle Pfeiffer *.*
What Women Want - what men want outsold.
X-Men - one of the biggest superhero franchises kicked off! where'd you rank this in the x-men canon?

This was a pretty big year at the box office! Paramount took the top grossing film with Mission Impossible 2 and only one Disney film made the top 10! (Dinosaur at 5), a change from the times nowadays! this year also saw Oscar contenders making serious bank, with Gladiator and Cast Away being the 2nd and 3rd highest grossing films of the year ohmy.gif


Iconic Classics
American Psycho - thriller starring Christian Bale and Reese Witherspoon that is highly acclaimed and still remembered nowadays! Leo DiCaprio was originally up for the lead role of Patrick Bateman ohmy.gif
Battlefield Earth - woo we love a disaster. John Travolta's adaptation of this famous scientology novel is heralded for being one of the worst films ever; sweeping both the razzies in 2000 and the end of decade razzies in 2009
Bring It On - Kirsten Dunst is amazing in this iconic cheerleading film! I can't believe this is 20 years old
Coyote Ugly - can't fight the moonlight still bangs
Final Destination - another iconic horror franchise starting!
High Fidelity - this was a minor hit worldwide with John Cusack leading and a script penned by Nick Hornby
Miss Congeniality - Sandra Bullock's comedy was big smash and features many iconic looks
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - one of Coen Brothers most known films, this won the Grammy for best album of the year in 2002!
Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky's 2nd film is seen as one of his best and a classic
Snatch - this is always on British tv and guy Ritchie's film features a fab turn by Brad Pitt and was a massive hit in the UK
Stuart Little - we stan Stuart, an icon (and also a box office hit)
The Beach - starring king Leo DiCaprio and spawned Pure Shores, one of the biggest songs of the year and one of the best movie songs ever
Unbreakable - M. Night Shylaman's 'superhero' film with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, which is remembered even more nowadays after Shylaman's surprise return to success with Split/Glass


The Oscars & Awards Season
Gladiator swept through awards season, winning Best Picture at all the major precursors. This was a mini-surprise, considering it's original positioning as a summer blockbuster but rave reviews & box office success allowed this to explode and be remembered in awards season! Russell Crowe also took home Best Actor, but out of the four main precursors (Globes, BAFTA, SAG, Oscars), he only won the Oscar! ohmy.gif The other best actor winners that season were; at the Globes, Tom Hanks won for drama in Cast Away, a film that started strongly in awards season but faded by the end and George Clooney won for O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Whereas at other award ceremonies, Jamie Bell became one of the youngest best actor winners ever for Billy Elliot, which racked up nominations throughout awards season but didn't win much else & Bell wasn't even nominated for the Oscar! and Benicio Del Toro won in lead actor at SAG for

Traffic, which brings us onto the year of Steven Soderbergh (who y'all probs best know rn for Contagion). Soderbergh had a rare year of two major Oscar hits released in the same time frame (the other film being Erin Brockovich). he managed to get a rare 2 nominations in Best Director! after campaigning convinced voters to vote for him to win for Traffic, that was the film he won best director for! interestingly his biggest competition was Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was the Oscar 2nd most nominated film of the year and Lee won director at the Globes and BAFTA's. Interestingly despite winning picture and being a heavily directed film, Ridley Scott only won one award when looking at all award bodies that year, including minor award groups and critics. Anyway Soderbergh's two films picked up many wins this year; Traffic won best cast at SAG, Julia Roberts won the Oscar for Erin Brockovich (and swept everything that year, the only one of the four acting winners to sweep, Renee Zellweger won in musical or comedy at Globes for Nurse Betty) and Benicio Del Toro won the Globe, BAFTA and Oscar for Traffic, with his placing in lead allowing Albert Finney to win in supporting at SAG for Erin Brokovich. A very successful year for Soderbergh's films! Crouching Tiger won 4 Oscars in total, but none of the above line awards and received 0 acting nominations, despite Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi picking up BAFTA noms.

I'll finish this round-up with a look at one of the most crazy Oscar races of the decade, best supporting actress. This year was insane!! ohmy.gif ohmy.gif we had different winners at every precursors. Frances McDormand won the critics choice award and Kate Hudson (considered the frontrunner) won the Golden Globe, both for their turns in Almost Famous. Julie Walters took home a hometown BAFTA for Billy Elliot and Judi Dench won SAG for her turn in best-pic nominee Chocolat. These 4 were all locked for a nomination and were joined by Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock, who had barely been nominated anywhere (Zeta Jones in Traffic at Globes and Winslet in Quills at SAG were the other two acting nominees at the other precursors; BAFTA's saw Lena Olin for Chocolat and Yeoh for Dragon nominated, with Hudson nominated in lead there, who was also up against Hilary Swank for her Oscar winning turn in Boys Don't Cry, that was released in 2000 in the UK). And despite four different winners at the precursors, the Oscar actually ended up going to Harden for Pollock! one of the closest races of all time.

other key award winners were Almost Famous and Traffic picking up script awards at the Oscars, and Almost Famous also won the globe for Best Comedy/Musical! Things Have Changed from Wonder Boys took home best song.

Notable Events
here are some fun movie facts as can't find too many events not said above already:
- The most expensive shoes from a film sold at auction were Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz that were auctioned off by Christie's, New York in 2000 for $666,000
- Clint Eastwood's directing and acting project, Space Cowboys (2000) used high definition television (HDTV) technology for the first time in a Hollywood feature.
- The American Film Institute (AFI) released the second list in its continuing series, 100 Years...100 Laughs, to recognize the top 100 American films that were the funniest in cinematic history. Some Like It Hot (1959) was named the funniest film of all time.
- X-Men was the first major Marvel superhero comic ever adapted for screen
- The Matrix was the best selling DVD of all-time in 2000
- Julia Roberts was Forbes highest paid actress and was the first female to earn $20million for one film (EriN)
- The first live-action feature film to be entirely color-corrected (or color-graded) by digital means, giving the film a sepia-tinted tone, was the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). It was the first film in its entirety to be graded digitally on computer, by scanning in the whole film and then digitally coloring it.
- America Online purchased Time Warner, Inc
- audience participation version of The Sound of Music first happened in 2000!


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and ofc we have to finish this off with some recommendations from me! and my two favourite movies of 2000 are Almost Famous and Requiem for a Dream, two films that are up there with my favourites ever for many dif reasons. Almost Famous follows a young music journalist going on the road with the band 'Stillwater'. Almost Famous just makes me feel in a peaceful and happy mood and is a masterpiece (esp. the longer version). The script is fantastic, the acting is superb (Kate Hudson as Penny Lane was ROBBED off the Oscar, one of my favourite performances of all time) and this films hits heavily on music and the industry, which ofc is a major love of mine. The Tiny Dancer sequence is an all-timer and made that song a classic for me <3 a masterpiece.

on the other end of the spectrum, Requiem for A Dream is one of the most brutal and hard hitting films I've ever seen. This follows 4 people who suffer different drug addictions and explores it through a bleak outlook. Ellen Burstyn is phenomenal here and deserved her Oscar nomination, I was shocked to see Martin Wayans in a serious role and he is surprisingly great, Jared Leto is also surprisingly good and not annoying. But my standout here is Jennifer Connelly who is incredible and her character arc is </3. She is sfg in the film and would win supporting actress most years for me in this decade, whew a performance! The direction is fantastic and this film is chilling and unforgettable.

I highly recommend both, Requiem for a Dream is currently available on Amazon Prime and Almost Famous is on Sky Movies!



What are your favourites? what are your movie memories of this year? what iconic movie song did you prefer, pure shores or can't fight the moonlight?
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hope you enjoy guys! whew that took a while aha, the only thing copy and pasted is half of the notable events section haha! will do 2001-2003 tomorrow <3
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Omg Sam ohmy.gif

Good job girl...I promise I am going to have to do a proper respond to that tomorrow...so many classics and my faves are already in there wub.gif
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Wow, Sam, this is amazing!

I remember going to see Chickenrun, Stuart Little and Dinosaur at the cinema.

But I think my favourite here is Unbreakable.
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Chicken Run is actually incredible. Literally the most British film ever made and it was a childhood classic. I remember it was always put on when I was round my Nana and Grandads! Mrs Tweedy is one of the scariest villains ever and then you have the iconic 'but I don't like gravy'!

I love Meet the Parents, it was such a big hit but it seems really forgotten about now when people think of comedies! It feels a lot of Will Ferrell and Seth Rogan films more come to people's minds instead.

I've never really been a huge fan of the X-Men franchise in comparison to other superhero films and I find the original trilogy quite dated now. I didn't realise it was the first major Marvel superhero movie!

omg Stuart Little, another childhood fave. I miss those random children films that weren't intended to be big franchises and just focused on an ordinary American family.

I watched Erin Brockovich a few years back and really enjoyed it. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon looks visually incredible but I've never got round to seeing it. I've never seen Gladiator somehow either, although it was the focus of part of my GCSE English as we had to examine the trailer.

and omg, I don't see you mentioning one of the best Disney films of all THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE and ICONIC villain Yzma. I hope its to come in 2001!

in terms of movie song, Pure Shores >>>>
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'Chicken Run' was the 2nd film I ever saw at the cinema. wub.gif I haven't seen it for a long LONG time though.

2000 was a pretty decent year. 'Cast Away' is a fave, although I only saw that about 2 years ago for the first time laugh.gif The birth of the legendary 'Final Destination' franchise. which changed the game for a lot of horror. The franchise is solid with only 1 weak link for me (the 4th one which is truly diabolical). I saw 'Gladiator' for the first time not too long ago... it wasn't a fave. Ngl. The score though.. WOW <3 'The Beach' is very good and 'Unbreakable' is brilliant!

I saw 'Dinosaur' recently (like, literally a week or so ago)... A whole load of.. NOTHING. Like, nothing happens at all. laugh.gif

I haven't seen your 2 recommendations yet! 'Almost Famous' I'm pretty sure I'll like it, but a bit unsure on 'Requiem For A Dream'! I definitely want to see it, but I'm not sure if it's my thing.

One of my favourite films though is... 'Battle Royale'. So brutally fun. Definitely the inspiration for 'The Hunger Games'!

Also, we really wouldn't be where we are with Superhero movies if it wasn't for 'X-Men'. A true pioneer! 'Spider-Man' of course took it up a whole other level, but 'X-Men' started the revolution!

Amazing write-ups Sam wub.gif I always learn so much from your posts! The awards stuff was v interesting this year. I didn't expect so many different winners for supporting actress!
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ty guys <3 will do 2001 now (damn we gotta do quick gaps aha with the forum closing in a few days haha)

QUOTE(Karen 🥂 @ Apr 10 2020, 10:52 AM) *
and omg, I don't see you mentioning one of the best Disney films of all THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE and ICONIC villain Yzma. I hope its to come in 2001!

meet the parents def feels forgotten and I rly need to see crouching tiger too!
oops kink.gif I'm going by American dates (its just easier cos of how f***ing long it took films to come to UK during this decade ahaha) and it came out there in December 2000 so it should've been in that section, somehow missed that kink.gif

QUOTE(Jonjo @ Apr 10 2020, 10:57 AM) *
I haven't seen your 2 recommendations yet! 'Almost Famous' I'm pretty sure I'll like it, but a bit unsure on 'Requiem For A Dream'! I definitely want to see it, but I'm not sure if it's my thing.

One of my favourite films though is... 'Battle Royale'. So brutally fun. Definitely the inspiration for 'The Hunger Games'!

Amazing write-ups Sam wub.gif I always learn so much from your posts! The awards stuff was v interesting this year. I didn't expect so many different winners for supporting actress!

the fourth final destination is fab!! yeah I feel you'd love almost famous (watch you find it overrated now x). Requiem is harrowing but so good! I rly want to see Battle Royale. Haha it's one of my fave races ever, such an unpredictable category! I wish we had an Oscar race like that again in the acting categories sometime
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2001


Box Office Hits
American Pie 2 - the 2nd American Pie movie made big bank off the back of the first film, becoming the 9th highest grossing film in the UK and 13th highest in America of the year! where does this rank in the franchise for you?
Bridget Jones’s Diary - one of the best Rom-Com franchises of all time <3 this was a long-running hit in America (making $71m) but ofc the massive success came here in the UK, where it made a gigantic $60m and was the 3rd highest grossing film of the year!
Hannibal - coming off the back of The Silence of the Lambs, this film had massive expectations which it couldn't quite meet
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - y'all know this one, starting the biggest franchise of the 21st century for with a bang! Anyway quite surprisingly; this was the biggest grossing film in America of the year with $317m but was 2nd in the UK! (with a massive $84m). I would've thought it'd be the other way round ohmy.gif
Jurassic Park III - lol I didn't even realise this came out this decade until I started this
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - this was the best reviewed video adaptation for a long time, which says it all. Anyway this movie is iconic for Angelina Jolie's starring role and made big bank at the box office.
Legally Blonde - a classic that y'all know! This gifted us an all-time performance from Reese Witherspoon and is one of the best movies in its genre of all time *.* this did pretty well at the box office, finishing 22nd in the US and 31st in the UK for the year and did great against its budget!
Monsters Inc - a Pixar classic that hits America in November 2001 and made a massive $255m, becoming the 4th highest grossing film of the year. This was the 4th Pixar release to date.
Ocean’s Eleven - another franchise kicking off with an all-star ensemble and big numbers worldwide
Pearl Harbor - a massive running time, a classic movie song with There You'll Be, and a big blockbuster with dreadful reviews. That didn't stop everyone from knowing this film and becoming a box office smash.
Planet of the Apes - another big blockbuster with dreadful reviews that still pulled in big money. However it made 38.1% of its total money on opening weekend in America, making it the most front loaded film of the top 55 films of 2001
Rush Hour 2 - I didn't realise just how big this was ohmy.gif this was the 5th highest grossing film of 2001 in America ($226m), this franchise does feel forgotten nowadays
Shrek - another classic franchise kicked off this year with everyone's (and BuzzJack's, and Jonjo's) fave animated film. Shrek was the 3rd highest grossing film in America ($267m) and 4th highest in the UK ($42m). this held on fantastically and is known for having one of the best 2nd weekends of all time in America (it actually increased from its opening weekend by +0.3%, which is basically unheard of for a big film unless its Xmas)
The Fast & The Furious - another very well-known franchise kicked off in 2001, which did well but not to the heights that this franchise would eventually hit
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - and more classic franchises! this was an immediate success, being the highest grossing film in the UK of the year ($90m) and 2nd in America ($313m).
The Mummy Returns - this sequel banked in big money, grossing over $200m in America!
The Princess Diaries - I didn't realise how well this did at the box office tbh, making over $100m in America. This ofc stars Anne Hathaway and is another teen classic!

This year saw an explosion of the box office. Harry Potter made $975m worldwide, giving Warner Bros the highest grossing film of the year, and Lord of the Rings wasn't too far behind with $871m. Harry Potter was the highest grossing film in the franchise until the final film and with both HP and LotR making over $800m, this was the first time two films in the same year passed the $800m mark! Animation also saw major successes with Monsters Inc and Shrek and the rest of the top 10 was mostly made up by the blockbusters with bad reviews!


Iconic Classics
Along came a Spider - this thriller with Morgan Freeman is ALWAYS on tv. it's also entertaining
Amelie - the French classic swooped hearts everywhere and became a big hit, that's always referenced whenever you think about a film that represents Paris
Atlantis: the Lost Empire - another Disney underperformance as we're hitting their rough period
Cats & Dogs - who couldn't love a film starring the two most iconic animals in the world
Donnie Darko - this was a gigantic bomb, so much that I nearly missed it when making this list! (it was like the 250th highest grossing film of the year). This came out in the wake of 9/11 and did dreadfully at the box office with little acclaim at the time. However time was kind to it and it has become an iconic cult classic over time. Such a good film <3
Glitter - another film that was impacted by 9/11, this was Mariah Carey's movie that also seems to have gained a cult following in her fanbase (+ the album) in recent times, with it topping the iTunes chart in the last couple of years!
Memento - Christopher Nolan's directorial debut acc came out in 2000 in the UK but US audiences had to wait until 2001! This mind-bending thriller has held up greatly and is often mentioned as one of Nolan's best for its narrative and twists.
Mulholland Drive - Heralded as one of the greatest films of the decade, David Lynch's film gives an all-time performance from Naomi Watts and this film is always at the top of decade lists.
Not Another Teen Movie - another classic teen movie with a promising young ensemble
Save the Last Dance - the days when Julia Stiles was a box office queen *.* a classic and was one of the first of many dance hits that would happen this decade
Scary Movie 2 - whilst not hitting the heights of the first movie last year, the sequel still did well!
Spy Kids - another franchise kicked off and this was iconic for kids my age growing up, I remember this being EVERYWHERE, even if it now feels forgotten.
The Emperor's New Groove - here's your mention! an underrated classic
The Others - this probs should've been in box office smashes but that was getting too crowded aha. this horror starring Nicole Kidman was a critically-acclaimed crowdpleaser and Kidman would have scored an Oscar nom if it wasn't for her other Oscar vehicle that year! recently it was announced that this is receiving a remake.
The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson's breakthrough film is still regarded as one of his best, with it ofc having Anderson's usual flair and style with an ensemble of so many recognisable actors.
The Wedding Planner - we love a J Lo film, an early 2000's box offfice queen *.* I think this might have been the film where she was the first person to have the number 1 film and number 1 single or album in the country at the same time!
Vanilla Sky - Cameron Crowe's follow-up to Almost Famous fell a bit flat in the end, with many expectations for a box office smash and Oscar vehicle not being reached. However it still has a kilelr cast of Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz, the latter nearly scoring her 1st Oscar nom for this but just missed again sad.gif
Zoolander - this was released two weeks after 9/11 in America and also underperformed massively at the box office. However this gained a cult following and is a laugh out loud comedy with many iconic pop-culture moments (blue steel)


The Oscars & Awards Season
In the year 2001, there is only one place to start. With Denzel Washington winning best actor for Training Day and Halle Berry winning best actress for Monster's Ball, this was the first ever time African-Americans won both of these categories in the same year. Berry was the first ever African-American to win Best Actress in a historic win and her speech is incredible <3 this was such an important moment in history (I've literally written an essay on it before irl haha) so definitely explore more into this if you get a chance! Washington was also the first African-American actor to win more than one Oscar. Both of their wins were mini-surprises too, with Berry only winning SAG (that year was a v close race again with loads of different winners!!) and Washington winning nothing. Interestingly also, Ethan Hawke was nominated in best supporting for Training Day despite having over 60% of screentime! In Best Actress; previous Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek won the Golden Globe Drama for In The Bedroom, whilst Nicole Kidman took home Golden Globe Comedy/Musical for Moulin Rouge (both films were nominated for best picture and Moulin Rouge won picture at globes in its category!), and Judi Dench won the BAFTA this time round for Iris. Also can we talk about how iconic the Globes Comedy actress category was with Kidman, Witherspoon in legally blonde and Zellweger in Bridget Jones all nominated! (Zellweger was also nominated for the Oscar, we love to see it *.*). In best actor, Gene Hackman won the Globe Comedy for The Royal Tenenbaums but was snubbed at the Oscars and last year's winner Russell Crowe swept for A Beautiful Mind, winning the Globe, BAFTA and SAG. However a mixture of him winning these cos he won none of them for Gladiator and growing controversy around Crowe (the phone incident happening during this awards season) allowing him to end up losing to Washington.

However A Beautiful Mind was the big winner of the night, taking home Best Picture, Best Director for Ron Howard and Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly, and did very well at the box office too. A Beautiful Mind's main competition came from the other two best pic nominees, Gosford Park and Lord of the Rings. Gosford Park was Robert Altman's third last film and features one of the biggest ensembles of all time with SO MANY British icons in the film, literally just look up the cast. Unsurprisingly it won SAG for Best Ensemble, Altman won director at the Globes and Helen Mirren stopped Connelly from completing a sweep by winning Supporting Actress at BAFTA's. Both Mirren and Maggie Smith earned Oscar nominations for their performances! Lord of the Rings took home the BAFTA for Picture and Director, whilst Ian McKellen won supporting actor at SAG. However it left empty handed in the above the line categories at the Oscars, leading up to the eventual sweep we will see in 2003. Jim Broadbent took the supporting actor win for Iris, having a banner year with appearances in this, Bridget Jones' Diary and Moulin Rouge! A Beautiful Mind def isn't seen as one of the better best picture winners nowadays, with most people thinking the rest of the line-up was stronger. And Jennifer Connelly's win was also seen as category fraud (she was nominated in lead at SAG), her performance and time is probably most comparable to Alicia Vikander winning supporting for The Danish Girl.

other key award winners were A Beautiful Mind and Gosford Park picking up script awards at the Oscars (the BAFTA's went VERY inspired this year, Shrek won original screenplay and Amelie won adapted screenplay!), and If I Didn't Have You from Monsters Inc took home best song. No Man's Land was the winner of best foreign language film, surprisingly beating Amelie. Amores Perros won international film at the BAFTA's. Also Shrek was the first ever winner of Best Animated Feature as this category was inaugurated this year, and in one of my favourite BAFTA (& awards full stop) nominations ever, Eddie Murphy was nominated in supporting actor for Shrek!!

also fun fact: Judi Dench and Kate Winslet were both nominated for playing Iris Murdoch, this was only the 2nd instance in which the same movie character was Oscar-nominated with the same film. The first instance, was Winslet again with Rose in Titanic. (Gloria Stuart also being nominated).

Notable Events
- Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman divorced
- Monsters Inc had the highest animated film opening of all time at this point
- Within a month of each other, two of the biggest franchises ever started; Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
- In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) trilogy, the large battle sequences involved more than 200,000 characters, created digitally by MASSIVE software (Multiple Agent Simulation System in Virtual Environment) developed by New Zealand's Weta Digital, a visual effects company. Artificial Intelligence (AI) (with MASSIVE) was first used to depict the independent movements of each of the characters (Orcs, Elves, Goblins and others) in the highly-realistic, massive battle scenes (with digitally-rendered armies).
- A potential strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over their contract threatened to cripple Hollywood.
- DVD sales exceeded VHS videotape sales for the first ever time
- The American Film Institute (AFI) released the third list in its continuing series, 100 Years...100 Thrills, to recognize the top 100 American films that were the most "heart-pounding" in cinematic history. Psycho (1960) was named the top "thrilling" film of all time.
- Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot) passed away </3
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), the first fully computer-generated feature film with photo-realistic characters, was premiered. The most complex CG human character ever created was Dr. Aki Ross, who was reported to have 60,000 individual strands of hair. The amount of detail rendered into hair, clothing, skin texture, eyes, and movement was astounding and impressive. The film also pioneered and successfully used full-motion capture (MoCap) technology. The film was inspired by a best-selling series of video games by the film's director, Hironobu Sakaguchi. At the time of its release, it was the most-expensive video-game-inspired film ever made. Its production budget was estimated to be $137 million. [It was surpassed nine years later by Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010) at $200 million.] Its box-office was only $32 million gross income (domestic) and $53 million (foreign) - $85 million total. The massive losses caused the bankruptcy and closing of its production studio, Square Pictures.
- at the time, Amelie was the highest-grossing French-language film ever in the US


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two obvious and very well known films are my picks for 2001, one of the best teen comedies of all time and one of the best animations of all time. Legally Blonde is laugh-out loud hillarious, Reese Witherspoon is absolutely fantastic and Elle Woods is immediately iconic <3 the restaurant scene at the start *.* such a GREAT performance and the film around her is fantastic and the themes are so good with so many quotable lines *.* a classic.

and y'all know Shrek so I'll keep this brief. It is probably the film I have seen the most times ever. The characters are amazing, the plot is fantastic and it's shaking up of the animation formula is groundbreaking, hilarious and iconic. And I'm A Believer is that bop. Just one of those classics that I could honestly still watch over and over again <3

Bridget Jones's Diary, Donnie Darko and Monsters Inc are my honourable mentions.

I highly recommend both, Legally Blonde is currently on Netflix and Shrek is on Netflix for ONE MORE DAY so you better get there quick for the latter! (tho I'm sure y'all seen both by now x)


What are your favourites? what are your movie memories of this year? what iconic movie song did you prefer, there you'll be or something else?
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'DVD sales exceeded VHS videotape sales for the first ever time' ooh this is interesting ohmy.gif

I can remember my first ever DVD being Bratz Rock Angelz laugh.gif that would've been around 2005, so I was clearly late to that switch!
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