1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Spirited Away
3. Mulholland Dr.
4. Amélie
5. A Beautiful Mind
6. Y tu mamá también
7. Shrek
8. Monsters Inc.
9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
10. Donnie Darko

11. Moulin Rouge!
12. The Royal Tenenbaums
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
14. Ghost World
15. Ocean's Eleven
16. The Others
17. The Piano Teacher
18. In The Bedroon
19. Black Hawk Down
20. Training Day

1. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson
3. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
4. Amélie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
5. Y tu mamá también - Alfonso Cuarón
6. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
7. Shrek - Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
8. A Beautiful Mind - Ron Howard
9. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
10. Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann

11. A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Steven Spielberg
12. Ghost World - Terry Zwigoff
13. The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke
14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chris Columbus
15. Monsters, Inc. - Pete Docter
16. The Others - Alejandro Amenábar
17. Gosford Park - Robert Altman
18. Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India - Ashutosh Gowariker
19. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner - Zacharias Kunuk
20. The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo del Toro

Forgot “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”. Fixed it.

Qft

Happy new year, guys. Here's my first list of 2020.

1. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson
3. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
4. Amélie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
5. Y tu mamá también - Alfonso Cuarón
6. A Beautiful Mind - Ron Howard
7. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
8. Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann
9. Shrek - Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Steven Spielberg

11. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
12. In the Bedroom - Todd Field
13. Monsters, Inc. - Pete Docter
14. The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke
15. Ghost World - Terry Zwigoff
16. Gosford Park - Robert Altman
17. Ocean's Eleven - Steven Soderbergh
18. The Others - Alejandro Amenábar
19. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India - Ashutosh Gowariker
20. Black Hawk Down - Ridley Scott

21. No Man's Land - Danis Tanovic
22. Waking Life - Richard Linklater
23. The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo del Toro
24. Training Day - Antoine Fuqua
25. The Man Who Wasn't There - Joel & Ethan Coen

Happy New Year to u 2, Luuk. How about this for our common list?

1. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson
3. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
4. Amélie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
5. Y tu mamá también - Alfonso Cuarón
6. A Beautiful Mind - Ron Howard
7. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
8. Shrek - Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
9. Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann
10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Steven Spielberg

11. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
12. Ghost World - Terry Zwigoff
13. The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke
14. In the Bedroom - Todd Field
15. Monsters, Inc. - Pete Docter
16. The Others - Alejandro Amenábar
17. Gosford Park - Robert Altman
18. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chris Columbus
19. Ocean's Eleven - Steven Soderbergh
20. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India - Ashutosh Gowariker

As big a Potter-fan as I am, and though I didn't like Black Hawk Down, even I doubt if Philosopher's Stone has better credentials than Black Hawk. Yes, it was the first Potter movie and it was the biggest blockbuster of 2001, but it wasn't a critical favorite. Chris Columbus took zero creative choices when directing the movie, and followed the book almost one-on-one. Its special effects have also seriously dated compared to, say, LOTR. I think we should stick to the inclusion of only Prisoner of Azkaban and Deathly Hallows 2 on the year lists, since those are the clear highlights of the franchise.

Black Hawk Down was both a critical and commercial success. By placing it in perspective, we could say that it was as big a commercial hit as the first Potter movie, since it was never a question that Philosopher's Stone would be THE blockbuster of the year. It was based on one of the most popular books of all time and featured British acting royalty, whereas Black Hawk Down was based on a lesser known non-fiction book and featured only one major movie star (Ewan McGregor). Yes, director Ridley Scott came fresh off the huge success of Gladiator, and there are some relatively popular and well-known actors in supporting roles (Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy [then unknown], Orlando Bloom, Sam Shepard, Eric Bana), but still.

Or:

18. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chris Columbus
19. Ocean's Eleven - Steven Soderbergh
20. Black Hawk Down - Ridley Scott

Luuk, but regular people mostly love Philosopher's Stone. Not deviating much from the book is seen as a plus by many. And it's not like it's disliked among critics, with 81 on RT. metacritic numbers though, I will give you, only 64. I think Bruno's #18-20 works well enough.

Yup, that's ok with me.

To the 2000.

Am I only person who thinks A.I. was a bad movie??

Yes.

A.I. is clearly the best Spielberg, arguably even the only truly good one.

To one of the greatest years in Asian cinema:

TSPDT

1. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
2. Yi yi - Edward Yang
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
4. Werckmeister Harmonies - Béla Tarr
5. Platform - Jia Zhangke
6. The Gleaners and I - Agnès Varda
7. Memento - Christopher Nolan
8. Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier
9. Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson
10. In Vanda's Room - Pedro Costa
11. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
12. Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu
13. Code Unknown - Michael Haneke
14. La Commune (Paris, 1871) - Peter Watkins
15. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas
16. Gladiator - Ridley Scott
17. You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan
18. Together - Lukas Moodysson
19. The Circle - Jafar Panahi
20. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
21. The House of Mirth - Terence Davies
22. Sexy Beast - Jonathan Glazer
23. George Washington - David Gordon Green
24. Traffic - Steven Soderbergh
25. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel & Ethan Coen
26. Wonder Boys - Curtis Hanson
27. Devils on the Doorstep - Jiang Wen
28. Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku
29. Eureka - Shinji Aoyama
30. Chicken Run - Peter Lord & Nick Park
31. Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh
32. Before Night Falls - Julian Schnabel
33. American Psycho - Mary Harron
34. High Fidelity - Stephen Frears
35. La captive - Chantal Akerman
36. The Day I Became a Woman - Marzieh Meshkini
37. Lumumba - Raoul Peck
38. The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin
39. Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
40. A Time for Drunken Horses - Bahman Ghobadi
41. The Taste of Others - Agnès Jaoui
42. Best in Show - Christopher Guest
43. Unbreakable - M. Night Shyamalan
44. Chopper - Andrew Dominik
45. Chunhyang - Im Kwon-Taek
46. Mysterious Object at Noon - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
47. Origins of the 21st Century - Jean-Luc Godard
48. Bamboozled - Spike Lee
49. Under the Sand - François Ozon
50. Faithless - Liv Ullmann
51. From the Notebook of... - Robert Beavers
52. Little Otik - Jan Švankmajer
53. Dark Days - Marc Singer
54. Chuck & Buck - Miguel Arteta
55. Suzhou River - Lou Ye
56. Esther Kahn - Arnaud Desplechin
57. The Isle - Kim Ki-Duk
58. State and Main - David Mamet
59. Ginger Snaps - John Fawcett
60. Girlfight - Karyn Kusama
61. Snatch - Guy Ritchie
62. Blackboards - Samira Makhmalbaf
63. Last Resort - Pawel Pawlikowski
64. Love & Basketball - Gina Prince-Bythewood
65. Harry, He's Here to Help - Dominik Moll
66. Nine Queens - Fabián Bielinsky
67. Hamlet - Michael Almereyda
68. Brother - Takeshi Kitano
69. Timecode - Mike Figgis
70. The Vertical Ray of the Sun - Tran Anh Hung
71. Our Lady of the Assassins - Barbet Schroeder
72. Quills - Philip Kaufman
73. Cast Away - Robert Zemeckis
74. Merci pour le chocolat - Claude Chabrol
75. El Valley Centro - James Benning
76. La vallée close - Jean-Claude Rousseau
77. There's a Strong Wind in Beijing - Ju Anqi
78. Barking Dogs Never Bite - Bong Joon-Ho
79. Dead or Alive 2 - Takashi Miike
80. Shadow of the Vampire - E. Elias Merhige
81. Father and Daughter - Michaël Dudok de Wit
82. Tuning the Instruments - Jerzy Kucia
83. Kippur - Amos Gitai
84. Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine - Bahman Farmanara
85. Our Song - Jim McKay
86. X-Men - Bryan Singer
87. Love Torn in a Dream - Raúl Ruiz
88. Consolation Service - Eija-Liisa Ahtila
89. The Himmler Project - Romuald Karmakar
90. Pitch Black - David Twohy
91. Bread and Roses - Ken Loach
92. Arbor Vitae - Nathaniel Dorsky
93. Baise-moi - Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Ti
94. Durian Durian - Fruit Chan
95. Mission to Mars - Brian De Palma
96. Thirteen Days - Roger Donaldson
97. Innocence - Paul Cox

Films101

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
2. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
3. Yi yi - Edward Yang
4. Gladiator - Ridley Scott
5. Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu
6. Memento - Christopher Nolan
7. Traffic - Steven Soderbergh
8. Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
9. Chicken Run - Peter Lord & Nick Park
10. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
11. Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh
12. Werckmeister Harmonies - Béla Tarr
13. Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier
14. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
15. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel & Ethan Coen
16. Wonder Boys - Curtis Hanson
17. The Circle - Jafar Panahi
18. You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan
19. The Gleaners and I - Agnès Varda
20. Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku
21. Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson
22. Sexy Beast - Jonathan Glazer
23. Together - Lukas Moodysson
24. A Time for Drunken Horses - Bahman Ghobadi
25. Innocence - Paul Cox
26. Meet the Parents - Jay Roach
27. Pollock - Ed Harris
28. Best in Show - Christopher Guest
29. The Day I Became a Woman - Marzieh Meshkini
30. Platform - Jia Zhangke
31. Before Night Falls - Julian Schnabel
32. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - Mark Jonathan Harris
33. Chocolat - Lasse Hallström
34. Calle 54 - Fernando Trueba
35. Faithless - Liv Ullmann
36. Lumumba - Raoul Peck
37. George Washington - David Gordon Green
38. Chunhyang - Im Kwon-Taek
39. The House of Mirth - Terence Davies
40. Last Resort - Pawel Pawlikowski
41. Divided We Fall - Jan Hrebejk
42. Nine Queens - Fabián Bielinsky
42. Shadow of the Vampire - E. Elias Merhige
44. Cast Away - Robert Zemeckis
45. Girlfight - Karyn Kusama
45. Quills - Philip Kaufman
47. Hamlet - Michael Almereyda
48. The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin
49. Malèna - Giuseppe Tornatore
50. Bread and Roses - Ken Loach
50. Dark Days - Marc Singer

RYM

1. Werckmeister Harmonies - Béla Tarr
2. Yi yi - Edward Yang
3. Memento - Christopher Nolan
4. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas
5. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
6. Eureka - Shinji Aoyama
7. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly - Stan Lathan
8. Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu
9. American Psycho - Mary Harron
10. Snatch - Guy Ritchie
11. Devils on the Doorstep - Jiang Wen
12. A Dog's Will - Guel Arraes
13. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
14. Platform - Jia Zhangke
15. La Commune (Paris, 1871) - Peter Watkins
16. In Vanda's Room - Pedro Costa
17. Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier
18. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel & Ethan Coen
19. Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson
20. You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan
21. George Washington - David Gordon Green
22. The Gleaners and I - Agnès Varda
23. Ritual - Hideaki Anno
24. Nine Queens - Fabián Bielinsky
25. The Filth and the Fury - Julien Temple
26. Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter - Eric Pauwels
27. Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku
28. Little Otik - Jan Švankmajer
29. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
30. High Fidelity - Stephen Frears
31. Together - Lukas Moodysson
32. Dark Days - Marc Singer
33. Code Unknown - Michael Haneke
34. Best in Show - Christopher Guest
35. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area - Park Chan-Wook
36. Sexy Beast - Jonathan Glazer
37. Rejected - Don Hertzfeldt
38. Love Torn in a Dream - Raúl Ruiz
39. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
40. The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin
41. The Circle - Jafar Panahi
42. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - Yoshiaki Kawajiri
43. Daria: Is It Fall Yet? - Karen Disher & Guy Moore
44. Gladiator - Ridley Scott
45. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey - John Little
46. Origins of the 21st Century - Jean-Luc Godard
47. Monday - Sabu
48. Father and Daughter - Michaël Dudok de Wit
49. Loners - David Ondricek
50. The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz - Ben Hopkins

Worldwide box office

1. Mission: Impossible 2 - John Woo
2. Gladiator - Ridley Scott
3. Cast Away - Robert Zemeckis
4. What Women Want - Nancy Meyers
5. Dinosaur - Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton
6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Ron Howard
7. Meet the Parents - Jay Roach
8. The Perfect Storm - Wolfgang Petersen
9. X-Men - Bryan Singer
10. What Lies Beneath - Robert Zemeckis
11. Scary Movie - Keenen Ivory Wayans
12. Charlie's Angels - McG
13. Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh
14. Unbreakable - M. Night Shyamalan
15. Gone in 60 Seconds - Dominic Sena
16. Chicken Run - Peter Lord & Nick Park
17. Vertical Limit - Martin Campbell
18. The Patriot - Roland Emmerich
19. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
20. Miss Congeniality - Donald Petrie
21. Traffic - Steven Soderbergh
22. Hollow Man - Paul Verhoeven
23. 102 Dalmatians - Kevin Lima
24. Big Momma's House - Raja Gosnell
25. The Emperor's New Groove - Mark Dindal
26. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps - Peter Segal
27. Scream 3 - Wes Craven
28. Chocolat - Lasse Hallström
29. Me, Myself & Irene - Bobby & Peter Farrelly
30. The Beach - Danny Boyle
31. Remember the Titans - Boaz Yakin
32. Space Cowboys - Clint Eastwood
33. U-571 - Jonathan Mostow
34. The Family Man - Brett Ratner
35. Road Trip - Todd Phillips
36. Coyote Ugly - David McNally
37. Final Destination - James Wong
38. Mission to Mars - Brian De Palma
39. The Kid - Jon Turteltaub
40. Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
41. Shaft - John Singleton
42. The Whole Nine Yards - Jonathan Lynn
43. The Cell - Tarsem Singh
44. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Stig Bergqvist & Paul Demeyer
45. Shanghai Noon - Tom Dey
46. The Tigger Movie - Jun Falkenstein
47. The 6th Day - Roger Spottiswoode
48. Romeo Must Die - Andrzej Bartkowiak
49. Autumn in New York - Joan Chen
50. Bring It On - Peyton Reed

IMDb (Number of ratings)

1. Gladiator - Ridley Scott
2. Memento - Christopher Nolan
3. Snatch - Guy Ritchie
4. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
5. X-Men - Bryan Singer
6. Cast Away - Robert Zemeckis
7. American Psycho - Mary Harron
8. Unbreakable - M. Night Shyamalan
9. Mission: Impossible 2 - John Woo
10. Meet the Parents - Jay Roach
11. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel & Ethan Coen
12. Gone in 60 Seconds - Dominic Sena
13. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
14. The Patriot - Roland Emmerich
15. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
16. Scary Movie - Keenen Ivory Wayans
17. Pitch Black - David Twohy
18. Final Destination - James Wong
19. Me, Myself & Irene - Bobby & Peter Farrelly
20. The Beach - Danny Boyle
21. Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu
22. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Ron Howard
23. Traffic - Steven Soderbergh
24. Remember the Titans - Boaz Yakin
25. What Women Want - Nancy Meyers
26. Miss Congeniality - Donald Petrie
27. Chocolat - Lasse Hallström
28. Chicken Run - Peter Lord & Nick Park
29. Charlie's Angels - McG
30. The Emperor's New Groove - Mark Dindal
31. Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh
32. Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku
33. High Fidelity - Stephen Frears
34. Road Trip - Todd Phillips
35. The Perfect Storm - Wolfgang Petersen
36. Dude, Where's My Car? - Danny Leiner
37. Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
38. Scream 3 - Wes Craven
39. Hollow Man - Paul Verhoeven
40. Shanghai Noon - Tom Dey
41. What Lies Beneath - Robert Zemeckis
42. The 6th Day - Roger Spottiswoode
43. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
44. Pay It Forward - Mimi Leder
45. The Whole Nine Yards - Jonathan Lynn
46. Men of Honor - George Tillman Jr.
47. Coyote Ugly - David McNally
48. The Family Man - Brett Ratner
49. Frequency - Gregoy Hoblit
50. Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier

Academy Awards

Gladiator - Ridley Scott
Chocolat - Lasse Hallström
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh
Traffic - Steven Soderbergh

Foreign

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu
Divided We Fall - Jan Hrebejk
Everybody's Famous! - Dominique Deruddere
The Taste of Others - Agnès Jaoui

Golden Globes

Drama

Gladiator - Ridley Scott
Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh
Traffic - Steven Soderbergh
Wonder Boys - Curtis Hanson

Musical or Comedy

Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
Best in Show - Christopher Guest
Chicken Run - Peter Lord & Nick Park
Chocolat - Lasse Hallström
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel & Ethan Coen

Foreign

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu
Malèna - Giuseppe Tornatore
One Hundred Steps - Marco Tullio Giordana
The Widow of Saint-Pierre - Patrice Leconte

BAFTA Awards

Gladiator - Ridley Scott
Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh

British

Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry
Chicken Run - Peter Lord & Nick Park
The House of Mirth - Terence Davies
Last Resort - Pawel Pawlikowski
Sexy Beast - Jonathan Glazer

Foreign

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
Harry, He's Here to Help - Dominik Moll
In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai
Malèna - Giuseppe Tornatore

Cannes

Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier

Venice

The Circle - Jafar Panahi

Berlin

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Locarno

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