Best of The Decade: Nominate Your Favorites

[GOAT]

I’ve seen other sites and publications adding up “best of the decade” lists so how about we join them? This will just be the nomination process. We will do nominations until Christmas Eve at 12PM ET. On Christmas Day we will start voting for each category until New Years Day when the winners are announced.

For each category you may nominate AT LEAST FIVE and UP TO TEN selections. I will figure out a little later how we decide which get in, as it will depend on how popular this becomes. Remember these votes are reflecting from January 1, 2000 – December 24, 2009.

The categories are:
Best Motion Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Musical Score
Best Animated Feature
Breakout Star [can be an actor, actress or director]
Best Blu-Ray/HD DVD/DVD Release

I feel those 8 categories are enough and will give us a good indication of the best from the decade.

[Gamma_Winstead]

the decade isn't over till the start of 2011. Just like the 21rst century didn't start till 2001. We start at 1, not 0.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by gamma626

the decade isn't over till the start of 2011. Just like the 21rst century didn't start till 2001. We start at 1, not 0.

great, this argument again.

[GOAT]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

great, this argument again.

well im not going to argue back as if he does not agree then he can just not particpate. The Decade awards are coming out now.

[zombie63]

This is from Wikapedia - A decade is a period of ten years. The word is derived (via French) from the Late Latin decadem, accusative of decas, from Greek decas, from deca. The other words for spans of years also come from Latin: lustrum (5 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years). The term usually refers to a period of ten years starting with 0 and ending in 9.

'nuff said - Lets Do it

[casablanca3]

Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Actress: Kate Winslet
Animated: The Incredibles
Breakout: Heath Ledger......soo much promise

I think you could also add TV show? Lost or Sopranos for me tough call

[jhiggy23]

Motion Picture (not in order)


1) The Lives of Others

2) Downfall

3) Hotel Rwanda

4) LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring

5) Amelie

6) In the Bedroom or Atonement

7) American Beauty (it was a 1999 film but won the Oscar in 2000)

8) Traffic

9) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

10) City of God

11) Up (if American Beauty doesn't count)


It's funny, only one of the above films won Best Picture, and half of the films are foreign.

[s-ray]

Originally Posted by GOAT

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Paul Giamatti

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by GOAT

well im not going to argue back as if he does not agree then he can just not particpate. The Decade awards are coming out now.

Agreed. The people that argue that the decade goes from 1-0 instead of 0-9 are absolutely crazy.

[casablanca3]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Motion Picture (not in order)


1) The Lives of Others

2) Downfall

3) Hotel Rwanda

4) LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring

5) Amelie

6) In the Bedroom or Atonement

7) American Beauty (it was a 1999 film but won the Oscar in 2000)

8) Traffic

9) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

10) City of God

11) Up (if American Beauty doesn't count)


It's funny, only one of the above films won Best Picture, and half of the films are foreign.

Nice list! I find that usually the best films never win best picture haha

[jhiggy23]

Breakout Star

1) Sam Mendes (director--American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road)

2) Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls, The Sea Inside, No Country for Old Men

3) Penelope Cruz (Volver, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Abre Los Ojos, Vanilla Sky, Elegy)

4) Todd Field (director--Little Children and In the Bedroom)

5) Joe Wright (director--Pride and Prejudice and Atonement)


As you can see, I think there are some great directors that came out in this decade that we will really have to watch for in the near future, especially considering the projects each are working on.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by casablanca3

Nice list! I find that usually the best films never win best picture haha

Thank you! I think it's 50/50 for me. Either the film that I think is the best of those nominated wins, or the film that I think is the best of the year is not nominated (i.e. Hotel Rwanda).

[zombie63]

Best Picture

1. Let the Right one In
2. Downfall
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Return of the King
6. The Lives of Others
7. The Incredibles
8. Changeling
9. Gran Torino
10. Gladiator.

[jhiggy23]

Best Animated Film


1) Up

2) Spirited Away

3) The Incredibles

4) Finding Nemo

5) Ratatouille

6) Cars

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by zombie63

Best Picture

1. Let the Right one In
2. Downfall
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Return of the King
6. The Lives of Others
7. The Incredibles
8. Changeling
9. Gran Torino
10. Gladiator.

That's a very good list. I especially like the inclusion of The Lives of Others, which I think is by far the best picture of the decade, with Downfall being second. I also like that you included Changeling, which I think was the second best film of last year.

[jhiggy23]

Best Score


1) The Fountain

2) The Last Samurai

3) Blood Diamond

4) LOTR: The Two Towers

5) Atonement

[Romulus]

Originally Posted by GOAT

Best Motion Picture

In alphabetical order:

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Children of Men (2006)
The Lives of Others (2006)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
The Machinist (2004)
Memories of Murder (2003)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Best Director

In alphabetical order:


Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream", "The Fountain", "The Wrestler")
Danny Boyle ("28 Days Later", "Millions", "Sunshine", "Slumdog Millionaire")
Joel and Ethan Coen ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "The Man Who Wasn't There", "No Country for Old Men", "Burn After Reading", and "A Serious Man")
Alfonso Cuaron ("Y tu Mama Tambien", "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", and "Children of Men")
Clint Eastwood (Selected films from 00's: "Mystic River", "Million Dollar Baby", "Flags of Our Fathers", "Letters from Iwo Jima", "Changeling", "Gran Torino", and "Invictus")
David Fincher ("Panic Room", "Zodiac", and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")
Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind", "Cinderella Man", and "Frost/Nixon")
Peter Jackson ("Lord of the Rings" and "King Kong")
Chrisopther Nolan ("Memento", "Insomnia", "Batman Begins", "The Prestige", and "The Dark Knight")
Martin Scorsese ("Gangs of New York", "The Aviator", and "The Departed")

Best Actor

In alphabetical order:

Christian Bale ("American Psycho", "The Machinist", "Batman Begins", "The Prestige", "Rescue Dawn", and "The Dark Knight")
Michael Caine ("The Quiet American", "Batman Begins", "Children of Men", "The Prestige", and "The Dark Knight")
George Clooney ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Syriana", "Good Night, Good Luck", "Ocean's Trilogy", "Michael Clayton", and "Up in the Air")
Daniel Day-Lewis ("Gangs of New York" and "There Will Be Blood")
Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean", "Finding Neverland", "Corpse Bride", "Sweeney Todd", and "Public Enemies")
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Catch Me if You Can", "Gangs of New York", "The Aviator", "Blood Diamond", "The Departed", and "Revolutionary Road")
Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Punch Drunk Love", "Capote", "Charlie Wilson's War", and "Doubt")
Heath Ledger ("Monster's Ball", "Ned Kelly", "Brokeback Mountain", "Candy", "The Dark Knight", and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus")
Viggo Mortensen ("Lord of the Rings", "A History of Violence", "Eastern Promises", and "The Road")
Sean Penn ("I Am Sam", "Mystic River", and "Milk")

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett ("Lord of the Rings", "The Aviator", "Notes on a Scandal", "I'm Not There", and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")
Penelope Cruz ("Vanilla Sky", "Don't Move", "Volver", "Elegy", "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", and "Broken Embraces")
Meryl Streep (Do I have to list all of them?)
Charlize Theron ("Monster" and "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers", and "North Country")
Kate Winslet ("Quills", "Iris", "Eternal Sunshine", "Finding Neverland", "Little Children", "The Reader", and "Revolutionary Road")


I'll add more to these later.

Best Musical Score

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Black Hawk Down
The Dark Knight
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lord of the Rings (any one of them)
The Machinist
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Slumdog Millionaire
Sunshine
The Wrestler

Best Animated Feature

Cars
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Monster's Inc.
Ratatouille
Shrek
Spirited Away
Up
Wall*E
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit

Breakout Star

Josh Brolin
Marion Cotillard
Ben Foster
Emilie Hirsch
Djimon Hounsou
Cillian Murphy
Sam Rockwell

I'll come back to this later.

Best Blu-Ray

I'm sticking strictly to Blu-ray for this category.

Braveheart
Children of Men
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Machinist
Slumdog Millionaire
Star Trek
Up
The Wrestler

[BostonMA22]

Batman Begins
Collateral
The Dark Knight
The Departed
Kill Bill
Letters from Iwo Jima
No Country for Old Men
The Prestige
Punch-Drunk Love
Requiem for a Dream

most are some of my all time favorites, others are some i consider to be some of the very best of the decade that i do love and i thought i'd throw them on there.

[jhiggy23]

Love all of the lists Romulus, some great inclusions. I particularly like your choice of Ben Foster for breakout star. Why? Because although he doesn't have the depth of performances as some others right now, his performance in 3:10 to Yuma not only got robbed of an Oscar nom, but showed that he has serious talent. Emile Hirsch would also be a great inclusion to that list.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by BostonMA22

Batman Begins
Collateral
The Dark Knight
The Departed
Kill Bill
Letters from Iwo Jima
No Country for Old Men
The Prestige
Punch-Drunk Love
Requiem for a Dream

most are some of my all time favorites, others are some i consider to be some of the very best of the decade that i do love and i thought i'd throw them on there.

While they are all domestic films (despite Iwo Jima being in Japanese), I think you have a pretty nice list here.