I voted 2007 in a squeaker. No Country for Old Men is the best movie on this list and Juno’s pretty entertaining, so that’s why I voted 2007.
Runner-up probably would have been 2002 as I love The Two Towers and I think I’m one of the only people who think Gangs of New York is a fantastic film.
Wow, it was hard to decide between 2005 and 2007, but I ended up going with 2005 because I thought the weakest of 2007 (Juno) was significantly weaker than the weakest of 2005 (Munich).
2004
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
Wins for me, because I watch all of these the most often. Well, I’ve never seen Finding Neverland.
2007 was a close call because There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men are two of my favorite films of all time. The others, especially Juno, blow it for 2007.
2007 for me. 4 of the 5 movies I’ve seen regularly, with only The Atonement being seen once, I think. But Michael Clayton was my favorite film, followed closely by CNFOM and TWBB. I have to be in a mood for Juno, but if I am and I have a chance to watch it, I do.
I’m also rather unimpressed with the entire list… some good films to be sure, but nothing that really jumps out at me as being a game-changing great film along the lines of GWTW, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Goodfellas, etc… I guess the closest is the LOTR trilogy, but they hardly represent a new direction in Hollywood, more like the culmination of 30 years of tech and audience-building progress.
2001 - all 5 were excellent movies (even though the weakest of the 5 still won).
BTW, is there any factual truth to the story that the Academy purposely ignored Lord of the Rings until the trilogy was completed, and then guaranteed its victory in the third year? Because honestly, Master & Commander deserved a Best Picture Oscar way more than A Beautiful Mind, and I would guess way more than Chicago.
The only nominees which I haven’t seen were The Atonement, The Reader, Chicago, The Hours, Seabiscuit, and Letters from Iwo Jima.
I’ll go with 2007, because There Will be Blood is the best movie of the decade, No Country for Old Men is not far behind. Michael Clayton was outstanding and Juno is an almosty perfect film for its genre. Never saw The Atonement.
I have seen all of them except Million Dollar Baby (don’t like films about boxing, as I mentioned in recent thread) and Hours - didn’t want to see a film about a bunch of suicidal Lesbians, although I have heard it was quite good.
You really should see Gosford Park (loved it) and Gangs of New York (really good), but if you missed The Pianist, no big deal - I thought it was just “OK”.
I picked 2001 - simply because of the variety of different, very good films that year. I think LOTR should have won.
