Redux: In hindsight, which movies should have been nominated for Best Picture in 2001?

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As we know, the Academy doesn’t always get it right. Some movies slip under the radar, or maybe we don’t realize just how good they are until we’ve seen them a couple of times.

Here are the movies actually nominated for Best Picture in 2001:

A Beautiful Mind <—Winner
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!

And here is a list of notable films released in 2001.

So, with hindsight, what five movies do you think should have been nominated for Best Picture that year?

My picks:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring <----- Winner
Ghost World
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Devil’s Backbone
Vanilla Sky

This was a good year for movies. I had to leave a lot of really nice films off this list.

Your picks?

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I had a new baby in 2001, so I didn’t get to see a lot of films. I did see A Beautiful Mind and liked it, as well as Lord of the Rings. Moulin Rouge did not impress me.

The rest of my list would be purely based on reviews/reputation. I saw some other movies that year but none that I would say deserved an Oscar.

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Amélie
A Beautiful Mind
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ghost World
Monsters, Inc.

Dark horses: The Center of the World & Wet Hot American Summer

4

Hannibal.

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Five movies, please.

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-Fellowship <----winner (I though it was the best of the LOTR movies, so I would’ve given Jackson his inevitable Oscar here instead of for Return. Though obviously that reasoning only works because I’ve seen the later two installments)

-Amile

-Memento

-Royal Tennenbaums

-Shreck

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Man, I watched a lot of movies in 2001.

Ocean’s Eleven <-- Winner
Super Troopers
The Mexican
Ghost World
Donnie Darko

hon. mentions:

Training Day
Mulholland Drive
Heist
Black Hawk Down

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The Mexican is underrated. I really enjoyed it.

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I think Memento was released in 2000. Otherwise it would make my list.

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It was nominated for best screenplay in 2001. (I think it had been released in Europe earlier, but the Academy just cares about the US release date).

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You must be right. IMDB lists it as 2000 and that’s the date Wikipedia gives, but you’re correct that it was nominated in other categories (screenplay and editing) for 2001.

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Donnie Darko
Ghost World
In the Bedroom
In the Mood for Love

  • Mulholland Dr.
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I agree with that.

The great advantage of the hindsight we are using in this thread!

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total dittoes to what Spoke just said