Oscar Best Picture Winners since 2000
According to the Academy, here is the Best Movies of the 21st Century.
Name of the Movie – Production Year (Number of the Oscar Ceremony)
Gladiator – 2000 (73rd)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Leading Role – Russell Crowe
Costume Design – Janty Yates
Sound – Scott Millan, Bob Beemer, Ken Weston
Visual Effects – John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey
A Beautiful Mind – 2001 (74th)
♠also WON♠
Actress in a Supporting Role – Jennifer Connelly
Directing – Ron Howard
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) – Written by Akiva Goldsman
Chicago – 2002 (75th)
♠also WON♠
Actress in a Supporting Role – Catherine-Zeta Jones
Art Direction – Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Costume Design – Colleen Atwood
Film Editing – Martin Walsh
Sound – Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella, David Lee
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 2003 (76th)
♠also WON♠
Art Direction – Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
Costume Design – Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
Directing – Peter Jackson
Film Editing – Jamie Selkirk
Makeup – Richard Taylor and Peter King
Music (Original Score) – Howard Shore
Music (Original Song) – “Into The West” Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
Sound Mixing – Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
Visual Effects – Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
Million Dollar Baby – 2004 (77th)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Supporting Role – Morgan Freeman
Actress in a Leading Role – Hilary Swank
Directing – Clint Eastwood
Crash – 2005 (78th)
♠also WON♠
Film Editing – Hughes Winborne
Writing (Original Screenplay) – Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis
The Departed – 2006 (79th)
♠also WON♠
Directing – Martin Scorsese
Film Editing – Thelma Schoonmaker
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Screenplay by William Monahan
No Country for Old Men – 2007 (80th)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Supporting Role – Javier Bardem
Directing – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Slumdog Millionaire – 2008 (81st)
♠also WON♠
Cinematography – Anthony Dod Mantle
Directing – Danny Boyle
Film Editing – Chris Dickens
Music (Original Score) – A.R. Rahman
Music (Original Song) – “Jai Ho” Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar
Sound Mixing – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
The Hurt Locker – 2009 (82nd)
♠also WON♠
Directing – Kathryn Bigelow
Film Editing – Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Sound Editing – Paul N.J. Ottosson
Sound Mixing – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Writing (Original Screenplay) – Written by Mark Boal
The King’s Speech – 2010 (83rd)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Leading Role – Colin Firth
Directing – Tom Hooper
Writing (Original Screenplay) – Screenplay by David Seidler
The Artist – 2011 (84th)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Leading Role – Jean Dujardin
Costume Design – Mark Bridges
Directing – Michel Hazanavicius
Music (Original Score) – Ludovic Bource
Argo – 2012 (85th)
♠also WON♠
Film Editing – William Goldenberg
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Screenplay by Chris Terrio
12 Years a Slave – 2013 (86th)
♠also WON♠
Actress in a Supporting Role – Lupita Nyong’o
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Screenplay by John Ridley
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 2014 (87th)
♠also WON♠
Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki
Directing – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Writing (Original Screenplay) – Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
Spotlight – 2015 (88th)
♠also WON♠
Writing (Original Screenplay) – Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Moonlight – 2016 (89th)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Supporting Role – Mahershala Ali
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
The Shape of Water – 2017 (90th)
♠also WON♠
Directing – Guillermo del Toro
Music (Original Score) – Alexandre Desplat
Production Design – Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin
Green Book – 2018 (91st)
♠also WON♠
Actor in a Supporting Role – Mahershala Ali
Writing (Original Screenplay) – Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
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