The top-ranked films of the 2000's
(with 2009 to add)
� 2009, William L. Sinclair
[Photo rt from the Oscar�-winning German film, The Lives of Others]

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net that we compiled.
Total Ranked Films in the 2000's: 129, with one year to go (with 23 ranked 900 or lower, some will undoubtably drop out of the rankings)

- [ 2000 ] -
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon #152 - Lee, Ang (photo rt)
2. Yi yi #221 - Yang, Edward
3. Memento #355 - Nolan, Christopher
4. Gladiator #388 - Scott, Ridley
5. Requiem for a Dream #459 - Aronofsky, Darren
6. Amores perros #488 - Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez
7. Snatch #606 - Ritchie, Guy
8. Werckmeister Harmonies #613 - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes
9. Almost Famous #676 - Crowe, Cameron
10. Chicken Run #784 - Park, Nick & Lord, Peter
11. Traffic #802 - Soderbergh, Steve
12. Under the Sand #919 - Ozon, Francois
13. Before Night Falls #954 - Schnabel, Julian
14. You Can Count On Me #960 - Lonergan, Kenneth
15. Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The #977 - Butler, George
Best Picture: Gladiator

- [ 2001 ] -
1. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The #84 - Jackson, Peter
2. Donnie Darko #226 - Kelly, Richard
3. Spirited Away #255 - Miyazaki, Hayao
4. In the Mood for Love #268 - Wong Kar-Wai
5. Fabuleux destin d'Am�lie Poulain, Le #431 - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
6. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (anime) #450 - Miyazaki, Hayao
7. Y Tu Mam� Tambi�n #467 - Cuar�n, Alfonso
8. Mulholland Dr. #475 - Lynch, David
9. Fast Runner, The #619 - Kunuk, Zacharias
10. Gosford Park #683 - Altman, Robert
11. Ghost World #754 - Zwigoff, Terry
12. Time Out #771 - Cantet, Laurent
13. I'm Going Home #888 - de Oliveira, Manoel
14. In the Bedroom #892 - Field, Todd
15. Children Underground #968 - Belzberg, Edet
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind

- [ 2002 ] -
1. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The #144 - Jackson, Peter
2. City of God #191 - Meirelles, Fernando (photo rt)
3. Pianist, The #199 - Polanski, Roman
4. Talk to Her #499 - Almod�var, Pedro
5. Bloody Sunday #658 - Greengrass, Paul
6. Marooned in Iraq #852 - Ghobadi, Bahman
7. To Be and to Have #877 - Philibert, Nicolas
8. Ten #895 - Kiarostami, Abbas
9. Russian Ark #905 - Sokurov, Aleksandr
10. Son, The (Le Fils) #932 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
11. Sweet Sixteen #935 - Loach, Ken
12. About Schmidt #1009 - Payne, Alexander
Best Picture: Chicago

- [ 2003 ] -
1. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The #97 - Jackson, Peter
2. Finding Nemo #294 - Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee
3. Oldboy #371 - Park Chan-Wook
4. Lost in Translation #389 - Coppola, Sofia
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 #579 - Tarantino, Quentin
6. Mystic River #612 - Eastwood, Clint
7. Triplets of Belleville, The #625 - Chomet, Sylvain
8. American Splendor #680 - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert
9. Capturing the Friedmans #690 - Jarecki, Andrew
10. Best of Youth, The #700 - Giordana, Marco Tullio
11. Big Fish #773 - Burton, Tim
12. Fog of War, The #812 - Morris, Errol
13. Tarnation #839 - Caouette, Jonathan
14. Los Angeles Plays Itself #983 - Andersen, Thom
15. Festival Express #994 - Smeaton & Cvitanovich
16. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring #998 - Ki-duk Kim
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

- [ 2004 ] -
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind #225 - Gondry, Michael (photo rt)
2. Million Dollar Baby #261 - Eastwood, Clint
3. Incredibles, The #296 - Bird, Brad
4. Sideways #353 - Payne, Alexander
5. Downfall #482 - Hirschbiegel, Oliver
6. Hotel Rwanda #514 - George, Terry
7. Moolaad� #616 - Sembene, Ousmane
8. Before Sunset #668 - Linklater, Richard
9. House of Flying Daggers #710 - Yimou Zhang
10. Crash #751 - Haggis, Paul
11. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 #765 - Tarantino, Quentin
12. Nobody Knows #795 - Koreeda, Hirokazu
13. Maria Full of Grace #824 - Marston, Joshua
14. Turtles Can Fly #989 - Ghobadi, Bahman
Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby

- [ 2005 ] -
1. Brokeback Mountain #451 - Lee, Ang
2. Sin City #502 - Rodgriguez, Robert
3. Batman Begins #517 - Nolan, Christopher
4. V for Vendetta #643 - McTeigue, James
5. Capote #761 - Miller, Bennett
6. L'Enfant (The Child) #798 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
7. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit #819 - Park, Nick & Box, Steve
8. Fateless #828 - Koltai, Lajos
9. Murderball #842 - Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam
10. Grizzly Man #844 - Herzog, Werner
11. Street Fight #1007 - Curry, Marshall
Best Picture: Crash

- [ 2006 ] -
1. Pan's Labyrinth #154 - del Toro, Guillermo
2. Lives of Others, The #162 - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel (photo top)
(AA and BAFTA for foreign language film)
3. Letters from Iwo Jima #335 - Eastwood, Clint
4. Children of Men #455 - Merielles, Ferdinand
5. Queen, The #479 - Frears, Stephen
6. Prestige, The #484 - Nolan, Christopher
7. United 93 #686 - Greengrass, Paul
8. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan #713 - Charles, Larry
9. Once #745 - Carney, John
10. Away from Her #775 - Polley, Sarah
11. Little Miss Sunshine #786 - Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie
12. Deliver Us from Evil #909 - Berg, Amy
13. This Is England #928 - Meadows, Shane
14. Offside #980 - Panahi, Jafar
15. Half Nelson #1003 - Fleck, Ryan
Best Picture: The Departed

- [ 2007 ] -
1. No Country for Old Men #165 - Coen Ethan and Joel
2. There Will Be Blood #180 - Anderson, Paul Thomas
3. Ratatouille #239 - Bird, Brad & Pinkava, Jan
4. Departed, The #288 - Scorsese, Martin
5. Bourne Ultimatum, The #363 - Greengrass, Paul
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days #425 - Mungiu, Cristian
7. Into the Wild #588 - Penn, Sean
8. Persepolis #694 - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane
9. No End in Sight #731 - Ferguson, Charles
10. Flight of the Red Balloon, The #950 - Hsiao-hsien Hou
11. Edge of Heaven, The #971 - Akin, Fatih
12. Savages, The #975 - Jenkins, Tamara
13. Knocked Up #987 - Apatow, Judd
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men

- [ 2008 ] -
1. WALL-E #181 - Stanton, Andrew
2. Slumdog Millionaire #232 - Boyle, Danny
3. Dark Knight, The #391 - Nolan, Christopher
4. Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The #439 - Schnabel, Julian
5. Gran Torino #472 - Eastwood, Clint
6. Wrestler, The #507 - Aronofsky, Darren
7. Class, The #597 - Cantet, Laurent
8. Waltz with Bashir #634 - Folman, Ari
9. Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The #667 - Fincher, David
10. Let the Right One In #679 - Alfredson, Tomas
11. In Bruges #708 - McDonagh, Martin
12. Man on Wire #712 - Marsh, James
13. Goodbye Solo #716 - Bahrani, Ramin
14. Hurt Locker, The #724 - Bigelow, Kathryn
15. Changeling #739 - Eastwood, Clint
16. Tulpan #759 - Dvortsevoy, Sergei
17. Gomorra #809 - Garrone, Matteo
18. Seraphine #900 - Provost, Martin
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

Top Ranked for the Decade (with 2009 remaining to add)
1. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The #84 - Jackson, Peter
2. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The #97 - Jackson, Peter
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The #144 - Jackson, Peter
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon #152 - Lee, Ang
5. Pan's Labyrinth #154 - del Toro, Guillermo
6. Lives of Others, The #162 - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel
7. No Country for Old Men #165 - Coen Ethan and Joel
8. There Will Be Blood #180 - Anderson, Paul Thomas
9. WALL-E #181 - Stanton, Andrew
10. City of God #191 - Meirelles, Fernando
11. Pianist, The #199 - Polanski, Roman

Unranked best pictures: A Beautiful Mind, Chicago

My Favorites
1-Hero (China), 2-City of God (Brazil), 3-The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, 4-WALL-E, 5-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China), 6-Open Range, 7-Memento, 8-Requiem for a Dream (photo btm), 9-Traffic, 10-The Lives of Others (Germany), 11-Chicago, 12-Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, 13-Slumdog Millionaire, 14-Million Dollar Baby, 15-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 16-V for Vendetta, 17-In Bruges, 18-The Departed, 19-Nowhere in Africa (Germany), 20-Big Fish, 21-No Country for Old Men, 22-Finding Nemo, 23-A Wednesday (India), 24-Mystic River, 25-The Prestige and A Beautiful Mind (someone has to mention that, an unranked best picture winner. I also find it ludicrous that Yimou's Hero is unranked, top-grossing Chinese film in history, deservedly; in fact 2 of our 3 banner photos are from that, the bamboo one is House of Flying Daggers)


Jennifer Connelly and Jered Leto, in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Failed Westerns

This was a humor topic at Twitter, and these are the best ones - the idea is fictitious titles that didn't make it.. not real failed ones (some are posting Cat Ballou and Paint Your Wagon!) ..a more accurate title for this subject might have been "Rejected Titles"

These were the best ones to me, out of literally thousands:

Tracy Ullman's "Seven Brides for Every Brother", a polygamist musical (from her TV show, hilarious; it starred Paulie from the Sopranos, or Tracy playing Tony Sirico!)
Remember the A La Mode (this was mine)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Film Festival
Gunfight at the Golden Corral
Dances with a Fistful of Dollars
Bring Me the Head of Linguine Alfredo
Oklahomophobia
Pushing and Shoving at the O.K. Corral
A Fistful of Dy-no-mite (a comedy)
How the West was Fun
McCain and Mrs. Miller (photo top?)
McCabe and Dennis Miller
McCabe and Phyllis Diller
1901: A Stagecoach Odyssey
The Decidedly Average Six
My Relatively Sufficient Clementine
The Man Who Accidently Jostled Liberty Valance
Half-Past High Noon
She Wore a Yellow Cardigan
The Yodeling Contest at the O.K. Corral
The Good, the Bad, and Those Only a Mother Could Love
The Good, the Decent, and the Mildly Attractive
How the West Got Its Groove Back
The In-Law Josie Wales
Dances With the Stars
Taco Bravo
Little House in Foreclosure
Turban Cowboy ("not a western but you gotta love it anyway")
Butch Casually and Some Dunce Kid (from Mad Magazine)
Fistfight at the OK Bar and Grill
3:10 to Yuma With a Layover in Flagstaff
$3.10 to Yuma
3:10 to Yomama
Plain High Drifter (Mad mag?)
The Treasure of the Sierra Leone (The Treasure of Sergio Leone, maybe better?)
The Sons of Katie Couric
She Wore a Pabst Blue Ribbon
Tint Your Wagon (also Pimp My Wagon)
The Loan Arranger

2009 Emmy Nominations Released

Today, the 2009 Emmy nominations were released. You can download the complete list from the official site here:
2009 Emmy Nominations

Note: the terrific HBO series The Alzheimer's Project garnered some nominations, with The Memory Loss Tapes up for "Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Programming" - kudos to the whole crew this valuable special series.

"As always, no wagering!" - Jos�

ps - for the origin of the Emmy name and design of the trophy, the best design of any award given imo (it combines art and science), see the official TV Academy story here

Top Ranked Films by Year: the 90s

The top-ranked films of the 90's
� 2009, William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net that we compiled.
Total Ranked Films in the 90's: 110

- [ 1990 ] -
1. Goodfellas #31 - Scorsese, Martin (photo rt)
2. Close-Up #189 - Kiarostami, Abbas
3. Reversal of Fortune #587 - Schroeder, Barbet
4. Angel at My Table, An #738 - Campion, Jane
5. Edward Scissorhands #843 - Burton, Tim
6. Grifters, The #922 - Frears, Stephen
7. Ju Dou #963 - Zhang Yimou
8. Miller's Crossing #999 - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Picture: Dances With Wolves

- [ 1991 ] -
1. Silence of the Lambs, The #90 - Demme, Jonathan (photo rt)
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day #194 - Cameron, James
3. Reservoir Dogs #200 - Tarantino, Quentin
4. Thelma & Louise #207 - Scott, Ridley
5. Raise the Red Lantern #299 - Zhang Yimou
6. Double Life of Veronique, The #412 - Kieslowski, Krszystof
7. JFK #689 - Stone, Oliver
8. And Life Goes On #699 - Kiarostami, Abbas
9. Brighter Summer Day, A #722 - Yang, Edward
10. Barton Fink #735 - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
11. Van Gogh #769 - Pialat, Maurice
12. La Belle Noiseuse #783 - Rivette, Jacques
13. Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les #856 - Carax, L�os
14. Europa #937 - von Trier, Lars
15. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film #947 - Workman, Chuck
Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs

- [ 1992 ] -
1. Unforgiven #91 - Eastwood, Clint (photo rt)
2. Player, The #334 - Altman, Robert
3. Crying Game, The #408 - Jordan, Neil
4. Howards End #816 - Ivory, James
5. Orlando #915 - Potter, Sally
6. Coeur en hiver, Un #1002 - Sautet, Claude
Best Picture: Unforgiven

- [ 1993 ] -
1. Schindler's List #27 - Spielberg, Steven (photo top)
2. Piano, The #81 - Campion, Jane
3. Groundhog Day #182 - Ramis, Harold
4. Farewell, My Concubine #452 - Chen Kaige
5. Age of Innocence, The #632 - Scorsese, Martin
6. Three Colours: Blue #655 - Kieslowski, Krszystof
7. Puppetmaster, The #821 - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
8. Short Cuts #846 - Altman, Robert
9. Naked #876 - Leigh, Mike
10. Fugitive, The #942 - Davis, Andrew
11. Dazed and Confused #988 - Linklater, Richard
Best Picture: Schindler's List

- [ 1994 ] -
1. Shawshank Redemption, The #155 - Darabont, Frank (photo rt)
2. Forrest Gump #205 - Zemeckis, Robert
3. L�on (The Professional) #416 - Besson, Luc
4. Chungking Express #533 - Wong Kar-Wai
5. S�t�ntang� #547 - Tarr, B�la
6. Crumb #610 - Zwigoff, Terry
7. Lion King, The #631 - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert
8. Three Colours: Red #657 - Kieslowski, Krszystof
9. Ed Wood #723 - Burton, Tim
10. Through the Olive Trees #740 - Kiarostami, Abbas
11. Little Women #801 - Armstrong, Gillian
12. Quiz Show #814 - Redford, Robert
13. Three Colours: White #965 - Kieslowski, Krszystof
Best Picture: Forrest Gump

- [ 1995 ] -
1. Pulp Fiction #20 - Tarantino, Quentin (photo rt)
2. Toy Story #82 - Lasseter, John
3. Casino #115 - Scorsese, Martin
4. Usual Suspects, The #169 - Singer, Bryan
5. Heat #227 - Mann, Michael
6. Trainspotting #354 - Boyle, Danny
7. Se7en #414 - Fincher, David
8. Braveheart #508 - Gibson, Mel
9. Dead Man #637 - Jarmusch, Jim
10. Twelve Monkeys #670 - Gilliam, Terry
11. Underground #758 - Kusturica, Emir
12. To Die For #858 - Van Sant, Gus
13. Safe #889 - Haynes, Todd
Best Picture: Braveheart

- [ 1996 ] -
1. Fargo #61 - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen (photo rt)
2. Secrets & Lies #377 - Leigh, Mike
3. Breaking the Waves #445 - von Trier, Lars
4. English Patient, The #501 - Minghella, Anthony
5. Shine #574 - Hicks, Scott
6. Moment of Innocence, A #607 - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
7. Crash #993 - Cronenberg, David
Best Picture: English Patient, The

- [ 1997 ] -
1. L.A. Confidential #45 - Hanson, Curtis (photo rt)
2. Sweet Hereafter, The #315 - Egoyan, Atom
3. Boogie Nights #344 - Anderson, Paul Thomas
4. Life is Beautiful #493 - Begnini, Roberto
5. Taste of Cherry, A #506 - Kiarostami, Abbas
6. Mononoke-hime (anime) #555 - Miyazaki, Hayao
7. 4 Little Girls #706 - Lee, Spike
8. Good Will Hunting #794 - Van Sant, Gus
9. Hana-Bi #823 - Kitano, Takeshi
10. Titanic #878 - Cameron, James
11. Histoire(s) du cin�ma #938 - Godard, Jean-Luc
Best Picture: Titanic

- [ 1998 ] -
1. Saving Private Ryan #116 - Spielberg, Steven (photo rt)
2. Big Lebowski, The #378 - Coen, Ethan and Joel
3. Beau Travail #395 - Denis, Claire
4. American History X #423 - Kaye, Tony
5. Rushmore #539 - Anderson, Wes
6. Shakespeare in Love #563 - Madden, John
7. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels #672 - Ritchie, Guy
8. Truman Show, The #688 - Weir, Peter
9. Thin Red Line, The #780 - Malick, Terrence
10. 42 Up #865 - Apted, Michael
11. Happiness #869 - Solondz, Todd
12. Flowers of Shanghai #902 - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love

- [ 1999 ] -
1. American Beauty #139 - Mendes, Sam
2. Matrix, The #224 - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski (photo rt)
3. Fight Club #271 - Fincher, David
4. All About My Mother #284 - Almod�var, Pedro
5. Being John Malkovich #402 - Jonze, Spike
6. Wind Will Carry Us, The #511 - Kiarostami, Abbas
7. Green Mile, The #529 - Darabont, Frank
8. Magnolia #576 - Anderson, Paul Thomas
9. Sixth Sense, The #577 - Shyamalan, M. Knight
10. My Voyage to Italy #652 - Scorsese, Martin
11. Topsy-Turvy #662 - Leigh, Mike
12. Straight Story, The #746 - Lynch, David
13. Toy Story 2 #792 - Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash
14. Boys Don't Cry #881 - Pierce, Kimberly
Best Picture: American Beauty

Top Ranked for the Decade
1. Pulp Fiction #20 - Tarantino, Quentin
2. Schindler's List #27 - Spielberg, Steven
3. Goodfellas #31 - Scorsese, Martin
4. L.A. Confidential #45 - Hanson, Curtis
5. Fargo #61 - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
6. Piano, The #81 - Campion, Jane
7. Toy Story #82 - Lasseter, John
8. Silence of the Lambs, The #90 - Demme, Jonathan
9. Unforgiven #91 - Eastwood, Clint
10. Casino #115 - Scorsese, Martin
11. Saving Private Ryan #116 - Spielberg, Steven
12. American Beauty #139 - Mendes, Sam
13. Shawshank Redemption, The #155 - Darabont, Frank
14. Usual Suspects, The #169 - Singer, Bryan
15. Groundhog Day #182 - Ramis, Harold

Unranked Best Pictures: Dances With Wolves (are you kidding, with Titanic getting ranked, albeit 878th)

My Favorites
1- Shawshank Redemption, 2-Shakespeare in Love, 3-Silence of the Lambs, 4-Schindler?s List, 5-Groundhog Day, 6-The Player, 7-Dances With Wolves, 8-Goodfellas, 9-Chungking Express, 10-The Grifters, 11-Fargo, 12-American History X, 13-Terminator 2, 14-Pulp Fiction, 15-L.A. Confidential, 16-JFK, 17-The Sweet Hereafter, 18-Toy Story, 19-Saving Private Ryan, 20-The Matrix, 21-Being John Malkovich, 22-Usual Suspects, 23-Unforgiven, 24-Fight Club, 25-12 Monkeys