Academy Award for Best Picture

This Academy Award is given to the motion picture voted best each year by the Academy. Each entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer.

2 000 Gladiator – DreamWorks SKG, Scott Free Productions, Universal Pictures – David H. Franzoni, Branko Lustig, Douglas Wick

• Chocolat – David Brown Productions, Fat Free Limited, Miramax Films – David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (Taiwan) – Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., China Film Co-Production Corporation, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, EDKO Film Ltd., Good Machine, Sony Pictures Classics, United China Vision, Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd. – William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, Ang Lee

• Erin Brockovich – Jersey Films – Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher

• Traffic – Bedford Falls Productions, Compulsion Inc., Initial Entertainment Group, Splendid Medien AG, USA Films – Laura Bickford, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick

2001 A Beautiful Mind – Imagine Entertainment – Brian Grazer, Ron Howard

• Gosford Park – Capitol Films, Chicagofilms, Film Council, Medusa Produzione, Sandcastle 5 Productions, USA Films – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, David Levy

• In the Bedroom – Good Machine, GreeneStreet Films Inc., Standard Film Company Inc. – Graham Leader, Ross Katz, Todd Field

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – New Line Cinema, The Saul Zaentz Company, WingNut Films – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Frances Walsh

• Moulin Rouge – Bazmark Films – Fred Baron, Martin Brown and Baz Luhrmann

2002 Chicago – Loop Films, Miramax Films, Producers Circle – Marty Richards

• Gangs of New York – Cappa Production, Incorporated Television Company (ITC), Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), Meespierson Film CV, Miramax Films, P.E.A. Films, Q&Q Medien GmbH, Splendid Medien AG, – Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein

• The Hours – Miramax Films, Scott Rudin Productions – Scott Rudin, Robert Fox

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – New Line Cinema, The Saul Zaentz Company, WingNut Films – Barrie M. Osborne, Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson

• The Pianist – Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Beverly Detroit, Canal+ Polska, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB), Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Heritage Films, Interscope Communications, Le Studio Canal+, Mainstream S.A., Meespierson Film CV, R.P. Productions, Runteam Ltd., Studio Babelsberg, Studio Canal, Telewizja Polska (TVP) S.A. – Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde

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These are the Academy Awards for Best Actor.

2000 Russell Crowe – Gladiator

• Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls

• Tom Hanks – Cast Away

• Ed Harris – Pollock

• Geoffrey Rush – Quills

2001 Denzel Washington – Training Day

• Will Smith – Ali

• Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind

• Sean Penn – I Am Sam

• Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom

2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist

• Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt

• Nicolas Cage – Adaptation

• Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York

• Michael Caine – The Quiet American

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Academy Award for Best Song

2000 Bob Dylan (music and lyrics) – "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys

• Bjork (music), Sjуn Sigurdsson, Lars von Trier – "I've seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark

• Jorge Callandelli, Tan Dun (music), James Schamus (lyrics) – "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Randy Newman (music and lyrics) – "A Fool in Love" from Meet the Parents

• Sting (music and lyrics), David Hartley (music) – "My Funny Friend and Me" from The Emperor's New Groove

2001 Randy Newman (music and lyrics) – "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc.

• Enya, Roma Ryan, Nicky Ryan (music and lyrics) – "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

• Paul McCartney (music and lyrics) – "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky

• Sting (music and lyrics) – "Until" from Kate and Leopold

• Diane Warren (music and lyrics) – "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor

2002 Eminem (music/lyrics), Jeff Bass (music), Luis Resto (music) – "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile

• John Kander (music), Fred Ebb (lyrics) – "I Move On" from Chicago

• Elliot Goldenthal (music), Julie Taymor (lyrics) – "Burn It Blue" from Frida

• Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Jr – "The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York

• Paul Simon – "Father and Daughter" from The Wild Thornberrys Movie

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