Academy Award for Best Picture (2000s)

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards. Also called Oscars, the Academy Awards are given to people working in the movie industry by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 2000 to 2006 is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

• 2000 Gladiator – Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, & Branko Lustig
  • Chocolat – David Brown, Kit Golden, & Leslie Holleran
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (Taiwan) – William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, & Ang Lee
  • Erin Brockovich – Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher
  • Traffic – Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, & Laura Bickford

• 2001 A Beautiful Mind – Universal & DreamWorks – Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
  • Gosford Park – USA Films – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban & David Levy
  • In the Bedroom – Miramax – Graham Leader, Ross Katz & Todd Field
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – New Line – Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Barrie M. Osborne
  • Moulin Rouge! – 20th Century Fox – Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann & Fred Baron

• 2002 Chicago – Miramax – Martin Richards
  • Gangs of New York – Miramax – Alberto Grimaldi & Harvey Weinstein
  • The Hours – Paramount & Miramax – Scott Rudin & Robert Fox
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – New Line – Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson
  • The Pianist – Focus Features

• 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – New Line – Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, & Fran Walsh
  • Lost in Translation – Focus Features – Ross Katz & Sofia Coppola
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – 20th Century Fox – Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir & Duncan Henderson
  • Mystic River – Warner Brothers – Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt & Clint Eastwood
  • Seabiscuit – Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Gary Ross

• 2004 Million Dollar Baby – Warner Brothers – Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, & Tom Rosenburg
  • The Aviator – Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Warner Brothers – Michael Mann & Graham King
  • Finding Neverland – Miramax – Richard N. Gladstein & Nellie Bellflower
  • Ray – Universal – Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin & Howard Baldwin
  • Sideways – Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox – Michael London

• 2005 Crash – Lions Gate Films – Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman
  • Brokeback Mountain – Focus Features – Diana Ossana & James Schamus
  • Capote – Sony Pictures Classics – Caroline Baron, William Vince, & Michael Ohoven
  • Good Night, and Good Luck – Warner Bros. – Grant Heslov
  • Munich – Universal – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Barry Mendel

• 2006 The Departed – Warner Bros. – Graham King
  • Babel – Paramount Vantage – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, & Steve Golin
  • Letters from Iwo Jima – Warner Bros. & DreamWorks – Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, & Robert Lorenz
  • Little Miss Sunshine – Fox Searchlight – David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, & Marc Turtletaub
  • The Queen – Miramax Films & Pathé Pictures – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, & Tracey Seaward

• 2007 (80th)
  • Atonement – Focus Features – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
  • Juno – Fox Searchlight Pictures – Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
  • Michael Clayton – Warner Bros. – Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent
  • No Country for Old Men – Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • There Will Be Blood – Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films – JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi