Top Ten 2000
- Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang)
- Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
- Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)
- State and Main (David Mamet)
- You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
- The House of Mirth (Terrence Davies)
- Pola X (Leos Carax)
- The Idiots (Lars von Trier)
- L'Humanité (Bruno Dumont)
Runners-up, in order: Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano), The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami), Une liaison pornographique (Fr�d�ric Fonteyne), The Virgin Suicides (Sophia Coppola), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen), Traffic (Steven Soderbergh), The Legend of Drunken Master (Liu Chia-Liang), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch), Joe Gould's Secret (Stanley Tucci), Not One Less (Zhang Yimou)
~~~~~~Here's my ballot for Mike D'Angelo's 2000 rec.arts.movies.*+ Critics Circle Awards. Like the VillageVoice's venerable "Pazz 'n' Jop" music poll, voters allot exactly 100 points to 10 choices in each category, giving between 5 and 30 ponts to each entry. Results of the poll are available on Alex Fung's web site.
Note that The Legend of Drunken Master was not elegible for the poll, and that when I turned my ballot in, I had regrettably not yet seen Yi Yi, The House of Mirth or The Idiots.
BEST PICTURE
- Beau travail 15
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 15
- Jesus' Son 14
- State and Main 13
- You Can Count on Me 12
- Pola X 7
- Kikujiro 7
- Traffic 6
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? 6
- An Affair of Love 5
BEST DIRECTOR
- Claire Denis, Beau travail 16
- David Mamet, State and Main 14
- Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 13
- Alison Maclean, Jesus' Son 12
- Leos Carax, Pola X 10
- Takeshi Kitano, Kikujiro 9
- Steven Soderbergh, Traffic 8
- Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count on Me 7
- Joel Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou? 6
- Stanley Tucci, Joe Gould's Secret 5
BEST ACTOR
- Billy Crudup, Jesus' Son 15
- Denis Levant, Beau travail 14
- Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me 13
- Patrick Warburton, The Woman Chaser 12
- Sergi Lopez, An Affair of Love 11
- George Clooney, O Brother, Where Art Thou? 9
- Michael Rispoli, Two Family House 9
- Ian Holm, Joe Gould's Secret 6
- Forrest Whitaker, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 5
BEST ACTRESS
- Michelle Yeoh, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 16
- Juliane Kohler, Aimee & Jaguar 13
- Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me 12
- Juliette Binoche, Alice et Martin 11
- Maria Schrader, Aimee & Jaguar 10
- Nathalie Baye, An Affair of Love 10
- Bjork, Dancer in the Dark 9
- Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 8
- Julie Walters, Titanic Town 6
- Karine Vanasse, Set Me Free 5
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Benicio del Toro, Traffic 19
- Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire 13
- Jack Black, High Fidelity 12
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Almost Famous 11
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, State and Main 10
- Jack Black, Jesus' Son 9
- William H. Macy, State and Main 8
- Chow Yun Fat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 7
- Clifton Collins Jr., Traffic 6
- Bill Murray, Hamlet 5
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Samantha Morton, Jesus' Son 16
- Kate Hudson, Almost Famous 16
- Elaine May, Small Time Crooks 14
- Gina McKee, Wonderland 12
- Erika Christiansen, Traffic 11
- Kate Winslet, Quills 8
- Tara Spencer-Nairn, New Waterford Girl 7
- Anna Thomson, Water Drops on Burning Rocks 6
- Shirley Henderson, Wonderland 5
- Pascale Bussieres, Set Me Free 5
BEST SCREENPLAY
- David Mamet, State and Main 23
- Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count on Me 22
- Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia & Oren Moverman, Jesus' Son 11
- Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous 8
- Howard A. Rodman, Joe Gould's Secret 7
- Robinson Devor, The Woman Chaser 7
- Raymond de Felitta, Two Family House 6
- Joel & Ethan Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou? 6
- Stephen Gaghan, Traffic 5
- Wang Hui-ling and James Schamus and Tsai Kuo Jung, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 5
BEST SCENE
- "Rhythm of the Night", Beau travail 12
- Squashed bunnies, Jesus' Son 11
- Prelude, Jesus' Son 11
- Hospital, Jesus' Son 10
- "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" recording session, O Brother, Where Art Thou? 10
- "I've Seen It All", Dancer in the Dark 10
- Treetops, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 9
- The Man Who Got Away pitch, The Woman Chaser 9
- Rooftops, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 9
- Sex scene, Pola X 9