Top Ten 2001

  1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
  2. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
  3. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
  4. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
  5. Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
  6. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
  7. Battle Royale (Kenji Fukasaku, 2000)
  8. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
  9. Code Inconnu (Michael Haneke, 2000)
  10. Faithless (Liv Ullman, 2000)

Runners-up, in order: Chopper (Andrew Dominik, 2000), Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu, 2000), The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000), Last Resort (Paul Pavlikovsky, 2000), Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), The Vertical Ray of Summer (Tran Anh Hung, 2000), Ali (Michael Mann), The Royal Tennenbaums (Wes Anderson)

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Here's my ballot for Mike D'Angelo's 2001 Skandies 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: Battle Royale was not elegible for this poll, as it never received a commercial release in the U.S.

BEST PICTURE

  • Mulholland Dr. 24
  • The Man Who Wasn't There 14
  • Ghost World 12
  • Memento 11
  • Audition 9
  • In the Mood for Love 8
  • Waking Life 6
  • Code Inconnu 6
  • Faithless 5
  • Chopper 5

BEST DIRECTOR

  • David Lynch, Mulholland Dr. 24
  • Joel Coen, The Man Who Wasn't There 13
  • Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love 12
  • Terry Zwigoff, Ghost World 10
  • Michael Haneke, Code Inconnu 9
  • Jafar Panahi, The Circle 8
  • Michael Mann, Ali 8
  • Takashi Miike, Audition 6
  • Tran Anh Hung, The Vertical Ray of the Sun 5
  • Christopher Nolan, Memento 5

BEST ACTOR

  • Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom 15
  • Eric Bana, Chopper 14
  • Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love 13
  • Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There 12
  • Daniel Auteuil, The Widow of Saint-Pierr 11
  • Mark Rylance, Intimacy 9
  • Jack Nickolson, The Pledge 8
  • Sergi Lopez, With a Friend Like Harry 7
  • Ray Winstone, Sexy Beast 6
  • Peter Mullan, The Claim 5

BEST ACTRESS

  • Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr. 19
  • Thora Birch, Ghost World 13
  • Lena Endre, Faithless 12
  • Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love 11
  • Charlotte Rampling, Under the Sand 10
  • Kerry Fox, Intimacy 9
  • Laura Elena Harring, Mulholland Dr. 8
  • Juliette Binoche, The Widow of Saint-Pierre 7
  • Nicole Kidman, The Others 6
  • Bibiana Beglau, The Legend of Rita 5

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Steve Buscemi, Ghost World 16
  • Gene Hackman, The Royal Tenenbaums 16
  • James Gandolfini, The Mexican 12
  • Brad Pitt, Snatch 11
  • Tony Shalhoub, The Man Who Wasn't There 10
  • Krister Henriksson, Faithless 9
  • Rip Torn, Freddy Got Fingered 8
  • Timothy Spall, Intimacy 7
  • Gerard Lanvin, The Taste of Others 6
  • Clive Owen, Gosford Park 5

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Scarlett Johansson, Ghost World 16
  • Juliette Binoche, Code Inconnu 15
  • Agnes Jaoui, The Taste of Others 12
  • Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom 11
  • Milla Jovovich, The Claim 10
  • Harriet Sansom Harris, Memento 9
  • Gwyneth Paltrow, Shallow Hal 8
  • Helen Mirren, Gosford Park 7
  • Aylin Yay, Thomas in Love 6
  • Eihi Shiina, Audition 6