Best movies of 2001 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Actors : Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy,

After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back.

Actors : John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs,

In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Ryan Phillippe,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.

Actors : Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Ron Howard,

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

A clan's estranged patriarch loses his home and learns that his ex-wife plans to remarry.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent,
Directors : Baz Luhrmann,

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke,
Directors : Antoine Fuqua,

On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the LAPD with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei,
Directors : Todd Field,

A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.

Actors : Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Actors : Georges Siatidis, Filip Sovagovic, Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric,
Directors : Danis Tanovic,

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott, Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Michael Bay,

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.