Best movies of 2000s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Carrie-Anne Moss, Alfred Molina,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin,
Directors : Kenneth Lonergan,

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.

Actors : George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.

Actors : Cary Elwes, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich,
Directors : E. Elias Merhige,

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Salma Hayek, Mía Maestro, Alfred Molina,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Actors : Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, Christina Eleusiniotis, John Corbett,
Directors : Joel Zwick,

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne,

A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.

Actors : Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon, Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes,
Directors : Burr Steers,

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

Actors : Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo,
Directors : Rob Marshall,

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

Actors : Anthony Anderson, Ludacris, Taryn Manning, Terrence Howard,
Directors : Craig Brewer,

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

Actors : Alicia Van Couvering, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, David Kuhn,
Directors : Phil Morrison,

A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.

Actors : Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Actors : Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Ben Walker,
Directors : Chris Weitz,

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

Actors : Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Jerry Seinfeld, Patrick Warburton,

Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.

Actors : Jon Heder, Zooey Deschanel, Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges,

A behind-the-scenes look at the annual Penguin World Surfing Championship, and its newest participant, up-and-comer Cody Maverick.

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Phyllida Lloyd,

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.

Actors : Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Jean-Marc Vallée,

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Actors : Oliver Platt, Judy Greer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

A young woman suffering from Parkinson's befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer in 1990s Pittsburgh.

Actors : Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Alejandro González Iñárritu,

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.