Best movies of 2000s that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.

Actors : Robert Downey Jr., Tobey Maguire, Michael Douglas, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

Actors : Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Will Smith, Mario Van Peebles,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Actors : Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher,
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 : 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 : Olivier Martinez, Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Erik Per Sullivan,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Actors : Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, William H. Macy, Maria Bello,
Directors : Wayne Kramer,

In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.

Actors : Maia Morgenstern, Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Christo Jivkov,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.

Actors : Thomas Curtis, Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Niki Caro,

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Actors : Jim Sturgess, Dana Fuchs, Joe Anderson, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

The music of the Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.

Actors : Atossa Leoni, Khalid Abdalla, Shaun Toub, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo,
Directors : Baz Luhrmann,

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Actors : Michael O'Keefe, Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott,
Directors : Courtney Hunt,

Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.