Awardswatch’s Best Picture Nominee Rankings – 2000s Edition

If there’s anything Awardswatch loves as much as awards and actressing (or omg, awards for actressing!) it’s lists. What we have for you today is a COMPLETE and DEFINITIVE list of every Best Picture nominated film of the 2000s. From the loved to the reviled. From the films that were flashes in the zeitgeist pan to those that have stood the test of time (or at least a few years). The list was compiled by our own Nicole…not Kidman, Latayan (you might know him better as klariso) and voted on by Awardswatch members. For Your Consideration posts were thrown up with the zest and fervor of a Melissa Leo Oscar campaign and fighting was fierce (could it be anything else at AW?).

Here are a few clues, hints and reveals:

1. Only one director (who also won Best Director during the same decade) has two films in the Top 10.

2. Meanwhile, two Oscar nominated actors have two films each in the bottom five of the list.

3. Only three Oscar Best Picture nominees received no votes. None of those ended up winning Best Picture…which means all Best Picture winners have received votes.

4. If you will rank how the films performed alongside their co-nominees for a given year, only two (2) Best Picture winners ended up fifth in their respective years.

5. Using the same pattern ahead, there are three (3) years where in AW and Oscar agreed on the Best Picture prize.

The List 55-51…

• Author
• Recent Posts

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

Latest posts by Erik Anderson (see all)

• Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards: ‘Hamnet’ Tops Wins, ‘Christy’ Nabs Best Irish Film - February 20, 2026
• 8th Kodak Film Awards Recipients: Kristen Stewart, Joachim Trier, Autumn Durald Arkapaw and More - February 20, 2026
• Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Pre-BAFTA Conclave Begins, Will a New Frontrunner Be Anointed? (2/20/26) - February 20, 2026