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The Academy Award for Best Picture is a really important prize given out each year. It's part of the Academy Awards, which many people call the Oscars. These awards celebrate the best movies and the talented people who make them. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) gives out these special awards. Winning Best Picture means a movie is considered the very best film of that year!

Best Picture Winners and Nominees (2000-2009)

Here are the movies that won the Best Picture Oscar between 2000 and 2009. For each year, the winning movie is listed first. Then, you'll see the other great movies that were nominated for the award.

  • 2000 ' – This movie was produced by Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig.
    • Chocolat – Nominated producers: David Brown, Kit Golden, & Leslie Holleran
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (Taiwan) – Nominated producers: William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, & Ang Lee
    • Erin Brockovich – Nominated producers: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher
    • Traffic – Nominated producers: Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, & Laura Bickford
  • 2002 ' – This movie was produced by Martin Richards for Miramax.
    • Gangs of New York – Nominated producers: Alberto Grimaldi & Harvey Weinstein for Miramax
    • The Hours – Nominated producers: Scott Rudin & Robert Fox for Paramount & Miramax
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Nominated producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson for New Line
    • The Pianist – Nominated for Focus Features
  • 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – This film was produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, & Fran Walsh for New Line.
    • Lost in Translation – Nominated producers: Ross Katz & Sofia Coppola for Focus Features
    • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – Nominated producers: Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir & Duncan Henderson for 20th Century Fox
    • Mystic River – Nominated producers: Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt & Clint Eastwood for Warner Brothers
    • Seabiscuit – Nominated producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Gary Ross for Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass
  • 2004 ' – This movie was produced by Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, & Tom Rosenburg for Warner Brothers.
    • The Aviator – Nominated producers: Michael Mann & Graham King for Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Warner Brothers
    • Finding Neverland – Nominated producers: Richard N. Gladstein & Nellie Bellflower for Miramax
    • Ray – Nominated producers: Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin & Howard Baldwin for Universal
    • Sideways – Nominated for Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox
  • 2005 ' – This film was produced by Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman for Lions Gate Films.
    • Brokeback Mountain – Nominated producers: Diana Ossana & James Schamus for Focus Features
    • Capote – Nominated producers: Caroline Baron, William Vince, & Michael Ohoven for Sony Pictures Classics
    • Good Night, and Good Luck – Nominated for Warner Bros.
    • Munich – Nominated producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Barry Mendel for Universal
  • 2006 The Departed – This movie was produced by Graham King for Warner Bros.
    • Babel – Nominated producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, & Steve Golin for Paramount Vantage
    • Letters from Iwo Jima – Nominated producers: Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, & Robert Lorenz for Warner Bros. & DreamWorks
    • Little Miss Sunshine – Nominated producers: David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, & Marc Turtletaub for Fox Searchlight
    • The Queen – Nominated producers: Andy Harries, Christine Langan, & Tracey Seaward for Miramax Films & Pathé Pictures
  • 2007 No Country for Old Men – This film was produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, & Joel Coen for Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage.
    • Atonement – Nominated producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster for Focus Features
    • Juno – Nominated producers: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith for Fox Searchlight Pictures
    • Michael Clayton – Nominated producers: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent for Warner Bros.
    • There Will Be Blood – Nominated producers: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi for Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films
  • 2008 Slumdog Millionaire – This movie was produced by Christian Colson for Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros.
    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Nominated producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin for Paramount, Warner Bros.
    • Frost/Nixon – Nominated producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner for Universal
    • Milk – Nominated producers: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks for Focus Features
    • The Reader – Nominated producers: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris for The Weinstein Co.

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