Academy Award for Best Picture (2000s) facts for kids

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards. Also called Oscars, the Academy Awards are given to people working in the movie industry by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 2000 to 2009 is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

• 2000 Gladiator – Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, & Branko Lustig
  • Chocolat – David Brown, Kit Golden, & Leslie Holleran
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (Taiwan) – William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, & Ang Lee
  • Erin Brockovich – Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher
  • Traffic – Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, & Laura Bickford

• 2001 A Beautiful Mind – Universal & DreamWorks – Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
  • Gosford Park – USA Films – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban & David Levy
  • In the Bedroom – Miramax – Graham Leader, Ross Katz & Todd Field
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – New Line – Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Barrie M. Osborne
  • Moulin Rouge! – 20th Century Fox – Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann & Fred Baron

• 2002 Chicago – Miramax – Martin Richards
  • Gangs of New York – Miramax – Alberto Grimaldi & Harvey Weinstein
  • The Hours – Paramount & Miramax – Scott Rudin & Robert Fox
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – New Line – Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson
  • The Pianist – Focus Features

• 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – New Line – Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, & Fran Walsh
  • Lost in Translation – Focus Features – Ross Katz & Sofia Coppola
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – 20th Century Fox – Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir & Duncan Henderson
  • Mystic River – Warner Brothers – Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt & Clint Eastwood
  • Seabiscuit – Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Gary Ross

• 2004 Million Dollar Baby – Warner Brothers – Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, & Tom Rosenburg
  • The Aviator – Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Warner Brothers – Michael Mann & Graham King
  • Finding Neverland – Miramax – Richard N. Gladstein & Nellie Bellflower
  • Ray – Universal – Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin & Howard Baldwin
  • Sideways – Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox – Michael London

• 2005 Crash – Lions Gate Films – Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman
  • Brokeback Mountain – Focus Features – Diana Ossana & James Schamus
  • Capote – Sony Pictures Classics – Caroline Baron, William Vince, & Michael Ohoven
  • Good Night, and Good Luck – Warner Bros. – Grant Heslov
  • Munich – Universal – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Barry Mendel

• 2006 The Departed – Warner Bros. – Graham King
  • Babel – Paramount Vantage – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, & Steve Golin
  • Letters from Iwo Jima – Warner Bros. & DreamWorks – Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, & Robert Lorenz
  • Little Miss Sunshine – Fox Searchlight – David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, & Marc Turtletaub
  • The Queen – Miramax Films & Pathé Pictures – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, & Tracey Seaward

• 2007 No Country for Old Men – Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Atonement – Focus Features – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
  • Juno – Fox Searchlight Pictures – Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
  • Michael Clayton – Warner Bros. – Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent
  • There Will Be Blood – Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films – JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi

• 2008 Slumdog Millionaire – Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros. – Christian Colson
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Paramount, Warner Bros. – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin
  • Frost/Nixon – Universal – Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner
  • Milk – Focus Features – Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
  • The Reader – The Weinstein Co. – Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris

• 2009 The Hurt Locker – Summit Entertainment – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
  • Avatar (2009 movie) – Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox– James Cameron, Jon Landau
  • The Blind Side – Warner Bros. – Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson
  • District 9 – TriStar – Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham
  • Inglourious Basterds – The Weinstein Co., Universal – Lawrence Bender
  • Precious – Lions Gate Entertainment – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
  • A Serious Man – Focus Features – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
  • Up – Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures– Jonas Rivera
  • Up in the Air – Paramount– Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman Jaspn Reitman