The Auditorium Awards for 2000

While the quality of films, on average, lagged during the course of the year 2000, there were still a normal number of excellent products. A lackluster year it may have been, but great visionaries were still at work and exceptional films were still made. These are the best of the best in the year 2000.

 

BEST FILM Almost Famous Gladiator Requiem for a Dream Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Traffic	BEST DIRECTOR Ridley Scott (Gladiator) Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich)
BEST MUSIC Assorted (Almost Famous) Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) Hans Zimmer (Gladiator)	BEST PRODUCTION Chicken Run Gladiator Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Cell
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY John Mathieson (Gladiator) Matthew Libatique (Requiem for a Dream) Steven Soderbergh (aka Peter Andrews) (Traffic) Don Burgess (Cast Away) Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)	BEST PERFORMANCE Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream) Russell Crowe (Gladiator) Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) Tom Hanks (Cast Away)

 

OTHER CATERGORIES:

Best Screenplay: Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous)

Best Revival of an Old Thing: The Sword and Sandal Epic (Gladiator)

Best Movie-Related Web Event: The Internet Exclusive Preview of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Best Movie Web Site: Requiem for a Dream

Most Frustrating Film: The Cell
Worst New Trend: Releasing virtually every good movie in late December

Best Teaser Trailers: Pearl Harbor, The Perfect Storm
Best Full Trailers: Pearl Harbor, Scary Movie
Worst Full Trailers: Cast Away, What Lies Beneath

Favorite Individual Scene: The Battle of Carthage (Gladiator) Collapse (Requiem for a Dream) The Wave (The Perfect Storm) Firebird Suite (Fantasia 2000) Fight in the Trees (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Best DVD Release: Fight Club Special Edition The Ultimate Toy Box (Toy Story and Toy Story 2) Gladiator Signature Series Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition Se7en Platinum Series

 

Biggest Step for the Production of Films: The Lord of the Ring Trilogy's 14 Months of Principal Photography (October 1999 - December 2000, first film to be released Christmas 2001)

Changing the Face of Cinema (and Jim Carrey) Award: Rick Baker (Makeup Artist for The Grinch)
Redefining the Martial Arts Battle Award: Yuen Wo-Ping (Fight Choreographer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Most Hyped Film: The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, to be released Christmas 2001)

 

Thus concludes 2000.

Composed on 1/22/01