In case you missed or didn’t make through our podcast on Sunday, we announced the winners of the Awards Circuit Community Awards for Year 2000. All I can say is, when the readers have favorites, you guys and gals make it known. Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream was the big winner with five ACCAs including Motion Picture, Director (Darren Aronofsky), and Lead Actress (Ellen Burstyn). The film was also runner-up in the six other categories it was nominated in. Christian Bale won Best Actor for his portrayal in American Psycho while Benicio del Toro mirrored his Oscar win in Supporting Actor in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, which also won Adapted Screenplay and Cast Ensemble. Kate Hudson beat out her co-star in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous and took the Supporting Actress prize along with Crowe’s screenplay being rewarded in the Original category. Heavy favorite Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee, won some technicals including a runner-up spot in Best Picture. Oscar’s Best Picture Winner Gladiator won a couple of technical awards as well.
Starting Monday, July 30th, we will open up voting for ACCA: Best of the Decades. All the winnners, chosen by the Awardscircuit.com readership will face-off in all the categories with one film and many performances being named the “Best of the Decade.” Gear up.
Full winners of ACCA 2000 are listed below after the jump.
Best Picture – Requiem for a Dream
Runner Up – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best Director – Darren Aronofsky – Requiem for a Dream
Runner Up – Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best Actor – Christian Bale – American Psycho
Runner Up – Tom Hanks – Cast Away
Best Actress – Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream
Runner Up – Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
Best Supporting Actor – Benicio del Toro – Traffic
Runner Up – Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator) & Brad Pitt (Snatch.) (TIE)
Best Supporting Actress – Kate Hudson – Almost Famous
Runner Up – Jennifer Connelly – Requiem for a Dream
Best Original Screenplay – Cameron Crowe – Almost Famous
Runner Up – Lee Hall – Billy Elliott
Best Adapted Screenplay – Stephen Gaghan – Traffic
Runner Up – Darren Aronofsky & Hubert Selby Jr – Requiem for a Dream
Best Cast Ensemble – Traffic
Runner Up – Requiem for a Dream
Best Art Direction – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Runner Up – The Cell
Best Cinematography – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Runner Up – Requiem for a Dream
Best Costume Design – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon & Gladiator (TIE)
Runner Up – Almost Famous
Best Film Editing – Requiem for a Dream
Runner Up – Traffic
Best Sound Mixing – Gladiator
Runner Up – Requiem for a Dream
Best Sound Editing – Gladiator
Runner Up – Requiem for a Dream
Best Visual Effects – X-Men
Runner Up – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best Makeup – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Runner Up – X-Men
Best Original Score – Requiem for a Dream
Runner Up – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best Foreign Language Film – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Runner Up – Amores Perros
Best Documentary Feature – Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey
Runner Up – Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindersport & Long Night’s Journey Into Day (TIE)
Comment and discuss! If you missed the Editor’s choices for Year 2000 (The Davis Awards), check them out HERE.
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7 Comments
This may in fact be my favorite ACCA yet…good job readers!
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
Christian Bale’s win is so out of left field that it may indeed be the biggest shocker ever.
GL(Quote) (Reply)
It was definitely a surprise.
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
Even though I didn’t vote for him, I’m actually glad that Bale won. I like it when the community shows initiative to be independent, even when I don’t necessarily agree. in fact, most of the selections for this ACCA showed a lot of interesting choices. Good on the community for this one.
Looking forward to the Best of the Decade ACCA. Should be interesting.
Josh P.(Quote) (Reply)
Requiem won over Traffic? Really? Soderbergh even missed out on director, what a shame. Requiem is a fantastic movie, don’t get me wrong, but Traffic is a masterclass in film making. Grow up guys.
George(Quote) (Reply)
I can’t stand Kate Hudson in Almost Famous. She almost ruins the whole movie for me. Other than that the rest of the awards look good to me.
Jeremy DC(Quote) (Reply)
@ Josh P: That’s exactly my mentality of these awards. I don’t care how much the readership and I disagree (which we usually do), so long as they show their individuality and not just go with the flow of awards season politics.
@ George: Hang on, you’re angry at the AC readership for selecting a mere “fantastic movie” over “a masterclass in film making?” Man, some people are hard to please. I’m perfectly content when a voting body chooses a DECENT movie as their favorite, let alone one I would call fantastic.
@ Jeremy DC: I feel your pain, man…
Robert Hamer(Quote) (Reply)