Wednesday, February 19, 2025

List: Top 10 Movies of 2000

This week on Episode 599 of the InSession Film Podcast, we continued our year-by-year retrospective series by taking a look at 2000, a little bit of a mixed bag on the whole. It wasn’t the greatest year for Hollywood mainstream films, with a few notable exceptions, but it was a spectacular year for auteurs and foreign film. The year 2000 saw greatness from our best filmmakers, including Claire Denis, Ang Lee, the Coen brothers, Spike Lee, Lars von Trier, Edward Yang and Jim Jarmusch. We were also introduced to the amazing Sofia Coppola and Lynn Ramsay. As for Hollywood, it was a banner year for Steven Soderbergh, who famously had two films nominated for Best Picture, all while winning the Oscar for Best Director. Cameron Crowe had a stellar year with Almost Famous and his Oscar for writing. And, of course, the legendary Ridley Scott with his Best Picture winning Gladiator. Maybe not the best year overall, but the top-end of 2000 was still excellent. That said, what would be your Top 10?

NOTE: We spend most of our time only discussing our Top 10 movies of 2000, however, as you’ll see below, we have listed our full Top 20 lists from that year.

JD
1) Almost Famous
2) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4) Dancer in the Dark
5) Yi Yi
6) Beau Travail
7) Bamboozled
8) Traffic
9) Ratcatcher
10) Unbreakable
11) Requiem for a Dream
12) The Virgin Suicides
13) Gladiator
14) Cast Away
15) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
16) State and Main
17) American Psycho
18) You Can Count On Me
19) George Washington
20) Shadow of the Vampire

Brendan
1) Almost Famous
2) Yi Yi
3) Dancer in the Dark
4) Love & Basketball
5) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7) Erin Brockovich
8) Beau Travail
9) The Virgin Suicides
10) Cast Away
11) Unbreakable
12) State and Main
13) Girl Fight
14) American Psycho
15) Gladiator
16) Bamboozled
17) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
18) Bring It On
19) Remember the Titans
20) Ratcatcher

Hopefully you guys enjoyed our lists and if you agree or disagree with us, let us know in the comment section below. Clearly there are a lot of other contenders from 2000 that battled for our lists, that just missed the cut. That being said, what would be your Top 10? Leave a comment in the comment section or email us at [email protected].

For the entire podcast, click here or listen below.

For more lists done by the InSession Film crew and other guests, be sure see our Top Movie Lists page.

JD Duran
JD Duranhttps://insessionfilm.com
InSession Film founder and owner. I love film. Love art. Love how it intersects with our real lives. My favorite movies include Citizen Kane, The 400 Blows, Modern Times, The Godfather and The Tree of Life. Follow me on Twitter @RealJDDuran. Follow us @InSessionFilm.

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