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List of awards

• Best Actor
  Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
  
  The Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association....
   (1995–)
• Best Actress (1995–)
• Best Animated Film (1998–)
• Best Cast (2001–)
• Best Composer (1998–)
• Best Director (1995–)
• Best Documentary Film
• Best Film (1995–)
• Best Comedy Film (2005–)
• Best Family Film (1997–)
• Best Foreign Language Film (1995–)
• Best Song (1998–)
• Best Supporting Actor (1995–)
• Best Supporting Actress (1995–)
• Best Writer (2002–)
• Best Young Performer (1995–)
• Best Television Film

Films of the Month

2002

• January: La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room)
  The Son's Room
  
  The Son's Room is a 2001 film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of a loved one....
   
• February: Last Orders
  Last Orders (film)
  
  Last Orders is a 2001 in film Great Britain/Germany drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay is based on the 1996 in literature Booker Prize-winning Last Orders by Graham Swift....
  
• March: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 in film American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone and Peter Coyote....
  : The 20th Anniversary
• April: Nueve reinas (Nine Queens)
• May: Insomnia
  Insomnia (2002 film)
  
  Insomnia is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States remake of the 1997 Erik Skjoldbj?rg Insomnia . The film was directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank....
  
• June: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso): Director's Cut
• July: Road to Perdition
  Road to Perdition
  
  Road to Perdition is an Academy Award Winning, 2002 period piece drama film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins....
  
• August: One Hour Photo
  One Hour Photo
  
  One Hour Photo is an United States psychological thriller, written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the movie in the United States, and it also starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle....
  
• September: Moonlight Mile
  Moonlight Mile
  
  Moonlight Mile is a 2002 Film written and directed by Brad Silberling. This film was loosely inspired by writer/director Brad Silberling's own experience....
  
• October: Bowling for Columbine
  Bowling for Columbine
  
  Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 in film United States documentary film written, directed, produced by, and starring Michael Moore. It brought Moore international attention as a rising film director and won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, and t...
  
• November: Hable con ella (Talk to Her)
  Talk to Her
  
  Talk to Her is a 2002 in film film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almod?var, starring Javier C?mara, Dar?o Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores....
   
• December: Chicago
  Chicago (2002 film)
  
  Chicago is a musical film film adaptation of the Satire Musical theatre Chicago , the film explores the themes of celebrity and scandal in Jazz#History##1920s to 1950s Chicago, Illinois....
   *Academy Award for Best Picture*

2003

• January: Cidade de Deus (City of God)
  City of God (film)
  
  City of God is a Brazilian films of the 2000s Cinema of Brazil police procedural film directed by Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003 in film....
   
• February: Spider
  Spider (film)
  
  Spider is a 2002 in film psychological thriller directed by Canada David Cronenberg and based on Spider by Patrick McGrath , who also wrote the screenplay....
  
• March: Bend It Like Beckham
  Bend It Like Beckham
  
  Bend It Like Beckham is a United Kingdom film starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley released in 2002 in film in the UK and released in Canada and in India in March 2003....
   
• April: A Mighty Wind
  A Mighty Wind
  
  A Mighty Wind is a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert and the three groups that must come together to perform on national television for the first time in years....
  
• May: Finding Nemo
  Finding Nemo
  
  Finding Nemo is a 2002 in film CGI animation film. It was written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures....
  
• June: Whale Rider
• July: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 in film adventure film, based on the Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts....
  
• August: The Magdalene Sisters
  The Magdalene Sisters
  
  The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 in film film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalen Laundries': homes for women who were labeled as "fallen" by their families or society ....
   
• September: The Station Agent
  The Station Agent
  
  The Station Agent is a 2003 in film United States comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy . McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in Newfoundland, New Jersey won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay....
  
• October: Alien
  Alien (film)
  
  Alien is a 1979 science fiction film/horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto....
  
• November: In America
  In America
  
  In America is an Academy Award-nominated 2002 in film Ireland drama film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiography screenplay by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan focuses on an immigrant Irish family's efforts to survive in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter....
   
• December: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)
  
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 in film fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the The Two Towers and The Return of the King of J....
   *Academy Award for Best Picture*

2004

• January: Osama
  Osama (film)
  
  Osama is a 2003 in film film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. It tells a story about a young girl who disguises as a boy, Osama, that shows life under the Taliban, and was the first film to be shot entirely in that country since 1996 in film, when the Taliban r?gime banned the creation of all films....
   
• February: Good Bye, Lenin!
• March: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 in film United States drama film film by France director Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of science fiction film and neosurrealism to explore the nature of memory and Romantic love....
  
• April: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
• May: Shrek 2
  Shrek 2
  
  Shrek 2, released in the United States on 19 May 2004, is the 2004 in film Academy Award nominated sequel to the 2001 in film computer animation DreamWorks film Shrek in the Shrek ....
  
• June: Spider-Man 2
  Spider-Man 2
  
  Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Alvin Sargent and developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon....
  
• July: Maria, llena de gracia (Maria Full of Grace)
  Maria Full of Grace
  
  Maria Full of Grace is a joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay....
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• August: Ying xiong (Hero)
  Hero (2002 film)
  
  Hero is a Chinese films of the 2000s Cinema of China martial arts film, directed by Zhang Yimou with music by Tan Dun. Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the movie is loosely based on the legendary Jing Ke....
   
• September: Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)
  The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
  
  The Motorcycle Diaries is a biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara....
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• October: Sideways
  Sideways
  
  Sideways is an United States comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's Sideways , Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to the wine country of Santa Barbara....
  
• November: Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland
  
  Finding Neverland is a 2004 in film Great Britain/United States semi-biographical film directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee....
  
• December: Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda
  
  Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 in film historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees, by granting them shelter in the besieged H?t...
  

2005

• January: Les choristes (The Chorus)
• February: Inside Deep Throat
  Inside Deep Throat
  
  Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 in film Documentary film about the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society....
  
• March: The Upside of Anger
  The Upside of Anger
  
  The Upside of Anger is a 2005 in film romantic comedy film comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Binder and set in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan....
  
• April: Sin City
  Sin City (film)
  
  Sin City is a 2005 in film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is a Film noir based on Miller's graphic novel Sin City....
  
• May: Crash
  Crash (2004 film)
  
  Crash is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Germany drama film, written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005....
   *Academy Award for Best Picture*
• June: Cinderella Man
  Cinderella Man
  
  Cinderella Man is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States drama film by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname and inspired by the real life story of former Heavyweight List of Heavyweight Champions James J....
  
• July: Murderball
• August: The Constant Gardener
  The Constant Gardener (film)
  
  The Constant Gardener is a 2005 in film drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr? The Constant Gardener....
  
• September: A History of Violence
  A History of Violence (film)
  
  A History of Violence is an Academy Award-nominated 2005 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Germany crime film-thriller film directed by David Cronenberg, and written by Josh Olson, based on the graphic novel A History of Violence by John Wagner and Vince Locke....
  
• October: Good Night, and Good Luck.
  Good Night, and Good Luck.
  
  Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 in film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R....
  
• November: Walk the Line
  Walk the Line
  
  Walk the Line is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, directed by James Mangold and based on the life of country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash....
  
• December: Brokeback Mountain
  Brokeback Mountain
  
  Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....
  

2006

• January: Roving Mars
  Roving Mars
  
  Roving Mars is an IMAX documentary film about the development, launch, and operation of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit rover and Opportunity rover....
  
• February: Tsotsi
  Tsotsi
  
  Tsotsi is a 2005 in film film written and directed by Gavin Hood and set in a Soweto slum, near Johannesburg, South Africa. An adaptation of the novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard....
   
• March: V for Vendetta
  V for Vendetta (film)
  
  V for Vendetta is a 2005 in film cult film action film-Thriller film film director by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay....
  
• April: United 93
  United 93 (film)
  
  United 93 is a 2006 in film film written and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks....
  
• May: Over the Hedge
  Over the Hedge
  
  Over the Hedge is a print syndication comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. It tells the story of a raccoon, a turtle and a squirrel who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia, trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology while becoming enticed by it at the same time....
  
• June: no information
• July: Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine
  
  Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris....
  
• August: World Trade Center
  World Trade Center (film)
  
  World Trade Center is a true story 2006 in film disaster film, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers of New York City....
  
• September: Little Children
  Little Children (film)
  
  Little Children is a 2006 in film drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the Little Children by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay....
  
• October: Flags of Our Fathers
  Flags of Our Fathers (film)
  
  Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr....
  
• November: Borat!
  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  
  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 in film mockumentary comedy film starring the British people comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the Borat Sagdiyev of a fictitious Kazakhs journalist travelling through the United States, recording real-life interactions with Americans....
  
• December: Iwo Jima kara no tegami (Letters from Iwo Jima)
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  
  is a 2006 in film war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood whose cast includes Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers , which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoin...
  

2007

• January: Miss Potter
• February: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
  The Lives of Others
  
  The Lives of Others is a 2006 Germany drama film, marking the feature film debut of screenwriter and film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck....
   
• March: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Ken Loach film set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War . Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, this drama tells the story of two County Cork brothers, played by Cillian Murphy and P?draic Delaney, who join the Irish Republican Army to fight for Irish indep...
   
• April: Grindhouse
• May: Once
  Once (film)
  
  Once is a 2007 in film Republic of Ireland musical film written and directed by John Carney . Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard and Mark?ta Irglov? as struggling musicians....
   
• June: Sicko
  Sicko
  
  Sicko is a 2007 in film documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates the American health care system, focusing on its health insurance and pharmaceutical industry....
  
• July: Hairspray
  Hairspray (2007 film)
  
  Hairspray is a 2007 in film Cinema of the United States musical film produced by Craig Zadan/Neil Meron Productions and distributed by New Line Cinema....
  
• August: The Bourne Ultimatum
  The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
  
  The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum The Bourne Ultimatum. The film is a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy and the third film of the Bourne ....
  
• September: Eastern Promises and In the Shadow of the Moon
  In the Shadow of the Moon
  
  In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2006 United Kingdom documentary film about the United States' Apollo program. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award....
   
• October: Michael Clayton
  Michael Clayton (film)
  
  Michael Clayton is a 2007 in film United States drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson , Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack....
  
• November: No Country for Old Men
  No Country for Old Men (film)
  
  No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
  
• December: Juno
  Juno (film)
  
  Juno is a 2007 in film Cinema of Canada-Cinema of the United States comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her....
  

2008

• January: Cloverfield
  Cloverfield
  
  Cloverfield is a 2008 in film monster movie directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.Before the film's release Paramount Pictures carried out a viral marketing campaign to promote the film....
  
• February: The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)
  The Counterfeiters (film)
  
  The Counterfeiters is a 2006 Austrian-Germany film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazism during the Second World War to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forgery Bank of England currency....
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• March: Horton Hears a Who!
  Horton Hears a Who! (film)
  
  Horton Hears a Who! is a 2008 in film Computer-generated imagery-animated feature film based on the Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who!, the fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios, and the third Dr....
  

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