The 2000s are no more. Our top 50 of the decade has been finalised – let the retrospective investigation of the period begin. What did cinema in the 2000s leave us? What were the trends? How did cinema progress? What directors established themselves? What directors committed career suicide? What are your lasting memories of cinema in the 2000s?

Welcome to Top10Films’ Awards for the 2000s. Contenders fight for Best Performance, Best Character, Best Director, Most Memorable Scene, Funniest Moment, and Scariest Moment as well as Best First Ten Minutes and Best Ending.

“I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.” – Francois Truffaut
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For some American audiences the first introduction to Francois Truffaut was his turn as Claude Lacombe in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. For others, who had followed his work in France, he was the writer, …