My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices if new viewings are worthy enough. Other published Film Honors posts can be found at the menu at the top of the page.
Costume Designing
Faa yeung nin wa
Gosford Park
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Monsoon Wedding
Moulin Rouge!
Set Designing
Faa yeung nin wa
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!
Actor Lead
Eric Bana (Chopper)
Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)
Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Faa yeung nin wa)
Denzel Washington (Training Day)
Actor Support
Jim Broadbent (Iris)
Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!)
Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Jude Law (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
Cast Ensemble
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Le goût des autres
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mulholland Drive
Screenwriting Adapted
Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World)
Todd Field, Robert Festinger (In the Bedroom)
Steve Kloves (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
Special Effects
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Jurassic Park III
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pearl Harbor
Sound Designing
Black Hawk Down
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Monsters, Inc.
Shrek
Directing
Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Michael Haneke (La pianiste)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
Hayao Miyazaki (Mononoke-hime)
Picture Editing
Black Hawk Down
Faa yeung nin wa
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
Moulin Rouge!
Mulholland Drive
Cinematography
Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
Bruno Delbonnel (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
Christopher Doyle, Ping Bin Lee (Faa yeung nin wa)
Slawomir Idziak (Black Hawk Down)
Guillermo Navarro (El espinazo del diablo)
Screenwriting Original
Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
Wong Kar-wai (Faa yeung nin wa)
Michael Haneke (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
Score Composing
Angelo Badalamenti (Mulholland Drive)
Michael Galasso, Shigeru Umebayashi (Faa yeung nin wa)
James Horner (A Beautiful Mind)
Yann Tiersen (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
Hans Zimmer (Pearl Harbor)
Actress Lead
Juliette Binoche (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages)
Judi Dench (Iris)
Isabelle Huppert (La pianiste)
Audrey Tautou (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
Actress Support
Kate Winslet (Iris)
Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
Gwyneth Paltrow (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Frances O’Connor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
Motion Picture
Amores perros (Alejandro G. Iñárritu) Mexico
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Michael Haneke) France / Germany / Romania
Gosford Park (Robert Altman) UK
Faa yeung nin wa (Kar-Wai Wong) Hong Kong
La pianiste (Michael Haneke) France / Austria / Germany
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) France / Germany
Le goût des autres (Agnès Jaoui) France
Mononoke-hime (Hayao Miyazaki) Japan
Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair) India / USA
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) USA
Filmotomy 
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