Best Actress 2000
by graveyardhang | created - 01 Sep 2019 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicEditing the Oscars: best performances by an actress in a leading role in a film released in the US in the year 2000.
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1. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Votes: 898,619 | Gross: $3.64M
Ellen Burstyn as infomercial and amphetamine-addicted widow Sara Goldfarb, losing all grip on reality in Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream”.
“I’m somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me.”
2. Erin Brockovich (2000)
R | 131 min | Biography, Drama
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick
Votes: 221,234 | Gross: $125.60M
Julia Roberts as abrasively determined real-life single mom legal clerk Erin Brockovich in Steven Soderbergh’s “Erin Brockovich”.
“When you’ve spent the past six years raising babies it’s real hard to find somebody who pays worth a damn— are ya getting every word of this down, honey, or am I talking too fast?”
3. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare
Votes: 116,791 | Gross: $4.18M
Björk as musical-loving Czech immigrant factory worker Selma Ježková, rapidly going blind and facing a grave injustice in Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark”.
“I’ve seen what I was and I know what I’ll be, I have seen it all, there is no more to see.”
4. You Can Count on Me (2000)
R | 111 min | Drama
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.
Director: Kenneth Lonergan | Stars: Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick, Amy Ryan, Michael Countryman
Votes: 31,416 | Gross: $9.18M
Laura Linney as responsible, structured single mom Sammy Prescott, her agitated wildness bubbling up to the surface when confronted with her brother’s instability in Kenneth Lonergan’s “You Can Count on Me”.
“Maybe it would be better if you just told me that I’m endangering my immortal soul and that if I don’t stop, I’m gonna burn in hell. Don’t you ever think that?”
5. The Contender (2000)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to derail her confirmation.
Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater
Votes: 25,011 | Gross: $17.87M
Joan Allen as reserved yet strongly principled Senator and vice presidential nominee Laine Hanson in Rod Lurie’s “The Contender”.
“I may be an atheist, but that does not mean I do not go to church. I do go to church. The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves, that gave women the right to vote, that gave us every freedom that we hold dear. My church is this very chapel of democracy that we sit in together, and I do not need God to tell me what are my moral absolutes.”
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 281,590 | Gross: $128.08M
Michelle Yeoh as Yu Shu Lien in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.
7. Chocolat (2000)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina
Votes: 201,941 | Gross: $71.51M
Juliette Binoche as Vianne Rocher in Lasse Hallström’s “Chocolat”.
8. Miss Congeniality (2000)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An F.B.I. Agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen
Votes: 230,216 | Gross: $106.81M
9. Audition (1999)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 89,213
Eihi Shiina as Asami Yamazaki in Takashi Miike’s “Audition”.
10. Scary Movie (2000)
R | 88 min | Comedy
A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans | Stars: Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans, Carmen Electra
Votes: 286,618 | Gross: $157.02M
11. Saving Grace (2000)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.
Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo
Votes: 19,327 | Gross: $12.12M
12. Small Time Crooks (2000)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Carolyn Saxon
Votes: 40,647 | Gross: $17.07M
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