Retro Muriels: 2001

Best Picture:
Waking Life
Audition
The Royal Tenenbaums
Code Unknown
Mulholland Dr.
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Eureka
Gosford Park
Werckmeister Harmonies
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Best Director:
Takashi Miike, Audition
Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums
Richard Linklater, Waking Life
Michael Haneke, Code Unknown
David Lynch, Mulholland Dr.

Best Lead Performance, Female:
Charlotte Rampling, Under the Sand
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr.
Kim Dickens, Things Behind the Sun
Lina Endre, Faithless
Thora Birch, Ghost World

Best Lead Performance, Male:
Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom
Gene Hackman, The Royal Tenenbaums
Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn’t There
Eric Bana, Chopper
Koji Yakusho, Eureka

Best Supporting Performance, Male:
Tony Shalhoub, The Man Who Wasn’t There
Steve Buscemi, Ghost World
Jude Law, A.I.
Justin Theroux, Mulholland Dr.
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast

Best Supporting Performance, Female:
Juliette Binoche, Code Unknown
Piper Perabo, Lost and Delirious
Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom
Eihi Shiina, Audition
Mary McDonnell, Donnie Darko

Best Screenplay:
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Gosford Park
The Royal Tenenbaums
Donnie Darko
Memento

Best Ensemble Performance:
Gosford Park
Va Savoir
Together
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Royal Tenenbaums

Best Cinematography:
In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle and Mark-li Ping-bin)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Roger Deakins)
Werckmeister Harmonies (de Ranter/Gurban/Lanzensberger/Medvigy/Novak/Tregenza)
A.I. (Janusz Kaminski)
Code Unknown (Jürgen Jürges)

Best Music:
Waking Life (Glover Gill and the Tosca Tango Orchestra)
Monsters, Inc. (Randy Newman)
A.I. (John Williams)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Carter Burwell)

Best Cinematic Breakthrough:
Naomi Watts (actor- Mulholland Dr.)
Eric Bana (actor- Chopper)
John Cameron Mitchell (actor/director/writer- Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Richard Kelly (director/writer- Donnie Darko)
Bob Sabiston (animator- Waking Life)

Best Body of Work:
Richard Linklater (director/writer- Waking Life, Tape)
Billy Bob Thornton (actor- The Man Who Wasn’t There, Monster’s Ball, Bandits)
Marisa Tomei (actor- In the Bedroom, Happy Accidents)
Juliette Binoche (actor- Code Unknown, The Widow of St. Pierre)
Ethan Hawke (actor- Tape, Waking Life, Training Day)

Best Cinematic Moment:
Werckmeister Harmonies – cosmos (opening scene)
Code Unknown – subway confrontation
Audition – the phone rings
Mulholland Dr. – “let’s play this one niiiiiiiiice and close”
Monsters, Inc. – doors chase
The Man Who Wasn’t There – tar macadam
Zoolander – gasoline fight
Mulholland Dr. – Castigliani bros.
Tuvalu – nude swim with fishbowl
The Pledge – Mickey Rourke