top five performances by year - 2000's

By: Naskajb​g Sdaoujn​ga

2000

1 Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me
2 Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me
3 Bruce Willis, Unbreakable
4 Christian Bale, American Psycho
5 John Cusack, High Fidelity

2001

1 Naomi Watts, Mulholland Dr
2 Jude Law, AI: Artificial Intelligence
3 Ryan Gosling, The Believer
4 Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn’t There
5 Jake Gyllenhaal, Donnie Darko

2002

1 Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
2 Edward Norton, 25th Hour
3 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch-Drunk Love
4 Adam Sandler, Punch-Drunk Love
5 Nicolas Cage, Adaptation

2003

1 Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass
2 Bill Murray, Lost in Translation
3 Tim Robbins, Mystic River
4 Albert Finney, Big Fish
5 Ewan McGregor, Big Fish

2004

1 Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2 Adrien Brody, The Village
3 Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village
4 Mark Ruffalo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5 Paul Giamatti, Sideways

2005

1 Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
2 Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man
3 Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
4 Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking
5 Christian Bale, The New World

2006

1 Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
2 Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
3 Jack Nicholson, The Departed
4 Paul Giamatti, Lady in the Water
5 Clive Owen, Children of Men

2007

1 Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
4 Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
5 Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2008

1 Josh Brolin, W
2 Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
3 Tom Hardy, Bronson
4 Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
5 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche New York

2009

1 Sam Rockwell, Moon
2 Colin Firth, A Single Man
3 Aggeliki Papoulia, Dogtooth
4 Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
5 Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones

• 01
  25th Hour
  Spike Lee
• 02
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 03
  A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  Steven Spielberg
• 04
  American Psycho
  Mary Harron
• 05
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 06
  The Believer
  Henry Bean
• 07
  Big Fish
  Tim Burton
• 08
  Brokeback Mountain
  Ang Lee
• 09
  Bronson
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 10
  Cinderella Man
  Ron Howard
• 11
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 12
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 13
  The Departed
  Martin Scorsese
• 14
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 15
  Dogtooth
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 16
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 17
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 18
  Gangs of New York
  Martin Scorsese
• 19
  Half Nelson
  Ryan Fleck
• 20
  High Fidelity
  Stephen Frears
• 21
  Lady in the Water
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 22
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 23
  The Lovely Bones
  Peter Jackson
• 24
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  Joel Coen
• 25
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 26
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 27
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 28
  Mystic River
  Clint Eastwood
• 29
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 30
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 31
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 32
  Shattered Glass
  Billy Ray
• 33
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 34
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 35
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 36
  Thank You for Smoking
  Jason Reitman
• 37
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 38
  Unbreakable
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 39
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 40
  The Village
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 41
  W.
  Oliver Stone
• 42
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 43
  You Can Count on Me
  Kenneth Lonergan