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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a third season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is….
They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from each year.
This episode, they discuss the 2000 Oscars, including Best Picture winner, Gladiator. Elsewhere in the episode, they they praise Julia Roberts’s movie star performance in Erin Brockovich and cringe at how poorly Steven Soderbergh’s other film that year, Traffic, has aged.
The other nominees for Picture that year were Chocolat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich and Traffic.
For the other major categories, the nominees for the 2000 Oscars were:
Best Director:
Steven Soderbergh – Traffic
Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ridley Scott – Gladiator
Stephen Daldry – Billy Elliot
Steven Soderbergh – Erin Brockovich
Best Actor:
Russell Crowe – Gladiator
Ed Harris – Pollock
Geoffrey Rush – Quills
Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls
Tom Hanks – Cast Away
Best Supporting Actor:
Benicio Del Toro – Traffic
Albert Finney – Erin Brockovich
Jeff Bridges – The Contender
Joaquin Phoenix – Gladiator
Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire
Best Actress:
Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream
Joan Allen – The Contender
Juliette Binoche – Chocolat
Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me
Best Supporting Actress:
Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock
Frances McDormand – Almost Famous
Judi Dench – Chocolat
Julie Walters – Billy Elliot
Kate Hudson – Almost Famous
Listen to the previous episode here.
