2000s: My Ballots

Due to time constraints, I am only doing ballots for the Academy's top eight categories. Until I get to the other decades, enjoy my ballots from 2000-2009 after the jump.

2009:

Best Picture:
The Hurt Locker
In the Loop
Lorna's Silence
A Prophet
Summer Hours (winner)

Best Director:
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours (winner)
Jacques Audiard, A Prophet
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Lorna's Silence
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon

Best Actor:
Colin Firth, A Single Man (winner)
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Tahir Rahim, A Prophet
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Sam Rockwell, Moon

Best Actress:
Penelope Cruz, Broken Embraces
Arta Dobroshi, Lorna's Silence
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Carey Mulligan, An Education (winner)
Tilda Swinton, Julia

Best Supporting Actor:
Niels Arestrup, A Prophet (winner)
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress:
Marion Cotillard, Nine (winner)
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Mo'Nique, Precious
Rosamund Pike, An Education
Vinessa Shaw, Two Lovers

Best Adapted Screenplay:
An Education
In the Loop (winner)
Public Enemies
Star Trek
Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay:
Broken Embraces (winner)
Lorna's Silence
A Prophet
Summer Hours
Two Lovers  

2008:

Best Picture:
The Class
Flight of the Red Balloon
Hunger
In Bruges (winner)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Director:
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Laurent Cantent, The Class
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges (winner)
Steve McQueen, Hunger

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
Colin Farrell, In Bruges (winner)
Michael Fassbender, Hunger
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress:
Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon (winner)
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor:
Ralph Fiennes, In Bruges
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (winner)
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress:
Hiam Abbass, The Visitor
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vera Farmiga, Nothing But the Truth
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (winner)
Elsa Zylberstein, I've Loved You So Long

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Class (winner)
Flight of the Red Balloon
Let the Right One In
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Original Screenplay:
A Christmas Tale
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges (winner)
I've Loved You So Long
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

2007:

Best Picture:
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (winner)
Gone Baby Gone
Once
There Will Be Blood

Best Director:
Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (winner)
Joe Wright, Atonement

Best Actor:
Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (winner)
Christian Bale, Rescue Dawn
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best Actress:
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose (winner)
Ashley Judd, Bug
Sienna Miller, Interview
Keri Russell, Waitress
Charlize Theron, In the Valley of Elah

Best Supporting Actor:
Russell Crowe, American Gangster (winner)
Stephen Graham, This is England
Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Man
Max von Sydow, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn

Best Supporting Actress:
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Emily Mortimer, Lars and the Real Girl
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton (winner)
Naomi Watts, Eastern Promises

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (winner)
Gone Baby Gone
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Original Screenplay:
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (winner)
Eastern Promises
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Michael Clayton
We Own the Night

2006:

Best Picture:
After the Wedding
Children of Men (winner)
The Departed
The Prestige
The Proposition

Best Director:
Susanne Bier, After the Wedding
Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men (winner)
John Hillcoat, The Proposition
Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Jude Law, Breaking and Entering (winner)
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Ray Winstone, The Proposition

Best Actress:
Ivana Baquero, Pan's Labyrinth
Penelope Cruz, Volver (winner)
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Kirsten Dunst, Marie Antoinette
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Hollander, A Good Year
Danny Huston, The Proposition
Anthony Mackie, Half Nelson (winner)
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Michael Sheen, The Queen

Best Supporting Actress:
Juliette Binoche, Breaking and Entering
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Stine Fischer Christensen, After the Wedding
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel (winner)
Jodie Whittaker, Venus

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Casino Royale
Children of Men
The Departed (winner)
The Last King of Scotland
The Prestige

Best Original Screenplay:
After the Wedding (winner)
Breaking and Entering
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Stranger Than Fiction

2005:

Best Picture:
Cache (winner)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
A History of Violence
L'Enfant
Match Point

Best Director:
Woody Allen, Match Point
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, L'Enfant
Michael Haneke, Cache (winner)

Best Actor:
Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man
Johnny Depp, The Libertine (winner)
Robert Downey Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
Jeremie Renier, L'Enfant

Best Actress:
Juliette Binoche, Cache
Deborah Francois, L'Enfant
Keira Knightley, Pride and Prejudice (winner)
Radha Mitchell, Melinda and Melinda
Liv Ullmann, Saraband

Best Supporting Actor:
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man (winner)
Ed Harris, A History of Violence
Terrence Howard, Crash
Barry Pepper, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Peter Sarsgaard, Jarhead

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, Junebug
Maria Bello, A History of Violence 
Julia Dufvenius, Saraband (winner)
Scarlett Johansson, Match Point
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Batman Begins
A History of Violence (winner)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Munich
Pride and Prejudice

Best Original Screenplay:
Cache
The Family Stone
L'Enfant (winner) 
Match Point 
The Squid and the Whale

2004:

Best Picture:
The Aviator
Before Sunset (winner)
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Motorcycle Diaries

Best Director:
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Richard Linklater, Before Sunset (winner)
Mike Nichols, Closer
Walter Salles, The Motorcycle Diaries
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator

Best Actor:
Jeff Bridges, The Door in the Floor
Matt Damon, The Bourne Supremacy
Gael Garcia Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset (winner)

Best Actress:
Julie Delpy, Before Sunset (winner)
Nicole Kidman, Birth
Julia Roberts, Closer
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor:
Paul Bettany, Dogville
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Jude Law, Closer
Clive Owen, Closer (winner)
Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Natalie Portman, Closer (winner)
Naomi Watts, We Don't Live Here Anymore

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Before Sunset (winner)
The Bourne Supremacy
Closer
The Motorcycle Diaries
Sideways

Best Original Screenplay:
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (winner)
The Incredibles
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Vera Drake

2003:

Best Picture:
City of God
Gerry
Lost in Translation (winner)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 

Best Director:
Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation (winner)
Fernando Meirelles, City of God
Gus van Sant, Gerry
Gore Verbinski, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Peter Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Best Actor:
Casey Affleck & Matt Damon, Gerry
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Manic
Bill Murray, Lost in Translation (winner)
Sean Penn, Mystic River

Best Actress:
Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation (winner) 
Charlize Theron, Monster
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 
Naomi Watts, 21 Grams
Evan Rachel Wood, Thirteen

Best Supporting Actor:
Kevin Bacon, Mystic River
Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
Don Cheadle, Manic
Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams (winner)
Djimon Hounsou, In America

Best Supporting Actress:
Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog
Monica Bellucci, Irreversible
Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent
Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River (winner)
Sophie Okonedo, Dirty Pretty Things

Best Adapted Screenplay:
American Splendor
City of God (winner)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Best Original Screenplay:
Dirty Pretty Things
Finding Nemo
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Lost in Translation (winner)
Love Actually

2002:

Best Picture:
Minority Report
Signs
Spirited Away (winner)
25th Hour
Y Tu Mama También

Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love
Spike Lee, 25th Hour
Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away (winner)
M. Night Shyamalan, Signs
Steven Spielberg, Minority Report

Best Actor:
Adrien Brody, The Pianist (winner)
Nicolas Cage, Adaptation
Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can
Olivier Gourmet, The Son
Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt

Best Actress:
Jennifer Aniston, The Good Girl
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Diane Lane, Unfaithful
Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven (winner)
Maribel Verdu, Y Tu Mama También

Best Supporting Actor:
Chris Cooper, Adaptation
Tom Hanks, Catch Me If You Can
Paul Newman, Road to Perdition
Barry Pepper, 25th Hour (winner)
Christopher Walken, Catch Me If You Can

Best Supporting Actress:
Rosario Dawson, 25th Hour
Julianne Moore, The Hours
Samantha Morton, Minority Report
Meryl Streep, Adaptation
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago (winner)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Adaptation (winner)
The Bourne Identity
Insomnia
Minority Report
25th Hour

Best Original Screenplay:
All or Nothing
Signs  
Spirited Away
Talk to Her
Y Tu Mama También (winner)

2001:

Best Picture:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Amelie (winner)
Ghost World
Lantana
Memento

Best Director:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie
Ray Lawrence, Lantana
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive
Christopher Nolan, Memento
Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (winner)

Best Actor:
Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind
Ethan Hawke, Tape
Haley Joel Osment, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Guy Pearce, Memento (winner)
Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom

Best Actress:
Thora Birch, Ghost World
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge!
Audrey Tautou, Amelie
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive (winner)
Renee Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary

Best Supporting Actor:
Paul Bettany, A Knight's Tale
Steve Buscemi, Ghost World
Brian Cox, L.I.E.
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast (winner)
Jude Law, A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Best Supporting Actress:
Cameron Diaz, Vanilla Sky
Frances O'Connor, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom
Uma Thurman, Tape (winner)
Kate Winslet, Iris

Best Adapted Screenplay:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ghost World
In the Bedroom
Lantana (winner)
Tape

Best Original Screenplay:
Amelie
Gosford Park
Memento (winner)
Mulholland Drive
The Royal Tenenbaums

2000:

Best Picture:
Amores Perros
Code Unknown (winner)
In the Mood for Love
Requiem for a Dream
Werckmeister Harmonies

Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream
Michael Haneke, Code Unknown (winner)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Amores Perros
Wong Kar-Wai, In the Mood for Love
Bela Tarr, Werckmeister Harmonies

Best Actor:
Christian Bale, American Psycho
Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls (winner)
Russell Crowe, Gladiator
Michael Douglas, Wonder Boys
Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me

Best Actress:
Juliette Binoche, Code Unknown
Bjork, Dancer in the Dark (winner)
Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me
Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

Best Supporting Actor:
Benicio Del Toro, Traffic
Emilio Echevarria, Amores Perros
Gael Garcia Bernal, Amores Perros
Gary Oldman, The Contender
Joaquin Phoenix, Quills (winner)

Best Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream (winner)
Kate Hudson, Almost Famous
Connie Nielsen, Gladiator
Goya Toledo, Amores Perros
Kate Winslet, Quills

Best Adapted Screenplay:
High Fidelity
O' Brother, Where Art Thou?
Requiem for a Dream
Traffic (winner)
Wonder Boys

Best Original Screenplay:
Almost Famous
Amores Perros (winner)
Billy Elliot
Code Unknown
You Can Count on Me