I'll post a couple of categories now and some more later.....

Best Picture

City of God (2003)
Before Sunset (2004)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Mystic River (2003)
Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003)
Memento (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Mullholland Drive (2001)

Best Visual Effects

Spiderman 2 (2004)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2002)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Gladiator (2000)
I, Robot (2004)

Those who have sent in ballots:

alex young
Chris

TOTAL: 2

That's really good so far! I wasn't expecting any yet. Awesome guys. And your ballots are really well filled out. Thanks!!

PEACE, Mike.

If you want to post mine, you're more than welcome to Mike.

Those who have sent in ballots:

alex young
Chris
insein-darko
MikeQ.

TOTAL: 4

Excellent submissions thus far! Thank you folks.

PEACE, Mike.

Those who have sent in ballots:

alex young
Chris
insein-darko
MikeQ.
trixster
Amos

TOTAL: 6

Excellent start so far! 6 ballots already. Thank you sooo much to those who have sent in ballots and those who plan to send in ballots! Remember, deadline: Midnight, February 1st, 2006.

PEACE, Mike.

Working on this list is fun, but its starting to give me a headache. A certain Julianne Moore movie is doing really well.

Will there be 10/5 'final' nominees as on our ballots?

If one wants to refresh some memory, here is a good place to start on what were the most critically acclaimed movies of the last 5 years (upper right corner for year index).

I'm seeing Kong tonight, so when I get back I'll have seen all the movies I need to make my list.(I wish I could see Munich and Match Point actually, but they won't come to my town...I'll have to wait until DVDs.)

Films eligible for these awards are those released from 2000 - 2004.

I believe.

Yep, that's correct.

Ok.

Kong didn't make it anyways, it would've just missed the cut.

Those who have sent in ballots:

alex young
Chris
insein-darko
MikeQ.
trixster
Amos
Stillnasatic

TOTAL: 7

Woohoo! Keep 'em coming, folks! You are all making excellent picks and forming nicely complete ballots! Love it.

PEACE, Mike.

Please give some love to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and their cast!

I'll have my ballot ready in time.

I'm so close to done, and yet.......so not there.

Anyone want to offer up any Supporting FYC's to help a ballot in need?

For Your Consideration:
Far From Heaven (2002)
-Best Picture
-Best Director, Todd Haynes
-Best Actress, Julianne Moore
-Best Supporting Actor, Dennis Quaid
-Best Score

If you count her as supporting...

Natalie Portman - Garden State

No forgetsies The Emperor's New Groove.

Or Eternal Sunshine.

Yes, for all of the categories you are nominating 10, there will be 10 nominees. All of the 5 categories will have 5.

Here are my final, or near-final, lists for Picture and Director, if it gives any ideas (there may be minor edits here and there after a while, if I realized I missed anything):

Best Film

The Hours (2002)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Memento (2001)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Best Director

Martin Sorcese, The Aviator (2004)
Baz Luhrrman, Moulin Rouge (2001)
Ridley Scott, Gladiator (2000)
Stephen Daldry, The Hours (2002)
Roman Polanski, The Pianist (2003)
Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Richard Linklater, Before Sunset (2004)

PEACE, Mike.

Holly Hunter for Thirteen, Jennifer Connelly for Requiem for a Dream and A Beautiful Mind, Michelle Pfeiffer in White Oleander, Maria Bello for The Cooler, and Natalie Portman for both Closer and Garden State.

10 Movies in each category perhaps?

Best Picture
1)Lord of the Rings the Return of the King
2)Lord of the Rings the Two Towers
3)Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring
4)Training Day
5)Million Dollar Baby
6)The Legend of Bagger Vance
7)Gladiator
8)Jarhead
9)Ray
10)Almost Famous
(if you want to count LOTR as one movie then...)
11)The Incredibles
12)King Kong

Best Director
1)Peter Jackson-The Lord of the Rings Saga
2)Steven Spielberg-Munich
3)Brad Bird-The Incredibles
4)Clint Eastwood-Million Dollar Baby
5)Ang Lee-Brokeback Mountain
6)Michael Mann-Collateral
7)Sam Mendes-Jarhead
8)Quentin Tarantino-Kill Bill Vol. II
9)Christopher Nolan-Batman Begins
10)Ridley Scott-Gladiator

Best Actor
1)Jamie Foxx-Ray
2)Denzel Washington-Training Day
3)Russel Crowe-Gladiator
4)Tom Cruise-Collateral
5)Heath Ledger-Brokeback Mountain
6)Leonardo DiCaprio-The Aviator
7)Johnny Depp-Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
8)Tom Hanks-Cast Away
9)Russel Crowe-A Beautiful Mind
10)Will Smith-Ali

Best Actress
1)Hilary Swank-Million Dollar Baby
2)Halle Berry-Monster's Ball
3)Annette Bening-Being Julia
4)Ellen Burstyn-Requiem for a Dream
5)Julia Roberts-Erin Brokovich
6)Reese Witherspoon-Walk the Line
7)Renee Zellwegger-Bridget Jones's Diary
8)Diane Lane-Unfaithful
9)Charlize Theron-Monster
10)Maria Bello-A History of Violence

It's just 00-04 Papi. Kong, Brokeback, WTL don't count.

Just sent mine in. Held off for a while (meaning I kind of forgot about it).

I'm finally finished...

Best Picture:
Garden State
Moulin Rouge
Almost Famous
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Notebook
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Zoolander
Finding Nemo
Kill Bill Vol. 1
The Ring

Best Director:
Zach Braff - Garden State
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill Vol. 1
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Charlie Kaufman - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz Luurhman - Moulin Rouge

Best Actor:
Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Tom Hanks - Cast Away
Zach Braff - Garden State
Ryan Gosling - The Notebook
Sean Penn - I Am Sam
Billy Bob Thornton - Bad Santa
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribeann: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Paul Giamatti - Sideways
Ben Stiller - Zoolander
Sean Penn - Mystic River

Best Actress:
Natalie Portman - Garden State
Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge
Kate Hudson - Almost Famous
Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Vol. 1
Rachel McAdams - The Notebook
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Scarlett Johansson - Lost In Translation
Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
Keira Knightley - Pirates of the Caribeann: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Best Supporting Actress:
Rachel McAdams - Mean Girls
Virginia Madson - Sideways
Catherine Zeta Jones - Chicago
Cameron Diaz - Vanilla Sky
Marcia Gay Harden - Mystic River
Kirsten Dunst - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom
Sandra Oh - Sideways
Gena Rowlands - The Notebook
Nicole Kidman - Birthday Girl

Best Supporting Actor:
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
Billy Crudup - Almost Famous
Peter Saarsgrad - Garden State
Christopher Walken - Catch Me if You Can
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Almost Famous
Tim Robbins - Mystic River
John C. Reilly - Chicago
Owen Wilson - Zoolander
Djimon Hounsou - In America

Best Score/Music:
Not Another Teen Movie
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Pirates of the Caribeann: The Curse of the Black Pearl
8 Mile
Moulin Rouge
Alfie
Almost Famous
Rock Star
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Zoolander

Best Visual Effects:
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Incredibles
Spider-man 2
The Matrix Reloaded
I, Robot
The Day After Tomorrow
X2: X-Men United
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Foreign Film:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Barbarian Invasions
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Bollywood Hollywood
City of God
Talk to Her
Spirited Away
Amelie
Y U Mama Tambien
House of Flying Daggers

Best Overall Director:
Peter Jackson(Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Quentin Tarantino(Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Once Upon A Time in Mexico)
M. Night Shyamalyn(Unbreakable, Signs, The Village)
Ang Lee(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Hulk)
Zach Braff(Garden State)

Best Overall Actress:
Rachel McAdams(The Notebook, Mean Girls, The Hot Chick)
Kate Winslet(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life of David Gale, Finding Neverland, Iris)
Natalie Portman(Garden State, Closer, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones)
Nicole Kidman(Moulin Rouge, The Hours, Cold Mountain, The Others, Birthday Girl)
Meryl Streep(AI: Artifical Intelligence, The Hours, Adaptation, The Manchurian Candidate, Lemony
Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Best Overall Actor:
Sean Penn(I Am Sam, Mystic River, 21 Grams, The Assasanation of Richard Nixon)
Tom Hanks(Cast Away, Road to Perdition, The Ladykillers, The Terminal, Catch Me if You Can)
Johnny Depp(Chocolat, Blow, From Hell, Pirates of the Caribeann: The Curse of the Black Pearl,
Finding Neverland, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Secret Window)
Paul Giamatti(Big Fat Liar, American Splender, Sideways, Paycheck)
Russell Crowe(Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Proof of Life, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World)

...

God, actors are owning actresses so bad in the 2000s. I was overflowing with over 15 possible nominees for each of the actor categories, and struggling my ass off at 6 and 7 nominees for the actresses. And look at that Best Overall Actor vs Best Overall Actress list. Complete ownage.

Those who have sent in ballots:

alex young
Chris
insein-darko
MikeQ.
trixster
Amos
Stillnasatic
Dkmuto
Shack

TOTAL: 9

I'm pretty happy with the progress so far! Would be happier with more by now, but I wasn't sure if anyone would participate. Keep 'em coming folks! Excellent entries, seriously. Keep it up! My goal is 25 ballots. Can we reach that goal? I hope so.

PEACE, Mike.

most people are voting for Kill Bill Vol. 1, so it'd be wise for me to do the same (if I want the movie to do well), but can I count it as a whole (Vol. 1 + 2)?

I don't think that is wise, since then we have to question all split films/trilogies. I wouldn't allow anyone to put all three Lord of the Rings films together, so I don't think it's right to allow the Kill Bill films to go together when people have been voting for them separately, and they are two separate (and even slightly different feeling) films. For example, I think the the 2nd Kill Bill is much better than the first due to it's emotional strength in the ending and more story behind it (rather than just kill, kill, kill for the whole film).

PEACE, Mike.