A.O. Scott of The New York Times' Annual "Best of" Lists
I know he started as a film critic in 2000. I can't find a "Best of 2000" list. Please comment if he did one or if his first annual list was 2001.
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- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHaley Joel OsmentJude LawFrances O'ConnorA highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.2. The Circle
3. Ghost World
4. Gosford Park
5. Our Song
6. The Gleaners and I
7. Sexy Beast
8. Baran
9. The Man Who Wasn't There
10. The Heart of the World - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsRosario FloresJavier CámaraDarío GrandinettiTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.2. The Fast Runner
3. Adaptation
4. Far From Heaven
5. The Pianist
6. Spirited Away
7. Storytelling
8. Gangs of New York
9. Lovely and Amazing
10. Punch-Drunk Love - DirectorPeter WeirStarsRussell CrowePaul BettanyBilly BoydDuring the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.2. Mystic River
3. The Son
4. Spellbound
5. The Barbarian Invasions
6. The Man Without a Past
7. The Triplets of Belleville
8. Finding Nemo
9. Bus 174
10. A Mighty Wind - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsHilary SwankClint EastwoodMorgan FreemanFrankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.2. The Big Red One: The Restoration
3. Moolaade
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Tarnation
6. Goodbye Dragon Inn
7. Kinsey
8. Tokyo Godfathers
9. The Incredibles
10. Fahrenheit 9/11 - DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.2. The Aristocrats
3. Darwin's Nightmare
4. The Holy Girl
5. Match Point
6. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
7. Mysterious Skin
8. The Squid and the Whale
9. Funny Ha Ha
10. Munich - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsKen WatanabeKazunari NinomiyaTsuyoshi IharaThe story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. L'Enfant
4. Days of Glory
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Three Times
7. 51 Birch Street
8. Volver
9. Little Children
10. A Prairie Home Companion - DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAnamaria MarincaLaura VasiliuVlad IvanovA woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.2. Ratatouille
3. There Will Be Blood / Sweeney Todd
4. I'm Not There / Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
5. No End In Sight / Terror's Advocate
6. 12:08 East of Bucharest / Live-In Maid
7. Into The Wild / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8. The Lives of Others / Michael Clayton
9. The Savages / Away From Her
10. Juno / Knocked Up / Superbad - DirectorAndrew StantonStarsBen BurttElissa KnightJeff GarlinA robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meets another robot and falls in love with her. Together, they set out on a journey that will alter the fate of mankind.2. Silent Light
3. The Secret of the Grain
4. Man on Wire
5. The Edge of Heaven
6. Happy-Go-Lucky
7. Wendy and Lucy
8. Milk
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. Cadillac Records - DirectorSpike JonzeStarsMax RecordsCatherine O'HaraForest WhitakerYearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.2. The Hurt Locker
3. In The Loop
4. Summer Hours
5. Of Time and the City
6. Up In The Air
7. Funny People
8. Bright Star
9. Medicine for Melancholy
10. Precious
11. Coraline
12. Avatar
13. District 9
14. A Serious Man
15. Anvil! The Story of Anvil - DirectorAndrew StantonStarsBen BurttElissa KnightJeff GarlinA robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meets another robot and falls in love with her. Together, they set out on a journey that will alter the fate of mankind.2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. The Pianist
5. Where The Wild Things Are
6. The Best of Youth
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. 25th Hour
10. Million Dollar Baby - DirectorCharles FergusonStarsMatt DamonGylfi ZoegaAndri Snær MagnasonTakes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.2. Toy Story 3
3. Carlos
4. Somewhere
5. The Kids Are All Right
6. Greenberg
7. 127 Hours
8. Last Train Home
9. Secret Sunshine
10. Exit Through The Gift Shop - DirectorPaul FeigStarsKristen WiigMaya RudolphRose ByrneCompetition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.Alphabetical
-A Brighter Summer Day
-Cedar Rapids
-A Dangerous Method
-The Descendants
-The Future
-The Help
-Incendies
-Into The Abyss
-Margin Call
-Meek's Cutoff
-Mysteries of Lisbon
-Le Quattro Volte
-The Tree of Life
-Tuesday, After Christmas
-War Horse
-Warrior
-Weekend
-Young Adult - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.2. Lincoln
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild
4. Footnote
5. The Master
6. Zero Dark Thirty
7. Django Unchained
8. Goodbye, First Love
9. Neighbouring Sounds
10. The Grey - DirectorsEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsOscar IsaacCarey MulliganJohn GoodmanA week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Blue Is The Warmest Colour
4. Enough Said
5. A Touch of Sin
6. All Is Lost
7. Frances Ha
8. Hannah Arendt
9. The Butler
10. The Great Gatsby / The Wolf of Wall Street / The Bling Ring / Spring Breakers / Pain and Gain / American Hustle - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEllar ColtranePatricia ArquetteEthan HawkeThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.2. Ida
3. Citizen Four
4. Leviathan
5. Selma
6. Love Is Strange
7. We Are The Best!
8. Birdman / Listen Up, Philip / Mr. Turner
9. Dear White People
10. The Babadook - DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou KikiA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.2. Inside Out
3. Spotlight / The Big Short
4. Heart of a Dog
5. Carol / Anomalisa
6. Taxi
7. Out 1: Noli Me Tangere
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Creed
10. Results / Welcome To Me
11. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution / What Happened, Miss Simone?
12. The Kindergarten Teacher
13. Girlhood / The Diary of a Teenage Girl
14. Grandma / Tangerine
15. The End of the Tour - DirectorBarry JenkinsStarsMahershala AliNaomie HarrisTrevante RhodesA young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.2. O.J. Made In America
3. Toni Erdmann
4. Cameraperson
5. Aferim!
6. American Honey
7. Aquarius
8. Sausage Party
9. A Bigger Splash
10. Elle / Things To Come - DirectorSean BakerStarsBrooklynn PrinceBria VinaiteWillem DafoeA single mother and the manager of a roadside motel do their utmost to maintain the innocence of a six-year-old girl's life.2. Lady Bird
3. Get Out
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Faces Places
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Fantastic Woman
8. Graduation
9. A Quiet Passion
10. War For the Planet of the Apes - DirectorFrederick WisemanFollowing the 2016 presidential election, Frederick Wiseman's documentary dissects small-town America to understand how its values impact and influence the political landscape of the nation.4-way tie along with 'Bisbee '17' ‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening' and 'Minding The Gap
2. Happy As Lazzaro
3. First Reformed
4. Private Life
5. Roma
6. Let The Sunshine In
7. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
8. BlacKKKlansman
9. Capernaum
10. The Favourite - DirectorsTamara KotevskaLjubomir StefanovStarsHatidze MuratovaNazife MuratovaHussein SamThe last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.2. The Souvenir
3. Parasite
4. The Irishman
5. Marriage Story
6. Little Women
7. Peterloo
8. The Edge of Democracy
9. Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood
10. Atlantics - DirectorTodd HaynesStarsCate BlanchettRooney MaraSarah PaulsonAn aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.Inside Llewyn Davis
Lady Bird
Mad Max: Fury Road
Minding the Gap
Moonlight
Norte, the End of History
Timbuktu
Toni Erdmann
The Tree of Life - DirectorJason WolinerStarsSacha Baron CohenMaria BakalovaTom HanksBorat returns to America from Kazakhstan to America, this time to reveal more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.2. City Hall / Collective
3. First Cow
4. Martin Eden
5. The Forty-Year-Old Version
6. Palm Springs
7. Bacurau
8. David Byrne's American Utopia / Lovers Rock
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
10. Soul - DirectorQuestloveStarsDorinda DrakeBarbara Bland-AcostaDarryl LewisDocumentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.2. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Petite Maman
5. Bring Your Own Brigade
6. Bergman Island
7. Drive My Car
8. Memoria
9. West Side Story
10. The Velvet Underground - DirectorJordan PeeleStarsDaniel KaluuyaKeke PalmerBrandon PereaThe residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.2. Neptune Frost
3. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
4. Aftersun
5. No Bears
6. Tár
7. Lost Illusions
8. Flux Gourmet
9. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
10. Down with the King
