54th British Academy Film Awards (2001)
Highlights of 54th British Academy Film Awards ceremony
The 54th British Academy Film Awards honoured the best films of 2000.
The award ceremony was held on 25th February 2001.
Gladiator won the Best Film award.
Billy Elliot won the Best British Film award.
Jamie Bell won the Best Actor award for his role in Billy Elliot.
Julia Roberts won the Best Actess award for her role in Erin Brockovich.
Ang Lee won the Best Director award for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
- WINNER
Best Film
Gladiator
- Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig
Almost Famous
- Cameron Crowe, Ian Bryce
Billy Elliot
- Greg Brenman, Jonathan Finn
Erin Brockovich
- Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, Ang Lee
Best British Film
Billy Elliot
Chicken Run
The House of Mirth
Last Resort
Sexy Beast
Best Foreign Langauge Film
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, Ang Lee
The Girl on the Bridge
- Christian Fechner, Patrice Leconte
With a Friend Like Harry...
- Michel Saint-Jean, Dominik Moll
In the Mood for Love
- Kar Wai Wong
Malena
- Harvey Weinstein, Carlo Bernasconi, Giuseppe Tornatore
Best Director
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Ang Lee
Billy Elliot
- Stephen Daldry
Gladiator
- Ridley Scott
Erin Brockovich
- Steven Soderbergh
Traffic
- Steven Soderbergh
Best Leading Actor
Billy Elliot
- Jamie Bell
Gladiator
- Russell Crowe
Wonder Boys
- Michael Douglas
Cast Away
- Tom Hanks
Quills
- Geoffrey Rush
Best Leading Actress
Erin Brockovich
- Julia Roberts
Chocolat
- Juliette Binoche
Almost Famous
- Kate Hudson
Boys Don't Cry
- Hilary Swank
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Michelle Yeoh
Best Special Visual Effects
The Perfect Storm
- Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti, Habib Zargarpour, Tim Alexander
Chicken Run
- Paddy Eason, Mark Nelmes, Dave Alex Riddett
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Rob Hodgson, Kwok-Shing Lo, Jonathan F Styrlund, Bessie Cheuk, Travis Baumann
Gladiator
- John Nelson, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey, Neil Corbould
Vertical Limit
- Kent Houston, Tricia Henry Ashford, Neil Corbould, John Paul Docherty, Dion Hatch
Best Screenplay Adapted
Traffic
- Stephen Gaghan
Chocolat
- Robert Nelson Jacobs
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai and Hui-Ling Wang
High Fidelity
- John Cusack, DV DeVincentis, Steve Pink, Scott Rosenberg
Wonder Boys
- Steve Kloves
Best Screenplay Original
Almost Famous
- Cameron Crowe
Billy Elliot
- Lee Hall
Erin Brockovich
- Susannah Grant
Gladiator
- David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Best Music
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Tan Dun
Almost Famous
- Nancy Wilson
Billy Elliot
- Stephen Warbeck
Gladiator
- Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- T-Bone Burnett, Carter Burwell
Best Cinematography
Gladiator
- John Mathieson
Billy Elliot
- Brian Tufano
Chocolat
- Roger Pratt
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Peter Pau
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Roger Deakins
Best Editing
Gladiator
- Pietro Scalia
Billy Elliot
- John Wilson
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Tim Squyres
Erin Brockovich
- Anne V Coates
Traffic
- Stephen Mirrione
Best Production Design
Gladiator
- Arthur Max
Chocolat
- David Gropman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Tim Yip
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Dennis Gassner
Quills
- Martin Childs
Best Costume Design
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Tim Yip
Chocolat
- Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
Gladiator
- Janty Yates
The House of Mirth
- Monica Howe
Quills
- Jacqueline West
Best Sound
Almost Famous
- Jeff Wexler, Doug Hemphill, Rick Kline, Paul Massey, Michael D Wilhoit
Billy Elliot
- Mark Holding, Mike Prestwood Smith, Zane Hayward
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Drew Kunin, Reilly Steele, Eugene Gearty, Robert Fernandez, Robert Fernandez
Gladiator
- Ken Weston, Scott Millan, Bob Beemer, Per Hallberg
The Perfect Storm
- Keith A Wester, John T Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E Campbell, Wylie Stateman, Kelly Cabral
Best Supporting Actor
Traffic
- Benicio del Toro
Erin Brockovich
- Albert Finney
Billy Elliot
- Gary Lewis
Gladiator
- Joaquin Phoenix
Gladiator
- Oliver Reed
Best Supporting Actress
Billy Elliot
- Julie Walters
Chocolat
- Judi Dench
Almost Famous
- Frances McDormand
Chocolat
- Lena Olin
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Ziyi Zhang
Best Make-Up and Hair
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Rick Baker, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Toni G, Gail Rowell-Ryan, Sylvia Nava
Chocolat
- Naomi Donne
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Yun-Ling Man, Siu-Mui Chau
Gladiator
- Paul Engelen, Graham Johnston
Quills
- Peter King, Nuala Conway
Best Short Animation
Father and Daughter
- Claire Jennings, Willem Thijssen, Michael Dudok de Wit
Cloud Cover
- Lisbeth Svärling
Lounge Act
- Teun Hilte, Gareth Love
Six of One
- Phil Davis, Tim Webb
Best Short Film
Shadowscan
- Gary Holding, Justine Leahy, Tinge Krishnan
Going Down
- Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Tom Shankland, Jane Harris
Je t'aime John Wayne
- Luke Morris, Toby MacDonald, Luke Ponte
The Last Post
- Raf Santana, Dominic Santana
Sweet
- Rob Mercer, James Pilkington