2010

Best Picture

Inception
-The Town
-The Ghost Writer
-The Social Network
-Black Swan

Best Director

"An elegant solution for keeping track of reality."
Christopher Nolan for Inception
-Ben Affleck for The Town
-David Fincher for The Social Network
-Darren Aaronofsky for Black Swan
-Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer

Best Actor

"Mom, Dad, I really love you guys. I wanted to take this time to say the times we've spent together have been awesome. I haven't appreciated you in my own the way I know I could. Mom, I love you. I wish I'd returned all of your calls, ever. I really have lived this last year. I wish I had learned some lessons more astutely, more rapidly, than I did. I love you. I'll always be with you."
James Franco as Aaron Ralston in 127 Hours
-Colin Firth as King George VI in The King's Speech
-Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward in The Fighter
-Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels in Shutter Island
-Ryan Gosling as Dean in Blue Valentine

Best Actress

"I had the craziest dream last night about a girl who has turned into a swan, but her prince falls for the wrong girl and she kills herself."
Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers in Black Swan
-Jennifer Lawrence as Ree in Winter's Bone
-Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross in True Grit
-Nicole Kidman as Becca in Rabbit Hole
-Lesley Manville as Mary in Another Year

Best Supporting Actor

"Is this gonna be our time?"
John Hawkes as Teardrop in Winter's Bone
-Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue in The King's Speech
-Christian Bale as Dicky Ecklund in The Fighter
-Jeremy Renner as James Coughlin in The Town
-Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang in The Ghost Writer

Best Supporting Actress

"I'm having trouble trying to find my positive spin. I'm usually very good at it. Usually it's right there, and I can just have it. But I'm having trouble finding it now."
Jacki Weaver as Janine Cody in Animal Kingdom
-Melissa Leo as Alice Ward in The Fighter
-Marion Cotillard as Mal in Inception
-Barbara Hershey as Erica Sayers in Black Swan
-Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows

Best Screenplay

"My castle, my rules."
The King's Speech
-The Ghost Writer
-The Town
-The Social Network
-True Grit
-Winter's Bone

2009

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker
-Inglourious Basterds
-An Education
-Up in the Air
-(500) Days of Summer

Best Director

"This box is full of stuff that almost killed me."
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
-James Cameron for Avatar
-Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Bastards
-Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
-Lone Scherfig for An Education

Best Actor

"I wanna talk about how bad you make this room look. I never knew what a dump it was until you came in here."
Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake in Crazy Heart
-Jeremy Renner as Sgt. William James in The Hurt Locker
-George Clooney as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air
-Nicolas Cage as Terence McDonagh in The Bad Lieutenant
-Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Public Enemies

Best Actress

"I don't want to lose my virginity to a piece of fruit."
Carey Mulligan as Jenny in An Education
-Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Toughy in The Blind Side
-Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
-Michelle Pfieffer as Lea de Lonval in Cheri
-Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel

Best Supporting Actor

"I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing."
Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds
-Anthony Mackie as Sgt. JT Sandborn in The Hurt Locker
-Woody Harrelson as Capt. Tony Stone in The Messenger
-Stanley Tucci as George Harvey in The Lovely Bones
-Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station

Best Supporting Actress

"I hate asking for directions."
Vera Farmiga as Alex Goran in Up in the Air
-Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds
-Mo'Nique as Mary in Precious
-Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener in Up in the Air
-Marion Cotillard as Billie Frechette in Public Enemies

Best Screenplay

"You don't want to be named as someone's boyfriend, and now your someone's wife?"
500 Days of Summer
-Inglourious Basterds
-Up in the Air
-An Education
-The Hurt Locker
-District 9

2008

Best Picture

The Dark Knight
-The Wrestler
-Slumdog Millionaire
-Frost/Nixon
-Gran Torino

Best Director

"You know the thing about chaos? It's fair."
Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight
-Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
-Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon
-Darren Aaronofsky for The Wrestler
-Clint Eastwood for Gran Torino

Best Actor

"The only place I get hurt is out there. The world don't give a shit about me."
Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler
-Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon
-Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
-Jean-Claude Van Damme as Himself in JCVD
-Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man

Best Actress

"It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what I feel. The dead are still dead."
Kate Winslet as Hannah Schmitz in The Reader
-Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy in Frozen River
-Anne Hathaway as Kym in Rachel Getting Married
-Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt
-Sally Hawkins as Poppy in Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Supporting Actor

"You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength."
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
-Michael Sheen as David Frost in Frost/Nixon
-Josh Brolin as Dan White in Milk
-Ben Kingsley as Dr. Squires in The Wackness
-James Franco as Saul Silver in The Pineapple Express

Best Supporting Actress

"Go with your gut."
Marisa Tomei as Cassidy in The Wrestler
-Penelope Cruz as Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
-Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel in Rachel Getting Married
-Amy Adams as Sister James in Doubt
-Taraji P. Henson as Quennie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Screenplay

"I'm an old broken down piece of meat, and I deserve to be alone. I just don't want you to hate me."
The Wrestler
-Frost/Nixon
-The Dark Knight
-Vicky Cristina Barcelona
-Milk
-The Pineapple Express

2007

Best Picture

There Will Be Blood
-No Country for Old Men
-Michael Clayton
-Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
-The Lookout

Best Director

"I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people."
P.T. Anderson for There Will Be Blood
-Joel & Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
-Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
-Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell & Butterfly
-Sidney Lumet for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Actor

"If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
-George Clooney as Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton
-Viggo Mortenson as Nikolai in Eastern Promises
-Philip Seymour Hoffman as Andy Hanson in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
-Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah

Best Actress

"I'm just 44. I'm not in the tomb yet."
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
-Keri Russell as Jenna Hunterson in Waitress
-Julie Christie as Fiona Anderson in Away from Her
-Ellen Page as Juno MacGuff in Juno
-Keira Knightley as Cecilia Tallis in Atonement

Best Supporting Actor

"What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men
-Casey Affleck as Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James
-Tom Wilkinson as Arthur Edens in Michael Clayton
-Ben Foster as Charlie Prince in 3:10 to Yuma
-Kurt Russell as Stunt Man Mike in Death Proof

Best Supporting Actress

"You criticize them so much, they get down on themselves, and then they're forced to change!"
Leslie Mann as Debbie in Knocked Up
-Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton
-Jennifer Garner as Vanessa Loring in Juno
-Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody in The Mist
-Samantha Morton as Deborah Curtis in Control

Best Screenplay

"You're a bastard from a basket."
There Will Be Blood
-Michael Clayton
-No Country for Old Men
-Gone Baby Gone
-Knocked Up
-Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2006

Best Picture

The Departed
-Apocalypto
-Letters from Iwo Jima
-A Prairie Home Companion
-United 93

Best Director

"It makes me curious to see you in this neighborhood. And if I can slander my own environment, it makes me sad."
Martin Scorsese for The Departed
-Paul Greengrass for United 93
-Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
-Mel Gibson for Apocalypto
-Robert Altman for A Prairie Home Companion

Best Actor

"Look... look, I'm having panic attacks, alright? The other night I thought I was having a fucking heart attack. I puked in a trash barrel on the way over here. I haven't slept for fucking weeks."
Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan in The Departed
-Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
-Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
-Ulrich Muhe as Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in The Lives of Others
-Edward Norton as Walter Fane in The Painted Veil

Best Actress

"I'm not ashamed. Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden, weren't they? When they sinned, they put on clothes."
Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page in The Notorious Bettie Page
-Helen Mirren as The Queen in The Queen
-Kate Winslet as Sarah Pierce in Little Children
-Laura Dern as Nikkie Grace/Susan Blue in Inland Empire
-Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane in The Painted Veil

Best Supporting Actor

"I will be on television in a month... Wearing brown and gray underpants."
Ben Affleck as George Reeves in Hollywoodland
-Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello in The Departed
-Jackie Earle Haley as Ronnie J. McGorvey in Little Children
-Alan Arkin as Grandpa Edwin Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine
-Irfan Khan as Ashoke in The Namesake

Best Supporting Actress

"Duct tape will not make an honest man out of you."
Meryl Streep as Yolanda Johnson in A Prairie Home Companion
-Rinko Kikuchi as Chieko Wataya in Babel
-Emily Blunt as Emily in The Devil Wears Prada
-Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine
-Diane Lane as Toni Mannix in Hollywoodland

Best Screenplay

"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."
The Departed
-A Prairie Home Companion
-Letters from Iwo Jima
-The Pursuit of Happyness
-Half Nelson
-Inside Man

2005

Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain
-A History of Violence
-Cinderella Man
-Match Point
-Good Night & Good Luck

Best Director

"Bottom line is... we're around each other an'... this thing, it grabs hold of us again... at the wrong place... at the wrong time... and we're dead."
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
-Woody Allen for Match Point
-Steven Spielberg for Munich
-David Cronenberg for A History of Violence
-George Clooney for Good Night & Good Luck

Best Actor

"Funny thing, Freddie, every time you light a cigarette for me, I know you're lying."
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night & Good Luck
-Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain
-Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line
-Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote
-Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor in Thank You For Smoking

Best Actress

"All right, well, quit that clutchin' on me now and I'll sing with you, but you gotta quit clutchin' on me."
Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line
-Ziyi Zhang as Sayuri in Memoirs of a Geisha
-Joan Allen as Terry Ann Wolfmeyer in The Upside of Anger
-Laura Linney as Joan Berkman in The Squid & the Whale
-Maria Bello as Edie Stall in A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actor

"What am I gonna do? You bust up a made man's place, you killed some of his guys, you take his eye... Jesus Joey, you took his *eye.* Barbed wire, wasn't it? That's disgusting! You always were the crazy one."
William Hurt as Richie Cusack in A History of Violence
-Matt Dillon as Officer John Ryan in Crash
-Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain
-George Clooney as Fred Friendly in Good Night & Good Luck
-Mickey Rourke as Marv in Sin City

Best Supporting Actress

"I wonder what she looks like. I bet she's skinny. She probably is. She's skinnier'n me and prettier too. Now I'll hate her. Oh, I can't wait!"
Amy Adams as Ashley Johnsten in Junebug
-Michelle Williams as Alma in Brokeback Mountain
-Thandie Newton as Christine Thayer in Crash
-Scarlet Johansson as Nola Rice in Match Point
-Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener

Best Screenplay

"No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we're doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit."
Brick
-Match Point
-Brokeback Mountain
-Good Night & Good Luck
-The 40 Yr. Old Virgin
-Crash

2004

Best Picture

Sideways
-Million Dollar Baby
-The Motorcycle Diaries
-The Passion of the Christ
-The Aviator

Best Director

"I want you to jab, right in the tits, until they turn blue and fall off."
Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby
-Alexander Payne for Sideways
-Mel Gibson for The Passion of the Christ
-Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill Vol. 2
-Martin Scorsese for The Aviator

Best Actor

"Give me a world!"
Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond in Sideways
-Jim Caviezal as Jesus in The Passion of the Christ
-Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator
-Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
-Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks in Miracle

Best Actress

"Trouble in my family comes by the pound."
Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby
-Rachel McAdams as Allie in The Notebook
-Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill Vol. 2
-Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Kate Bosworth as Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea

Best Supporting Actor

"Of course I'll forgive her. I *have* forgiven her. Without forgiveness we're savages. You're drowning."
Clive Owen as Larry in Closer
-Thomas Haden Church as Jack in Sideways
-Morgan Freeman Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris in Million Dollar Baby
-Michael Madsen as Bud-Sidewinder in Kill Bill Vol. 2
-Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe in The Aviator

Best Supporting Actress

"I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over."
Natalie Portman as Alice in Closer
-Virginia Madsen as Maya in Sideways
-Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator
-Faye Wong as Wang Jing-wen/Android in 2046
-Laura Linney as Clara McMillen in Kinsey

Best Screenplay

"Oh, Jesus. Don't ask questions like that up in wine country. They'll think you're some kind of dumbshit, OK?"
Sideways
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Shaun of the Dead
-Million Dollar Baby
-Kill Bill Vol. 2
-Napoleon Dynamite

2003

Best Picture

City of God
-Lost in Translation
-Kill Bill Vol. 1
-Seabiscuit
-Master & Commander

Best Director

"Want to call that raggedy-ass Napoleon your king?"
Peter Weir for Master & Commander
-Fernando Mierelles for City of God
-Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill Vol. 1
-Sophia Coppola for Lost in Translation
-Clint Eastwood for Mystic River

Best Actor

"There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet."
Sean Penn as Paul Rivers in 21 Grams
-Bill Murray as Bob Harris in Lost in Translation
-Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar in American Splendor
-Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean
-William H. Macy as Bernie Lootz in The Cooler

Best Actress

"Let's never come here again because it will never be as much fun."
Scarlet Johansson as Charlotte in Lost in Translation
-Naomi Watts as Cristina Peck in 21 Grams
-Charlize Theron as Aileen in Monster
-Evan Rachel Wood as Tracy Louise Freeland in Thirteen
-Uma Thurman as The Bride in Kill Bill Vol. 1

Best Supporting Actor

"I just ran over a man and two little girls."
Benicio del Toro as Jack Jordan in 21 Grams
-Tim Robbins as Dave Boyle in Mystic River
-Alec Baldwin as Shelly Kaplow in The Cooler
-Robert Duvall as Boss Spearman in Open Range
-Ken Watanabe as Katsumoto in The Last Samurai

Best Supporting Actress

"Honey, roll it tighter next time."
Patricia Clarkson as Joy Burns in Pieces of April
-Hope Davis as Joyce Brabner in American Splendor
-Maria Bello as Natalie Belisario in The Cooler
-Holly Hunter as Mel Freeland in Thirteen
-Shohreh Aghdashloo as Nadi in House of Sand & Fog

Best Screenplay

"I hope that you've had enough to drink. It's going to take courage."
Lost in Translation
-American Splendor
-Mystic River
-21 Grams
-Kill Bill Vol. 1
-The Station Agent