Cinema in the 2000s

Death of Claire Trevor

Releases Things Have Changed for the film Wonder Boys.

Death of Vittorio Gassman

Death of Walter Matthau

Death of Alec Guinness

Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones marry at the New York Plaza Hotel

Madonna marries Guy Ritchie near Dornoch in Sutherland

Stars in A Shot at Glory

Wins an Oscar for "The Last King of Scotland" as Idi Amin

Stars as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, a dark satire adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's novel.

Receives the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for If These Walls Could Talk 2

Appears in "Erin Brockovich"

Directs Gladiator, the Roman epic that wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for If These Walls Could Talk 2

If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an Emmy Award-winning 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO, directed by Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge

If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an Emmy Award-winning 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO, directed by Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge

Knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite, CBE

Stars in Mission: Impossible II

Stars in Rules of Engagement. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in Space Cowboys alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner

Directs and stars in Space Cowboys with Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner.

Playys Clementine Churchill in The Gathering Storm. If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an Emmy Award-winning 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO

Stars as comic-book theorist Elijah Price in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable.

Directs Das Experiment.

Wins the Oscar for Things Have Changed.

Death of Anthony Quinn

Death of Jack Lemmon

Death of John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon

Death of Peggy Mount

Directs Nowhere in Africa.

Plays Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary, beginning one of his best-known film roles.

Wins the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in motion pictures

Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie Wit

Appears in Gosford Park

Appears in Moulin Rouge!

Directs Mulholland Drive, a nonlinear mystery set around Hollywood and fractured identity.

Plays Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "The Man From Elysian Fields"

Appears as Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries, introducing her to a new generation of film audiences.

Plays corrupt narcotics officer Alonzo Harris in Training Day.

Death of Richard Harris

Training Day brings Washington the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Recieves a Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the highest award given by the Academy

Stars in Bend It Like Beckham

Directs and stars in Blood Work, a crime thriller based on Michael Connelly's novel.

Produces Catch Me if You Can

Appears in Catch Me if You Can

Stars as James Bond in Die Another Day

Directs, Gangs of New York

Stars in Live from Baghdad

Stars in Men in Black II

Stars in Minority Report

Last screen appearance in "Road to Perdition"

Appears in "The Gathering Storm"

Appears in The Hours

Appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Appears in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Stars in The Quiet American

Directs Good Bye, Lenin!, a major post-reunification German film.

Winner of the Oscar for best actor, for "The Pianist"

Winner of the Oscar for best actress, for "The Hours"

Death of Leslie Cheung

Death of Gregory Peck

Death of Katharine Hepburn

Death of Charles Bronson

Death of Anita Mui

Wins an Oscar for "Mystic River" as Jimmy Markum

Death of Elia Kazan

Directs Kill Bill: Volume 1, a stylized revenge film starring Uma Thurman.

Writes and directs Lost in Translation, following two Americans who form a friendship in Tokyo.

Stars in Love Actually

Directs Mystic River, a crime drama starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon.

Stars in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Stars in Love Actually

Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House from President George W. Bush

Appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Receives her star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California

Appears opposite Ewan McGregor in the British drama Young Adam.

Receives Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Mystic River.

Directs Head-On, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin.

Death of Peter Ustinov

Death of Marlon Brando

Directs Downfall.

Death of Christopher Reeve

Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation.

Wins an Oscar for "Ray" as Ray Charles

Directs, The Aviator

Receives the Bavarian Film Awards honorary award.

Receives her first Oscar nomination for playing Alice in Closer.

Stars in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Plays Allan Quatermain in King Solomons Mines

Plays Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

First main part in television as Stephen Hawking in Hawking

Stars in King Arthur

Appears in Man on Fire. Appears in Around the Bend

Directs and stars in Million Dollar Baby, a boxing drama with Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.

Plays former boxer Eddie Dupris in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.

Appears as Tamsin in the British drama My Summer of Love, an important early film role.

Portrays aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.

Directs Vera Drake, a period drama about an illegal abortionist in 1950s Britain.

Death of Amrish Puri

Death of Ossie Davis

Wins Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for Million Dollar Baby.

Death of Anne Bancroft

Takes the supporting-actor Oscar for Million Dollar Baby.

Wins an Oscar for "Capote" as Truman Capote

Fellowship Award

Takes the role of Bruce Wayne and Batman in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.

Craig is announced as the fifth actor to play Bond

Stars in Nanny McPhee

Stars in Pride & Prejudice

Appears in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Plays diplomat Justin Quayle in the political thriller The Constant Gardener.

Stars in White Noise

Death of Shelley Winters

Directs The Lives of Others.

Death of Glenn Ford

Directs Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

Death of Jack Palance

Made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)

Plays William Pitt the Younger in Amazing Grace

Directs, The Departed

Directs Flags of Our Fathers, one of two companion films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Directs Inside Man, a bank-heist thriller starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.

Awarded the 10th Iran Cinema Celebration, Special honor

Directs Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima as companion war films.

Directs Letters from Iwo Jima, presenting the battle from the Japanese perspective.

Appears in the psychological thriller Like Minds in an early feature-film role.

Appears in Man of the Year. Appears in Hairspray

Directs Marie Antoinette, presenting the French queen through a deliberately contemporary visual and musical style.

Stars in Mission: Impossible III

Stars as teacher Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal opposite Cate Blanchett.

Stars in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest

Wtites, "Scoop"

Stars in Stranger than Fiction

Plays fashion assistant Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada.

Stars as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta, shaving her head on screen for the role.

Death of Barbara McNair, American singer and actress

Receives Academy Award nominations connected with Letters from Iwo Jima.

Death of Michel Serrault

Death of Deborah Kerr

Stars in Atonement

Playys Older Briony Tallis in Atonement

Wtites, "Cassandras Dream"

Directs The Charlie Wilson's War

Composes the music for Grace Is Gone, a film written and directed by James C Strouse.

Receives Golden Globe nominations for the Grace Is Gone score and song.

Receives Frances Legion of Honour for his contribution to cinema.

Plays corporate lawyer Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton, earning major supporting-actress awards.

Stars in No Country for Old Men. Stars in In the Valley of Elah

Wins an Oscar for "There Will Be Blood" as Daniel Plainview

Stars in Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. Stars in Atonement

Directs, "Run Fatboy Run"

Appears in the film The Golden Compass

Death of Heath Ledger

Dies in New York before the release of The Dark Knight

Death of David Paul Scofield

Death of Charlton Heston

Death of John Mills

Directs WALL-E for Pixar, combining animation with environmental themes

Stars as Batman in The Dark Knight, one of the year's major films

Directs The Dark Knight, which becomes a major critical and commercial success

Directs The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Death of Paul Leonard Newman

Death of Paul Newman

Stars as Harvey Milk in the biographical drama Milk

Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.

Appears in the film Australia

Directs Changeling, a period drama starring Angelina Jolie.

Directs and stars in Gran Torino, playing Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski.

Directs Gran Torino and Changeling, two major late-career films released in 2008.

Voice part in, "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"

Makes his feature directing debut with Medicine for Melancholy, following two young adults across San Francisco.

Co-directs, co-writes and stars in Nights and Weekends, an independent relationship drama.

Makes his feature-film breakthrough as Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire.

Directs The Hurt Locker, following a bomb-disposal team during the Iraq War.

Lead character in the BBC miniseries drama The Last Enemy

Stars as Hanna Schmitz in The Reader, a performance that brings her first Academy Award win.

Stars in Tropic Thunder

Writes, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

Death of Bea Arthur, actress in the "Golden Girls"

Death of Patrick Swayze

Directs The White Ribbon, a German-language drama set before the First World War.

Death of Edward Woodward

Directs Soul Kitchen.

Stars as George Falconer in A Single Man and receives his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Receives the leading-actress Oscar for The Reader, marking her first Academy Award victory.

Stars as schoolgirl Jenny Mellor in An Education and receives widespread critical recognition.

Receives the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award.

Makes his feature directing debut with Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, a low-budget musical drama.

Writes and directs Inglourious Basterds, presenting an alternate-history story set during the Second World War.

Directs Invictus, a film about Nelson Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Portrays South African President Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus.

Knighted for services to drama and charity

Wins the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival

Stars in The Damned United

Portrays Queen Victoria in the historical drama The Young Victoria.

Directs, "Whatever Works"

Releases the documentary When You're Strange.