Norene Cashen
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole — Tod Williams
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Detroit Rock City — Adam Rifkin
The Green Mile — Frank Darabont
My Life So Far — Hugh Hudson
My Son the Fanatic — Udayan Prasad
Romance — Catherine Breillat
The Sixth Sense — M. Night Shyamalan
Whiteboys — Marc Levin
The Wood — Rick Famuyiwa
Scariest: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut — Trey Parker
Funniest: The Blair Witch Project — Eduardo Sanchez & Daniel Myrick
Serena Donadoni
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Boys Don't Cry — Kimberly Peirce
Cabaret Balkan (aka The Powder Keg) — Goran Paskaljevic
Fight Club — David Fincher
Mansfield Park — Patricia Rozema
The Matrix — Larry & Andy Wachowski
Ride With the Devil — Ang Lee
Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer
Rushmore — Wes Anderson
Summer of Sam — Spike Lee
Old-school Hollywood revisited: The 13th Warrior — John McTiernan
Great director stumbles: Eyes Wide Shut — Stanley Kubrick
Timothy Dugdale
After Life — Hirokazu Kore-eda
All About My Mother — Pedro Almodovar
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
Central Station — Walter Salles, Jr.
Election — Alexander Payne
The Insider — Michael Mann
The Limey — Steven Soderbergh
Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut — Trey Parker
Overhyped shite: The Blair Witch Project — Eduardo Sanchez & Daniel Myrick; Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace — George Lucas
Paula Farmer
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
Boys Don't Cry — Kimberly Peirce
Central Station — Walter Salles, Jr.
Election — Alexander Payne
Flawless — Joel Schumacher
Lovers of the Arctic Circle — Julio Medem
Outside Providence — Michael Corrente
Summer of Sam — Spike Lee
Tango — Mario Suarez
Much ado about nothing: The Blair Witch Project — Eduardo Sanchez & Daniel Myrick; Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace — George Lucas
Jerry Herron
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
American Pie — Paul Weitz
Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
Election — Alexander Payne
The Matrix — Larry & Andy Wachowski
Pecker — John Waters
The Sixth Sense — M. Night Shyamalan
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut — Trey Parker
The Straight Story — David Lynch
The Thin Red Line — Terence Malick
Movie I wish I could have liked a lot more because a great American genius made it: Eyes Wide Shut — Stanley Kubrick
Kid movie that made me glad to be a geezer because now I won't even have to try to begin to care about it: The Blair Witch Project — Eduardo Sanchez & Dan Myrick
Deborah Hochberg
After Life — Hirokazu Kore-eda
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
Central Station — Walter Salles
Late August, Early September — Olivier Assayas
The Matrix — Larry & Andy Wachowski
Romance — Catherine Breillat
Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer
A Simple Plan — Sam Raimi
The Thin Red Line — Terence Malick
Best documentaries: Buena Vista Social Club — Wim Wenders; Dancemaker — Matthew Diamond
Dayana Stetco
Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
eXistenZ — David Cronenberg
Eyes Wide Shut — Stanley Kubrick
Felicia's Journey — Atom Egoyan
Fight Club — David Fincher
The Loss of Sexual Innocence — Mike Figgis
The Matrix — Larry & Andy Wachowski
Ravenous — Antonia Bird
Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer
The Straight Story — David Lynch
Biggest con: The Blair Witch Project — Eduardo Sanchez & Dan Myrick
Best meet the devil-end of millennium movie: Stigmata — Rupert Wainright
George Tysh
Affliction — Paul Schrader
Bringing Out the Dead — Martin Scorsese
The Dreamlife of Angels — Erick Zonca
Eyes Wide Shut — Stanley Kubrick
Last Night — Don McKellar
The Matrix — Larry & Andy Wachowski
Romance — Catherine Breillat
Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer
The Straight Story — David Lynch
The Thin Red Line — Terence Malick
Great kid stuff: The 13th Warrior — John McTiernan
Less than zero: The Blair Witch Project — Eduardo Sanchez & Daniel Myrick
Ralph Valdez
Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
Brakhage — Jim Shedden
The Brandon Teena Story — Susan Muska & Greta Olafsdottir
Dogma — Kevin Smith
The Dreamlife of Angels — Erick Zonca
Fight Club — David Fincher
The Matrix — Larry & Andy Wachowski
Run Lola Run — Tom Tykwer
Toy Story 2 — John Lasseter
Twin Falls Idaho — Michael Polish
Overrated: American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Underrated: Bringing Out the Dead — Martin Scorsese
Richard C. Walls
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
An Autumn Tale — Eric Rohmer
Bringing Out the Dead — Martin Scorsese
Cookie's Fortune — Robert Altman
The Day of the Beast — Alex de la Iglesia
The Dreamlife of Angels — Erick Zonca
I Stand Alone — Gaspar Noé
Limbo — John Sayles
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels — Guy Ritchie
The Thin Red Line — Terence Malick
Honorable mention: Election — Alexander Payne
Reissue of the year: Shoot the Piano Player — François Truffaut
Consensus Best:
American Beauty (7)
Being John Malkovich (6)
The Matrix (6)
Run Lola Run (6)
