movies of the 2000s

I've been working on this for a week and I keep adding more. Lists like these will never be "right" or "finished" so I'm looking forward to your comments, additions, and disagreements

BEST WAR MOVIES
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Hurt Locker
runners up:
Inglourious Basterds
The Good Shepherd

BEST GANGSTER MOVIES
American Gangster
The Departed

BEST CRIME MOVIES
ZODIAC
No Country for Old Men
Traffic
Memento
Mystic River
Frozen River
Monster
In Bruges
Gone Baby Gone

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar in Digital 3D
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

BEST movies from WRITER/DIRECTOR Tom McCarthy
The Station Agent, The Visitor

BEST LOVE STORIES
Brokeback Mountain
Love, Actually
Moulin Rouge

BEST SORT-OF ROMANTIC MOVIES, though not exactly love stories
Up In The Air
Lost In Translation
Paris, Je T'aime (romance with Paris)

BEST POLITICAL MOVIES
The Last King of Scotland
Breach

BEST COMEDIES
Sideways
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Little Miss Sunshine
Juno
Best In Show

BEST DOWNBEAT SO-CALLED COMEDY WITH AN UPBEAT ENDING
Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST COMING OF AGE MOVIES
Whale Rider
Wonder Boys
Almost Famous

BEST QUIET DEPRESSING MOVIE
Elephant

BEST FAMILY DRAMAS
The Savages
You Can Count On Me
Monsoon Wedding
About Schmidt

BEST TERRENCE MALICK FILM
The New World

BEST BIO-PIC
The Queen
Milk

BEST MOVIES ABOUT STUFF WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES
Rabbit Proof Fence
Rwanda
Blood Diamond
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST CONFUSING INTERNATIONAL MOVIES
Syriana
Babel

BEST ANIMATED FILMS
Wall-E
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo

BEST PERSONAL DOWNFALL MOVIES
Breach
Shattered Glass
Michael Clayton

BEST DEPRESSING DRAMAS
In The Bedroom
21 Grams

Best movies with Senator McCarthy as villain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Julie & Julia

BEST COWBOY MOVIES
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3:10 to Yuma

Best Meryl Streep performances
The Devil Wears Prada
Doubt
Julie & Julia

Best Phillip Seymour Hoffman performances
Charlie Wilson's war ("It was much funnier in the original Pashtu.")
Doubt
Love Liza

BEST FILMS NOT ELSEWHERE CATEGORIZED
Y tu mama tambien
Donnie Darko
Adaptation
Happy Accidents
High Fidelity

PROBABLY THE BEST MOVIES I HAVEN'T SEEN YET
25th Hour
Up In The Air
City of God
Snow Angels
The Lives of Others