Here's part 2 of the list containing all of the specific awards. Runner ups are listed alphabetically. For almost every category I've left out multiple mentions for the same person (such as the same actor for multiple movies) except where I obviously couldn't. For the categories where I look at the performance of the person over the entire decade, they need at least 3 worthy films to qualify. Anyways. Here we go... hold on to your butts.
Best Director, Single Film
Darren Aronofsky for directing Requiem for a Dream.
Paul Thomas Anderson for directing There Will Be Blood.
Joel and Ethan Coen for directing No Country for Old Men.
Alfonso Cuaron for directing Children of Men.
Clint Eastwood for directing Letters from Iwo Jima.
David Fincher for directing Zodiac.
Paul Greengrass for directing United 93.
Peter Jackson for directing The Lord of the Rings.
Gaspar Noe for directing Irreversible.
Martin Scorsese for directing The Aviator.
Best Directorial Debut
Tom Ford for directing A Single Man.
Ben Affleck for directing Gone Baby Gone.
Todd Field for directing In the Bedroom.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for directing Amores Perros.
Duncan Jones for directing Moon.
Jason Reitman for directing Thank You For Smoking.
Director of the Decade
Clint Eastwood for directing Changeling, Flags of Our Fathers, Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River.
Darren Aronofsky for directing The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, and The Wrestler.
Tim Burton for directing Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Joel and Ethan Coen for directing The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and A Serious Man.
Peter Jackson for directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong.
Sam Mendes for directing Away We Go, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, and Road to Perdition.
Christopher Nolan for directing Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Insomnia, Memento, and The Prestige.
Jason Reitman for directing Juno, Thank You For Smoking, and Up in the Air.
Martin Scorsese for directing The Aviator, The Departed, and Gangs of New York.
Steven Spielberg for directing A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, Munich, and War of the Worlds.
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator.
Colin Firth as George Falconer in A Single Man.
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in Cast Away.
Jude Law as W.P. Inman in Cold Mountain.
Viggo Mortensen as The Man in The Road.
Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt in About Schmidt.
Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum in Mystic River.
Mickey Rourke as Randy Robinson in The Wrestler.
Best Actress
Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Monica Bellucci as Alex in Irreversible.
Juliette Binoche as Vianne Rocher in Chocolat.
Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins in Changeling.
Keira Knightley as Cecilia Tallis in Atonement.
Melanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus in Inglourious Basterds.
Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby.
Audrey Tautou as Amelie Poulain in Amelie.
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster.
Naomi Watts as Betty Elms in Mulholland Drive.
Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.
Vincent Cassel as Marcus in Irreversible.
Chris Cooper as John Laroche in Adaptation.
Benicio Del Toro as Jack Jordan in 21 Grams.
Jackie Earle Haley as Ronnie J. McGorvey in Little Children.
Hal Holbrook as Ron Franz in Into the Wild.
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello in The Departed.
Clive Owen as Larry Gray in Closer.
Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.
Best Supporting Actress
Ellen Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream.
Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.
Kate Hudson as Penny Lane in Almost Famous.
Julianne Moore as Julian Taylor in Children of Men.
Natalie Portman as Alice Ayres in Closer.
Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean in Adaptation.
Marisa Tomei as Natalie Strout in In the Bedroom.
Renee Zellweger as Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain.
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in Chicago.
Best Comedic Performance
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat in Borat.
Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom Hansen in (500) Days of Summer.
Ellen Page as Juno MacGuff in Juno.
Adam Sandler as Barry Egan in Punch-Drunk Love.
Actor of the Decade
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator, Danny Archer in Blood Diamond, Frank Abagnale in Catch Me If You Can, Billy Costigan in The Departed, and Amsterdam Vallon in Gangs of New York.
George Clooney as Fred Friendly in Good Night and Good Luck, Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton, Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother Where Art Thou?, Bob Barnes in Syriana, and Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air.
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man, Jim Barris in A Scanner Darkly, Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes, Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder, and Paul Avery in Zodiac.
Johnny Depp as George Jung in Blow, James Barrie in Finding Neverland, Imaginarium Tony 1 in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, and Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain, Tommy Cahill in Brothers, Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko. Anthony Swofford in Jarhead, and Robert Graysmith in Zodiac.
Jude Law as Gigolo Joe in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dan Woolf in Closer, W.P. Inman in Cold Mountain, Imaginarium Tony 2 in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Harlen Maguire in Road to Perdition, and Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes.
Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai Luzhin in Eastern Promises, Frank T. Hopkins in Hidalgo, Tom Stall in A History of Violence, Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, and The Man in The Road.
Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali, Alex Hitchens in Hitch, Robert Neville in I Am Legend, Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness, and Ben Thomas in Seven Pounds.
Naomi Watts as Cristina Peck in 21 Grams, Ann Darrow in King Kong, Betty Elms in Mulholland Drive, and Rachel Keller in The Ring.
Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland, Sarah Pierce in Little Children, Hanna Schmitz in The Reader, and April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road.
Best Fictional Story
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, about a man who decides to literally erase an ex-girlfriend from his memory.
Adaptation, about a screenwriter trying to adapt a book about a flower into a movie.
Big Fish, about a son remembering his dying father's tall tales.
Donnie Darko, about a boy who learns that the world will end in 28 days.
Finding Neverland, a semi-fictionalized story about the creator of Peter Pan.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, about a traveling theater that projects the imagination of the participant into reality.
In Bruges, about two hitmen hiding out in Bruges, Belgium.
Inglourious Basterds, about a fictional plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Memento, about a man with anterograde amnesia trying to find his wife's murderer.
Pan's Labyrinth, about a girl during the Spanish Civil War who creates a fantasy world to escape to.
Best True Story
United 93, about the hijacking of United 93 on 9/11 and the passengers' decision to fight back.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about the final days of the outlaw Jesse James.
The Aviator, about the life of aviator/film producer Howard Hughes between the 1920s and 1940s.
Catch Me If You Can, about the many cons of Frank Abagnale during the 1960s.
Che, about the life of Che Guevara from the Cuban Revolution until his death in Bolivia.
Into the Wild, about Chris McCandless's life as a wanderer throughout the United States.
Hotel Rwanda, about the Rwandan genocide and Paul Resusabagina's attempts to save the Tutsis.
Letters from Iwo Jima, about the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese.
Milk, about the life of the first openly gay man elected to public office, Harvey Milk.
Munich, about Operation Wrath of God, a covert retaliation for the Munich massacre of 1974.
Best New Character
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Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
"I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically."
Amelie Poulain, played by Audrey Tautou in Amelie.
"At least you'll never be a vegetable. Even artichokes have hearts."
Bill the Butcher, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York.
"On the seventh day the Lord rested. But before that he squatted over the side of England and what came out of him was Ireland."
Borat, played by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat.
"You telling me the man who try to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?"
Ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell in Anchorman.
"Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?"
Frank the Bunny, played by James Duval in Donnie Darko.
"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"
Kirk Lazarus, played by Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.
"Man, just 'cause it's a theme song don't make it not true."
Daniel Plainview, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood.
"One night I'm going to come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat."
Randy 'The Ram' Robinson, played by Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler.
"And now I'm an old broken down piece of meat, and I'm alone. And I deserve to be all alone. I just don't want you to hate me."
WALL-E, played by Ben Burtt in WALL-E.
"EEEEE-vaaaaa."
Poster of the Decade
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Walk the Line.
Moon.
Scene of the Decade
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Carl & Ellie - Up.
Expectations vs. Reality - (500) Days of Summer.
How Did I Get Here? - Adaptation.
Turbulence - Almost Famous.
Hip To Be Square - American Psycho.
Dunkirk - Atonement.
Car Ambush - Children of Men.
How To Make A Pencil Disappear - The Dark Knight.
Elevator Shootout - The Departed.
Meet Me In Montauk - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Sam Dies - I Am Legend.
Frank Fowler's Death - In the Bedroom.
The Crazy 88 - Kill Bill Volume 1.
The Battle of Pelennor Fields - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The Coin Toss - No Country for Old Men.
Constant Sorrow - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Pale Man - Pan's Labyrinth.
Meltdown - Requiem for a Dream.
Smile - Road to Perdition.
Soccer Chase - The Secret in Their Eyes.
The Milkshake Scene - There Will Be Blood.
First Date - WALL-E.
The Times Are A-Changing - Watchmen.
Boardwalk - The Wrestler.
Lake Berryessa - Zodiac.
Welp, that's it. If you're wondering who some of the other contenders for best films of the decade were, check out this post which contains all of the other good films I saw from last decade.
