2,627 films on the site were released in 2001, and 418 have enough critic or audience ratings to be ranked. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring tops the list, ahead of Werckmeister Harmonies and The Endurance. The biggest hit was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with $1B worldwide, and A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture at the 2002 Oscars.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the best-rated film of 2001, with a rank value of 92/100 from critics and audiences, ahead of Werckmeister Harmonies (90/100). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
#1 of 418 Best-rated film of 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 Action Adventure Fantasy 2h 58m English
92 Metascore $888.5M worldwide
Directed by Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring earned $888.5M worldwide; the year's biggest hit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, earned $1B.
About The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingWerckmeister Harmonies and The Endurance follow The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Drama is the most common genre in the top 25 (15 films). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
2001 · Sci-Fi, Drama · 2h 25m
Dir. Ágnes Hranitzky No Echo Score: ranked 90/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · History, Documentary · 1h 37m
Dir. George Butler No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Documentary · 1h 34m
Dir. Frances Reid No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Documentary · 4h 6m
No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Mystery, Thriller · 1h 53m
Dir. Christopher Nolan No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Documentary · 1h 22m
No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 38m
Dir. Danis Tanovic No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Documentary · 1h 31m
Dir. Amir Bar-Lev No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Mystery · 1h 46m
Dir. Peter Weir No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 46m
Dir. Lukas Moodysson No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 42m
Dir. Luis Buñuel No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama
Dir. Emmanuel Finkiel No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Mystery · 2h 27m
Dir. David Lynch No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Adventure, Fantasy · 1h 30m
Dir. Andrew Adamson No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Thriller · 2h 34m
Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Romance · 1h 38m
Dir. Kar Wai Wong No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Adventure, Fantasy · 1h 32m
Dir. Lee Unkrich No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 35m
Dir. John Cameron Mitchell No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 51m
Dir. Terry Zwigoff No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Mystery · 1h 39m
Dir. Richard Linklater No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · War, Documentary · 1h 54m
Dir. Alberto Vendemmiati No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Mystery · 2h 17m
Dir. Robert Altman No Echo Score: ranked 79/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Crime · 2h 10m
Dir. Todd Field No Echo Score: ranked 79/100 on critics & audiences
2001 · Drama, Crime · 1h 29m
Dir. Jonathan Glazer No Echo Score: ranked 79/100 on critics & audiences
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone earned $1B worldwide, ahead of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ($888.5M). The top 10 took $5.4B together; 563 films released in 2001 have a box office record here. Grosses that look like data errors are left out.
#1 $1B worldwide Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $318.9M domestic · Adventure #2 $888.5M worldwide The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $319.4M domestic · Action #3 $579.8M worldwide Monsters, Inc. $290.6M domestic · Adventure #4 $489M worldwide Shrek $268.7M domestic · Adventure 
#5 $450.7M worldwide Ocean's Eleven $183.4M domestic · Thriller 
#6 $449.2M worldwide Pearl Harbor $198.5M domestic · Action 
#7 $443.3M worldwide The Mummy Returns $202M domestic · Action 
#8 $368.8M worldwide Jurassic Park III $181.2M domestic · Action 
#9 $362.2M worldwide Planet of the Apes $180M domestic · Action 
#10 $351.7M worldwide Hannibal $165.1M domestic · Thriller A Beautiful Mind leads with 15 wins from 27 nominations, then The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with 12 wins. A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture at the 2002 Oscars. In all, 76 films released in 2001 have award nominations on the site, with 91 wins between them.
The highest-ranked 2001 film of 12 genres, from Action (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) to Music (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Each film appears once, under its first genre that is still free.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 92 Metascore Werckmeister Harmonies 93 Metascore The Endurance 85 Metascore Long Night's Journey Into Day 85 Metascore Memento 83 Metascore No Man's Land 84 Metascore Black Rain 85 Metascore Together 84 Metascore That Obscure Object of Desire 84 Metascore Shrek 84 Metascore Monsters, Inc. 79 Metascore Hedwig and the Angry Inch 85 Metascore October was the busiest month of 2001 with 282 releases; its best-rated film is Werckmeister Harmonies. January shows 369 because films whose exact release day is unknown are stored on January 1.
55% of 2001's films with a known language are in English (1,418). French comes next with 159 films, out of 62 languages in all.
A best-of page for each of 55 years, from 1900 to 2026 (so far). Before 1980 there is one page per decade, for its first year (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970); from 1980 every year has its own.
Quick answers about 2001's best-rated films, biggest hits and awards, from the lists above.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the best-rated film of 2001 on What's After the Movie, with a rank value of 92/100 from critics and audiences. Werckmeister Harmonies is second and The Endurance third. Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
About The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone earned $1B worldwide, the most of any 2001 release on the site. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring follows with $888.5M.
2001 box officeA Beautiful Mind (2001) won Best Picture at the 2002 Academy Awards.
A Beautiful MindA Beautiful Mind has the best award record of the 2001 releases on the site: 15 wins from 27 nominations.
2002 awards seasonThe site lists 2,627 films released in 2001. 418 of them are ranked, and October had the most releases with a known day (282).
Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases). Only feature films count (60 minutes or longer, no concert recordings), and a film needs enough ratings, box office or award attention to be ranked.
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