| See also: 1999 in film, other
events of 2000, 2001 in film and the list of 'years in film'.
Events
Top grossing films
Ten of the 22 movies which grossed over $100 million in 2000:
- The Grinch, starring
Jim Carrey: $260,044,825
- Cast Away, starring Tom
Hanks: $233,632,142
- Mission: Impossible II, starring Tom Cruise, directed by John Woo:
$215,409,889
- Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe, directed by Ridley Scott: $187,683,805
- What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson: $182,811,707
- The Perfect Storm: $182,618,434
- Meet the Parents, starring Ben Stiller: $166,244,045
- X-Men, directed by Bryan
Singer: $157,299,717
- Scary Movie: $157,019,771
- What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer: $155,464,351
Births
- August 30 - Talia Lanning, who later played one of the daughters of Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Deaths
- January 10 - Sam Jaffe, 98, producer, studio executive, talent agent
- February 11 - Roger
Vadim, 72, French movie director
- March 6 - John Colicos, 71,
Canadian actor
- March 20 - Gene "Eugene"
Andrusco, actor, singer
- March 27 - Ian Dury, 57, English
musician and actor
- May 21 - Sir John Gielgud,
96, British actor
- May 25 - Nicholas Clay, 53,
British actor
- June 29 - Vittorio
Gassmann, 78, Italian actor
- July 1 - Walter Matthau,
79, American actor
- August 5 - Sir Alec
Guinness, 86, British actor
- Loretta Young, actress
Other movies released
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