If you were betting in your Oscars pool in 2000 and picked anyone but Julia Roberts to win Best Actress, you'd look like quite the dummy. No win in any category this year was as certain as hers.
There was only one major awards body that made no mention of Roberts: the New York Film Critics Circle. Eventual nominee Laura Linney won Best Actress for You Can Count on Me, with The House of Mirth's Gillian Anderson and Dancer in the Dark's Björk as runner-ups, and eventual Best Actress Oscar nominee Ellen Burstyn among the runner-ups for Supporting Actress for Requiem for a Dream. Otherwise, Roberts ran through awards season like General Sherman: the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the LA Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Critics Choice Awards, the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, the MTV Movie Awards, the Teen Choice Awards, and on and on and on until the night of the Oscars:
Had I a ballot, here's how I would rank them:
