Best Romance movies of 2001 that are oscar winners or nominees

Monster's Ball(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.



Vanilla Sky(2001)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.



Kate & Leopold(2001)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertedly dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.



Amélie(2001)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.



Bridget Jones's Diary(2001)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.



Iris(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 38

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.



The Affair of the Necklace(2001)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 49

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.