Producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson
Best film wins: Online Film Critics Society Awards
The story: In the second installment of the Rings trilogy, our heroes Frodo, Aragorn and friends have been split up and are making their separate ways in the quest to destroy the Dark Lord; Aragorn leads a small army of Men in what seems like a doomed battle against a tremendous, powerful army of evil soldiers, while Frodo and his friend Sam are somewhere deep in Middle-earth. Some say this sequel is the first since The Godfather II to best the first movie; without a doubt it is another example of tour de force filmmaking from Jackson. Still, unlike Godfather II, a win for this second in a trilogy is far from likely given this is a fantasy and the movie hasn’t won any other major awards.