2001: Connecting With the World
The year whose name inspired Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece was, indeed, an odyssey. A bounty of movies which released and TV series which debuted or continued the previous year, and then lived on through awards season, would become hits and mainstays of the new millennium: Gladiator, Traffic, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Almost Famous, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Sopranos, The West Wing, ER, Sex and the City, Frasier, and Will & Grace, among many others.