Decades: 2000

1. Avatar (2009)

2. The Dark Knight (2008)

3. Shrek 2 (2004)

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

5. Spider-Man (2002)

2000
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Beautiful Day
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Two Against Nature
SONG OF THE YEAR
Beautiful Day
BEST NEW ARTIST
Shelby Lynne
 

2001
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Walk On
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack
SONG OF THE YEAR
Fallin'
BEST NEW ARTIST
Alicia Keys
 

2002
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Don't Know Why
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Come Away With Me
SONG OF THE YEAR
Don't Know Why
BEST NEW ARTIST
Norah Jones
 

2003
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Clocks
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
SONG OF THE YEAR
Dance With My Father
BEST NEW ARTIST
Evanescence
 

2004
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Here We Go Again
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Genius Loves Company
SONG OF THE YEAR
Daughters
BEST NEW ARTIST
Maroon 5
 

2005
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
SONG OF THE YEAR
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
BEST NEW ARTIST
John Legend
 

2006
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Not Ready To Make Nice
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Taking The Long Way
SONG OF THE YEAR
Not Ready To Make Nice
BEST NEW ARTIST
Carrie Underwood
 

2007
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Rehab
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
River: The Joni Letters
SONG OF THE YEAR
Rehab
BEST NEW ARTIST
Amy Winehouse
 

2008
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Please Read The Letter
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Raising Sand
SONG OF THE YEAR
Viva La Vida
BEST NEW ARTIST
Adele
 

2009
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Use Somebody
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Fearless
SONG OF THE YEAR
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
BEST NEW ARTIST
Zac Brown Band
 

42nd President Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

Vice President Albert Gore

43rd President George W. Bush (2001-2009)

Vice President Richard Cheney

44th President Barack Obama (2009-2017)

Vice President Joe Biden

September 11, 2001

On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes, deliberately crashing two of the planes into the upper floors of the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex and a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. The Twin Towers ultimately collapsed because of the damage sustained from the impacts and the resulting fires. After learning about the other attacks, passengers on the fourth hijacked plane, Flight 93, fought back, and the plane was crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania about 20 minutes by air from Washington, D.C.

The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people from 93 nations. 2,753 people were killed in New York, 184 people were killed at the Pentagon and 40 people were killed on Flight 93. (Continue reading from The 9/11 Memorial & Museum)

Boxing Day Tsunami

The wave struck on Dec. 26, 2004, with a catastrophic force usually confined to apocalyptic action flicks. The second-largest earthquake ever recorded, with at least a 9.1 magnitude, ripped the floor of the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia. The resulting tsunami slammed 11 countries as far away as South Africa, with waves up to 100 feet high. The tsunami claimed victims in both poor villages and plush tourist resorts. In the end, nearly 230,000 people were killed, missing, or presumed dead. The devastation prompted a massive global humanitarian response, with more than $7 billion donated to the affected regions. The disaster also prompted the creation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System. (Continue reading from ThoughtCo.)

Global Recession

In December 2007, the U.S. experienced its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The recession showed that globalization means that countries aren't immune to the effects of foreclosures, rising unemployment rates, controversial bank bailouts, and a weak gross domestic product.

As various nations suffered the consequences of the downturns, world leaders grappled with how to counter the economic crisis in a unified manner. Then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown unsuccessfully tried to push his "global new deal" in response, but most leaders agreed that better regulatory oversight was needed to prevent a similar crisis in the future. (Continue reading from ThoughtCo.)

Hurricane Katrina

The people of the Gulf Coast braced themselves as the sixth strongest hurricane in Atlantic history hurtled their way. Katrina roared onshore as a Category 3 storm on Aug. 29, 2005, spreading destruction from Texas to Florida. But it was the subsequent failure of the levees in New Orleans that made the hurricane a humanitarian disaster.

Eighty percent of the city remained in stagnant floodwaters for weeks. Adding to the crisis was the weak government response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, with the Coast Guard leading rescue efforts. Katrina claimed 1,836 lives, and 705 people were categorized as missing. (Continue reading from ThoughtCo.)

Death of Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's death at age 50 on June 25, 2009, led to tributes all over the world. The sudden death of the pop star, a controversial figure mired in sexual abuse allegations and other scandals, was attributed to a cocktail of drugs that stopped his heart. The medication that led to his death prompted an investigation of Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray.

A star-studded memorial service took place for the singer at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It included his three children whom Jackson had famously sheltered from the press.

News of his death, which garnered massive worldwide attention, also revealed a major shift in the news media. Instead of a traditional press outlet, the celebrity gossip website TMZ broke the story that Jackson died. (Continue reading from ThoughtCo.)

Y2K

Y2K bug, also called Year 2000 bug or Millennium Bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000 (in metric measurements K stands for thousand). After more than a year of international alarm, feverish preparations, and programming corrections, few major failures occurred in the transition from December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000. (Continue reading from Encyclopaedia Britannica)

President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08). He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end of Reconstruction (1877). (Continue reading from Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Social Media

The rise of social media. Facebook, Twitter, various wiki media and so on ... Just in terms of politics the evolution of communications media has gone from John McCain using it to capitalize on his 2000 New Hampshire victory in a way that would have been unheard of previously to Barack Obama using it to organize in 2008 to beat McCain. (Continue reading from U.S. News)

Soviet Spy in the FBI

On February 18, 2001, Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union and its successors. He pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage on July 6, 2001 and was sentenced to prison without the possibility of parole. Hanssen is considered the most damaging spy in FBI history. 

At the time of the arrest at a park in Vienna, Virginia, Robert Philip Hanssen, age 56, was clandestinely placing a package containing highly classified information at a pre-arranged, or “dead drop,” site for pick-up by his Russian handlers. Hanssen had previously received substantial sums of money from the Russians for the information he disclosed to them. (Continue reading from Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Miracle on the Hudson

On January 15, 2009, US Airways Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger became an overnight hero when he and his crew safely ditched a commercial airliner in the freezing waters of the Hudson River after an unlucky encounter with a flock of geese. All 155 passengers and crew aboard survived. (Continue reading from Conde Nast Traveler)