It doesn't seem five minutes since everyone was worrying about the Millennium Bug at the turn of the century then, in the link of an eye, the noughties are over.
But in that time the blockbusters have got bigger, the special effects more impressive taking the movie experience to a whole new level.
But amongst all that CGI palaver we have seen some actors really stand put with a string of impressive performances.
Kate Winslet: has already enjoyed a career that has spanned almost twenty years but it has been a long struggle to get her hands on that Oscar.
After nods for Sense and Sensibility and Titanic Winslet had secured herself as one of this country's best actresses.
The noughties have been littered with Oscar nods for the actress kicking off in 2001 when she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Iris.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind brought a Best Actress nod in 2004 and again in 2006 for Little Children, appearing alongside Johnny Depp in between in Finding Neverland.
However she finally got her hands on the prize last year for her role in Holocaust drama The Reader.
She scooped the Bafta, the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild for her performance.
Johnny Depp: had carved a career out of playing off the wall and obscure roles during the nineties but it was the noughties that brought him real star power.
He made have started the new decade with a rather dodgy cockney accent in From Hell but it was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl that was to be his most famous character in 2003.
Captain Jack Sparrow became one of the biggest cinematic icons of all time and Depp picked up an Oscar nomination for his performance as well as winning the Screen Actors Guild Award.
Throughout the decade Depp would reprise the role of Sparrow twice more in Dead Man's Chest, which grossed over $1 billion, and At World's End.
Another Oscar nod followed in 2004 when he played the more straight forward role of J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland.
And his third Academy Award nod of the decade came as he teamed up with Tim Burton once again for Sweeney Todd.
He saw out the noughties with gangster movie Public Enemies before stepping into The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus after the death of Heath Ledger.
Cate Blanchett: shot to fame at the end of the nineties as she took on the role of Elizabeth I, for which she received an Oscar nod.
Throughout the early noughties she mixed and matched her roles from supernatural thriller The Gift to drama Charlotte Gray.
But over the next few years it was the Lord of the Rings series of movies that further propelled her as she took on the role of Galadriel.
There was Oscar glory for her in 2004 when she starred alongside Leonardo DiCpario in The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn, for which she picked up Best Supporting Actress.
Babel earnt critical praise and another Supporting Actress nod followed in 2006 for Notes on A Scandal before she was nominated for Best Actress for reprising the role of Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Her last big screen appearance came last year when she starred in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, She returns to the big screen this year as Lady Marion in Robin Hood.
Will Smith: has become box office gold throughout the noughties, first finding success with Independence Day and Men in Black at the end of the nineties.
But an Oscar nod soon came his way for Best Actor when he took on the role of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in Ali.
There were a couple of sequel next for the actor as he returned to the characters of Agent J and Mike Lowrey for Men In Black II and Bad Boys II.
2002's Men In Black II kicked off an impressive run for the actor as he notched up eight consecutive movies that broke $100 million at the U.S. box office.
After comedy hit Hitch it was a more serious role as he told the real life story of Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness. For his performance another Best Actor Oscar nod came his way.
It was all about the blockbuster as he starred in I Am Legend and Hancock, both films carrying on his good run at the U.S. box office.
Keira Knightley: had her breakthrough in 2002 when she starred in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham as football loving Jules.
But it was the role of Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean franchise that shot her to global superstardom.
Despite dabbling with the big budget blockbuster she took on a string of more serious roles to establish herself as a serious actress.
The first of those came with the big screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in which she played Elizabeth Bennet.
For her performance she secured her very first Best Actress Academy Award nod, losing out to Reece Witherspoon.
She re-teamed with her Pride and Prejudice filmmaker Joe Wright in 2007 for another adaptation Atonement, in which she took on the role of Cecilia Tallis. The movie went on to win the Golden Globe for Best Picture as well as being nominated for the Oscar.
Her last big screen appearance came in 2008 when she played the role of Georgiana Cavendish in The Duchess.
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