* Invader Zim ( 2001 – 2006 ) animated television series.

An animated television series, to be produced by Film Roman and co-written by Diane Noomin, was in negotiations from 1996 to 2001, but was abandoned due to lack of financing.

* 2001: Aria by Pjotr Sapegin, an animated short inspired by the opera, awarded as best animated short by Tickleboots best online videos 2006 and Best short film Norway 2002, won Grand Prix in Odense International Film Festival 2002 and won the audience award in Århus Film Festival 2002.

The 2001 animated film Metropolis, is based on an original manga by Osamu Tezuka, which is loosely based on the film, though Tezuka claims he had not seen the film at the time.

In 2001, the animated sitcom South Park based an episode on the play.

On the 2001 DVD release, an animated short was included that features Mr. Magoo babysitting for McBoing-Boing.

Disney's House of Mouse is an American animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television, that originally aired from 2001 to 2003.

* Showtime Next ( SHON ): Movies geared towards adults 18 – 24 ; features over 50 films each month, original pictures, short films and animated shorts ; launched in 2001.

In 2001, DeLaria was the voice of Helga Phugly on the short-lived, animated sitcom, The Oblongs.

** Princess Arete, title character in the eponymous 2001 animated Japanese film.

In 2001, the sisters starred in two new series: So Little Time, a live-action sitcom on Fox Family ( later ABC Family ); and Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action !, an animated series airing Saturday mornings on ABC.

From 2000 to 2001, an animated This Modern World series was produced by Flickerlab for Mondo Media, with Bob Harris as the voice of Sparky.

In 2000 and 2001 his online animated series was the top-billed attraction in Mondo Media's lineup of mini-shows, in which the voice of Sparky the Penguin was provided by author and Jeopardy champion Bob Harris.

* Pongo the Dragon, character since 2001 in U. S. animated children's show Oswald

He followed this up in 2001 with a second Anancy animated film " Anancy's Healthy Diet ".

In 2001 also, the National Film Board of Canada produced the animated short film The Magic of Anansi as part of its Talespinners collection of short films based on children's stories from Canada's cultural communities.

In 2001, he lent his voice to the character Vincenzo " Vinny " Santorini in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and subsequently in the direct to video sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return.

In Disney Studios ' animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire released in 2001, Don Novello uses the voice and speech style of Father Sarducci to portray the character of demolitions expert Vinny Santorini.

, occasionally shortened to Strawberry Eggs, is a 2001 Japanese anime television series animated by TNK with co-production by Pioneer, LDC.

In 2001, she founded a production company called SportsBlast and created an online animated series called The Kellys.

Furthermore, DreamWorks finally had their own success in 2001 with the computer animated feature film Shrek, a gigantic box-office hit that overpowered Disney's summer release for that year, Atlantis.

2001 saw the first attempt to create a fully animated world using photorealistic human actors in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which met with moderate critical success but did not do well at the box office.

* James P. " Sulley " Sullivan, from the 2001 computer animated comedy film Monsters, Inc.

* Animal ( 2001 film ), Argentine film by Sergio Bizzio with Carlos Roffé

* The Animal, 2001 US film by Luke Greenfield with Rob Schneider

In the 2001 film Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would ultimately aid her in discovering his location in Florence, Italy, due to it being legal only in few parts of the world.

Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

The film was thought to have been made in March 2001.

Jost extended the 1997 studies through his French " Passion 2001 " expedition, explaining the evolution of the ecosystem, and releasing several papers, a video film, and a website.

* Cardinal ( film ), a 2001 American film directed by Michael Harring

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

* Conspiracy ( 2001 film ), a dramatization of the Nazi 1942 Wannsee Conference concerning the " Final Solution "

In the 2001 feature film Ocean's Eleven Don Cheadle uses the term " barney " and the claim is made that this rhyme is derived from Barney Rubble, (" trouble ") with references to a character from the Flintstones cartoon show.

* Deflation ( film ), a 2001 short film

* 2001 – Ellis R Dungan, American-born Indian film director ( b. 1909 )

* 1935 – Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer ( d. 2001 )

He first appears in the story 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, released as both a novel and a film in 1968.

In the United Kingdom, the film was one of the first to be labeled a video nasty during the mid-1980s controversy over such movies and was finally released uncut in 2001.

In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.

* Epoch ( film ), a 2001 science fiction TV film directed by Matt Codd

* The Enemy ( 2001 film ), directed by Tom Kinninmont

In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux, restoring several sequences lost from the original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes.

* Free ( film ), a 2001 dramedy

One famous example of montage was seen in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the start of man's first development from apes to humans.