Best and Worst: 2004: Film: Critics Groups' Award Winners and Runners-Up
- Central Ohio Movie Association (COMA)
Best Film: I ♥ Huckabees (J. Caleb Mozzocco, Columbus Alive); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Melissa Starker, Columbus Alive); Sideways (Scott Gowans); Troy (Johnny DiLoretto, WTTE-TV); The Brown Bunny (Rick Curnette, The Film Journal); The Terminal (Peter Tonguette, The Film Journal); Maria Full of Grace (Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch); Kill Bill, Vol. II (Nick Chordas, Columbus Dispatch); The Incredibles (Frank Gabrenya, Columbus Dispatch); A Very Long Engagement (Rico Long, WOSU (820 AM)); De-Lovely (Joyce Long WOSU (820 AM)); Garden State (Paul Markoff, Now Playing WOCC-TV3); Dogville (Mark Pfeiffer, Now Playing WOCC-TV3); Coffee and Cigarettes (Hope Madden, The Other Paper); Team America: World Police (Chad Dull, The Other Paper); Spider-Man 2 (Jordan Gentile, The Other Paper); The Motorcycle Diaries (Clay Lowe, WCBE (90.5 FM)); Closer (John De Sando, WCBE (90.5 FM)); Napoleon Dynamite (Dino Tripodis, WSNY (94.7 FM))
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Best Film: Sideways, Million Dollar Baby
Best Director: Alexander Payne (Sideways), Martin Scorcese (The Aviator)
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Julie Delpy (Before Sunset)
Best Actor: Liam Neeson (Kinsey), Paul Giamatti (Sideways)
Best Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways), Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Cate Blanchett (The Aviator and Coffee and Cigarettes)
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)
Best Foreign Language Film: House of Flying Daggers, The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: Born into Brothels, Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti (The Aviator), Huo Tingxiao (House of Flying Daggers)
Best Music/Score: Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles), Alexandre Desplat (Birth)
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron (Collateral), Xiaoding Zhao (House of Flying Daggers)
Best Animation: The Incredibles
The Douglas Edwards Experimental / Independent Film/Video Award: "Star-Spangled to Death" by Ken Jacobs
New Generation: Joshua Marston [Writer/Director] (Maria Full of Grace) and Catalina Sandino Moreno [Actress] (Maria Full of Grace)
Career Achievement: Jerry Lewis
Special Citation: Brian Jamieson of Warner Brothers and Richard Schickel for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's "The Big Red One"
National Board of Review
Best Film: Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda
Best Foreign Language Film: The Sea Inside, Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, The Chorus (Les Choristes), The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Documentary: Born into Brothels, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Paper Clips, Supersize Me, The Story of the Weeping Camel
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx (Ray)
Best Actress: Annette Bening (Being Julia)
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Linney (Kinsey)
Best Acting by an Ensemble: Closer
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Topher Grace (In Good Company and P.S.)
Breakthrough Performance Actress: Emmy Rossum (The Phantom of the Opera)
Best Director: Michael Mann (Collateral)
Best Directorial Debut: Zach Braff (Garden State)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways)
Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Best Animated Feature: The Incredibles
Career Achivement: Jeff Bridges
Billy Wilder Award for Excellencence in Directing: Milos Forman
Special Filmmaking Achievement: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
Outstanding Production Design: House of Flying Daggers
Outstanding Film Music Composition: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (Finding Neverland)
Career Achievement: Caleb Deschanel
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Richard Schickel
Producers Award: Jerry Bruckheimer
Freedom of Expression: Fahrenheit 9/11, The Passion of the Christ, Conspiracy of Silence
Special Recognition For Excellence in Filmmaking: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Before Sunset, Door in the Floor, Enduring Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facing Windows, Garden State, A Home at the End of the World, Imaginary Heroes, Since Otar Left, Stage Beauty, Undertow, The Woodsman
Southeastern Film Critics Association
Best Film: Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kinsey, The Incredibles, Finding Neverland, Ray, The Aviator, Hotel Rwanda, Before Sunset
Best Director: Alexander Payne (Sideways), Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx (Ray), Paul Giamatti (Sideways)
Best Actress: Annette Bening (Being Julia), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Laura Linney (Kinsey)
Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Bill Condon (Kinsey)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways), David Magee (Finding Neverland)
Best Foreign-Language Film: Maria Full of Grace, A Very Long Engagement
Best Documentary: Fahrenheit 9/11, Super Size Me
I read this and I thought about your stays-crispy-in-milk anthologizing of Top Ten Lists. I hope that you grab a spoon and dive right in... there's a prize at the bottom.