Online Film Critics Society Awards 2004

8th Online Film Critics Society Awards

January 10, 2005

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Best Picture
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The 8th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2004, were given on 10 January 2005.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Before Sunset
• Garden State
• The Incredibles
• Sideways

Best Director

Michel Gondry – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
• Alexander Payne – Sideways
• Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
• Zhang Yimou – Hero

Best Actor

Paul Giamatti – Sideways

• Jim Carrey – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator
• Jamie Foxx – Ray

Best Actress

Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Julie Delpy – Before Sunset
• Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
• Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
• Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Best Supporting Actor

Thomas Haden Church – Sideways

• David Carradine – Kill Bill: Vol. 2
• Jamie Foxx – Collateral
• Clive Owen – Closer
• Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett – The Aviator

• Laura Linney – Kinsey
• Virginia Madsen – Sideways
• Natalie Portman – Closer
• Sharon Warren – Ray

Best Original Screenplay

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman

• Garden State – Zach Braff
• The Incredibles – Brad Bird
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 – Quentin Tarantino
• Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg

Best Adapted Screenplay

Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

• Before Sunset – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
• Closer – Patrick Marber
• Million Dollar Baby – Paul Haggis
• The Motorcycle Diaries – José Rivera

Best Foreign Language Film

Hero

• House of Flying Daggers
• Maria Full of Grace
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• A Very Long Engagement

Best Documentary

Fahrenheit 9/11

• Control Room
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
• Super Size Me
• Touching the Void

Best Animated Feature

The Incredibles

• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
• The Polar Express
• Shrek 2
• Team America: World Police

Best Cinematography

Hero – Christopher Doyle

• The Aviator – Robert Richardson
• Collateral – Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Ellen Kuras
• House of Flying Daggers – Xiaoding Zhao

Best Editing

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Valdís Óskarsdóttir

• The Aviator – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Hero – Angie Lam, Vincent Lee and Zhai Ru
• House of Flying Daggers – Long Cheng
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 – Sally Menke

Best Score

The Incredibles – Michael Giacchino

• The Aviator – Howard Shore
• Birth – Alexandre Desplat
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Jon Brion
• Hero – Tan Dun

Breakthrough Filmmaker

Zach Braff – Garden State

• Kerry Conran – Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Jared Hess – Napoleon Dynamite
• Joshua Marston – Maria Full of Grace
• Edgar Wright – Shaun of the Dead

Breakthrough Performer

Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace

• Zach Braff – Garden State
• Jon Heder – Napoleon Dynamite
• Bryce Dallas Howard – The Village
• Emmy Rossum – The Phantom of the Opera

References

1. ^ "Online Film Critics Awards 2005". http://www.altfg.com/blog. http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/online-film-critics-awards-2004/.