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Awards for 2004:

Best Acting By An Ensemble
Closer

Best Actor
Jamie Foxx, Ray

Best Actress
Annette Bening, Being Julia

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

Best Animated Feature
The Incredibles

Best Director
Michael Mann, Collateral

Best Directorial Debut
Zach Braff, Garden State

Best Documentary
Born Into Brothels

Best Film
Finding Neverland

Best Foreign Language Film
The Sea Inside

Best Original Screenplay
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman

Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways

Best Supporting Actress
Laura Linney, Kinsey

Breakthrough Performance Actor
Topher Grace, In Good Company and P.S.

Breakthrough Performance Actress
Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera

Career Achievement
Jeff Bridges

Career Achievement - Cinematography
Caleb Deschanel

Outstanding Film Music Composition
Finding Neverland, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Outstanding Production Design
House of Flying Daggers

Producers Award
Jerry Bruckheimer

Special Achievement in Filmmaking
Clint Eastwood, for producing, directing, acting, and scoring Million Dollar Baby

Special Recognition For Excellence In Filmmaking
(Listed alphabetically) 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

Top Five Documentaries
Born into Brothels, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Paper Clips, Supersize Me, The Story of the Weeping Camel

Top Foreign Films
The Sea Inside, Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, The Chorus (Les Choristes), The Motorcycle Diaries

Top Ten Films
Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda

 

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