National Board of Review Awards 2004

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The 76th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2004, were given on 1 December 2004.

[edit] Top 10 Films

1. Finding Neverland
2. The Aviator
3. Closer
4. Million Dollar Baby *Academy Award for Best Picture*
5. Sideways
6. Kinsey
7. Vera Drake
8. Ray
9. Collateral
10. Hotel Rwanda

[edit] Top Foreign Films

1. The Sea Inside
2. Bad Education
3. Maria Full of Grace
4. The Chorus (Les Choristes)
5. The Motorcycle Diaries

[edit] Top Five Documentaries

1. Born into Brothels
2. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
3. Paper Clips Project
4. Super Size Me
5. The Story of the Weeping Camel

[edit] Winners

• Best Film:
  • Finding Neverland
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Mar adentro (The Sea Inside), Spain/France/Italy
• 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 Screenplay - Adapted:
  • Sideways - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman
• Best Documentary:
  • Born into Brothels
• Best Animated Feature:
  • The Incredibles
• Career Achievement:
  • Jeff Bridges
• Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
  • Miloš Forman
• Special Filmmaking Achievement:
  • Clint Eastwood, for producing, directing, acting, and scoring Million Dollar Baby
• Outstanding Production Design:
  • House of Flying Daggers
• Outstanding Film Music Composition:
  • Jan A. P. Kaczmarek - Finding Neverland
• Career Achievement - Cinematography:
  • 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
  • The 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

[edit] External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 2004