10th Critics' Choice Awards

10th Critics' Choice Awards
Date	January 10, 2005
Site	The Wiltern Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Eric McCormack
Official website	www.criticschoice.com
Highlights
Best Film	Sideways
Television coverage
Network	The WB

The 10th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2005, at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, California, honoring the finest achievements of 2004 filmmaking. The ceremony was hosted by Eric McCormack and broadcast live on The WB.^[1][2][3] The nominees were announced on December 15, 2004.^[4]

Top 10 films

(in alphabetical order)

• The Aviator
• Collateral
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Finding Neverland
• Hotel Rwanda
• Kinsey
• Million Dollar Baby
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Ray
• Sideways

Winners and nominees

Martin Scorsese, Best Director winner

Jamie Foxx, Best Actor winner

Hilary Swank, Best Actress winner

Thomas Haden Church, Best Supporting Actor winner

Virginia Madsen, Best Supporting Actress winner

Freddie Highmore, Best Young Actor winner

Emmy Rossum, Best Young Actress winner

Alexander Payne, Best Writer co-winner

Tom Cruise, Distinguished Career Achievement in Performing Arts Award winner

Best Picture Sideways The Aviator Collateral Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Finding Neverland Hotel Rwanda Kinsey Million Dollar Baby The Phantom of the Opera Ray	Best Director Martin Scorsese – The Aviator Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby Marc Forster – Finding Neverland Taylor Hackford – Ray Alexander Payne – Sideways
Best Actor Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles Javier Bardem – The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland as J. M. Barrie Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator as Howard Hughes Paul Giamatti – Sideways as Miles Raymond	Best Actress Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald Annette Bening – Being Julia as Julia Lambert Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace as Maria Álvarez Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake as Vera Drake Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Volume 2 as Beatrix Kiddo Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Clementine Kruczynski
Best Supporting Actor Thomas Haden Church – Sideways as Jack Cole Jamie Foxx – Collateral as Max Durocher Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris Clive Owen – Closer as Larry Gray Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey as Clyde Martin	Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen – Sideways as Maya Randall Cate Blanchett – The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn Laura Linney – Kinsey as Clara McMillen Natalie Portman – Closer as Alice Ayres / Jane Jones Kate Winslet – Finding Neverland as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
Best Young Actor Freddie Highmore – Finding Neverland as Peter Llewelyn Davies Liam Aiken – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Klaus Baudelaire Cameron Bright – Birth as Young Sean Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Harry Potter William Ullrich – Beyond the Sea as Little Bobby	Best Young Actress Emmy Rossum – The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daaé Emily Browning – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Violet Baudelaire Dakota Fanning – Man on Fire as Lupita Ramos Lindsay Lohan – Mean Girls as Cady Heron Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Hermione Granger
Best Acting Ensemble Sideways Closer The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Ocean's Twelve	Best Writer Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor The Aviator – John Logan Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman Finding Neverland – David Magee Kinsey – Bill Condon
Best Animated Feature The Incredibles The Polar Express Shrek 2 Shark Tale Home on the Range	Best Documentary Feature Fahrenheit 9/11 Control Room Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Super Size Me
Best Family Film Finding Neverland Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Miracle Spider-Man 2	Best Foreign Language Film The Sea Inside • France / Italy / Spain House of Flying Daggers • China / Hong Kong Maria Full of Grace • Colombia / USA The Motorcycle Diaries • Argentina / Brazil / Chile / France / Germany / Peru / UK / USA A Very Long Engagement • France / USA
Best Composer The Aviator – Howard Shore The Incredibles – Michael Giacchino Sideways – Rolfe Kent	Best Song "Old Habits Die Hard" – Alfie "Accidentally in Love" – Shrek 2 "Believe" – The Polar Express
Best Popular Film Spider-Man 2 The Bourne Supremacy The Incredibles Napoleon Dynamite The Passion of the Christ	Best Soundtrack Ray Alfie Beyond the Sea De-Lovely Garden State

Best Picture Made for Television

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• Something the Lord Made
• The Wool Cap

Distinguished Career Achievement in Performing Arts Award

Tom Cruise^[5]

Statistics

Nominations	Film
8	Sideways
7	Finding Neverland
6	The Aviator
4	Kinsey
	Million Dollar Baby
	Ray
3	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
	The Incredibles
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2	Alfie
	Beyond the Sea
	Closer
	Collateral
	Hotel Rwanda
	Maria Full of Grace
	The Phantom of the Opera
	The Polar Express
	The Sea Inside
	Shrek 2
	Spider-Man 2

Wins	Film
5	Sideways
2	The Aviator
	Finding Neverland
	Ray

References

1. Walton, Alice M. (January 10, 2005). "Critics' Choice kudos go to 'Sideways'". Variety. Retrieved January 11, 2005.
2. Susman, Gary (January 11, 2005). "Sideways tops Critics' Choice Awards". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 11, 2005.
3. "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2004". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
4. "The Broadcast Film Critics Association Announces the Nominees for the 10th Annual Critics' Choice Awards". The Futon Critic (Press release). December 15, 2004. Retrieved December 15, 2004.
5. "Tom Cruise to Receive "Distinguished Career Achievement in Performing Arts" Honors at the 10th Annual Critics' Choice Awards" (Press release). Warner Bros. December 13, 2004. Retrieved December 13, 2004.