National Board of Review Awards 2004
December 1st, 2004 by Andre Soares
National Board of Review Awards - 2004
The 2004 National Board of Review Award winners were announced on Dec. 1, 2004.
Best Film
Finding Neverland
Top Ten Films
Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda
Best Foreign-Language Film
Mar adentro / The Sea Inside
Top Five Foreign Films
Mar adentro, La Mala educación / Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, Les Choristes / The Chorus, Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Documentary
Born Into Brothels
Top Five Documentaries
Born into Brothels, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Paper Clips, Supersize Me, The Story of the Weeping Camel
Best Director
Michael Mann, Collateral
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
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Best Original Screenplay
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman
Breakthrough Performance Actor
Topher Grace, In Good Company and P.S.
Breakthrough Performance Actress
Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera
Best Directorial début
Zach Braff, Garden State
Best Animated Feature
The Incredibles
Career Achievement
Jeff Bridges
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing
Milos Forman
Special Filmmaking Achievement
Clint Eastwood, for producing, directing, acting, and scoring Million Dollar Baby
Outstanding Production Design
Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying Daggers
Outstanding Film Music Composition
Finding Neverland, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Career Achievement - Cinematography
Caleb Deschanel
Producers Award
Jerry Bruckheimer
Freedom of Expression
Fahrenheit 9/11, The Passion of the Christ, Conspiracy of Silence
Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking (Listed alphabetically)
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
William K. Everson Award for Film History
Richard Schickel
National Board of Review Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Genie (Canadian Academy) Awards
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Online Film Critics Society Awards
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
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