National Society of Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2005 National Society of Film Critics award winners: Sardi’s in New York City on January 9, 2005
 

Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
 

Best Film: Million Dollar Baby
Runners-Up: Sideways, Before Sunset
Best Foreign-Language Film: Moolaade directed by Ousmane Sambene
Runners-Up: House of Flying Daggers directed by Zhang Yimou, Notre musique directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Best Director: Zhang Yimou House of Flying Daggers and Hero
Runners-Up: Alexander Payne Sideways, Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx Ray
Runners-Up: Paul Giamatti Sideways, Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
Best Actress (tie): Imelda Staunton Vera Drake and Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby
Runner-Up: Julie Delpy Before Sunset
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church Sideways
Runners-Up: Morgan Freeman Million Dollar Baby, Peter Sarsgaard Kinsey
Best Supporting Actress: [...]

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
2004 Boston Society of Film Critics Award winners: December 13, 2004
 

 
Best Film Sideways
Runner-up: Before Sunset
Best Foreign-Language Film Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying Daggers (China / Hong Kong)
Runner-up: Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement
Best Director Zhang Yimou House of Flying Daggers
Runner-up: Alexander Payne Sideways
Best Actor Jamie Foxx Ray
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby
Runner-up (tie): Annette Bening Being Julia and Kim Basinger The Door in the Floor
Best Supporting Actor Thomas Haden Church Sideways
Runner-up: Clive Owen Closer
Best Supporting Actress Sharon Warren Ray and Laura Dern We Don’t Live Here Anymore
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett The Aviator
Best Ensemble: Sideways
Runner-up: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou [...]

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 11, 2004
 

 

Best Film: Sideways
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby
Best Foreign-Language Film: Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying Daggers directed by Zhang Yimou
Runner-up: Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries directed by Walter Salles
Best Director: Alexander Payne, Sideways
Runner-up: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Best Actor: Liam Neeson, Kinsey
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Runner-up: Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett, Coffee & Cigarettes and The Aviator
Best Screenplay: Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Documentary / Nonfiction Film: Born into [...]

2004 AFI FEST Awards Winners

Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda (above) has won the top audience award at the 2004 edition of AFI Festival, while Temporada de patos / Duck Season, by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke, won the Grand Jury Prize for best feature film in competition.
The Jury Prize in the International Shorts Competition went to Taika Waititi’s Two Cars, One Night from New Zealand, with a special mention to Chris Landreth’s Ryan, from Canada. Another Canadian picture, The Take, directed by Avi Lewis, won the Documentary Prize. Robin Scovill’s American-made The Other Side of AIDS received a special mention.
Other audience award winners (audiences voted on all films shown at the ten-day festival) were Neele Leana Vollmar’s Meine Eltern / My [...]