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Spirit Awards 2005

2005 Spirit Awards
Film Independent’s 2005 Spirit Award winners: Santa Monica on February 26, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Sandra Oh, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

BEST FILM (Award given to the Producer)
Baadasssss! Mario Van Peebles
Kinsey Gail Mutrux
Maria Full of Grace Paul Mezey
Primer Shane Carruth
* Sideways Michael London
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM (Award given to the Director)
La Mala educación / Bad Education – Spain, Pedro Almodóvar
Oasis – South Korea, Lee Chang-Dong
Feux rouges / Red Lights – France, Cédric Kahn
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside – Spain, Alejandro Amenábar
Yesterday – South Africa, Darrell James Roodt

BEST FIRST FILM (Award given to the Director and Producer)
Brother to Brother Director: Rodney Evans, Producers: Rodney Evans, Jim [...]

Writers Guild Awards 2005

2005 WGA Awards
2005 Writers Guild of America Award winners: Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and the Pierre Hotel in New York on February 19, 2005
2005 WGA Award Nominations
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (top); Paul Giamatti in Sideways (bottom)
 

THEATRICAL FILMS
 
Best Original Screenplay
The Aviator – Written by John Logan, Miramax Films
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth, Focus Features
Garden State – Written by Zach Braff, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Hotel Rwanda – Written by Keir Pearson & Terry George, United Artists
Kinsey – Written by Bill Condon, Fox Searchlight Pictures
 
Best [...]

London Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2005 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: February 9, 2005.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

Best Film
The Aviator – Martin Scorsese
The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry
House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou
* Sideways – Alexander Payne
Best British Film
Ae Fond Kiss . . . – Ken Loach
Finding Neverland – Marc Foster
My Summer of Love – Pawel Pwawlikowski
Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright
* Vera Drake – Mike Leigh
Best Foreign-Language Film
* The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles
A Very Long Engagement – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Bad Education – Pedro Almodóvar
House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou
The Return [...]

SAG Awards 2005

2005 SAG Awards
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award winners: Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles on February 5, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Sandra Oh, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

FILM
Male Actor in a Leading Role
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
* Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Female Actor in a Leading Role
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
* Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
* Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
James Garner, The Notebook
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
Female Actor in [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 25, 2005
 

Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
 

Best Film: Million Dollar Baby
Runners-up (tie): Sideways and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Others in the top ten: The Incredibles, The Aviator, Before Sunset, Closer, Dogville, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Maria Full of Grace
Best Direction: Alexander Payne, Sideways
Runner up: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Best Lead Performance: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Runner up: Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Supporting Performance: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner up: Clive Owen, Closer
Best Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Runner up: Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work): Cate Blanchett, Coffee [...]

Producers Guild Awards 2005

2005 Producers Guild Awards
2005 Producers Guild of America’s Golden Laurel winners: January 22, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year
* The Aviator
Finding Neverland
The Incredibles
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
David L. Wolper Producer of the Year – Longform Television
* Angels in America
Horatio Hornblower
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
The Lion in Winter
Something the Lord Made
Norman Felton Producer of the Year – Episodic Drama Television
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Nip/Tuck
Six Feet Under
* The Sopranos
The West Wing
Danny Thomas Producer of the Year – Episodic Comedy Television
Arrested Development
* Curb Your Enthusiasm
Scrubs
Sex and the City
Will & Grace
Producer of the Year Award – Non-Fiction Television
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Inside the Actors Studio
* The Amazing Race 5
The Apprentice
Queer [...]

BAFTA 2005: Nomination Issues

Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (above, with Eastwood and Hilary Swank), Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement, Bill Condon’s Kinsey, and Alexander Payne’s Sideways have been shortchanged by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts‘
new rules.
The aforementioned films were officially eligible for the 2004 BAFTA awards, but Sideways only managed to get one nomination for its screenplay, Un long dimanche de fiançailles received one nod in the best foreign-language film category, while Million Dollar Baby and Kinsey were completely ignored.
The problem is that several potential contenders for the BAFTA Awards have been just released in the United Kingdom, or they are yet to be released in that country.
Since the BAFTAs are [...]

Golden Globes 2005

2004 Golden Globes
2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 16, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
 

Best Motion Picture – Drama
* The Aviator
Closer
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
The Phantom of the Opera
Ray
* Sideways
Best Foreign Language Film
Les Choristes / The Chorus (France)
Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries (Brazil / Argentina / US)
Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement (France)
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Spain / France / Italy)
Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying [...]

2005 WGA Award Nominations

The biggest surprise in the 2005 Writers Guild Award nominations was the inclusion of Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (above, with Lindsay Lohan), which has thus far been ignored by other award-giving groups. Among the other nominated screenplays were those for multiple award-winners The Aviator, Sideways, and Million Dollar Baby.
According to the WGA’s press release, "films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were produced signatory to the Writers Guild minimum basic agreement, and released in the year 2004 under the jurisdiction of Writers Guild of America, East and West and affiliate guilds in Australia, Canada, French Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand. There were 193 films eligible for nomination in the categories of Original Screenplay (109) and Adapted Screenplay (84)."
The [...]

Critics’ Choice Awards 2005

2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards
2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards winners: January 10, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen in Sideways
 

Best Film
The Aviator
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
The Phantom of the Opera
Ray
* Sideways
Best Foreign-Language Film
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Very Long Engagement
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside
Maria Full of Grace
House of Flying Daggers
Best Documentary Feature
Control Room
* Fahrenheit 9/11
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Super Size Me
Best Animated Feature
* The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Shrek 2
Best Director
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
Marc Forster – Finding Neverland
Taylor Hackford – Ray
Alexander Payne – Sideways
* Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Best Actor
Javier Bardem – The Sea Inside
Don Cheadle – Hotel [...]

Iowa Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 10, 2005
 

 

Best Picture: Sideways by Alexander Payne
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood
Best Director: Alexander Payne for Sideways
Runner-up: Martin Scorsese for The Aviator
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti for Sideways
Runner-up: Jamie Foxx for Ray
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake
Runner-up: Kate Winslet for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church for Sideways
Runner-up: Jamie Foxx for Collateral
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen for Sideways
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett for The Aviator
Best movie yet to open Iowa: Hotel Rwanda by Terry George
 
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards 2004

2005 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award winners: January 4, 2005
 

Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
 

Best Film: Million Dollar Baby
Runners-up: Sideways, Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ray, Kinsey, The Incredibles, A Very Long Engagement, Hotel Rwanda
Best Foreign-Language Film: A Very Long Engagement
Runners-up: The Motorcycle Diaries, House of Flying Daggers, Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Runners-up: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby; Alexander Payne, Sideways; Marc Forster, Finding Neverland; Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Runners-up: Jamie Foxx, Ray; Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator; Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland; Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Best Actress: Hilary Swank, Million [...]

Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 2, 2005
 

Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
 

Best Film: Million Dollar Baby
Runner-up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Foreign Language Film: A Very Long Engagement
Runner-up: The Passion of the Christ
Best Director: Martin Scorsese The Aviator
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx Ray
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti Sideways
Best Actress: Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby
Runner-up: Imelda Staunton Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett The Aviator
Runner-up: Virginia Madsen Sideways
Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Runner-up: Bill Condon Kinsey
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Sideways
Runner-up: Paul [...]

Florida Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
2004 Florida Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 21, 2004
 

Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

Best Film Sideways
Best Foreign-Language Film A Very Long Engagement
Best Documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Animated Film The Incredibles
Best Director Alexander Payne Sideways
Best Actor Jamie Foxx Ray
Best Actress Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actor Thomas Haden Church Sideways
Best Supporting Actress Laura Linney Kinsey
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Sideways
Pauline Kael Breakout Award: Zach Braff for Garden State
 
Florida Film Critics Circle Site
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

Southeastern Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Southeastern Film Critics Association winners: December 20, 2004
 

Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church in Sideways
 

BEST FILM Sideways
Runners-up:
Million Dollar Baby
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kinsey
The Incredibles
Finding Neverland
Ray
The Aviator
Hotel Rwanda
Before Sunset
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Maria Full of Grace
Runner-up: A Very Long Engagement
BEST DIRECTOR Alexander Payne, Sideways
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
BEST ACTOR Jamie Foxx, Ray
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening, Being Julia
Runner-up: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Runner-up: Laura Linney, Kinsey
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman
Runner-up: [...]

Chicago Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 20, 2004
 

Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church in Sideways
 

Best Film Sideways
Best Foreign-Language Film A Very Long Engagement
Best Director Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways
Best Cinematography (tie) Christopher Doyle, Hero, and Robert Richardson, The Aviator
Best Score Howard Shore, The Aviator
Best Documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
Best New Director Zach Braff, Garden State
Most Promising Performer Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
 
Chicago Film Critics Association Site
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]

Toronto Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 16, 2004
 

 

Best Film Sideways
Best Foreign-Language Film Hero directed by Zhang Yimou
Best Director Michel Gondry Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Actor Paul Giamatti Sideways
Best Actress Imelda Staunton Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor Clive Owen Closer
Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen Sideways
Best Screenplay Charlie Kaufman Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Non-Fiction Film The Fog of War
Best Animated Film The Triplets of Belleville
Best Canadian Film The Triplets of Belleville
Best First Film Maria Full of Grace
Clyde Gilmour Award – Film professor and former Toronto International Film Festival programmer Kay Armatage, for her contribution to the appreciation and promotion of Canadian cinema.
Special Award Ryan, a [...]

New York Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2004 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 13, 2004
 

 
Best Film Sideways
Best Foreign Film La Mala educación / Bad Education
Best Director Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor Paul Giamatti Sideways
Best Actress Imelda Staunton Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor Clive Owen Closer
Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen Sideways
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Sideways
Best Cinematographer Christopher Doyle Ying xiong / Hero
Best Non-Fiction Film Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Animated Film The Incredibles
Best First Film Maria Full of Grace
Special Award Milestone Films received a special award in honor of 15 years of restoring classic films.
 
New York Film Critics Circle Site
New York Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 [...]

San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
2004 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 13, 2004
 

 
Best Film: Sideways
Best Foreign-Language Film: Maria Full of Grace
Best Director: Alexander Payne Sideways
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti Sideways
Best Actress: Julie Delpy Before Sunset
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church Sideways
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen Sideways
Best Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Sideways
Best Documentary: Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
Marlon Riggs Award (for local talent): Anita Monga, former programmer for the Castro Theatre
 
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Site
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

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 [...]

SIDEWAYS d: Alexander Payne

Sideways (2004)
Director: Alexander Payne
Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, from Rex Pickett’s novel
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh

 

 
DAYS OF WINE AND LOSERS
With Election, Alexander Payne demonstrated a flair for satirical comedy the likes of which would have turned Billy Wilder green with envy. With About Schmidt, Payne demonstrated that his comedic flair could go the way of Wilder’s in fluff like Sabrina — artificial, cutesy, and bland. In Sideways, Payne unfortunately opted for Schmidt’s route. I found his adaptation (with Jim Taylor) of Rex Pickett’s novel an overlong, superficial, and thoroughly unconvincing road movie about adult men — who should have been killed at birth — learning to grow up.
First of all, the film’s [...]

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