San Diego Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
2004 San Diego Film Critics Society Award winners: December 21, 2004
 

Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake
 

Best Film: Vera Drake directed by Mike Leigh
Best Foreign-Language Film: The Sea Inside directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Best Documentary: Tarnation directed by Jonathan Caouette
Best Animated Film: The Incredibles by Brad Bird
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor: Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor: Phil Davis, Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actress: Natalie Portman, Closer
Best Original Screenplay: Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways
Best Cinematography (tie): Christopher Doyle, Hero, and John Mathieson, The Phantom of the Opera
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti, [...]

2004 London Film Festival Awards Winners

Nicole Kassell’s The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon (above) as a convicted pedophile trying to rebuild his life after spending 12 years in jail, won the Satyajit Ray Award as best first feature that "reflects the artistry, compassion and humanity" of the late Indian director.
Tarnation, Jonathan Caouette’s autobiographical documentary about how his mother’s mental illness affected his childhood, was chosen best first feature, while British writer-director Amma Asante won the UK Film Talent Award for her début feature, A Way of Life, the story of a teenage single mother involved in an ethnic feud with a Turkish neighbor.
The FIPRESCI International Critics Awards went to Benoît Delépine’s Aaltra, an irreverent Belgian film about the handicapped. The TCM Classic Shorts [...]