39th NSFC Awards
January 9, 2005
Best Film:
Million Dollar Baby
The 39th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January 2005, honored the best in film for 2004. [1] [2] [3]
1. Million Dollar Baby (50)
2. Sideways (44)
3. Before Sunset (28)
1. Zhang Yimou – House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) and Hero (Ying xiong) (33)
2. Alexander Payne – Sideways (31)
3. Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby (30)
1. Jamie Foxx – Ray and Collateral (31)
2. Paul Giamatti – Sideways (29)
3. Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby (26)
1. Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake (TIE) (52)
1. Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby (TIE) (52)
3. Julie Delpy – Before Sunset (40)
1. Thomas Haden Church – Sideways (55)
2. Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby (54)
3. Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey (19)
1. Virginia Madsen – Sideways (58)
2. Cate Blanchett – The Aviator and Coffee and Cigarettes (37)
3. Laura Linney – Kinsey (18)
1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – Sideways (60)
2. Charlie Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (55)
3. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke – Before Sunset (29)
1. Zhao Xiaoding – House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) (39)
2. Christopher Doyle – Hero (Ying xiong) (31)
3. Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron – Collateral (18)
1. Moolaadé (29)
2. House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) (27)
3. Notre musique (15)
1. Tarnation (27)
2. The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel) (25)
3. Bright Leaves (16)
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