Pardon me if we already did this thread a few months ago, but now that pretty much every 2004 film has hit DVD, what would be your Oscar picks for last year?

My ballot coming shortly.

I'll just do the major categories, not too good with the screenplay and etc. categories...

Best Picture
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kill Bill Volume 2
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways

Honorable mentions - Garden State, The Phantom of the Opera, House of Flying Daggers

Best Director
Mike Nichols, Closer
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Volume 2
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Zhang Yimou, House of Flying Daggers

Honorable mentions - Alexander Payne (Sideways), Richard Linklater (Before Sunset), M. Night Shyamalan (The Village)

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways

Honorable mentions - Sean Penn (The Assassination of Richard Nixon), Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda), Tom Hanks (The Terminal)

Best Actress
Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Volume 2
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village

Honorable mentions - Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), Zhang Ziyi (House of Flying Daggers)

Best Supporting Actor
David Carradine, Kill Bill Volume 2
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen, Closer
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways

Hm... pretty weak category.

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Natalie Portman, Garden State
Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill Volume 2
Natalie Portman, Closer
Virginia Madsen, Sideways

Best Picture
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways

basically.

Best Picture
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Million Dollar Baby
The Village

Best Director
Pedro Almodovar, Bad Education
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator

Best Actor
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead

Best Actress
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

Best Supporting Actor
David Carradine, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
Clive Owen, Closer

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Natalie Portman, Closer
Natalie Portman, Garden State
Meryl Streep, The Manchurian Candidate

Best Original Screenplay
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Kinsey
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Sunset
Closer
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
A Very Long Engagement

Best Cinematography
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
The Passion of the Christ
A Very Long Engagement
The Village

Best Score
Birth
Finding Neverland
Garden State
The Passion of the Christ
The Village

Best Documentary
Born Into Brothels
Fahrenheit 9/11
Overnight
Super Size Me
Tarnation

Best Foreign Language Film
Bad Education
Maria Full of Grace
The Motorcycle Diaries
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
A Very Long Engagement

Best Animated Film
The Incredibles
Shrek 2
Team America: World Police

Best Picture
Collateral
Hotel Rwanda
Million Dollar Baby
Spider-Man 2
Troy

Best Director
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
Michael Mann, Collateral
Wolfgang Peterson, Troy
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Best Actor
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Tom Cruise, Collateral
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways

Best Actress
Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village
Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2
Kate Winslett, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor
David Carradine, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen, Closer

Best Supporting Actress
Natalie Portman, Closer
Natalie Portman, Garden State
Meryl Streep, The Manchurian Candidate

Best Documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11
Super Size Me

Tried to fill it out as best as possible. For some, I couldn't come up with enough. I did this for the best movies, not my favorites.

Best Picture
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways

Best Director
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mike Nichols, Closer
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator

Best Actor
Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways

Best Actress
Rachel McAdams, The Notebook
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor
Steve Carell, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
Clive Owen, Closer

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman, Closer
Meryl Streep, The Manchurian Candidate

Picture
Million Dollar Baby ---
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Sideways
Before Sunset

Hm. Well, that was easy.

The rest...not so much (because l'm lazy).
Probably:

Director
Gondry

Actor
Cheadle

Actress
Delpy

SupAct
Church

SupTres
Portman (Clos)

I'll just do picture since I still have a lot of 'smaller' films I need to see.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (winner)
The Passion Of The Christ
The Village
Million Dollar Baby
Collateral

Best Picture
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Before Sunset
Million Dollar Baby
Dogville
Closer

Best Director
(see best picture)

Best Actor
Ethan Hawke- Before Sunset
Don Cheadle- Hotel Rwanda
Jamie Foxx- Ray
Kevin Bacon- The Woodsman
Jim Carey- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Actress
Julie Delpy- Before Sunset
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Nicole Kidman- Dogville
(I can't narrow it down any further than those 6 )

Best Supporting Actor
Peter Sarsgaard- Kinsey
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Paul Bettany- Dogville
Clive Owen, Closer

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman, Closer
Patricia Clarkson- Dogville

Best Picture
Sideways
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Aviator
Million Dollar Baby
Kinsey

Best Director
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
David O. Russell, I Heart Huckabees
Bill Condon, Kinsey

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Bill Murray, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Liam Neeson, Kinsey
Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Actress
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace

Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Clive Owen, Closer
Peter Sarsgaard, Kinsey
Dustin Hoffman, I Heart Huckabees
Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees

Best Supporting Actress
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Natalie Portman, Garden State
Meryl Streep, The Manchurian Candidate

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Million Dollar Baby
I Heart Huckabees

academy awards are laaaaaaame



yes, Yes, YES!!! definitely yes.

Best Picture
Before Sunset
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Maria Full of Grace
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Director
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Richard Linklater, Before Sunset
Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace
Walter Salles, The Motorcycle Diaries

Best Actor
Kevin Bacon, The Woodsman
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset
Sean Penn, The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Best Actress
Eva Green, The Dreamers
Nicole Kidman, Birth
Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Alda, The Aviator
David Carradine, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland

Best Supporting Actress
Jodie Foster, A Very Long Engagement
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Natalie Portman, Closer
Kyra Sedgwick, The Woodsman
Naomi Watts, The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Best Original Screenplay
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In Good Company
Maria Full of Grace
Napoleon Dynamite

Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Sunset
Closer
Million Dollar Baby
Stage Beauty
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Best Art Direction
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Phantom of the Opera
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Troy

Best Cinematography
Before Sunset
Collateral
Hero
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Very Long Engagement

Best Score
2046 (2005 contention instead?)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Million Dollar Baby
Vera Drake

Best Animated Film
The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Shrek 2