BEST FILM
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Dogville
3. Before Sunset
4. Bad Education
5. Spider-Man 2
6. House of Flying Daggers
7. The Incredibles
8. Hero

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
1. Maria Full of Grace
2. Hero
3. House of Flying Daggers
4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring
5. Bad Education
6. Infernal Affairs
7. Oasis
8. Since Otar Left

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
1. Fahrenheit 9/11
2. Super Size Me
3. Control Room
4. Touching the Void
5. The Corporation
6. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
7. Tarnation
8. The Story of the Weeping Camel

BEST ACTOR
1. Paul Giamatti, Sideways
2. Paul Bettany, Dogville
3. Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Jamie Foxx, Collateral
5. Jeff Bridges, The Door in the Floor
6. Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
7. Gael García Bernal, Bad Education
8. Sol Kyung-gu, Oasis

BEST ACTRESS
1. Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
3. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
4. Nicole Kidman, Dogville
5. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
6. Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
7. Zhang Ziyi, House of Flying Daggers
8. Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. David Carradine, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2. Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees
3. Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
4. Clive Owen, Closer
5. Antonio Banderas, Shrek 2
6. Liev Schreiber, The Manchurian Candidate
7. Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
8. Mark Ruffalo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Virginia Madsen, Sideways
2. Patricia Clarkson, Dogville
3. Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
4. Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
5. Kirsten Dunst, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Maggie Cheung, Hero
7. Sharon Warren, Ray
8. Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
1. Dogville
2. I Heart Huckabees
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Closer
5. Sideways
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Since Otar Left
8. Coffee and Cigarettes

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AWARD
1. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
2. Anthony Mackie, Brother to Brother
3. Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village
4. Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
5. Sharon Warren, Ray
6. Ivan Dobronravov, The Return
7. Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite
8. Ji-min Kwak, Samaria/Samaritan Girl

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Lars Von Trier, Dogville
3. Zhang Yimou, Hero
4. Michael Mann, Collateral
5. Zhang Yimou, House of Flying Daggers
6. Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2
7. Pedro Almodovar, Bad Education
8. Lee Chang-dong, Oasis

ORSON WELLES AWARD
(for the year's best directorial debut)
1. Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace
2. Shane Carruth, Primer
3. Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me
4. Julie Bertucelli, Since Otar Left
5. Zach Braff, Garden State
6. Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
7. Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead
8. Andrei Zvyagintsev, The Return

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
3. Lars Von Trier, Dogville
4. David O. Russell and Jeff Baena, I Heart Huckabees
5. Brad Bird, The Incredibles
6. Pedro Almodovar, Bad Education
7. Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace
8. Frank Cottrell Boyce, Code 46

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways
2. Tina Fey, Mean Girls
3. Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby
4. Patrick Marber, Closer
5. Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Tony Gilroy, The Bourne Supremacy
7. Joe Simpson, Touching the Void
8. Joe Penhall, Enduring Love

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
1. Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace
2. Shane Carruth, Primer
3. Tina Fey, Mean Girls
4. Rodney Evans, Brother to Brother
5. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead
6. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset
7. Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me
8. Julie Bertucelli and Bernard Renucci, Since Otar Left

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Christopher Doyle, Hero
2. Xiaoding Zhao, House of Flying Daggers
3. Ellen Kuras, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron, Collateral
5. Robert Richardson, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
6. Anthony Dod Mantle, Dogville
7. Harris Savides, Birth
8. Dong-hyeon Baek, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring

BEST EDITING
1. Valdís Óskarsdóttir, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Long Cheng, House of Flying Daggers
3. Angie Lam, Vincent Lee, and Ru Zhai, Hero
4. Bob Murawski, Spider-Man 2
5. Jim Miller and Paul Rubell, Collateral
6. José Salcedo, Bad Education
7. Molly Marlene Stensgård, Dogville
8. Jonathan Caouette and Brian A. Kates, Tarnation

OUTSTANDING DESIGN TEAM
1. Hero
2. House of Flying Daggers
3. The Incredibles
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
6. Bad Education
7. Dogville
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
1. Jon Brion, I Heart Huckabees
2. Jon Brion, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Alexandre Desplat, Birth
4. Marc Shaiman, Trey Parker, et al, Team America: World Police
5. Shigeru Umebayashi, House of Flying Daggers
6. John Williams, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
7. Michael Giacchino and Tim Simonec, The Incredibles
8. Gustavo Santaolalla, The Motorcycle Diaries

Three rounds of voting by Cinemarati Member Critics will winnow down the nominees in a playoff-style elimination, until one winner in each category remains. For instance, in our first round of voting, the Best Film nominees will face off like this:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. 8. Hero
2. Dogville vs. 7. The Incredibles
3. Before Sunset vs. 6. House of Flying Daggers
4. Bad Education vs. 5. Spider-Man 2

The Cinemarati Awards are unique in that our nomination and voting processes occur in public, right out in the open of our Roundtable. Discuss the nominees and lobby the voting Cinemarati Member Critics for your favorites in the Cinemarati Awards forum.

The survivors of Round One will be announced on January 2; the survivors of Round Two will be announced on January 5; the winners of the 2005 Cinemarati Awards will be announced on Jaunary 8.

http://www.cinemarati.org/features/awards2005.shtml

Pretty good lists, except that since I like The Aviator a lot, I think it should get much better treatment than being almost completely ignored. Weird that Maria Full of Grace is No. 1 in the best non-English language film list, but it isn't in the top 8 of the overall list, even though HOFD and Hero made both.

I'm missing Leo on the Best Actor list.

Wow, lots of love for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! Nice.

What do the numbers mean if they are just noms? Does #1 have more votes for nomination than #8? Is that how it works? And now they vote in rounds for winners?

PEACE, Mike

Eternal Sunshine is in mostly every category.

im extremely surprised Spider-Man 2 has been doing very well in awards and critics top 10's

Somewhat unusual picks there, especially the omission of Jamie Foxx for Best Actor in Ray (well he got a nom for Collateral).

I think they are ranked according to the nomination votes, weighted by some formula. In the past, the lower seeds had won before once the first round began.

The more I looked at the list, the weirder it looks. No Bening for best actress, and Foxx is nominated for Collateral instead of Ray. I don't even know who vote for this award.

I'm glad to see John Williams get a nod for Prisoner of Azkaban. Maybe he will be nominated here instead of The Terminal? (If he's nominated at all).

The Aviator and especially the Phantom are missing spots. :?

For the Phantom, score and cinematography would be nomination shoe-ins I would guess. And even a breakthrough role for Rossum. Whether you like Phantom or not, she did an amazing job in the film.

I noticed that too about Maria Full of Grace, Hero, and House. Weird.





WOW(!!!!!!). If the academy took notice.

FANTASTIC for Dogville

ALOT of love for Eternal Sunshine!

I'm VERY VERY pleased with the amount of accolades they gave Kill Bill and Before Sunset, 2 films that transcend this year and in my opinion, rank among the best films in history of American cinema.

Also awesome to see Dogville finally getting some love, that was #3 on my list!

Look at Mean Girls for screenplay Good for it. I remember back when it came out, some were talking about screenplay for Tina Fey!

Pretty nice to see something different, though quite surprised by the omission of Ray and Aviator/Baby to a lesser extent.

Also, Paul Giamatti got most votes for Best Actor. Things are looking up!

Sweet, these look greeat! It's a neat system they have going too.

They have completed the quarterfinals and semifinals, and here are the final matchups:

BEST FILM
#1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. #3. Before Sunset

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
#4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring vs. #3. House of Flying Daggers

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
#5. The Corporation vs. #3. Control Room

BEST LEAD ACTOR
#1. Paul Giamatti, Sideways vs. #3. Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
#1. Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. #2. Julie Delpy, Before Sunset

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
#4. Clive Owen, Closer vs. #2. Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabee's

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
#1. Virginia Madsen, Sideways vs. #3. Cate Blanchett, The Aviator

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
#5. Sideways vs. #2. I Heart Huckabee's

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AWARD
#1. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace vs. #2. Anthony Mackie, Brother to Brother

BEST DIRECTOR
#1. Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. #2. Lars Von Trier, Dogville

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
#1. Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. #2. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy, Before Sunset

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
#1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways vs. #2. Tina Fey, Mean Girls

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
#1. Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace vs. #2. Shane Carruth, Primer

THE ORSON WELLES AWARD
Honoring the Year's Best Directorial Debut
#1. Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace vs. #2. Shane Carruth, Primer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
#1. Christopher Doyle, Hero vs. #2. Xiaoding Zhao, House of Flying Daggers

BEST FILM EDITING
#1. Valdis Óskarsdóttir, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. #2. Long Cheng, House of Flying Daggers

OUTSTANDING DESIGN
#1. Hero vs. #2. House of Flying Daggers

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
#4. Marc Shaiman, Trey Parker, et al., Team America: World Police vs. #2. Jon Brion, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

ROUNDTABLE FILM OF THE YEAR
(chosen by the participants of the Cinemarati Roundtable)
#1. Dogville vs. #2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

http://www.cinemarati.org/features/awar ... ound.shtml

Wow!

Many unusual picks...

Mark Wahlberg?!

He had great buzz before the movie opened, and received prettyu much the best reviews out of anyone in the film, before negative overall reviews for the film pretty much killed his chances at an Oscar nomination.

Still that's the first time I saw anyone mentioning him as Best Supporting Actor...I mean over Church and Freeman?!

Very very interesting.

It has come down to Eternal Sunshine and Before Sunset in more than 2 categories.

I am surprised and thrilled for Before Sunset. I expect Eternal Sunshine to take2 or all 3 of them, but I'm pulling for Sunset.

I love those nominations, especially as ESOTSM and Sunset are essentially tied as my favorite movies of the year.

My predictions:

BEST FILM

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM

House of Flying Daggers

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

Control Room

BEST LEAD ACTOR

Paul Giamatti, Sideways

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Clive Owen, Closer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Virginia Madsen, Sideways

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Sideways

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AWARD

Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace

BEST DIRECTOR

Lars Von Trier, Dogville

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace

THE ORSON WELLES AWARD

Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Christopher Doyle, Hero

BEST FILM EDITING

Valdis Óskarsdóttir, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

OUTSTANDING DESIGN

House of Flying Daggers

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Jon Brion, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

ROUNDTABLE FILM OF THE YEAR

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind