2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Winners

• Best Picture:
• *Sideways
• *Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby
• 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 – The Aviator and Coffee and Cigarettes
• Best Screenplay:
• *Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – Sideways
• *Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Best Cinematography:
• *Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron – Collateral
• *Runner-up: Xiaoding Zhao – House of Flying Daggers
• Best Production Design:
• *Dante Ferretti – The Aviator
• *Runner-up: Huo Tingxiao – House of Flying Daggers
• Best Music Score:
• *Michael Giacchino – The Incredibles
• *Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – Birth
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
• *House of Flying Daggers • China/Hong Kong
• *Runner-up: The Motorcycle Diaries • Argentina
• Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
• *Born into Brothels
• *Runner-up: Fahrenheit 9/11
• Best Animation:
• *The Incredibles
• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
• *Ken Jacobs – Star Spangled to Death
• New Generation Award:
• *Joshua Marston and Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace
• Career Achievement Award:
• *Jerry Lewis
• Special Citation:
• *Richard Schickel and Brian Jamieson of Warner Bros. for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One.