Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Ray Pride

Awards: December 11, 2004

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards

LOS ANGELES. Sideways was voted Best Picture of the Year, it was announced tonight by Henry Sheehan, President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The runner up was Million Dollar Baby.

LAFCA’s 30th annual achievement awards ceremony will be held Thursday, January 13 at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles.

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, Coffee & Cigarettes & The Aviator

Best Screenplay
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Cinematography
Dion Beebe & 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, directed by Zhang Yimou
Runner-up: The Motorcycle Diaries directed by Walter Salles

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
Born into Brothels written and directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
Runner-up: Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by Michael Moore

Best Animation
Brad Bird, The Incredibles

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
Star-Spangled to Death by Ken Jacobs


New Generation Award
Joshua Marston, writer/director, Maria Full of Grace
and Catalina Sandino Moreno, actress, Maria Full of Grace

Career Achievement Award
Jerry Lewis

Special Citation
Brian Jamieson of Warner Brothers and
Richard Schickel for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One