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BEST PICTURE
Picture - Studio xxx(italics = little seen)	Comment
This Week's Top Ten Frontrunners in honor of NBR
Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros (GG/D)	People leave every screening in shock
The Phantom Of The Opera - Warner Bros (GG/C-M)	Good word of mouth from real industry people continues as media keeps bashing
Ray - Universal (GG/C-M)	Hard to imagine it falling out
Sideways - Fox Searchlight (GG/C-M)	Still the critics' fave... if it hits that $20 million mark by noms' close, should be in
The Aviator - Miramax (GG/D)	A real Hollywood movie... will it be caught by windshear?
Finding Neverland - Miramax (GG/D)	Small, warm and easy to forget
Closer - Columbia	Small, cold and less easy to forget
Spanglish - Columbia (GG/C-M)	Well, if Patrick Goldstein and NBR like it...
Kinsey - Fox Searchlight (GG/D)	Looking like a much tougher climb with last minute winners turning up
Hotel Rwanda - MGM (GG/D)	The feel-less-guilty film of the year... but is it good enough?
Still In Golden Globe Play
Beyond The Sea - Lions Gate (GG/C-M)	When you keep talking about "Little Bobby," you don't mean... do you?
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Focus	Went for Comedy/Musical... now has to fight off Spanglish
A Love Song For Bobby Long - Lions Gate	Loking like an actors' thing
The Incredibles - Disney	Likely relegated to animation
Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Paramount	Anyone remember being young?
Meet The Fockers - Universal	Not working the award season... except as neccesary
Vera Drake - New Line	Needs a boost
In Limited Golden Globe Play
The Motorcycle Diaries - Focus Features	Spanish
The Sea Inside - New Line	Spanish
A Very Long Engagement - Warner Indie	French
Other Possibles - By Studio
Disney
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
DreamWorks
Collateral
Shrek 2
Focus
The Door In The Floor
Fox Searchlight
I Heart Huckabee's
Lions Gate
Fahrenheit 9/11
Stage Beauty
MGM
De-Lovely
New Line
The Notebook
Newmarket
The Passion Of The Christ
Paramount
Alfie
The Manchurian Candidate
Team America: World Police
Sony
Spider-Man 2
Sony Pictures Classics
Being Julia
Bad Education
House Of Flying Daggers
ThinkFilm
Bridget Jones: Edge Of Reason
Twentieth Century Fox
None
Universal
Bridget Jones: Edge Of Reason
In Good Company
Warner Bros
Alexander
The Polar Express
Warner Indie
We Don't Live Here Anymore
A Very Long Engagement

20 Weeks To Oscar Charts
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Earlier Charts

November 25, 2004 | November 18, 2004 | November 11, 2004
November 4, 2004 | October 28, 2004 | October 21, 2004
October 14, 2004 | September 22, 2004 | August 4, 2004

December 2 , 2004

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