BEST DIRECTOR
Director - Film	Comment
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby (GG-BFCA)	Duh.
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator (GG-BFCA)	Double duh.
Alexander Payne - Sideways (GG-BFCA)	Finally in the club
Michael Mann - Collateral	Legend with a new format
Directors Who Could Leap
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland (GG-BFCA)	A throw-away choice... not a director's film
Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind	Could be the grand gesture from the directors
Mike Nichols - Closer (GG)	Legend with a stagey dud
Bill Condon - Kinsey	Deserving, but it's quieted down so much
Taylor Hackford - Ray (BFCA)	Could get swept in with the film... but the odds have decreased
Terry George - Hotel Rwanda	If the film gets a Best Picture nod, he is the surprise of the year
Way Outside Shots...
Joel Schumacher - Phantom Of The Opera
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
Almodovar - Bad Education
Alejandro Amenabar - The Sea Inside

20 Weeks To Oscar Charts
Picture|.|||.Director|x| |Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
xActor/Supporting Actor ||.|Actress/Supporting Actress

Earlier Charts
December 23, 2004
December 16 , 2004 | December 9, 2004 | December 2, 2004
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 30 , 2004
- by David Poland