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Winners Announced in 2004 Seattle Film Critics Awards
Forget about a recount! There will be no manual tally, no divining of intent, no lost ballots “discovered” behind the polling booth. The Seattle Film Critics have determined in no uncertain terms (okay, there is one tie) their choices for the best films of 2004.
The Puget Sound area’s fourteen most prominent print critics have fallen for the gym-rat nobility of MILLION DOLLAR BABY, naming it their best picture and giving the director nod to Clint Eastwood. We are pleased to encourage this fresh young face in his filmmaking endeavors.
Acting honors went to Jamie Foxx, for his dazzling diddy-bop through the life of Ray Charles, and Imelda Staunton, for her finely-tuned VERA DRAKE portrait of a housewife whose homely ministrations include back-room abortions. Supporting awards went to the lovingly re-discovered SIDEWAYS duo of Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen.
The Seattle Critics Awards are unique in bestowing a “Living Treasure” award, given to a long-cherished movie notable deserving of career recognition. This year’s winner is Henry Bumstead (born 1915), one of Hollywood’s greatest art director/production designers, whose astonishing catalog of films includes VERTIGO, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TOPAZ, THE STING, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, THE FRONT PAGE (74), THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, CAPE FEAR (91), MYSTIC RIVER, and MILLION DOLLAR BABY.
(Previous “Living Treasure” winners: Maureen O’Hara, Christopher Lee.)
A “Special Citation” for restoration work went to Richard Schickel and Brian Jamieson, for their efforts in restoring 50 previously-unseen minutes to Samuel Fuller’s splendid 1980 film THE BIG RED ONE.
With that, the winners and runners-up in the Seattle Film Critics Awards. See below for voting members.
BEST PICTURE
Million Dollar Baby
Runner-up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Runner-up: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
BEST ACTOR
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Runner-up: Jeff Bridges, The Door in the Floor
BEST ACTRESS
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Runner-up: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner-up: Clive Owen, Closer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Runner-up: Laura Dern, We Don’t Live Here Anymore
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman)
Runner-up: Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Sideways (Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor)
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby (Jim Haggis)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
(tie) Control Room and Touching the Void
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Maria Full of Grace
Runners-up: Blind Shaft, Hero
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Incredibles
Runner-up: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hero (Christopher Doyle)
Runner-up: Collateral (Dion Beebe, Paul Cameron)
BEST MUSIC
The Aviator (Howard Shore)
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
LIVING TREASURE
Henry Bumstead
SPECIAL CITATION
Richard Schickel and Brian Jamieson, THE BIG RED ONE
The voters in the 2004 Seattle Film Critics Awards:
Soren Andersen – Tacoma News Tribune
Tim Appelo – Seattle Weekly
William Arnold – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sheila Benson – Seattle Weekly
John Hartl – Seattle Times
Robert Horton – The Herald
Richard T. Jameson – Queen Anne News
Moira Macdonald – Seattle Times
Derich Mantonela (Mike Anderton) – Seattle Gay News
Brian Miller – Seattle Weekly
Paula Nechak – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Mark Rahner – Seattle Times
Bradley Steinbacher – The Stranger
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