Cinemarati, the premier organization of professional online film critics, today announced its nominations for the fifth annual Cinemarati Awards.
Topping the list of nominees are:
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,* with 12 nominations, including those for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Jim Carrey), Best Actress (Kate Winslet), and Best Original Screenplay;
*Dogville,* with 10 nominations, including those for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Paul Bettany), Best Actress (Nicole Kidman), Best Ensemble Cast, and Best Original Screenplay; and
*House of Flying Daggers,* with 8 nominations, including those for Best Film, Best Non-English Language Film, Best Director, and Best Actress (Zhang Ziyi).
*Bad Education,* *Hero,* and *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* each received 7 nominations.
The complete list of nominees in 18 categories follows.
UNIQUE VOTING PROCESS
Three rounds of voting by the Cinemarati Member Critics will winnow down the nominees in a playoff-style elimination, until one winner in each category remains.
For example, in the first round of voting, the Best Film nominees will face off like so:
1. *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* vs. 8. *Hero*
2. *Dogville* vs. 7. *The Incredibles*
3. *Before Sunset* vs. 6. *House of Flying Daggers*
4. *Bad Education* vs. 5. *Spider-Man 2*
Unlike other professional critics organizations, Cinemarati holds its signature, one-of-a-kind nomination and voting processes in public, in the forums of the Cinemarati Roundtable, http://www.cinemarati.org/roundtable , where movie lovers and Cinemarati Member Critics alike discuss the nominees and lobby for their favorites in each round of voting.
The winners of the 2005 Cinemarati Awards will be announced on Saturday, January 8.
2004 CINEMARATI AWARD NOMINATIONS available online now at http://www.cinemarati.org/features/awards2005.shtml
BEST FILM
1. *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2. *Dogville*
3. *Before Sunset*
4. *Bad Education*
5. *Spider-Man 2*
6. *House of Flying Daggers*
7. *The Incredibles*
8. *Hero*
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
1. *Maria Full of Grace*
2. *Hero*
3. *House of Flying Daggers*
4. *Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring*
5. *Bad Education*
6. *Infernal Affairs*
7. *Oasis*
8. *Since Otar Left*
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
1. *Fahrenheit 9/11*
2. *Super Size Me*
3. *Control Room*
4. *Touching the Void*
5. *The Corporation*
6. *Metallica: Some Kind of Monster*
7. *Tarnation*
8. *The Story of the Weeping Camel*
BEST ACTOR
1. Paul Giamatti, *Sideways*
2. Paul Bettany, *Dogville*
3. Jim Carrey, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
4. Jamie Foxx, *Collateral*
5. Jeff Bridges, *The Door in the Floor*
6. Don Cheadle, *Hotel Rwanda*
7. Gael García Bernal, *Bad Education*
8. Sol Kyung-gu, *Oasis*
BEST ACTRESS
1. Kate Winslet, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2. Julie Delpy, *Before Sunset*
3. Uma Thurman, *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
4. Nicole Kidman, *Dogville*
5. Catalina Sandino Moreno, *Maria Full of Grace*
6. Hilary Swank, *Million Dollar Baby*
7. Zhang Ziyi, *House of Flying Daggers*
8. Imelda Staunton, *Vera Drake*
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. David Carradine, *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
2. Mark Wahlberg, *I Heart Huckabees*
3. Thomas Haden Church, *Sideways*
4. Clive Owen, *Closer*
5. Antonio Banderas, *Shrek 2*
6. Liev Schreiber, *The Manchurian Candidate*
7. Morgan Freeman, *Million Dollar Baby*
8. Mark Ruffalo, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Virginia Madsen, *Sideways*
2. Patricia Clarkson, *Dogville*
3. Cate Blanchett, *The Aviator*
4. Daryl Hannah, *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
5. Kirsten Dunst, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
6. Maggie Cheung, *Hero*
7. Sharon Warren, *Ray*
8. Sophie Okonedo, *Hotel Rwanda*
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
1. *Dogville*
2. *I Heart Huckabees*
3. *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
4. *Closer*
5. *Sideways*
6. *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
7. *Since Otar Left*
8. *Coffee and Cigarettes*
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AWARD
1. Catalina Sandino Moreno, *Maria Full of Grace*
2. Anthony Mackie, *Brother to Brother*
3. Bryce Dallas Howard, *The Village*
4. Freddie Highmore, *Finding Neverland*
5. Sharon Warren, *Ray*
6. Ivan Dobronravov, *The Return*
7. Jon Heder, *Napoleon Dynamite*
8. Ji-min Kwak, *Samaria/Samaritan Girl*
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Michel Gondry, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2. Lars Von Trier, *Dogville*
3. Zhang Yimou, *Hero*
4. Michael Mann, *Collateral*
5. Zhang Yimou, *House of Flying Daggers*
6. Quentin Tarantino, *Kill Bill Vol. 2*
7. Pedro Almodovar, *Bad Education*
8. Lee Chang-dong, *Oasis*
ORSON WELLES AWARD for the year’s best directorial debut
1. Joshua Marston, *Maria Full of Grace*
2. Shane Carruth, *Primer*
3. Morgan Spurlock, *Super Size Me*
4. Julie Bertucelli, *Since Otar Left*
5. Zach Braff, *Garden State*
6. Jonathan Caouette, *Tarnation*
7. Zack Snyder, *Dawn of the Dead*
8. Andrei Zvyagintsev, *The Return*
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Charlie Kaufman, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, *Before
Sunset*
3. Lars Von Trier, *Dogville*
4. David O. Russell and Jeff Baena, *I Heart Huckabees*
5. Brad Bird, *The Incredibles*
6. Pedro Almodovar, *Bad Education*
7. Joshua Marston, *Maria Full of Grace*
8. Frank Cottrell Boyce, *Code 46*
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, *Sideways*
2. Tina Fey, *Mean Girls*
3. Paul Haggis, *Million Dollar Baby*
4. Patrick Marber, *Closer*
5. Steven Kloves, *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
6. Tony Gilroy, *The Bourne Supremacy*
7. Joe Simpson, *Touching the Void*
8. Joe Penhall, *Enduring Love*
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
1. Joshua Marston, *Maria Full of Grace*
2. Shane Carruth, *Primer*
3. Tina Fey, *Mean Girls*
4. Rodney Evans, *Brother to Brother*
5. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, *Shaun of the Dead*
6. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, *Before Sunset*
7. Morgan Spurlock, *Super Size Me*
8. Julie Bertucelli and Bernard Renucci, *Since Otar Left*
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Christopher Doyle, *Hero*
2. Xiaoding Zhao, *House of Flying Daggers*
3. Ellen Kuras, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
4. Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron, *Collateral*
5. Robert Richardson, *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
6. Anthony Dod Mantle, *Dogville*
7. Harris Savides, *Birth*
8. Dong-hyeon Baek, *Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring*
BEST EDITING
1. Valdís Óskarsdóttir, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2. Long Cheng, *House of Flying Daggers*
3. Angie Lam, Vincent Lee, and Ru Zhai, *Hero*
4. Bob Murawski, *Spider-Man 2*
5. Jim Miller and Paul Rubell, *Collateral*
6. José Salcedo, *Bad Education*
7. Molly Marlene Stensgård, *Dogville*
8. Jonathan Caouette and Brian A. Kates, *Tarnation*
OUTSTANDING DESIGN TEAM
1. *Hero*
2. *House of Flying Daggers*
3. *The Incredibles*
4. *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou*
5. *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
6. *Bad Education*
7. *Dogville*
8. *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
1. Jon Brion, *I Heart Huckabees*
2. Jon Brion, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
3. Alexandre Desplat, *Birth*
4. Marc Shaiman, Trey Parker, et al, *Team America: World
Police*
5. Shigeru Umebayashi, *House of Flying Daggers*
6. John Williams, *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
7. Michael Giacchino and Tim Simonec, *The Incredibles*
8. Gustavo Santaolalla, *The Motorcycle Diaries*
NOMINATIONS STATISTICS
Multiple nominations:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – 12
Dogville – 10
House of Flying Daggers – 8
Bad Education – 7
Hero – 7
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 – 7
Maria Full of Grace – 6
Sideways – 5
Before Sunset – 4
Collateral – 4
I Heart Huckabees – 4
The Incredibles – 4
Since Otar Left – 4
Closer – 3
Million Dollar Baby – 3
Oasis – 3
Super Size Me – 3
Tarnation – 3
Birth – 2
Brother to Brother – 2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 2
Hotel Rwanda – 2
Mean Girls – 2
Primer – 2
Ray – 2
The Return – 2
Spider-Man 2 – 2
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring – 2
Touching the Void – 2
1 nomination each:
The Aviator,
The Bourne Supremacy,
Code 46,
Coffee and Cigarettes,
Control Room,
The Corporation,
Dawn of the Dead,
The Door in the Floor,
Enduring Love,
Fahrenheit 9/11,
Finding Neverland,
Garden State,
Infernal Affairs,
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,
The Manchurian Candidate,
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster,
The Motorcycle Diaries,
Napoleon Dynamite,
Samaria/Samaritan Girl,
Shaun of the Dead,
Shrek 2,
The Story of the Weeping Camel,
Team America: World Police,
Vera Drake,
The Village,
Shut out: A Love Song for Bobby Long,
The Assassination of Richard Nixon,
A Very Long Engagement,
Being Julia,
Beyond the Sea,
Born Into Brothels,
De-Lovely,
Kinsey,
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,
The Passion of the Christ,
The Phantom of the Opera,
P.S.,
The Sea Inside,
Spanglish,
Vanity Fair,
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice,
The Woodsman
END NOMINATION STATISTICS
ABOUT CINEMARATI
The 2004 roster of Cinemarati critics features widely read writers from across the United States and Canada, representing some of the most heavily-trafficked film sites on the World Wide Web, including Apollo Guide, Netflix, The Flick Filosopher, Film Threat, and Slant Magazine. The Cinemarati member critics are:
Acquarello, Strictly Film School (http://www.filmref.com/)
Catherine Cantieri, Hole City
(http://holecity.com/asp/frontpage.asp)
Shay Casey, Daily Reviews (http://www.daily-reviews.com/)
Jeff Chen, Window to the Movies
(http://www.windowtothemovies.com)
Jill Cozzi, , Mixed Reviews (http://www.mixedreviews.net/)
Nick Davis, Flick Picks (http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/)
Michael Dequina, Film Threat/Movie Poop Shoot
(http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/flimflam/)
Bryant Frazer, Deep Focus (http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/)
Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine (http://www.slantmagazine.com)
Stephen Himes, Filmsnobs (http://www.filmsnobs.com/)
Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide/Netflix (http://www.apolloguide.com/)
MaryAnn Johanson, The Flick Filosopher
(http://www.flickfilosopher.com/)
Dan Meyer, CineMe (http://www.cineme.net)
Nathaniel Rogers, The Film Experience
(http://www.thefilmexperience.net/)
Martin Scribbs, Mixed Reviews (http://www.mixedreviews.net/)
Gabriel Shanks, Mixed Reviews (http://www.mixedreviews.net/)
Vern, Then Fuck You, Jack: The Life and Art of Vern (http://www.geocities.com/outlawvern/)
