Best Cinematography

• Alfie, by Ashley Rowe


• Birth, by Harris Savides


• Collateral, by Paul Cameron & Dion Beebe


• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Ellen Kuras


• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Emmanuel Lubezki

My apologies to: Dogville, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, La Mala Educacion, The Saddest Music in the World, Vera Drake

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Closer, by Patrick Marber


• The Dreamers, by Gilbert Adair


• Mean Girls, by Tina Fey


• The Saddest Music in the World, by Guy Maddin & George Toles


• Sideways, by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

My apologies to: Million Dollar Baby, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Spider-man 2

Best Original Screenplay

• Before Sunset, by Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater


• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Charlie Kaufman


• I ♥ Huckabees, by Jeff Baena & David O. Russell


• La Mala Educacion, by Pedro Almodovar


• Saved!, by Brian Dannelly

My apologies to: Goodbye Lenin!, The Incredibles, Kill Bill Volume 2, Mean Creek

Best Actor in A Supporting Role

• Paul Bettany as Tom Edison - Dogville


• David Carradine as Bill - Kill Bill, Volume 2


• Peter Krause as Hank Evans - We Don't Live Here Anymore


• Jude Law as Brad Stand - I ♥ Huckabees


• Mark Wahlberg as Tommy Corn - I ♥ Huckabees

My apologies to: Jamie Bell - Undertow, Thomas Haden Church - Sideways, Philip Davis - Vera Drake, Brendan Fehr - Sugar, Liev Schreiber - The Manchurian Candidate

Best Actress in A Supporting Role

• Eva Amurri as Cassandra Edelstein- Saved!


• Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver- Kill Bill, Volume 2


• Virginia Madsen as Maya - Sideways


• Ellen Page as Emily Anderson- Wilby Wonderful


• Naomi Watts as Dawn Campbell - I ♥ Huckabees

My apologies to: Cate Blanchett - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Patricia Clarkson - Dogville, Kirsten Dunst - Spider-man 2, Anne Heche - Birth, Suleka Mathew - Touch of Pink, Rachel McAdams - Mean Girls, Lucy Punch - Being Julia, Lily Tomlin - I ♥ Huckabees, Naomi Watts - We Don't Live Here Anymore

Best Actor in A Leading Role

• Gael Garcia Bernal as Angel/Juan/Zahara- La Mala Educacion


• Jim Carrey as Joel Barish- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


• Paul Giamatti as Miles - Sideways


• Ethan Hawke as Jesse - Before Sunset


• Clive Owen as Larry - Closer

My apologies to: Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda, Rory Culkin - Mean Creek, Ryan Gosling - The Notebook, Jude Law - Alfie, Jason Schwartzman - I ♥ Huckabees

Best Actress in A Leading Role

• Julie Delpy as Celine - Before Sunset


• Nicole Kidman as Anna - Birth & as Grace Mulligan - Dogville


• Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake - Vera Drake


• Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride - Kill Bill, Volume 2


• Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

My apologies to: Annette Bening - Being Julia, Jennifer Garner - 13 Going on 30, Eva Green - The Dreamers, Laura Linney - P.S., Natalie Portman - Closer, Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby

Best Director

• Pedro Almodovar - La Mala Educacion


• Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


• Richard Linklater - Before Sunset


• Sam Raimi - Spider-man 2


• David O. Russell - I ♥ Huckabees

My apologies to: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Dreamers, Jacob Aaron Estes - Mean Creek, Brian Dannelly - Saved!, Mike Leigh - Vera Drake, Zack Snyder - Dawn of the Dead, Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill Volume 2, Lars Von Trier - Dogville

Best Picture

• Before Sunset, dir. Richard Linklater


• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dir. Michel Gondry


• Kill Bill, Volume 2, dir. Quentin Tarantino


• La Mala Educacion (Bad Education), dir. Pedro Almodovar


• Spider-man 2, dir. Sam Raimi

The rest of my Top Ten:

6. I ♥ Huckabees
7. TIE: Mean Girls, Saved!
8. Sideways
9. Dogville
10. Mean Creek