Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

9th Annual Cinema-Scene Awards

2004


Best Picture
#1: Dogville (dir: Lars von Trier)
#2: I
© Huckabees (dir: David O. Russell)
#3: Anatomy of Hell (dir: Catherine Breillat)
#4: The Five Obstructions (dir: Lars von Trier)
#5: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (dir: Quentin Tarantino)
#6: Hero (dir: Zhang Yimou)
#7: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir: Michel Gondry)
#8: Cowards Bend the Knee (dir: Guy Maddin)
#9:
Sex is Comedy (dir: Catherine Breillat)
#10: Touching the Void (dir: Kevin MacDonald)

Honorable Mentions:
Closer (dir: Mike Nichols), Last Life in the Universe (dir: Pen-ek Ratanaruang), Goodbye Dragon Inn (dir: Tsai Ming-liang), Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (dir: Robert Stone), Son Frère (dir: Patrice Chéreau), Los Angeles Plays Itself (dir: Thom Andersen), House of Flying Daggers (dir: Zhang Yimou), The Saddest Music in the World (dir: Guy Maddin), Bad Education (dir: Pedro Almodóvar), Time of the Wolf (dir: Michael Haneke), 10th District Court (dir: Raymond Depardon), Before Sunset (dir: Richard Linklater), Ocean's Twelve (dir: Steven Soderberg), Team America: World Police (dir: Trey Parker), Baadassssss! (dir: Mario Van Peebles), Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir: Michael Moore), Blissfully Yours (dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Salvadore Allende (dir: Patricio Guzman), A Talking Picture (dir: Manoel de Oliviera), Two Brothers (dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud), 3-Iron (dir: Kim Ki-duk), Crimson Gold (dir: Jafar Panahi), and The World (dir: Jia Zhang-ke).

Best Director
#1: Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
#2: Lars von Trier (Dogville)
#3: Guy Maddin (Cowards Bend the Knee)

#4: David O. Russell (I © Huckabees)
#5: Michael Mann (Collateral)


Best Actor
#1: Clive Owen (Closer)
#2: Rocco Siffredi (Anatomy of Hell)
#3: Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
#4: Ethan Hawke (Before Sunset)

#5: Gael García Bernal (Bad Education)


Best Actress
#1: Nicole Kidman (Birth)
#2: Nicole Kidman (Dogville)
#3: Isabelle Huppert (Time of the Wolf)
#4: Anne Parillaud (Sex is Comedy)
#5: Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Mark Wahlberg (I
© Huckabees)
#2: Peter Sarsgaard (Kinsey)
#3: Peter Krause (We Don't Live Here Anymore)

#4: David Carradine (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
#5: Dustin Hoffman (I
© Huckabees)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Naomi Watts (We Don't Live Here Anymore)
#2: Lily Tomlin (I
© Huckabees)
#3: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
#4: Naomi Watts (I
© Huckabees)
#5: Meryl Streep (The Manchurian Candidate)


Best Original Screenplay
#1:
I © Huckabees (David O. Russell)
#2: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman)
#3: Dogville (Lars von Trier)
#4: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
#5: Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Closer (Philip Marber)

#2: Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat)
#3: The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin and George Toles)
#4: Mean Girls (Tina Fey)
#5: We Don't Live Here Anymore (Larry Gross)


Best Cinematography
#1: Harris Savides (Birth)
#2: Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron (Collateral)

#3: Christopher Doyle (Hero)
#4: Guy Maddin (Cowards Bend the Knee)
#5: Robert Richardson (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)


Best Film Editing
#1: Hero

#2: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#3: Cowards Bend the Knee
#4: Touching the Void
#5: The Saddest Music in the World


Best Original Score
#1: Birth (Alexandre Desplat)
#2: I © Huckabees (Jon Brion)
#3: The Motorcycle Diaries (Gustavo Santaolalla)
#4: Team America: World Police (Harry Gregson-Wagner)
#5: Hero (Tan Dun)


Best Original Song
#1: "Get What It's About" (
I © Huckabees)
#2: "America, Fuck Yeah" (Team America: World Police)
#3: "Revolving Door" (I
© Huckabees)
#4: "Freedom Isn't Free" (Team America: World Police)
#5: "Knock Yourself Out" (I
© Huckabees)


Best Production Design
#1: Hero

#2: Dogville
#3: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#4: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#5: Team America: World Police


Best Costume Design
#1: Hero

#2: House of Flying Daggers
#3: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#4: The Saddest Music in the World
#5: A Very Long Engagement


Best Makeup
#1: Dawn of the Dead

#2: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#3: The Saddest Music in the World
#4: Gozu
#5: House of Flying Daggers


Best Sound
#1: The Saddest Music in the World

#2: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#3: Touching the Void
#4: Dogville
#5: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou


Best Visual Effects
#1: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

#2: Hero
#3: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#4: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#5: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Rocco Siffredi (Anatomy of Hell)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Eva Green (The Dreamers)


Best First Feature
Zach Braff
(Garden State)


Worst Film of the Year
Napoleon Dynamite (dir: Jared Hess)
 
by David L. Blaylock