Each year, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) votes on the best films of the year. Marty Mapes is sharing its votes with the world via Movie Habit.
In each category (column 1), members nominate up to five films (column 2). The nominations are tallied and the top five vote-getters in each category are announced (column 3). Members vote again for up to five of the nominees (column 4), and finally, the winners are announced (column 5).
Follow the political machinations as Marty votes with his colleagues on the best of 2004.
Category | Marty’s Nominations | OFCS Nominees | Marty’s Vote | OFCS Winners |
Best Picture |
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Babel Children Of Men The Departed Pan’s Labyrinth United 93 |
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United 93 |
Director |
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Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men Guillermo del Toro - Pan’s Labyrinth Paul Greengrass - United 93 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel Martin Scorsese - The Departed |
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Martin Scorsese - The Departed |
Actor |
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Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat Leonardo Di Caprio - The Departed Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson Peter O’Toole - Venus Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland |
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Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland |
Actress | -abstain- | Penelope Cruz - Volver Judi Dench - Notes On A Scandal Helen Mirren - The Queen Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet - Little Children |
Helen Mirren - The Queen | |
Supporting Actor |
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Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls Jack Nicholson - The Departed Mark Wahlberg - The Departed |
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Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children |
Supporting Actress |
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Adriana Barraza - Babel Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls Rinko Kikuchi - Babel |
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Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine |
Screenplay (original) |
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Babel Little Miss Sunshine Pan’s Labyrinth The Queen United 93 |
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Guillermo del Toro - “Pan’s Labyrinth” |
Screenplay (adapted) |
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Children of Men The Departed Little Children The Prestige Thank You For Smoking |
-abstain- | Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby - “Children of Men” |
Cinematography |
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Apocalypto Babel Children of Men The Fountain Pan’s Labyrinth |
-abstain- | Emmanuel Lubeski - “Children of Men” |
Editing |
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Babel Children Of Men The Departed The Fountain United 93 |
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Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse - “United 93” |
Score |
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Babel The Fountain The Illusionist Notes On A Scandal Pan’s Labyrinth |
-abstain- | Clint Mansell - “The Fountain” |
Documentary |
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An Inconvenient Truth Dave Chappelle’s Block Party Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing Jesus Camp Neil Young: Heart Of Gold |
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An Inconvenient Truth |
Foreign Language Film |
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania) L’Enfant (Belgium) Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico) Volver (Spain) Water (India) |
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Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico) |
Animated Feature | -abstain- | Cars Happy Feet Monster House Over the Hedge A Scanner Darkly |
-abstain- | A Scanner Darkly |
Breakthrough Filmmaker |
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Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine Ryan Fleck - Half Nelson Rian Johnson - Brick Neil Marshall - The Descent Jason Reitman - Thank You for Smoking |
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Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - “Little Miss Sunshine” |
Breakthrough Performance |
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Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls Rinko Kikuchi - Babel Ellen Page - Hard Candy |
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Sacha Baron Cohen - “Borat” |