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Betty Blue

There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both —Marty Mapes (review...)

Betty arrives like a bolt from the Blue

" I know a guy married the same dame 3 times then turned around and married her aunt "
— William Demarest, The Lady Eve

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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
  1. Letters from Iwo Jima
  2. Flags of Our Fathers
  3. The Departed
  4. Inside Man
  5. United 93
Babel 
Children Of Men 
The Departed 
Pan’s Labyrinth 
United 93 
  1. The Departed 
  2. United 93 
United 93
Director
  1. Clint Eastwood (Letters/Flags)
  2. Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
  3. United 93
  4. A Prairie Home Companion
Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men
Guillermo del Toro - Pan’s Labyrinth
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
  1. Guillermo del Toro - Pan’s Labyrinth
  2. Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Actor
  1. Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
  2. Gael Garcia Bernal, Science of Sleep
  3. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
  4. Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
  5. Matt Damon, The Good Shepherd
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Leonardo Di Caprio - The Departed
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole - Venus
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
  1. Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
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
  1. Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
  2. Bill Nighy, Notes on a Scandal
  3. Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
  4. Clive Owen, Inside Man
  5. Robert Downey, Jr., Scanner Darkly
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
  1. Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Supporting Actress
  1. Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
  2. Lily Tomlin, A Prairie Home Companion
  3. Meryl Streep, A Prairie Home Companion
  4. Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
  1. Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Screenplay (original)
  1. Breaking and Entering
  2. Inside Man
  3. Little Miss Sunshine
  4. United 93
  5. Babel
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
United 93
  1. Little Miss Sunshine
  2. United 93
Guillermo del Toro - “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Screenplay (adapted)
  1. Tristram Shandy
  2. Notes on a Scandal
  3. Thank You For Smoking
  4. Perfume
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
  1. Flags of Our Fathers
  2. Perfume
  3. V for Vendetta
  4. United 93
  5. Ask the Dust
Apocalypto
Babel
Children of Men
The Fountain
Pan’s Labyrinth
-abstain- Emmanuel Lubeski - “Children of Men”
Editing
  1. Why We Fight
  2. Flags of Our Fathers
Babel
Children Of Men
The Departed
The Fountain
United 93
  1. United 93
Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse - “United 93”
Score
  1. United 93
Babel
The Fountain
The Illusionist
Notes On A Scandal
Pan’s Labyrinth
-abstain- Clint Mansell - “The Fountain”
Documentary
  1. Why We Fight
  2. Black Gold
  3. The Devil andDanielJohnston
  4. -abstain-
  5. An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Jesus Camp
Neil Young: Heart Of Gold
  1. An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth
Foreign Language Film
  1. Science of Sleep
  2. Pan’s Labyrinth
  3. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania)
L’Enfant (Belgium)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Volver (Spain)
Water (India)
  1. L’Enfant (Belgium)
  2. Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Animated Feature -abstain- Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over the Hedge
A Scanner Darkly
-abstain- A Scanner Darkly
Breakthrough Filmmaker
  1. Little Miss Sunshine
  2. -abstain-
  3. abstain-
  4. Half Nelson
  5. -abstain
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
Ryan Fleck - Half Nelson
Rian Johnson - Brick
Neil Marshall - The Descent Jason Reitman - Thank You for Smoking
  1. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - “Little Miss Sunshine”
Breakthrough Performance
  1. Ben Whishaw, Perfume
  2. Kazunari Ninomiya, Letters from Iwo Jima
  3. Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
  4. Brandon Routh, Superman Returns
  5. Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Ellen Page - Hard Candy
  1. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen - “Borat”