2004 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 2004 (Poll Closed)

• The Aviator  4.23%  (3 votes)  
   
• Before Sunset  2.82%  (2 votes)  
   
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind  42.25%  (30 votes)  
   
• Howl's Moving Castle  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• @ The Incredibles  9.86%  (7 votes)  
   
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2  12.68%  (9 votes)  
   
• ★ Mean Girls  5.63%  (4 votes)  
   
• ✔ Million Dollar Baby  9.86%  (7 votes)  
   
• Sideways  12.67%  (9 votes)  
   
• Spider-Man 2  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 71

 

Best Actor of 2004 (Poll Closed)

• Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)  17.07%  (14 votes)  
   
• Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator)  20.73%  (17 votes)  
   
• Will Ferrell (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)  1.22%  (1 votes)  
   
• ✔ Jamie Foxx (Ray and Collateral)  18.29%  (15 votes)  
   
• ★ Paul Giamatti (Sideways)  42.68%  (35 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 82

 

Best Actress of 2004 (Poll Closed)

• Julie Delpy (Before Sunset)  19.23%  (5 votes)  
   
• Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)  19.23%  (5 votes)  
   
• ✔ Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)  26.92%  (7 votes)  
   
• Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)  11.54%  (3 votes)  
   
• ★ Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)  23.08%  (6 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 26

 

Best Director of 2004

★ Brad Bird (The Incredibles)

✔ Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Richard Linklater (Before Sunset)

Alexander Payne (Sideways)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2004

David Carradine (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)

✔ Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)

Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)

★ Clive Owen (Closer)

Peter Sarsgaard (Garden State and Kinsey)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2004

✔ Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)

Laura Linney (Kinsey)

★ Virginia Madsen (Sideways)

Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls)

Natalie Portman (Closer and Garden State)

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Special Award (Poll Closed)

• Charlie Kaufman, from a story by Charlie Kaufman, Michael Gondry & Pierre Bismuth (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) (original screenplay)  45.24%  (19 votes)  
   
• Tina Fey, from the book by Rosalind Wiseman (Mean Girls) (adapted screenplay)  16.67%  (7 votes)  
   
• "A Waltz for a Night" (Before Sunset) music and lyrics by Julie Delpy (song)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Incredibles (animated feature)  28.57%  (12 votes)  
   
• "No capes!" (The Incredibles) (best fashion advice)  9.52%  (4 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 42

 

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @.

2003 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 2003 (Poll Closed)

• Bubba Ho-Tep  1.45%  (1 votes)  
   
• @ Finding Nemo  5.8%  (4 votes)  
   
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1  4.35%  (3 votes)  
   
• ✔ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  40.58%  (28 votes)  
   
• ★ Lost in Translation  27.54%  (19 votes)  
   
• Love Actually  1.45%  (1 votes)  
   
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World  4.35%  (3 votes)  
   
• Mystic River  8.7%  (6 votes)  
   
• Oldboy  4.35%  (3 votes)  
   
• The Triplets of Belleville  1.43%  (1 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 69

 

Best Actor of 2003 (Poll Closed)

• Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep)  2.82%  (2 votes)  
   
• ★ Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)  33.8%  (24 votes)  
   
• Paul Giamatti (American Splendor)  5.63%  (4 votes)  
   
• Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)  42.25%  (30 votes)  
   
• ✔ Sean Penn (Mystic River and 21 Grams)  15.49%  (11 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 71

 

Best Actress of 2003 (Poll Closed)

• Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)  2.86%  (1 votes)  
   
• Jamie Lee Curtis (Freaky Friday)  5.71%  (2 votes)  
   
• ★ Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring)  54.29%  (19 votes)  
   
• ✔ Charlize Theron (Monster)  37.14%  (13 votes)  
   
• Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen)  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 35

 

Best Director of 2003 (Poll Closed)

• ★ Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)  31.37%  (16 votes)  
   
• Richard Curtis (Love Actually)  1.96%  (1 votes)  
   
• ✔ Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)  45.1%  (23 votes)  
   
• Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy)  9.8%  (5 votes)  
   
• Peter Weir (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)  11.76%  (6 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 51

 

Best Supporting Actor of 2003 (Poll Closed)

• Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)  24.53%  (13 votes)  
   
• Ossie Davis (Bubba Ho-Tep)  5.66%  (3 votes)  
   
• Eugene Levy (A Mighty Wind)  3.77%  (2 votes)  
   
• ★ Bill Nighy (Love Actually)  32.08%  (17 votes)  
   
• ✔ Tim Robbins (Mystic River)  33.96%  (18 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 53

 

Best Supporting Actress of 2003 (Poll Closed)

• ★ Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April and The Station Agent)  70%  (42 votes)  
   
• Hope Davis (American Splendor)  6.67%  (4 votes)  
   
• Holly Hunter (Thirteen)  10%  (6 votes)  
   
• Catherine O'Hara (A Mighty Wind)  5%  (3 votes)  
   
• ✔ Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain)  8.33%  (5 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 60

 

Special Award

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) (original screenplay)

Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson, from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) (adapted screenplay)

Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa) (best bad Santa)

Ed Asner (Elf) (best good Santa)

Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep) (best chin)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @.

2002 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 2002

About a Boy

Adaptation

✔ Chicago

City of God

Far From Heaven

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Minority Report

The Pianist

★ @ Spirited Away

Talk to Her

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Best Actor of 2002

✔ Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

★ Nicolas Cage (Adaptation)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Catch Me If You Can)

Hugh Grant (About a Boy)

Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)

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Best Actress of 2002

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary)

Salma Hayek (Frida)

★ Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven and The Hours)

Franka Potente (The Bourne Identity)

Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

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Best Director of 2002

Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven)

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund (City of God)

★ Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)

Steven Spielberg (Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2002

★ ✔ Chris Cooper (Adaptation)

Alfred Molina (Frida)

John C. Reilly (Chicago)

Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2002

Toni Collette (About a Boy)

★ ✱ Nicole Kidman (The Hours)

Samantha Morton (Minority Report)

Meryl Streep (Adaptation and The Hours)

✔ Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)

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Special Award

Spirited Away (animated feature)

music by John Kander lyrics by Fred Ebb (Chicago) (adapted song score)

Alex McDowell; Anne Kuljian (Minority Report) (art direction / set decoration)

Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) (visual effects)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

2001 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 2001 (Poll Closed)

• Amélie  3.3%  (3 votes)  
   
• ✔ A Beautiful Mind  2.2%  (2 votes)  
   
• Gosford Park  2.2%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  26.37%  (24 votes)  
   
• Memento  6.59%  (6 votes)  
   
• Moulin Rouge!  8.79%  (8 votes)  
   
• ★ Mulholland Drive  39.56%  (36 votes)  
   
• Ocean's Eleven  3.3%  (3 votes)  
   
• Shrek  4.4%  (4 votes)  
   
• Y tu mamá también  3.29%  (3 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 91

 

Best Actor of 2001 (Poll Closed)

• Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)  23.26%  (20 votes)  
   
• John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)  9.3%  (8 votes)  
   
• ★ Guy Pearce (Memento)  36.05%  (31 votes)  
   
• Billy Bob Thornton (The Man Who Wasn't There, Bandits and Monster's Ball)  8.14%  (7 votes)  
   
• Tom Wilkinson (In The Bedroom)  23.25%  (20 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 86

 

Best Actress of 2001

✔ Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)

Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)

Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge! and The Others)

Audrey Tautou (Amélie)

★ Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)

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Best Director of 2001 (Poll Closed)

• Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también)  5.13%  (4 votes)  
   
• ✔ Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)  2.56%  (2 votes)  
   
• Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)  32.05%  (25 votes)  
   
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie)  2.56%  (2 votes)  
   
• ★ David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)  57.69%  (45 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 78

 

Best Supporting Actor of 2001

✔ Jim Broadbent (Iris, Moulin Rouge! and Bridget Jones's Diary)

Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)

Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast)

★ Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

✱ Denzel Washington (Training Day)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2001 (Poll Closed)

• ★ ✔ Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)  21.98%  (20 votes)  
   
• Cameron Diaz (Vanilla Sky)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)  26.37%  (24 votes)  
   
• Carrie-Anne Moss (Memento)  7.69%  (7 votes)  
   
• Maggie Smith (Gosford Park)  43.96%  (40 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 91

 

Special Award

Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) (original screenplay)

Dody Dorn (Memento) (film editing)

Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (Moulin Rouge!) (costumes)

Peter Owen and Richard Taylor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) (makeup)

Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison, Bernie Mac, Brad Pitt, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Julia Roberts (Ocean's Eleven) (best ensemble cast)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

Ordinarily, I would have nominated Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away here — it was released in Japan in 2001 — but it won the Oscar for animated feature in 2002 and thus it feels like a 2002 movie to me. Come back next week to vote for it.

2000 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 2000

Almost Famous

Best in Show

ƒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

✔ Gladiator

High Fidelity

★ In the Mood for Love

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Requiem for a Dream

Snatch

Yi Yi

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Best Actor of 2000

★ Christian Bale (American Psycho)

George Clooney (O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Perfect Storm)

✔ Russell Crowe (Gladiator)

Michael Douglas (Wonder Boys and Traffic)

Tom Hanks (Cast Away)

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Best Actress of 2000

Björk (Dancer in the Dark)

Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love)

★ Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)

✔ Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)

Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

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Best Director of 2000 (Poll Closed)

• Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous)  8.16%  (4 votes)  
   
• Stephen Frears (High Fidelity)  4.08%  (2 votes)  
   
• ★ Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)  55.1%  (27 votes)  
   
• Ridley Scott (Gladiator)  6.12%  (3 votes)  
   
• ✔ Steven Soderbergh (Traffic and Erin Brockovich)  26.53%  (13 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 49

 

Best Supporting Actor of 2000

Jack Black (High Fidelity)

★ Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire)

✔ Benicio del Toro (Traffic)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Almost Famous)

Mark Ruffalo (You Can Count on Me)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2000

★ Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)

✔ Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock)

Kate Hudson (Almost Famous)

Elaine May (Small Time Crooks)

Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

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Special Award

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (stunts)

Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara and Parker Posey (Best in Show) (ensemble cast)

T-Bone Burnett and Carter Burwell (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) (soundtrack)

Dapper Dan (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) (best pomade)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

The New York and Toronto film critics had Ellen Burstyn down as a supporting actress in Requiem for a Dream. Me, too.