posted by Scene -- @ 6:59 PM

Fuck the Oscars, Mang

I'd go into a rant about the Oscars, but I'd just be a big fat liar (I made a Frankie Muniz reference, tee-hee) since I watch them every year.

Instead, I'll just post up some 'Best-of' lists for 2004.

Movies

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry and Charlie Kauffman)
2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)
3. Closer (Mike Nichols and Patrick Marber)
4. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George and Keir Pearson)
5. Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle (Danny Leiner and Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg)
6. House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang and Feng Li, Bin Wang)
7. Spiderman 2 (Sam Raimi and Alvin Sargent, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Chabon)
8. Mean Girls (Mark S. Waters and Tina Fey, Rosalind Wiseman)
9. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)/ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron and Steven Kloves, J.K. Rowling)
10. I Heart Huckabees (David O'Russell and Jeff Baena)

As you can see, I copped out on number nine and had a tie between the two best children's movies I've seen in a long time.

Documentaries

1. Farenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
2. Fade to Black (Patrick Paulson and Michael John Warren)
3. Supersize Me (Morgan Spurlock)

Actresses

1. Natalie Portman (Closer)
2. Meryl Streep (The Manchurian Candidate)
3. Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, The Notebook)

Actors

1. Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda)
2. Clive Owen (Closer)
3. Gael Garcia Bernal (Bad Education, Motorcycle Diaries)

Design

1. Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Hellboy

Worst of the Year

1. Elektra
2. The Village
3. Ocean's 12

Failures

1. Garden State
2. The Passion of the Christ
3. Alien vs. Predator