Saturday, May 31, 2025

2004 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Dan Houser & Leslie Benzies)
  • Half-Life 2 (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
  • Halo 2 (Michel Bastien, Hamilton Chu & Curtis Creamer)
  • Katamari Damacy (Hideki Tomida & Mitsumasa Fujita)
  • World of Warcraft (Carlos Guerrero & Shane Dabiri)
    (Honourable Mentions: Burnout 3: Takedown, Ninja Gaiden, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Pikmin 2, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal)

Best Action/Adventure Game

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Andrew Semple)
  • Half-Life 2 (David Speyrer)
  • Halo 2 (Jason Jones)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Hideo Kojima)
  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Mark Pacini)
    (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, Pikmin 2, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow)

Best Game Design

  • Fable (Peter Molyneux, Dene Carter, Ben Huskins & Mark Webley)
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Craig Filshie, Imran Sarwar, William Mills & Chris Rothwell)
  • Half-Life 2 (Dave Riller & Matt T. Wood)
  • Katamari Damacy (Masatoshi Ogita)
  • World of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Allen Adham)
    (Honourable Mentions: City of Heroes, Halo 2, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Rome: Total War, The Sims 2)

Best Family Game

  • Donkey Konga (Hiroyuki Onoda)
  • Katamari Damacy (Keita Takahashi)
  • Mario Party 6 (Shuichiro Nishiya)
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Ryota Kawade)
  • Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Grady Hunt)
    (Honourable Mentions: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Pikmin 2, Pokémon Colosseum, Shrek 2, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$)

Best Sport/Racing Game

  • Burnout 3: Takedown (Fiona Sperry & Siobhan Reddy)
  • Madden NFL 2005 (Phil Frazier & Jeremy Strauser)
  • Mario Power Tennis (Haruki Kodera)
  • NBA Ballers (Mark Turmell)
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (Mike Olsen)
    (Honourable Mentions: FlatOut, F-Zero GP Legend, Need for Speed Underground 2, NFL 2K5, Tony Hawk's Underground 2)

Best Technical Innovation

  • Donkey Konga (Masanori Higashi, Hiroyuki Akamatsu, Ayako Murakami & Yoshiro Kurohata)
  • Half-Life 2 (Yahn Bernier & Brian Jacobson)
  • Halo 2 (Michael Evans, Chris Butcher, Charles Gough & Ben Wallace)
  • Katamari Damacy (Kazumi Yamabe)
  • The Sims 2 (Matthew M. Brown & David Gregory)
    (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Rome: Total War, World of Warcraft)

Best Multiplayer

  • Burnout 3: Takedown
  • Half-Life 2
  • Halo 2
  • Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
  • World of Warcraft

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

  • Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Kazutoki Kono)
  • Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Middle-Earth (Chris Corry & Bing Gordon)
  • RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (Jonny Watts)
  • Rome: Total War (Mike Simpson)
  • The Sims 2 (Charles Landon)
    (Honourable Mentions: Dog's Life, Full Spectrum Warrior, Pacific Fighters, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, Zoo Tycoon 2)

Best Use of Audio

  • Doom 3 (Christian Antkow & Ed Lima)
  • Halo 2 (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell & Jay Weinland)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Sōtarō Tojima, Hiroe Noguchi, Waichiro Ozaki & Ryoji Makimura)
  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Clark Wen & Scott Peterson)
  • Myst IV: Revelation (Mathieu Jeanson, Steven Dumont, Alexandre Letendre & Jocelyn Daoust)
    (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Finest Hour, Half-Life 2, Pikmin 2, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Sly 2: Band of Thieves)

Best Music

  • Fable (Russell Shaw & Danny Elfman)
  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Kumi Tamioka)
  • Halo 2 (Martin O'Donnell)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Jeremy Soule)
  • Rome: Total War (Jeff van Dyck)
    (Honourable Mentions: Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Killzone, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal)

Best Handheld Game

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Brett Skogen & Geraldine Wong)
  • Kingdom Hearts: Chains of Memories (Tetsuya Nomura & Aguro Tanaka)
  • Metroid: Zero Mission (Yoshio Sakamoto)
  • Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (Junichi Masuda)
  • Super Mario 64 DS (Shinichi Ikematsu)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ancient Empires, Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Colin McRae Rally 2005, Mario Golf: Advance Tour, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005)

Best Fighting Game

  • Custom Robo (Keiji Okayasu)
  • Dead or Alive: Ultimate (Tomonobu Itagaki)
  • Mortal Kombat: Deception (Ed Boon)
    (Honourable Mentions: Def Jam: Fight for NY, Fight Night 2004, Godzilla: Save the Earth, Onimusha Blade Warriors, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw)

Best Art Direction

  • Fable (Ian Yarwood-Lovett)
  • Half-Life 2 (Viktor Antonov)
  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Todd Keller)
  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Mickail Labat)
  • Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Dev Madan)
    (Honourable Mentions: Burnout 3: Takedown, Doom 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Myst IV: Revelation, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow)

Best Animation

  • Half-Life 2 (Miles Estes & Bay Raitt)
  • Halo 2 (William O'Brian, Mike Budd, John Butkus & Nathan Walpole)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Masahiro Yoshinaga, Makoto Akashi, Goro Kaneko & So Toyota)
  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Sylvain Bernard, Paul David Jesper, Guillaume Lefebvre & Steeve Oullet)
  • Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Kevin Grow, David Hancock, John Lally & David Pritchard)
    (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Killzone, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow)

Best Story/Writing

  • The Bard's Tale (Matthew Findley, Eric Flannum, Dennis M. Miller & John Parry)
  • Fable (James Leach)
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Dan Houser, James Worrall & DJ Pooh)
  • Half-Life 2 (Marc Laidlaw)
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Hironobu Suzuki & Misao Fukuda)
    (Honourable Mentions: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, Katamari Damacy, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, The Suffering)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Vin Diesel - Chronicles of Narnia: Escape from Butcher Bay for voicing Richard B. Riddick
  • Peter Fonda - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for voicing "The Truth"
  • Robert Guillaume - Half-Life 2 for voicing Eli Vance
  • Samuel L. Jackson - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for voicing Frank Tenpenny
  • Matt Olsen - Sly 2: Band of Thieves for voicing Bentley
    (Honourable Mentions: Max Casella - Jak 3, David Cross - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Cary Elwes - The Bard's Tale, Dennis Haysbert - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow, Vanessa Marshall - Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone)

Friday, May 30, 2025

2004 Tyler's Choice Music Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Song by a Male Vocalist

  • "Cinnamon Girl" - Prince (Prince)
  • "Collide" - Howie Day (Martin Glover)
  • "Daughters" - John Mayer (Jack Joseph Puig)
  • "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West (Kanye West)
  • "Live Like You're Dying" - Tim McGraw (Byron Gallimore, Tim McGraw & Darran Smith)
  • "You Raise Me Up" - Josh Groban (David Foster)
    (Honourable Mentions: "I Don't Want to Be" - Gavin DeGraw, "Let's Misbehave" - Elvis Costello, "Love's Divine" - Seal, "You and I Both" - Jason Mraz)

Best Song by a Female Vocalist

  • "The First Cut is the Deepest" - Sheryl Crow (John Shanks)
  • "If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia Keys (Alicia Keys)
  • "My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne (Butch Walker)
  • "Oceania" - Björk (Björk & Mark Bell)
  • "Sunrise" - Norah Jones (Norah Jones & Arif Mardin)
  • "You Had Me" - Joss Stone (Michael Mangini, Steve Greenberg & Betty Wright)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Breakaway" - Kelly Clarkson, "Nobody's Home" - Avril Lavigne, "What You Waiting For?" - Gwen Stefani, "With You" - Jessica Simpson)

Best Song by a Duo, Group or Band

  • "American Idiot" - Green Day (Rob Cavallo & Green Day)
  • "Here We Go Again" - Ray Charles & Norah Jones (John R. Burk)
  • "Let's Get it Started" - Black Eyed Peas (Will.i.am)
  • "This Love" - Maroon 5 (Matt Wallace & Mark Endert)
  • "Whiskey Lullaby" - Brad Paisley, ft. Alison Krauss (Frank Rogers)
  • "Yeah!" - Usher, ft. Lil' Jon & Ludacris (Lil' Jon)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Float On" - Modest Mouse, "Roses" - OutKast, "Vertigo" - U2, "When I Look to the Sky" - Train)

Best Album

  • American Idiot - Green Day (Rob Cavallo & Green Day)
  • The College Dropout - Kanye West (Kanye West)
  • The Diary of Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys (Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Kerry Brothers & Timbaland)
  • Genius Loves Company - Ray Charles & various artists (John Burk & Phil Ramone)
  • Musicology - Prince (Prince)
    (Honourable Mentions: Confessions - Usher, Feels Like Home - Norah Jones, Songs About Jane - Maroon 5, Under My Skin - Avril Lavigne, Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn)

Best Music Video

  • "American Idiot" - Green Day (Samuel Bayer, director; Tim Lynch, producer)
  • "It's My Life" - No Doubt (David LaChappelle, director; Ron Mohrhoff, producer)
  • "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand (Jonas Odell, director; Julia Parfitt, producer)
  • "This Love" - Maroon 5 (Sophie Muller, director)
  • "Vertigo" - U2 (Alex and Martin, directors; Gracie Bodie, producer)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" - Jet, "Flawless (Go to the City)" - George Michael, "Roses" - OutKast, "Toxic" - Britney Spears, "Walkie Talkie Man" - Steriogram)

Best Country Song

  • "In My Daughter's Eyes" - Martina McBride (Martina McBride & Paul Worley)
  • "Live Like You're Dying" - Tim McGraw (Byron Gallimore, Tim McGraw & Darran Smith)
  • "Portland, Oregon" - Loretta Lynn & Jack White (Jack White)
  • "Redneck Woman" - Gretchen Wilson (Mark Wright & Joe Scaife)
  • "Whiskey Lullaby" - Brad Paisley, ft. Alison Krauss (Frank Rogers)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Feels Like Today" - Rascal Flatts, "Miss Being Mrs." - Loretta Lynn, "(Save a Horse) Ride a Cowboy" - Big & Rich, "Suds in the Bucket" - Sara Evans, "When the Sun Goes Down" - Kenny Chesney, ft. Uncle Kracker)

Best Dance/Electronic Song

  • "Get Yourself High" - The Chemical Brothers (The Chemical Brothers)
  • "Good Luck" - Basement Jaxx, ft. Lisa Kekaula (Basement Jaxx)
  • "Hey Mama" - Black Eyed Peas (Will.i.am)
  • "Slow" - Kylie Minogue (Dan Carey & Emiliana Torrini)
  • "Toxic" - Britney Spears (Bloodshy & Avant)
    (Honourable Mentions: "All Nite (Don't Shop)" - Janet Jackson, "Comfortably Numb" - Scissor Sisters, "Dip it Low" - Christina Milian, "Flawless (Go to the City)" - George Michael, "Turn Me On" - Kevin Lyttle)

Best Pop Song

  • "Daughters" - John Mayer (Jack Joseph Puig)
  • "Here We Go Again" - Ray Charles & Norah Jones (John R. Burk)
  • "It's My Life" - No Doubt (Nellee Hooper & No Doubt)
  • "Sunrise" - Norah Jones (Norah Jones & Arif Mardin)
  • "This Love" - Maroon 5 (Matt Wallace & Mark Endert)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Heaven" - Los Lonely Boys, "Oceania" - Björk, "My Immortal" - Evanescence, "The Reason" - Hoobastank, "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5)

Best Rap Song

  • "99 Problems" - Jay-Z (Rick Rubin)
  • "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg & Pharrell (The Neptunes)
  • "Let's Get it Started" - Black Eyed Peas (Will.i.am)
  • "Through the Wire" - Kanye West (Kanye West)
  • "Yeah!" - Usher, ft. Lil' Jon & Ludacris (Lil' Jon)
    (Honourable Mentions: "All Falls Down" - Kanye West, ft. Syleena Johnson, "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West, "Just Lose It" - Eminem, "Roses" - OutKast, "Splash Waterfalls" - Ludacris)

Best Rock Song

  • "American Idiot" - Green Day (Rob Cavallo & Green Day)
  • "Float On" - Modest Mouse (Dennis Herring)
  • "Somebody Told Me" - The Killers (The Killers)
  • "Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane (Andy Green, James Sanger & Keane)
  • "Vertigo" - U2 (Steve Lillywhite)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" - Jet, "Here Without You" - 3 Doors Down, "Mad World" - Gary Jules, "Numb" - Linkin Park, "Slither" - Velvet Revolver)

Best Songwriting

  • "Daughters" - John Mayer (John Mayer)
  • "If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia Keys (Alicia Keys)
  • "The Reason" - Hoobastank (Daniel Estrin & Douglas Robb)
  • "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5 (Adam Levine & James Valentine)
  • "Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane (Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin & Richard Hughes)
  • "Whiskey Lullaby" - Brad Paisley, ft. Alison Krauss (Bill Anderson & Jon Randall)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West, "Live Like You're Dying" - Tim McGraw, "My Immortal" - Evanescence, "Yeah!" - Usher, ft. Lil' Jon & Ludacris)

Best Original Score

  • Angels in America (Thomas Newman)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Jon Brion)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Howard Shore)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Danny Elfman)
  • Wicked (Stephen Schwartz)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

  • Cold Mountain: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (T-Bone Burnett)
  • Garden State: Music from the Motion Picture (Zach Braff)
  • Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack (Andrew Adamson, Christopher Douridas & Michael Ostin)
  • Spider-Man 2: Music from and Inspired By (Laura Wasserman)
  • Wicked (Stephen Schwartz)

Best Song Written for Visual Media

  • "Accidentally in Love" - Shrek 2 (Counting Crows)
  • "Belleville Rendezvous" - The Triplets of Belleville (Benoît Charest & Sylvain Chomet)
  • "Defying Gravity" - Wicked (Stephen Schwartz)
  • "Into the West" - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Fran Walsh, Howard Shore & Annie Lennox)
  • "You Must Be My Ain True Love" - Cold Mountain (Sting)

Best New Artist

  • Gavin DeGraw
  • Joss Stone
  • Kanye West
  • Los Lonely Boys
  • Maroon 5
    (Honourable Mentions: Ashlee Simpson, Delta Goodrem, Gretchen Wilson, Modest Mouse, Switchfoot)

2004 Tyler's Choice Television Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Television Series - Drama

  • 24 (Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran, Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer & Tony Krantz)
  • Deadwood (David Milch)
  • Joan of Arcadia (Barbara Hall & James Hayman)
  • The Sopranos (David Chase, Mitchell Burgess, Robin Green, Brad Grey, Ilene S. Landress & Terence Winter)
  • The West Wing (John Wells)
    (Honourable Mentions: Alias, Boomtown, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Nip/Tuck, The Wire)

Best Television Series - Comedy

  • Arrested Development (Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Mitchell Hurwitz & David Nevins)
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Larry Charles, Gavin Polone & Robert B. Weide)
  • Everybody Loves Raymond (Ray Romano, Philip Rosenthal, Tucker Cawley, Rory Rosegarten, Lew Schneider, Steve Skrovan, Stuart Smiley & Jeremy Stevens)
  • Friends (Kevin S. Bright, David Chase, Marta Kauffman, Ted Cohen, Shana Goldberg-Meehan, Andrew Reich & Scott Silveri)
  • Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King, Jenny Bicks, Cindy Chupack, John Melfi & Sarah Jessica Parker)
  • The Simpsons (Al Jean, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening & Sam Simon)
    (Honourable Mentions: Frasier, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Will & Grace)

Best Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Larry Gelbart, Mark Gordon & Joshua D. Maurer, executive producers; Diane Sillan Isaacs & Tony Mark, producers)
  • Angels in America (Cary Brokaw & Mike Nichols, executive producers; Celia Costas, producer)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Ronald D. Moore & David Eick, executive producers; Harvey Frand, producer)
  • The Lion in Winter (Robert Halmi Sr., Robert Halmi Jr., Martin Poll & Patrick Stewart, executive producers; Dyson Lovell, producer)
  • Something the Lord Made (Robert W. Cort, Eric Hetzel & David Madden, executive producers; Michael Drake & Julian Krainin, producers)
    (Honourable Mentions: American Family, Horatio Hornblower, Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness, The Reagans, Traffic: The Miniseries)

Best Variety Series

  • Chappelle's Show (Dave Chappelle, Michelle Armour & Neal Brennan)
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Ben Karlin & Jon Stewart)
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Lorne Michaels & Jeff Ross)
  • Late Show with David Letterman (Barbara Gaines, Maria Pope, Rob Burnett & Jude Brennan)
  • Saturday Night Live (Lorne Michaels)

Best Variety Special

  • 57th Tony Awards (Ricky Kirshner & Gary Smith)
  • 76th Academy Awards (Michael B. Seligman, executive producer; Joe Roth, producer)
  • Chris Rock: Never Scared (Chris Rock, Michael Rotenberg & Joel Gallen)
  • Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (Sheila Nevins, Richard Fell & Helen Asquith, executive producers; Chris Hunt & Frazer Pennebaker, producers)
  • Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now (Ellen DeGeneres & Joel Gallen)

Best Reality Series

  • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Tom Forman & Craig Armstrong)
  • Law & Order: Crime and Punishment (Dick Wolf, Bill Guttentag, Peter Jankowski & David Kanter)
  • Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Mark Wolper & Star Price)
  • Project Greenlight (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Sean Bailey, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Chris Moore, Harvey Weinstein & Bob Weinstein)
  • Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Christian Barcellos, Frances Berwick, David Collins, Amy Introcaso-Davis, David Metzler & Michael Williams)

Best Reality-Competition Series

  • The Amazing Race (Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster & Jonathan Littman)
  • American Idol (Nigel Lythgoe, Ken Warwick, Cecile Frot-Coutaz & Simon Fuller)
  • The Apprentice (Mark Burnett & Donald Trump)

Best Animated Program

  • Futurama - "The Sting" (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen & Ken Keeler, executive producers; Brian Sheesley, director; Patric M. Verrone, writer)
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot - "It Came from Next Door/Pest Control" (Fred Seibert, executive producer; Rob Renzetti, executive producer/director/writer; Mike Bell, Alex Kirwan & Chris Mitchell, writers) 
  • Samurai Jack - "The Birth of Evil" (Genndy Tartakovsky, executive producer/director/writer; Robert Alvarez & Randy Myers, director; Don Shank, writer) 
  • The Simpsons - "Catch 'Em if You Can" (Al Jean, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening & Sam Simon, executive producers; Matthew Nastuk, director; Ian Maxtone-Graham, writer)
  • SpongeBob Squarepants - "SpongeBob B.C." (Stephen Hillenburg, executive producer; Andrew Overtoom, director; Paul Tibbitt & Kent Osborne, writers)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Fairly OddParents, King of the Hill, The Powerpuff Girls, South Park, Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

Best Lead Actor - Drama

  • James Gandolfini - The Sopranos (Episode: "Where's Johnny?")
  • Anthony LaPaglia - Without a Trace (Episode: "Copycat")
  • Jerry Orbach - Law & Order (Episode: "C.O.D.")
  • Martin Sheen - The West Wing (Episode: "Memorial Day")
  • Kiefer Sutherland - 24 (Episode: "Day 3: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.")
    (Honourable Mentions: Michael Chiklis - The Shield, Ian McShane - Deadwood, James Spader - The Practice, Michael Vartan - Alias, Treat Williams - Everwood)

Best Lead Actor - Comedy

  • Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: "Opening Night")
  • Kelsey Grammer - Frasier (Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle")
  • Matt LeBlanc - Friends (Episode: "The One Where the Stripper Cries")
  • Matthew Perry - Friends (Episode: "The One Where Chandler Gets Caught")
  • John Ritter - 8 Simple Rules (Episode: "Premiere")
    (Honourable Mentions: Jason Bateman - Arrested Development, Zach Braff - Scrubs, Dan Castellaneta - The Simpsons, Ricky Gervais - The Office, Tony Shalhoub - Monk)

Best Lead Actor - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Antonio Banderas - And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • Mos Def - Something the Lord Made
  • Al Pacino - Angels in America
  • Alan Rickman - Something the Lord Made
  • Patrick Stewart - The Lion in Winter
    (Honourable Mentions: James Brolin - The Reagans, Ioan Gruffudd - Hornblower: Loyalty, Justin Kirk - Angels in America, Elias Koteas - Traffic: The Miniseries, Edward James Olmos - Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series) 

Best Lead Actress - Drama

  • Edie Falco - The Sopranos (Episode: "All Happy Families...")
  • Jennifer Garner - Alias (Episode: "The Two")
  • Mariska Hargitay - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Control")
  • Allison Janney - The West Wing (Episode: "Access")
  • Amber Tamblyn - Joan of Arcadia (Episode: "Pilot")

Best Lead Actress - Comedy

  • Jennifer Aniston - Friends (Episode: "The One with Rachel's Going Away Party")
  • Patricia Heaton - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "Fun with Debra")
  • Jane Kaczmarek - Malcolm in the Middle (Episode: "Block Party")
  • Lisa Kudrow - Friends (Episode: "The One with Phoebe's Wedding")
  • Sarah Jessica Parker - Sex and the City (Episode: "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux")
    (Honourable Mentions: Courteney Cox-Arquette - Friends, Caroline Dhavernas - Wonderfalls, Lauren Graham - Gilmore Girls, Bonnie Hunt - Life with Bonnie, Julie Kavner - The Simpsons)

Best Lead Actress - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Glenn Close - The Lion in Winter
  • Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect VI: The Last Witness
  • Meryl Streep - Angels in America
  • Hilary Swank - Iron Jawed Angels
  • Emma Thompson - Angels in America
    (Honourable Mentions: Glenn Close - Strip Search, Judy Davis - The Reagans, Clea DuVall - Helter Skelter, Lynn Whitfield - Redemption, Dianne Wiest - The Blackwater Lightship)

Best Supporting Actor - Drama

  • Steve Buscemi - The Sopranos (Episode: "Rat Pack")
  • Brad Dourif - Deadwood (Episode: "No Other Sons and Daughters")
  • Victor Garber - Alias (Episode: "Breaking Point")
  • Michael Imperioli - The Sopranos (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
  • John Spencer - The West Wing (Episode: "Memorial Day")
    (Honourable Mentions: Adam Brody - The O.C., Benito Martinez - The Shield, Neal McDonough, Everwood, Jason Ritter - Joan of Arcadia, Bradley Whitford - The West Wing)

Best Supporting Actor - Comedy

  • Peter Boyle - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Mentor")
  • Brad Garrett - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Model")
  • John Mahoney - Frasier (Episode: "I'm Listening")
  • David Hyde Pierce - Frasier (Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle")
  • Jeffrey Tambor - Arrested Development (Episode: "Visiting Ours")
    (Honourable Mentions: Will Arnett - Arrested Development, Bryan Cranston - Malcolm in the Middle, David Alan Grier - Life with Bonnie, Sean Hayes - Will & Grace, Mandy Patinkin - Dead Like Me)

Best Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Alan Arkin - And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • William H. Macy - Stealing Sinatra
  • Ben Shenkman - Angels in America
  • Patrick Wilson - Angels in America
  • Jeffrey Wright - Angels in America
    (Honourable Mentions: Yancey Arias - American Family, Eion Bailey - And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, Alan Bates - Spartacus, Balthazar Getty - Traffic: The Miniseries, Keith McErlean, The Blackwater Lightship)

Best Supporting Actress - Drama

  • Stockhard Channing - The West Wing (Episode: "7A WF 83429")
  • Drea de Matteo - The Sopranos (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
  • Janel Moloney - The West Wing (Episode: "No Exit")
  • Mary Steenburgen - Joan of Arcadia (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Robin Weigert - Deadwood (Episode: "Deep Water")
    (Honourable Mentions: Reiko Aylesworth - 24, Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Without a Trace, Camryn Manheim - The Practice, C.C.H. Pounder - The Shield, Kelly Rowan - The O.C.)

Best Supporting Actress - Comedy

  • Kim Cattrall - Sex and the City (Episode: "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux")
  • Kristin Davis - Sex and the City (Episode: "Hop, Skip and a Week")
  • Cynthia Nixon - Sex and the City (Episode: "The Ick Factor")
  • Doris Roberts - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "Thank You Notes")
  • Jessica Walter - Arrested Development (Episode: "My Mother, My Car")
    (Honourable Mentions: Kelly Bishop - Gilmore Girls, Nancy Cartwright - The Simpsons, Portia de Rossi - Arrested Development, Jane Leeves - Frasier, Megan Mullally - Will & Grace)

Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Anne Heche - Grace's Choice
  • Anjelica Huston - Iron Jawed Angels
  • Angela Lansbury - The Blackwater Lightship
  • Mary-Louise Parker - Angels in America
  • Katee Sackhoff - Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series
    (Honourable Mentions: Julie Andrews - Eloise's Christmastime, Mary McCormack - Traffic: The Miniseries, Frances O'Connor - Iron Jawed Angels, Diana Rigg - The Last King, Gabrielle Union - Something the Lord Made)

Best Guest Actor - Drama

  • Keith Carradine - Deadwood (Episode: "Here Was a Man")
  • Ricky Gervais - Alias (Episode: "Facade")
  • Martin Landau - Without a Trace (Episode: "Shadows")
  • Matthew Perry - The West Wing (Episode: "Separation of Powers")
  • William Shatner - The Practice (Episode: "War of the Roses")
    (Honourable Mentions: Paul Blackthorne - 24, James Earl Jones - Everwood, Stacy Keach - Boomtown, Robert Loggia - The Sopranos, Bob Newhart - ER)

Best Guest Actor - Comedy

  • Danny DeVito - Friends (Episode: "The One Where the Stripper Cries")
  • Michael J. Fox - Scrubs (Episode: "My Porcelain God")
  • Anthony LaPaglia - Frasier (Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle")
  • Ben Stiller - Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: "Blind Date")
  • John Turturro - Monk (Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies")
    (Honourable Mentions: Mel Brooks - Curb Your Enthusiasm, John Cleese - Will & Grace, David Duchovny - Sex and the City, Patrick Stewart - Frasier, Henry Winkler - Arrested Development)

Best Guest Actress - Drama

  • Glenn Close - The West Wing (Episode: "The Supremes")
  • Viola Davis - The Practice (Episode: "We the People")
  • Louise Fletcher - Joan of Arcadia (Episode: "Do the Math")
  • Marlee Matlin - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Painless")
  • Sharon Stone - The Practice (Episode: "The Chosen")
    (Honourable Mentions: Polly Bergen - The Sopranos, Rebecca De Mornay - Boomtown, Isabella Rossellini - Alias, Betty White - The Practice, Mare Winningham - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

Best Guest Actress - Comedy

  • Christina Applegate - Friends (Episode: "The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits")
  • Cloris Leachman - Malcolm in the Middle (Episode: "Ida's Boyfriend")
  • Laura Linney - Frasier (Episode: "Match Game")
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Arrested Development (Episode: "Justice is Blind")
  • Betty White - Malcolm in the Middle (Episode: "Victor's Other Family")
    (Honourable Mentions: Eileen Brennan - Will & Grace, Georgia Engel - Everybody Loves Raymond, Ana Faris - Friends, Liza Minnelli - Arrested Development, Mira Sorvino - Will & Grace)

Best Direction - Drama

  • Christopher Chulack - ER (Episode: "The Lost")
  • Allen Coulter - The Sopranos (Episode: "Irregular Around the Margins")
  • Walter Hill - Deadwood (Episode: "Deadwood")
  • Ryan Murphy - Nip/Tuck (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Tim Van Patten - The Sopranos (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
    (Honourable Mentions: Jon Avnet - Boomtown, David Barrett - Without a Trace, Mike Figgis - The Sopranos, Rodrigo Garcia - Carnivàle, Constantine Makris - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

Best Direction - Comedy

  • Larry Charles - Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: "The Survivor")
  • Matthew Nastuk - The Simpsons (Episode: "Catch 'Em if You Can")
  • Anthony & Joe Russo - Arrested Development (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Tim Van Patten - Sex and the City (Episode: "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux")
  • Robert B. Weide - Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: "The Car Pool Lane")
    (Honourable Mentions: James Burrows - Will & Grace, Bryan Gordon - Curb Your Enthusiasm, Amy Sherman-Palladino - Gilmore Girls, James Widdoes - 8 Simple Rules, Scott Winant - Dead to Me)

Best Direction - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Bruce Beresford - And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • Tom Hooper - Prime Suspect VI: The Last Witness
  • Andrey Konchalovskiy - The Lion in Winter
  • Mike Nichols - Angels in America
  • Joseph Sargent - Something the Lord Made
    (Honourable Mentions: Craig R. Baxley - Stephen King's Kingdom Business, Eric Bross & Stephen Hopkins - Traffic: The Miniseries, Robert Harmon - Ike: Countdown to D-Day, Gregory Nava - American Family, Michael Rymer - Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series)

Best Writing - Drama

  • Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green - The Sopranos (Episode: "Irregular Around the Margins")
  • Michael Caleo - The Sopranos (Episode: "Where's Johnny?")
  • David Milch - Deadwood (Episode: "Deadwood")
  • Hank Steinberg - Without a Trace (Episode: "Wannabe")
  • Terence Winter - The Sopranos (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
    (Honourable Mentions: Debora Cahn - The West Wing, Kim Clements - The Shield, Barbara Hall - Joan of Arcadia, Anna McGrail - Boomtown, Josh Schwartz - The O.C.)

Best Writing - Comedy

  • David Crane & Marta Kauffman - Friends (Episode: "The Last One")
  • Mitchell Hurwitz - Arrested Development (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Joe Keenan & Christopher Lloyd - Frasier (Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle")
  • Michael Patrick King - Sex and the City (Episode: "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux")
  • Ian Maxtone-Graham - The Simpsons (Episode: "Catch 'Em if You Can")
    (Honourable Mentions: Jenny Bicks & Cindy Chupack - Sex and the City, Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan - Scrubs, Todd Holland & Bryan Fuller - Wonderfalls, Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky - Sex and the City, Amy Sherman-Palladino - Gilmore Girls)

Best Writing - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Robert Caswell & Peter Silverman - Something the Lord Made
  • Larry Gelbart - And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • Tony Kushner - Angels in America
  • Ronald D. Moore & Glen A. Larson - Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series
  • Sally Robinson, Raymond Singer, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer & Jennifer Friedes - Iron Jawed Angels
    (Honourable Mentions: Peter Barry - Prime Suspect VI: The Last Witness, Shane Connaughton - The Blackwater Lightship, James Goldman - The Lion in Winter, Ron Hutchinson - Traffic: The Mini-Series, Jane Marchwood, Thomas Rickman & Elizabeth Egloff - The Reagans)

Best Casting - Drama

  • 24 (Peggy Kennedy & Debi Manwiller)
  • Carnivàle (Wendy O'Brien & John Papsidera)
  • Deadwood (Libby Goldstein & Junie Lowry-Johnson)
  • The Sopranos (Sheila Jaffe & Georgianne Walken)
  • The West Wing (Laura Schiff)

Best Casting - Comedy

  • Arrested Development (Deborah Barylski & Geraldine Leder)
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm (Allison Jones)
  • Frasier (Jeff Greenberg)
  • Sex and the City (Jennifer McNamara)
  • The Simpsons (Bonita Pietila)

Best Casting - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Angels in America (Ellen Lewis & Juliet Taylor)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer & Robert J. Ulrich)
  • Iron Jawed Angels (Kathleen Chopin, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins & Liz Marks)
  • Something the Lord Made (Lynn Kressel & Pat Moran)
  • Traffic: The Miniseries (Stuart Aikins, Steve Brooksbank & Mary Jo Slater)

Best Cinematography - Series

  • Alias - Donald E. Thorin, Jr. (Episode: "Reunion")
  • Carnivàle - James Glennon, Jeff Jur & Tami Reiker (Episode: "Milfay")
  • Friends - Nick McLean (Episode: "The One with Phoebe's Wedding")
  • The Sopranos - Phil Abraham (Episode: "Irregular Around the Margins")
  • The West Wing - Thomas Del Ruth (Episode: "7A WF 83429")

Best Cinematography - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Peter James)
  • Angels in America (Stephen Goldblatt)
  • Iron Jawed Angels (Robbie Greenberg)
  • The Lion in Winter (Sergei Koslov)
  • Something the Lord Made (Donald M. Morgan)

Best Costume Design - Series

  • Carnivàle - Ruth Myers (Episode: "Milfay")
  • Deadwood - Janie Bryant (Episode: "Deadwood")
  • Sex and the City - Patricia Field (Episode: "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux")
  • The Sopranos - Juliet Polsca (Episode: "Rat Pack")
  • That 70's Show - Melina Root (Episode: "Sally Simpson")

Best Costume Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Monica Araiz & Eduardo Castro)
  • Angels in America (Ann Roth)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Deborah Everton)
  • Iron Jawed Angels (Caroline Harris)
  • The Lion in Winter (Consolata Boyle)

Best Editing - Series

  • 24 - Chris G. Willingham (Episode: "Day 3: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.")
  • Arrested Development - E. Lee Haxall (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm - Jonathan Corn (Episode: "The Survivor")
  • Frasier - Ron Volk (Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle")
  • The Sopranos - William B. Stich (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
    (Honourable Mentions: Alias - Kristin Windell, Curb Your Enthusiasm - Steven A. Rasch, Deadwood - Freeman B. Davies, ER - Kevin Casey, The Sopranos - Sidney Wolinsky)

Best Editing - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Mark Warner & Ed Warschilka)
  • Angels in America (John Bloom & Antonia Van Drimmelen)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Dany Cooper)
  • The Lion in Winter (Henry Richardson)
  • Something the Lord Made (Michael Anthony Brown)
    (Honourable Mentions: 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot Out (William B. Stich), American Family (Axel Hubert), Ike: Countdown to D-Day (Chris Peppe), Iron Jawed Angels (Hans Funck), Traffic: The Miniseries (John Duffy & Tod Feuerman) 

Best Ensemble - Drama

  • 24 (Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth, James Badge Dale, Dennis Haysbert, Mary Lynn Rajskub, D.B. Woodside, Zachary Quinto & Penny Johnson Jerald, et. al.)
  • Alias (Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman, David Anders, Melissa George, Greg Grunberg & Victor Garber, et. al.)
  • Deadwood (Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine & Robin Weigert, et. al.)
  • The Sopranos (James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Dominic Chianese, Michael Imperioli, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Sirico, Robert Iler, Aida Turturro & Drea de Matteo, et. al.)
  • The West Wing (Stockhard Cahnning, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford & Martin Sheen, et. al.)

Best Ensemble - Comedy

  • Arrested Development (Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter & Jeffrey Tambor, et. al.)
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman, Richard Lewis, Bob Einstein, Shelley Berman & Ted Danson, et. al.)
  • Friends (Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox-Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry & David Schwimmer, et. al.)
  • Sex and the City (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, Evan Handler, Lynn Cohen & Blair Underwood, et. al.)
  • The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor & Tress MacNeille, et. al.)

Best Main Title Design

  • Angels in America (Randall Balsmeyer, J. John Corbett, Jim Rider & Amit Sethi)
  • Carnivàle (Patrick Murphy, Vonetta Taylor & Angus Wall)
  • Deadwood (Angus Wall, et. al.)
  • Joan of Arcadia (George Montgomery)
  • Nip/Tuck (Eric Anderson, Vince Haycock, Paul Matthaeus & Paul Schneider)

Best Main Title Theme Music

  • Angels in America (Thomas Newman)
  • Deadwood (David Schwartz)
  • Monk (Randy Newman)
  • Nip/Tuck (Jeffrey Cain, Cedric Lemoyne & Gregory Slay)
  • Two and a Half Men (Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn & Grant Geissman)

Best Makeup - Series

  • Carnivàle - Steve Artmont & Simone Almekias-Siegl (Episode: "Babylon")
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Nicholas Pagliaro, John Goodwin & Jackie Tichenor (Episode: "Assume Nothing/All for Our Country")
  • Deadwood - John Rizzo, Adam Brandy & Deborah McNulty (Episode: "Here Was a Man")
  • Gilmore Girls - Maria Del Prete, Malanie J. Romero & Mike Smithson (Episode: "The Festival of Living Art")
  • Star Trek: Enterprise - Michael Westmore (Episode: "Zero Hour")

Best Makeup - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • American Family (Ken Diaz & Carlos Sánchez)
  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Dorothy J. Pearl)
  • Angels in America (J. Roy Holland, John Caglione Jr. & Kelly Gleason)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Bill Terezakis)
  • The Reagans (Stephan Dupuis)

Best Music Composition - Series

  • 24 - Sean Callery (Episode: "Day 3: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.")
  • Dead Like Me - Stewart Copeland (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Line of Fire - Larry Groupe (Episode: "Eminence Front")
  • The Simpsons - Alf Clausen (Episode: "Treehouse of Horror XIV")
  • Star Trek: Enterprise - Velton Ray Bunch (Episode: "Similtude")

Best Music Composition - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • Angels in America (Thomas Newman)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Richard Gibbs)
  • Helter Skelter (Mark Snow)
  • The Nazi Officer's Wife (Sheldon Mirowitz)
  • Something the Lord Made (Christopher Young)

Best Original Music and Lyrics

  • Futurama - "I Want My Hands Back" (Ken Keeler)
  • Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On - "The Street I Live On" (Mike Renzi & Lou Berger)
  • The Simpsons - "Vote for a Winner" (Alf Clausen & Dana Gould)

Best Production Design - Series

  • Alias - Scott Chambliss & Karen Manthey (Episode: "Taken")
  • Carnivàle - Bernt Amadeus Capra & Leslie McCarthy-Frankenheimer (Episode: "Milfay")
  • Deadwood - Maria Rebman Caso, John F. Brown & Maria Nay (Episode: "Deadwood")
  • The Sopranos - Bob Shaw & Debra Schutt (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
  • The West Wing - Kenneth Hardy & Ellen Totleben (Episode: "Gaza")

Best Production Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Herbert Pinter & Jay Aroesty)
  • Angels in America (Stuart Wuertzel & George DeTitta, Jr.)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Richard Hudolin & Shirley Inget)
  • Hornblower: Loyalty (Rob Harris & Tina Jones)
  • The Lion in Winter (Roger Hall & Istvan Toth)

Best Sound Design - Series

  • 24 - William Dotson, Kenneth Kobett & Michael Olman (Episode: "Day 3: 12:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.")
  • Alias - Tom deGorter, Robert Appere & Edward C. Carr III (Episode: "The Two")
  • Deadwood - Stephen H. Flick, William Freesh & R. Russell Smith (Episode: "Deadwood")
  • The Sopranos - Jason George, Kevin Burns & Todd Orr (Episode: "Long Term Parking")
  • The West Wing - Thomas A. Harris, Walter Newman, Dan Hiland & Gary D. Rogers (Episode: "An Khe")

Best Sound Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (Geoffrey C. Rubay, Adam Jenkins & Drew Webster)
  • Angels in America (Lee Dichter & Ron Bochar)
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series (Jack Levy, Kevin Burns & Todd Orr)
  • Something the Lord Made (Richard Taylor, Rick Ash & Adam Jenkins)
  • Traffic: The Miniseries (Mike Dickeson, Gary Macheel, Kevin Burns & Tony Lamberti)

Best Visual Effects

  • Angels in America - Richard Edlund, Liz Ralston, Don Greenberg & Steve Kirshoff (Episode: "Perestroika")
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-Series - Gary Hutzel, Patti Gannon, Christopher Jones & Emile Edwin Smith (Episode: "Part 2")
  • Dead Like Me - Robert Habros, Jennifer McEachern, Matt Breakspear & Carmen Pollard (Episode: "Pilot")
  • Stargate SG-1 - Michelle Comens, Chris Doll, Shannon Gurney & James Tichenor (Episode: "Lost City: Part 2")
  • Star Trek: Enterprise - Daniel F. Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Elizabeth Castro & Paul Hill (Episode: "Countdown")

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • John DiMaggio - Futurama for voicing Bender in "Bend Her"
  • Julie Kavner - The Simpsons for voicing Marge Simpson in "Co-Dependent's Day"
  • Tom Kenny - SpongeBob Squarepants for voicing SpongeBob Squarepants in "SpongeBob B.C."
  • Brittany Murphy - King of the Hill (Episode: "Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon"
  • Harry Shearer - The Simpsons for voicing C. Montgomery Burns in "Fraudcast News"
    (Honourable Mentions: Dan Castalleneta - The Simpsons, Mike Judge - King of the Hill, Janice Kawaye - My Life as a Teenage Robot, Candi Milo - My Life as a Teenage Robot, Billy West - Futurama)

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

2004 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

  • The Aviator (Michael Mann & Graham King)
  • Finding Neverland (Richard N. Gladstein & Nellie Bellflower)
  • Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy & Tom Rosenberg)
  • Sideways (Michael Landon)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Avi Arad & Laura Ziskin)
    (Honourable Mentions: Before Sunset, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Incredibles, Ray)

Best Director

  • Brad Bird - The Incredibles
  • Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
  • Taylor Hackford - Ray
  • Sam Raimi - Spider-Man 2
  • Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
    (Honourable Mentions: Marc Forster - Finding Neverland, Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michael Moore - Fahrenheit 9/11, Alexander Payne - Sideways, Zhang Yimou - House of Flying Daggers)

Best Lead Actor

  • Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
  • Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
  • Paul Giamatti - Sideways
  • Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man 2
    (Honourable Mentions: Javier Bardem - The Sea Inside, Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby, Jamie Foxx - Ray, Gael García Bernal – The Motorcycle Diaries) 

Best Lead Actress

  • Annette Bening - Being Julia
  • Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
  • Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
  • Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
  • Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    (Honourable Mentions: Julie Delpy - Before Sunset, Nicole Kidman - Birth, Uma Thurman - Kill Bill, Volume 2, Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Ziyi Zhang - House of Flying Daggers)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
  • Jamie Foxx - Collateral
  • Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
  • Alfred Molina - Spider-Man 2
  • Clive Owen - Closer
    (Honourable Mentions: Alec Baldwin - The Aviator, David Carradine - Kill Bill, Volume 2, Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland, Jason Lee - The Incredibles, Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
  • Laura Linney - Kinsey
  • Virginia Madsen - Sideways
  • Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda
  • Natalie Portman - Closer
    (Honourable Mentions: Kirsten Dunst - Spider-Man 2, Daryl Hannah - Kill Bill, Volume 2, Cloris Leachman - Spanglish, Meryl Streep - The Manchurian Candidate, Sharon Warren - Ray)

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Aviator (John Logan)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth)
  • Hotel Rwanda (Terry George & Keir Pearson)
  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
  • Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess & Jerusha Hess)
    (Honourable Mentions: Collateral, Garden State, Ray, Shaun of the Dead, Vera Drake)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke; based on the characters created by Linklater & Krizan)
  • Finding Neverland (David Magee; based on the play "The Man Who Was Peter Pan" by Allan Knee)
  • Million Dollar Baby (Paul Haggis; based on the short story collection "Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner" by F.X. Toole)
  • Sideways (Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor; based on the novel by Rex Pickett)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Alvin Sargent, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar & Michael Chabon; based on the characters created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Chorus, Mean Girls, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Phantom of the Opera, Shrek 2)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • The Aviator [Ellen Lewis, casting director] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Breckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani & Alan Alda, et. al.)
  • Finding Neverland [Kate Dowd, casting director] (Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Ian Hart, Mackenzie Crook, Kelly Macdonald, Toby Jones & Freddie Highmore, et. al.)
  • The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou [Douglas Aibel, casting director] (Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort & Michael Gambon, et. al.)
  • Sideways [John Jackson, casting director] (Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen & Sandra Oh, et. al.)
  • Spider-Man 2 [Dianne Crittenden, casting director] (Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, Donna Murphy, Dylan Baker, Daniel Gillies, Willem Dafoe & J.K. Simmons, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Incredibles, Million Dollar Baby, Ocean's Twelve, Ray)

Best Young Actor

  • Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland
  • Lindsay Lohan - Mean Girls
  • Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Emmy Rossum - The Phantom of the Opera
  • Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    (Honourable Mentions: Liam Aiken - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Cameron Bright - Birth, Dakota Fanning - Man on Fire, Spencer Fox - The Incredibles, C.J. Sanders - Ray)

Best Foreign Language Film

  • House of Flying Daggers [China] (Zhang Yimou)
  • Maria Full of Grace [Colombia] (Joshua Marston)
  • The Motorcycle Diaries [Brazil] (Walter Salles)
  • The Sea Inside [Spain] (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • A Very Long Engagement [France] (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bad Education, The Chorus, Hero, Moolaadé, Yesterday)

Best Documentary Feature

  • Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman)
  • Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn & Jim Czarnecki)
  • Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
  • Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
  • Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald & John Smithson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Control Room, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Tupac: Resurrection, Twist of Faith)

Best Original Score

  • Finding Neverland (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams)
  • The Incredibles (Michael Giacchino)
  • The Passion of the Christ (John Debney)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Danny Elfman)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Aviator, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Million Dollar Baby, The Village)

Best Original Song

  • "Accidentally in Love" - Shrek 2 (Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immergluck, Matt Malley, David Bryson & Dan Vickrey)
  • "Believe" - The Polar Express (Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri)
  • "Learn To Be Lonely" - The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Charlie Hart)
  • "Million Voices" - Hotel Rwanda (Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplessis & Andrea Guerra)
  • "Old Habits Die Hard" - Alfie (Mick Jagger & David A. Stewart)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Al otro lado del río" - The Motorcycle Diaries, "The Blower's Daughter" - Closer, "Knock Yourself Out" - I <3 Huckabees, "Look to Your Path" - The Chorus, "Lovers" - House of Flying Daggers) 

Best Sound Editing

  • Collateral (Elliot Koretz & Becky Sullivan)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philip Stockton & Paul Urmson)
  • The Incredibles (Randy Thom & Michael Silvers)
  • The Polar Express (Randy Thom & Dennis Leonard)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Aviator, The Bourne Supremacy, House of Flying Daggers, Ray, The Village)

Best Sound Mixing

  • The Aviator (Tom Fleischman & Petur Hliddal)
  • The Incredibles (Randy Thom, Gary Rizzo & Doc Kane)
  • Million Dollar Baby (Christopher Boyes, Tom Johnson & Michael Semanick)
  • Ray (Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer & Steve Cantamessa)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush & Joseph Geisinger)
    (Honourable Mentions: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, House of Flying Daggers, The Phantom of the Opera, The Polar Express, The Village)

Best Animated Feature

  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird & John Walker)
  • Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon, Aron Warner & John H. Williams)
  • The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg & Julia Pistor)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Home on the Range, The Polar Express, Teacher's Pet, Team America: World Police)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Antonio Banderas - Shrek 2
  • Brad Bird - The Incredibles
  • Samuel L. Jackson - The Incredibles
  • Tom Kenny - The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie
  • Jason Lee - The Incredibles
    (Honourable Mentions: Tom Hanks - The Polar Express, Nathan Lane - Teacher's Pet, Trey Parker - Team America: World Police, John Ritter - Clifford's Really Big Movie, Will Smith - Shark Tale)

Best Cinematography

  • The Aviator (Robert Richardson)
  • House of Flying Daggers (Zhao Xiaoding)
  • The Passion of the Christ (Caleb Deschanel)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Bill Pope)
  • A Very Long Engagement (Bruno Delbonnel)
    (Honourable Mentions: Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hero, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Phantom of the Opera)

Best Film Editing

  • The Aviator (Thelma Schoonmaker)
  • Collateral (Jim Miller & Paul Rubell)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Valdis Óskarsdóttir)
  • Million Dollar Baby (Joel Cox)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Bob Murawski)
    (Honourable Mentions: Finding Neverland, Friday Night Lights, Hero, The Incredibles, Ray)

Best Art Direction

  • The Aviator (Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo)
  • Finding Neverland (Gemma Jackson & Trisha Edwards)
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Rick Heinrichs & Cheryl Carasik)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (Anthony Pratt & Celia Bobak)
  • A Very Long Engagement (Aline Bonetto)
    (Honourable Mentions: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, House of Flying Daggers, The Incredibles, Ray, Spider-Man 2)

Best Costume Design

  • The Aviator (Sandy Powell)
  • Finding Neverland (Alexandra Byrne)
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Colleen Atwood)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (Alexandra Byrne)
  • Ray (Sharen Davis)
    (Honourable Mentions: De-Lovely, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, House of Flying Daggers, Troy, Vanity Fair)

Best Makeup

  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Valli O'Reilly & Bill Corso)
  • The Passion of the Christ (Keith VanderLaan & Christien Tinsley)
  • The Sea Inside (Jo Allen & Manolo García)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Aviator, Dawn of the Dead, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hellboy, House of Flying Daggers)

Best Visual Effects

  • The Aviator (Robert Legato, Pete Travers, Matthew Gratzner & R. Bruce Steinheimer)
  • The Day After Tomorrow (Neil Corbould, Karen E. Goulekas, Ian Hunter & Jim Mitchell)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, John Richardson & William George)
  • I, Robot (John Nelson, Andrew R. Jones, Erik Nash & Joe Letteri)
  • Spider-Man 2 (John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara & John Frazier)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Chronicles of Riddick, House of Flying Daggers, The Incredibles, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)

2025 Tyler's Choice Music Awards ~ Official Nominations

This took way longer than expected, but I finally decided on what I consider to be the best of music for 2025 before the year is up. Best So...