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)