30th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (2004)
Best Picture:
Sideways
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby
Best Director:
Alexander Payne - Sideways
Runner-up: Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Best Actor:
Liam Neeson - Kinsey
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti - Sideways
Best Actress:
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
Runner-up: Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
Best Supporting Actor:
Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actress:
Virginia Madsen - Sideways
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett - The Aviator and Coffee and Cigarettes
Best Screenplay:
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor - Sideways
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Cinematography:
Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron - Collateral
Runner-up: Xiaoding Zhao - House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
Best Production Design:
Dante Ferretti - The Aviator
Runner-up: Huo Tingxiao - House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
Best Music Score:
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat - Birth
Best Foreign-Language Film:
House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) • China/Hong Kong
Runner-up: The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) • Argentina
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
Born into Brothels
Runner-up: Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Animation:
The Incredibles
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
Ken Jacobs - Star Spangled to Death
New Generation Award:
Joshua Marston (director) and Catalina Sandino Moreno (actress) - Maria Full of Grace
Career Achievement Award:
Jerry Lewis
Special Citation:
Richard Schickel and Brian Jamieson of Warner Bros. for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One.