39th National Society of Film Critics Awards (2004)

Best Picture

	1. Million Dollar Baby
	2. Sideways
	3. Before Sunset

Best Director

	1. Zhang Yimou - House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) and Hero (Ying xiong)
	2. Alexander Payne - Sideways
	3. Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby

Best Actor

	1. Jamie Foxx - Ray and Collateral
	2. Paul Giamatti - Sideways
	3. Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby

Best Actress

	1. Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
	1. Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
	3. Julie Delpy - Before Sunset

Best Supporting Actor

	1. Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
	2. Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
	3. Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey

Best Supporting Actress

	1. Virginia Madsen - Sideways
	2. Cate Blanchett - The Aviator and Coffee and Cigarettes
	3. Laura Linney - Kinsey

Best Screenplay

	1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor - Sideways
	2. Charlie Kaufman - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	3. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke - Before Sunset

Best Cinematography

	1. Zhao Xiaoding - House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
	2. Christopher Doyle - Hero (Ying xiong)
	3. Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron - Collateral

Best Foreign Language Film

	1. Moolaadé
	2. House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)
	3. Notre musique

Best Non-Fiction Film

	1. Tarnation
	2. The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel)
	3. Bright Leaves