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