Click below for the illustrated ballots in each of the highest-profile races, as well as odds and predictions,
links to reviews, personal favorites, and petulant gripes about who's missing!
BEST PICTURE The Aviator— Finding Neverland — Million Dollar Baby — Ray — Sideways
BEST DIRECTOR Clint Eastwood — Taylor Hackford — Mike Leigh — Alexander Payne — Martin Scorsese
BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening — Catalina Sandino Moreno — Imelda Staunton — Hilary Swank — Kate Winslet
BEST ACTOR Don Cheadle — Johnny Depp — Leonardo DiCaprio — Clint Eastwood — Jamie Foxx
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Cate Blanchett — Laura Linney — Virginia Madsen — Sophie Okonedo — Natalie Portman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Alan Alda — Thomas Haden Church — Jamie Foxx — Morgan Freeman — Clive Owen
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Aviator — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Hotel Rwanda — The Incredibles — Vera Drake
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Before Sunset — Finding Neverland — Million Dollar Baby — The Motorcycle Diaries — Sideways
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Aviator — House of Flying Daggers — The Passion of the Christ — The Phantom of the Opera — A Very Long Engagement
PREDICTIONS & PREFERENCES IN ALL CATEGORIES Winner predictions and personal "should-win" favorites in all Oscar categories
(Animated, Live Action, and Documentary Short Film categories excluded)
Fun Stuff and Special Features
THE 2004 NICKSFLICKPICKS HONOREES, aka MY PERSONAL OSCAR BALLOT
Have you ever noticed that Oscar never gets it quite right? In a perfect world,
here's who would have been praised and feted on their way into the Academy history books.
Recent History
NOMINATION PREDICTIONS
Check out my initial predictions in the major categories, beginning in mid-November and continuing through mid-January.
PAST OSCAR SECTIONS
Visit my Oscar pages from any of the following years:
1999: American Beauty — 2000: Gladiator — 2001: A Beautiful Mind — 2002: Chicago — 2003: The Return of the King