The 8th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2004, were given on 10 January 2005.
Winners and nominees
Best Picture
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Before Sunset
- Garden State
- The Incredibles
- Sideways
Best Director
Michel Gondry – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
- Alexander Payne – Sideways
- Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
- Zhang Yimou – Hero
Best Actor
Paul Giamatti – Sideways
- Jim Carrey – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda
- Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator
- Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress
Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Julie Delpy – Before Sunset
- Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
- Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
- Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Volume 2
Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church – Sideways
- David Carradine – Kill Bill: Volume 2
- Jamie Foxx – Collateral
- Clive Owen – Closer
- Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey
Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett – The Aviator
- Laura Linney – Kinsey
- Virginia Madsen – Sideways
- Natalie Portman – Closer
- Sharon Warren – Ray
Best Original Screenplay
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman
- Garden State – Zach Braff
- The Incredibles – Brad Bird
- Kill Bill: Volume 2 – Quentin Tarantino
- Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
- Before Sunset – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
- Closer – Patrick Marber
- Million Dollar Baby – Paul Haggis
- The Motorcycle Diaries – José Rivera
Best Foreign Language Film
Hero
- House of Flying Daggers
- Maria Full of Grace
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- A Very Long Engagement
Best Documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11
- Control Room
- Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
- Super Size Me
- Touching the Void
Best Animated Feature
The Incredibles
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- The Polar Express
- Shrek 2
- Team America: World Police
Best Cinematography
Hero – Christopher Doyle
- The Aviator – Robert Richardson
- Collateral – Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Ellen Kuras
- House of Flying Daggers – Xiaoding Zhao
Best Editing
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Valdís Óskarsdóttir
- The Aviator – Thelma Schoonmaker
- Hero – Angie Lam, Vincent Lee and Zhai Ru
- House of Flying Daggers – Long Cheng
- Kill Bill: Volume 2 – Sally Menke
Best Score
The Incredibles – Michael Giacchino
- The Aviator – Howard Shore
- Birth – Alexandre Desplat
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Jon Brion
- Hero – Tan Dun
Breakthrough Filmmaker
Zach Braff – Garden State
- Kerry Conran – Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Jared Hess – Napoleon Dynamite
- Joshua Marston – Maria Full of Grace
- Edgar Wright – Shaun of the Dead
Breakthrough Performer
Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace
- Zach Braff – Garden State
- Jon Heder – Napoleon Dynamite
- Bryce Dallas Howard – The Village
- Emmy Rossum – The Phantom of the Opera
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