The Broadcast Film Critics Association selected Alexander Payne's indie drama "Sideways" as the winner of the Critics' Choice Award for Best Picture at their January 10, 2005 awards gala held in Los Angeles. "Sideways" received the most nominations with eight total and wound up winning in five categories.

BFCA NOMINEES AND WINNERS FOR MOVIES RELEASED IN 2004:

Best Picture
WINNER:Sideways
The Aviator
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
The Phantom of the Opera
Ray

Best Actor
WINNER: Jamie Foxx - Ray
Javier Bardem - The Sea Inside
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Paul Giamatti - Sideways

Best Actress
WINNER: Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Annette Bening - Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
Uma Thurman - Kill Bill: Volume 2
Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER: Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
Jamie Foxx - Collateral
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen - Closer
Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER: Virginia Madsen - Sideways
Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
Laura Linney - Kinsey
Natalie Portman - Closer
Kate Winslet - Finding Neverland

Best Acting Ensemble
WINNER:Sideways
Closer
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Ocean's Twelve

Best Director
WINNER: Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Alexander Payne - Sideways

Best Writer
WINNER: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor - Sideways
Bill Condon - Kinsey
Charlie Kaufman - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
John Logan - The Aviator
David Magee - Finding Neverland

Best Animated Feature
WINNER:The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Shrek 2

Best Young Actor
WINNER: Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland
Liam Aiken - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Cameron Bright - Birth
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
William Ullrich - Beyond The Sea

Best Young Actress
WINNER: Emmy Rossum - The Phantom of the Opera
Emily Browning - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dakota Fanning - Man on Fire
Lindsay Lohan - Mean Girls
Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Best Popular Movie
WINNER:Spider-Man 2
The Bourne Supremacy
The Incredibles
Napoleon Dynamite
The Passion of the Christ

Best Family Film (live action)
WINNER:Finding Neverland
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Miracle
Spider-Man 2

Best Picture Made for Television
WINNER: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Something the Lord Made
The Wool Cap

Best Documentary Feature
WINNER:Fahrenheit 9/11
Control Room
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Super Size Me

Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER:The Sea Inside
House of Flying Daggers
Maria Full of Grace
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Very Long Engagement

Best Song
WINNER: "Old Habits Die Hard", Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart - Alfie
"Accidentally in Love", Counting Crows - Shrek 2
"Believe", Josh Groban - The Polar Express

Best Soundtrack
WINNER:Ray
Alfie
Beyond The Sea
De-Lovely
Garden State

Best Composer
WINNER: Howard Shore - The Aviator
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles
Rolfe Kent - Sideways