10th Critics' Choice Awards

Sideways

• The Aviator
• Collateral
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Finding Neverland
• Hotel Rwanda
• Kinsey
• Million Dollar Baby
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Ray

Martin Scorsese – The Aviator

• Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
• Marc Forster – Finding Neverland
• Taylor Hackford – Ray
• Alexander Payne – Sideways

Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles

• Javier Bardem – The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro
• Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
• Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland as J. M. Barrie
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator as Howard Hughes
• Paul Giamatti – Sideways as Miles Raymond

Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald

• Annette Bening – Being Julia as Julia Lambert
• Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace as Maria Álvarez
• Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake as Vera Drake
• Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Volume 2 as Beatrix Kiddo
• Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Clementine Kruczynski

Thomas Haden Church – Sideways as Jack Cole

• Jamie Foxx – Collateral as Max Durocher
• Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
• Clive Owen – Closer as Larry Gray
• Peter Sarsgaard – Kinsey as Clyde Martin

Virginia Madsen – Sideways as Maya Randall

• Cate Blanchett – The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn
• Laura Linney – Kinsey as Clara McMillen
• Natalie Portman – Closer as Alice Ayres / Jane Jones
• Kate Winslet – Finding Neverland as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Freddie Highmore – Finding Neverland as Peter Llewelyn Davies

• Liam Aiken – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Klaus Baudelaire
• Cameron Bright – Birth as Young Sean
• Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Harry Potter
• William Ullrich – Beyond the Sea as Little Bobby

Emmy Rossum – The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daaé

• Emily Browning – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Violet Baudelaire
• Dakota Fanning – Man on Fire as Lupita Ramos
• Lindsay Lohan – Mean Girls as Cady Heron
• Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Hermione Granger

Sideways

• Closer
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Ocean's Twelve

Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

• The Aviator – John Logan
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman
• Finding Neverland – David Magee
• Kinsey – Bill Condon

The Incredibles

• The Polar Express
• Shrek 2

Fahrenheit 9/11

• Control Room
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
• Super Size Me

Finding Neverland

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Miracle
• Spider-Man 2

The Sea Inside • France / Italy / Spain

• House of Flying Daggers • China / Hong Kong
• Maria Full of Grace • Colombia / USA
• The Motorcycle Diaries • Argentina / Brazil / Chile / France / Germany / Peru / UK / USA
• A Very Long Engagement • France / USA

The Aviator – Howard Shore

• The Incredibles – Michael Giacchino
• Sideways – Rolfe Kent

"Old Habits Die Hard" – Alfie

• "Accidentally in Love" – Shrek 2
• "Believe" – The Polar Express

Spider-Man 2

• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Incredibles
• Napoleon Dynamite
• The Passion of the Christ

Ray

• Alfie
• Beyond the Sea
• De-Lovely
• Garden State