These are the nominees for the Best Picture of the year for 2004. The Academy Award Ceremony should be this Sunday I think....They announced the nominees on "The Critics Choice Awards" tonight. (the critics choice award winner was sideways. which i think was dumb). Which one do you think was the best picture??

Phantom of the Opera because the only other one I saw was Finding Neverland which was good, but not as amazing as Phantom.

the Phantom was great... not as good as the musical, of course, but still amazing.

the aviator was really good too. those were the only two i've seen out of the choices, but i liked phantom better.

...All of them sucks : P

well .... the academy awards are in Februrary ..... the only awards show that is coming up soon is the Golden Globes.

Those nominees btw are from the Critics Choice Awards .... which has no say in the nominees for the Oscars. Although, they are a great indicator for which ones will be picked (which is due to the fact that they nominate 10 films while the academy nominates 5) .... Personally, the ones that I think will be nominated are ....

Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Hotel Rwanda, Ray

I wouldn't be able to say which movie was the best as I haven't see them all .... but I did thoroughly enjoy Sideways .... and mildly enjoyed The Aviator. Ray has no chance at winning the oscar ..... In my opinion, its either Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, or Sideways for the Oscar.

^I just said that those nominees are from the critics choice awards, and aren't final....good god throw me a bone here

Wtf..
Where are all the early 2004 movies?
.. the good ones? -.-

care to share which ones you believe should have been nominated?

I didn't see any of those..

yes, guys i know alot of these movies you probably havent seen or heard of....but these were the ones that the critics nominated. so if you feel like they were missing a movie, then go right ahead and say it. lol

Ack.
I haven't seen any of them.

I'll just say Ray, because it seemed like a very good film.

I'm going with my number one guy, Johnny Depp, "Finding Neverland". Not only was Johnny gorgeous in the movie, the acting from him, Kate Winslet, Freddie Highmore, and just about everyone else was spectacular. Even with all of its limited releases, it's managed to be in the top 25 of the box office.

I thought Collateral was a BRILLIANT movie... I think it's Collateral and then Hero with Jet Li... that's a VERY underrated movie... that shit was SICK

I didn't see any of those movies!

but i think that phantom will win!

Are you guys kidding me? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was an incredible movie.

I never heard of Eternal Sunshine

Anyways Finding Neverland was a great movie! Even though I haven't seen it. But an actor like Johnny Depp and Katy Rose -- they are awesome! Also I like it because it's like a fantasy and fairy tale-like

who the hell is katy rose? I'll just pretend you meant to say Kate Winslet ....

hmm, i only saw eternal sunshine of the spotless mind- it was good.

I haven't watched any of them before but I think Hotel Rwanda is gonna win :)

Sideways was definately the best movie released in the judging period. Somehow I cant see it winning though because it wasnt a huge blockbuster movie, although it did make a nice chunk of change. Likeways with Kinsey but it made considerably less at the box office. Sideways or Kinsey would be my choices though, hopefully one of them pulls it off. Ill add some stats for those who care, you have to remember that these is just the total gross to date, these movies were released at different points in the year so they may seem a little decieving.

Aviator

Opening Weekend - $858,021
Gross - $31,541,390
Budget - $100,000,000 (estimated)

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Opening Weekend - $8,175,198
Gross – $34,126,138
Budget - $20,000,000 (estimated)

Sideways

Opening Weekend - $207,042
Gross – $22,404,206
Budget - $12,000,000

Million Dollar Baby

Opening Weekend - $179,953
Gross – $1,044,149
Budget – Unknown

Kinsey

Opening Weekend - $169,038
Gross - $6,734,321
Budget - $11,000,000 (estimated)

Phantom of the Opera

Opening Weekend - $4,001,890
Gross – $16,178,431
Budget - $60,000,000 (estimated)

Hotel Rwanda

Opening Weekend - $100,091
Gross – $426,803
Budget – unknown

Ray

Opening Weekend - $20,039,730
Gross – $71,611,065
Budget - $40,000,000 (estimated)

Finding Neverland

Opening Weekend - $220,524 (I believe this was released at different times in different parts of the country)
Gross – $24,676,372
Budget – Unkown

Collateral

Opening Weekend - $24,701,458
Gross – $100,003,492
Budget - $65,000,000 (estimated)

Data taken from www.imdb.com

I have not watched one of those, which is pretty pathetic.

you make me fear for the future.

phantom of the opera...

lol I think she meant kate winslet...lol but had a titanic flashback, hehe...but yes Eternal Sunshine was brilliant and kate winslet was brilliant in it....phantom of the opera was amazing.....so i really can't wait to see who wins this year for the golden globes and the oscars....

phantom of the opera...only cuz that's the only one i've seen

Finding Neverland didn't do too well in the box office because it was first released in the UK, and the limited released in LA and NY, and then again in some other places, and then again, and again, and again, and they just FINALLY nation wide released it about 2 weeks ago. Argh, stupid Miramax. It was supposed to be released like two years ago, but because of Warners [Or was it Disney?] Peter Pan, they had to agree to release it later.

i havent watched any of those movies but i heard so much about the phantom of opera and it sounds like it deserves the award

i would vote for aviator, collateral, and phantom.

Phantom of the Opera.

Hmmm, those ones didnt really seem that popular but I'd choose Finding Neverland, definately.

Eternal sunshine and Finding neverland.

I have seen the phantom of the opera yet. but I want to really bad!

I choose Ray since it was basically the only movie up there that I actually know about.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for sure. I loved that movie

I chose Ray. I have not seen it, but I'm extremely eager to.

The Aviator

it was such a gret movie!

I haven't seen any of those. Is it just me, or do I not go to the movies enough?

Omg, i want to see it really badly too! I was going to vote for it but I cant cuz i havent seen it ;x.

i THiNK iTS BETWEEN "SiDEWAYS" AND "THE AViATOR" MAYBE "RAY" TOO BUT i THiNK THE COMPETiTiON iS MAiNLY BETWEEN THE FiRST TWO

i'd go with collateral cuz that's the only movie i saw out of all of those.. my friends didnt want to watch the aviator and ray and stuff like that even tho i did.

finding neverland.

Never Seen Any Of Those:(

I haven't seen a lot of those movies, but I thought the Aviator was very good...

collateral!

Okay, I earlier I thought that Ray would get it but now I'm not so sure. I saw Hotel Rwanda yesterday and it was just...it was fantastic. It even made me cry and I never cry at movies.

the grudge. I want to date the dead chick. i'll hollar at the jawless chick afterwards.

Anchorman

the only ones ive see nare collateral and finding neverland. i didnt even like collateral...so id have to go with finding neverland.

phantom of the opera was good, but my orchestra director says it won`t be nominated for best movie. it was good, but not all great.

i didn't see any of them but ray looked the coolest

well your orchestra director was right or he just was stating the truth .... because the academy nominations have been out for a week or two now.