Top Ten 2004

1. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
3. Primer (Shane Carruth)
4. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003)
5. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
6. Distant (Bilge Nuri Ceylan, 2002)
7. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
8. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
9. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
10. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin, 2003)

Runners-up, in order: Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003), Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino), Red Lights (Cedric Kahn), The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass), House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou), Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar), The Return (Andrei Zvyaginstev, 2003), The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002), Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003)

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Here's my ballot for Mike D'Angelo's 2004 Skandies Awards. Like the VillageVoice's venerable "Pazz 'n' Jop" music poll, voters allot exactly 100 points to 10 choices in each category, giving between 5 and 30 ponts to each entry.

PICTURE

• Dogville 18
• Primer 14
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 12
• Crimson Gold 11
• Los Angeles Plays Itself 10
• Distant 9
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 8
• Before Sunset 7
• Sideways 6
• Cowards Bend the Knee 5

DIRECTOR

• Lars Von Trier, Dogville 16
• Jafar Panahi, Crimson Gold 13
• Guy Maddin, Cowards Bend the Knee 12
• Shane Carruth, Primer 11
• Cedric Kahn, Red Lights 10
• Bilge Nuri Ceylan, Distant 10
• Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 8
• Michael Haneke, Time of the Wolf 8
• Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 7
• Richard Linklater, Before Sunset 5

ACTRESS

• Nicole Kidman, Dogville 19
• Maggie Cheung, Hero 13
• Uma Thurman, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 12
• Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake 11
• Drew Barrymore, 50 First Dates 10
• So-ri Moon, Oasis 9
• Nicole Kidman, Birth 8
• Najat Benssallem, Raja 7
• Dominique Blanc, After the Life 6
• Julie Delpy, Before Sunset 5

ACTOR

• Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Red Lights 14
• Tony Leung, Hero 13
• Tony Leung, Infernal Affairs 13
• Bill Murray, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 12
• Hossain Emadeddin, Crimson Gold 11
• Pascal Greggory, Raja 10
• Paul Giamatti, Sideways 9
• Hiroyuki Samada, The Twilight Samurai 8
• David Sullivan, Primer 5
• Quiang Li, Blind Shaft 5

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 25
• Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 22
• Sarah Polley, Dawn of the Dead 10
• Isabella Rossellini, The Saddest Music in the World 7
• Carole Bouquet, Red Lights 7
• Oksana Akinshina, The Bourne Supremacy 7
• Cate Blanchett, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 6
• Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village 6
• Catherine Zeta-Jones, Oceans Twelve 5
• Cate Blanchett, Coffee & Cigarettes 5

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• David Carradine, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 16
• Paul Bettany, Dogville 15
• Mark Wahlberg, I [Heart] Huckabees 14
• John Hurt, Dogville 13
• Thomas Haden Church, Sideways 9
• Steve Coogan, Coffee & Cigarettes 8
• Matt Damon, Ocean's Twelve 7
• Min Tanaka, The Twilight Samurai 7
• Michael Madsen, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 6
• Peter Wight, Vera Drake 5

SCREENPLAY

• Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 26
• Lars von Trier, Dogville 13
• Shane Carruth, Primer 11
• Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 10
• Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself 9
• Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset 8
• Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Cedric Kahn, Gilles Marchand, Red Lights 7
• Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 6
• Abbas Kiarostami, Crimson Gold 5
• Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways 5

SCENE

• Battle in red (autumn leaves), Hero 15
• Escaping the coffin, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 14
• The gangsters arrive (final scene), Dogville 13
• Opening robbery, Crimson Gold 12
• The final confrontation, The Twilight Samurai 11
• Jaguar Shark, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 9
• Penultimate scene (the fire), Time of the Wolf 7
• Suburb in flames, Dawn of the Dead 7
• Apology, The Bourne Supremacy 7
• Cousins?, Coffee & Cigarettes 5