..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Kim Voynar
..Michael Wilmington

BEST PICTURE
Picture - Studio xxx	Key Awards	Comment
The Locked Trio
Sideways - Fox Searchlight (GG/C-M)	NY, LA HFPA BFCA	Slightly ahead...
Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros (GG/D)	HFPA BFCA	Waiting to fight until nominations...
The Aviator - Miramax (GG/D)	HFPA BFCA	The flashy choice...
Really Fighting For The 4-5 Slots
Finding Neverland - Miramax (GG/D)	HFPA BFCA	Just sits there...
Ray - Universal (GG/C-M)	HFPA BFCA	... but is anyone really challenging the slot?
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Hotel Rwanda - MGM (GG/D)	HFPA BFCA	Like a football team expected to lose just hanging around within striking distance in the fourth quarter
Fahrenheit 9/11		1162...1162... 1162...
The Incredibles - Disney (GG/C-M)	HFPA	Do Academy really hunger for at least one box office smash?
Collateral - DreamWorks	BFCA	Seems too dark... DreamWorks may have laid back a week too early...
Golden Globe/BFCA
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Focus (GG/C-M)	HFPA BFCA	All the old limitations apply
The Phantom Of The Opera - Warner Bros (GG/C-M)	HFPA BFCA	The critics will probably have the last word here... though Ken Turan is one of those critics with the Academy's ear
Kinsey - Fox Searchlight (GG/D)	HFPA BFCA	The thrill has gone...
Closer - Columbia (GG/D)	HFPA	Like an Oscar contender... but not as sweet
Still Oscar Longshots
The Motorcycle Diaries - Focus Features		Was that released this year?
The Sea Inside - New Line		New Line is throwing everything at it, including intense NYT.com ads... but it's probably going to be The Javi Show
Other Possibles - By Studio
Disney
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
DreamWorks
Shrek 2
Focus
The Door In The Floor
Fox Searchlight
I Heart Huckabee's
Lions Gate
Beyond The Sea
A Love Song For Bobby Long
Stage Beauty
MGM
De-Lovely
New Line
The Notebook
Vera Drake - New Line
Newmarket
The Passion Of The Christ
Paramount
Alfie
Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
The Manchurian Candidate
Team America: World Police
Sony
Spanglish
Spider-Man 2
Sony Pictures Classics
Being Julia
Bad Education
House Of Flying Daggers
ThinkFilm
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Twentieth Century Fox
None
Universal
Bridget Jones: Edge Of Reason
In Good Company
Meet The Fockers - Universal
Warner Bros
Alexander
The Polar Express
Warner Indie
We Don't Live Here Anymore
A Very Long Engagement

20 Weeks To Oscar Charts
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Earlier Charts
December 23, 2004
December 16 , 2004 | December 2, 2004 | November 25, 2004 | November 18, 2004
November 11, 2004 | November 4, 2004 | October 28, 2004 | October 21, 2004
October 14, 2004 | September 22, 2004 | August 4, 2004

December 23 , 2004

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