1. The Chorus/Les Choristes - Christophe Barratier + Best Drama of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best French Movie of the Year + Best Mega-Hit of the Year + Best Music Movie of the Year
2. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - Adam McKay + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best San Diego Movie of the Year
3. With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II/Pusher II - Nicolas Winding Refn + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year + Best Crime Movie of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Sequel of the Year
4. Machuca - Andrés Wood + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best Chilean Movie of the Year + Best Coming-of-Age Movie of the Year + Best Political Movie of the Year
5. The Notebook - Nick Cassavetes + Best Breakthrough of the Year: Ryan Gosling + Best Melodrama of the Year + Best Romance of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year: Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams + Best South Carolina Movie of the Year
7. Before the Fall/Napola – Elite für den Führer - Dennis Gansel + Best Boxing Movie of the Year + Best German Movie of the Year + Best Huge Flop Movie of the Year + Best War Movie of the Year + Most Under-Appreciated Movie of the Year
8. Collateral - Michael Mann + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year + Best Thriller of the Year
9. Beautiful Boxer/บิวตี้ฟูล บ๊อกเซอร์ - Ekachai Uekrongtham + Best Biopic of the Year + Best LGBT Movie of the Year + Best Martial Arts Movie of the Year + Best Sports Movie of the Year + Best Thai Movie of the Year
10. Finding Neverland - Marc Forster + Best London Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Freddie Highmore
Other great 2004 movies (in alphabetical order):
The Aviator - Martin Scorsese + Best Epic of the Year + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 24.52 mil. $ range
Dawn of the Dead - Zack Snyder + Best Gore Movie of the Year + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Remake of the Year + Best Zombie Movie of the Year
The Libertine - Laurence Dunmore + Best English Movie of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year
What's Wrong with This Picture?/Tid til Forandring - Lotte Svendsen
Good, recommendable 2004 movies (in alphabetical order):
Brothers/Brødre - Susanne Bier + Worst Poster of the Year
Closer - Mike Nichols
Deadwood, season 1 - David Milch, creator + Best New TV-series of the Year + Best Western Title of the Year
The Edukators/Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei - Hans Weingartner
Mean Girls - Mark Waters
The Bottom 10 of the Year
1. A Hole in My Heart/Ett Hål i Mitt Hjärta - Lukas Moodysson
2. The Eye 2/見鬼2/Gin3 Gwai2 2 - The Pang Brothers
3. New Police Story/新警察故事 (2004) - Benny Chan
4. Alien vs. Predator/AVP - Paul W.S. Anderson + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
5. 2046 - Wong Kar-Wai + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
6. National Treasure - Jon Turteltaub
7. The Sea Inside/Mar Adentro - Alejandro Amenábar
8. Palindromes - Todd Solondz + Best Poster of the Year
9. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Mayer
10. Blade: Trinity - David S. Goyer
Other failed, mediocre and/or poor 2004 movies (in alphabetical order):
District 13/Banlieue 13/B13 - Pierre Morel
Exorcist: The Beginning - Renny Harlin + Most Deserved Flop of the Year
The Final Cut - Omar Naim
Howl's Moving Castle/ハウルの動く城 (Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) - Hayao Miyazaki
The Incredibles - Brad Bird + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 160.56 mil. $ range
Ocean's Twelve - Steven Soderbergh
Oh Happy Day - Hella Joof
[36 titles in total]
Notes:
So far 2004 has resulted in two films with perfect 6/6 ratings and two with the lowest 0/6 rating:
Christophe Barratier's amazingly well-made and beautiful, family-friendly school-set period drama The Chorus is the year's best, followed by the other masterpiece, Adam McKay's ludicrous, hilarious San Diego-set news anchor satire Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
The Top 10 goes on with Nicolas Winding Refn's best film yet, the hard-boiled Copenhagen crime thriller With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II; Andrés Wood's outstanding coming-of-age drama set during Chile's Salazar regime, Machuca; Nick Cassavetes' soaring romance melodrama adaptation The Notebook; Jared Hess' fabulously quirky low-budget comedy debut Napoleon Dynamite; Dennis Gansel's sensitive Nazi schooling drama Before the Fall; Michael Mann's lean, cool Los Angeles-set hitman thriller Collateral; Ekachai Uekrongtham's outstanding gender-fluidity boxing biopic Beautiful Boxer, and finally Marc Forster's moving fantasy drama Finding Neverland.
The year also saw the release of Laurence Dunmore's great costume drama The Libertine, Martin Scorsese's Leonardo DiCaprio-starring Hollywood grand-scale biopic The Aviator and Zack Snyder's effective zombie remake Dawn of the Dead.
Among the just good offerings are found the first season of David Milch's western series Deadwood, the insistent German political drama The Edukators and Mark Waters' popular high school comedy Mean Girls.
At the bottom of the barrel, Swedish master filmmaker Lukas Moodysson's complete dud, the pornography-hating, apartment-set feel-bad flick A Hole in My Heart takes the prize as the year's worst. The Pang Brothers' truly remarkably incompetent The Eye 2 follows sharply behind as the second grade zero title of the year.
The remaining films at the bottom are: Benny Chan's condescending action franchise reviver New Police Story; Paul W.S. Anderson's preposterous sci-fi franchise mash Alien vs. Predator; Wong Kar-Wai's pretentious, overrated art movie vacuum 2046; Jon Turteltaub's mumbo-jumbo adventure hike National Treasure; Alejandro Amenábar's euthanasia-embracing drama The Sea Inside; Todd Solondz's uncomfortable, strange Palindromes; Michael Mayer's jumbled alternative-family drama adaptation A Home at the End of the World, and finally David S. Goyer's ridiculous vampire action franchise-killer Blade: Trinity.
Among the list of other 2004 titles that led expectations hanging we find outputs from master filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle), Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Twelve), - however all three were financially highly successful.
While some major stars cemented their power in 2004 movies, - among others Julia Roberts (Closer and Ocean's Twelve), Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland and The Libertine, a flop but a great film and performance) and Tom Cruise (Collateral), - the year also saw breakthroughs for the likes of Ryan Gosling (The Notebook) and Rachel McAdams (The Notebook and Mean Girls), and one former major star reached a new low for his career; Robin Williams in The Final Cut.
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The Aviator - 24.52 mil. $ range
2. Exorcist: The Beginning - 18.8 mil. $ range
3. The Libertine - 15.68 mil. $ range
4. Blade: Trinity - 13.44 mil. $ range
5. A Home at the End of the World - 5.9 mil. $ range
6. 2046 - 4.24 mil. $ range
7. New Police Story - 3.98 mil. $ range
8. Before the Fall - 3.02 mil. $ range
9. Oh Happy Day - 1.53 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 91.11 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The Incredibles - 160.56 mil. $ range
2. Howl's Moving Castle - 70 mil. $ range
3. National Treasure - 39 mil. $ range
4. Ocean's Twelve - 35.08 mil. $ range
5. Mean Girls - 34.6 mil. $ range
6. The Chorus - 25.45 mil. $ range
7. Collateral - 22.08 mil. $ range
8. Finding Neverland - 21.68 mil. $ range
9. Closer - 19.2 mil. $ range
10. Napoleon Dynamite - 18.04 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 445.69 mil. $
2004 titles still on the watch-list:
Binta and the Great Idea, Wandering Shadows, Innocence, Birth, Kinsey, Dead Man's Shoes, Der Neunte Tag, Nobody Knows, The Consequences of Love, Lightning in a Bottle, The Raspberry Reich, The Card Player
Previous annual lists:
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2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
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2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
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2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
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2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
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