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2004 CINEMATHEQUE AWARDS

PAGE 1 * PAGE 2 * PAGE 3 * PAGE 4 * PAGE 5 * PAGE 6 * PAGE 7 MAIN CINEMATHEQUE AWARDS PAGE WINNERS HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD

BEST ACTION SEQUENCE OR FIGHT SCENE
Hero The leaf-changing battle	House of Flying Daggers The bamboo forest battle	Kill Bill, Volume 2 The Bride vs. Elle in the trailer	Spider-Man 2 Spidey & Doc Ock on the train	Alexander The elephant battle in India	Hero The arrow barrage of the castle

BEST KISS
Birth	Enduring Love	Mean Creek	The Brown Bunny	The Passion of The Christ	The Mother
The most uncomfortable kiss on screen all year long	Rhys Ifans locks lips with his stalkee, Daniel Craig	A game of truth or dare that will eventually go oh so wrong	Vincent Gallo and a haggard, yet sexy Cheryl Tiegs, make-out at a rest stop table	Now there's a kiss that won't soon be forgotten (will it Judas?)	A half drunk peck on the lips

BEST LOVE / SEX SCENE
Brown Bunny	Anatomy of Hell	I ♥ Huckabees	The Mother	The Dreamers	House of Flying Daggers
Chloe takes it all and keeps the change	step 1: procure garden trowel step 2: Insert said garden trowel into anus step 3: Wait	Isabelle Huppert & Jason Schwartzman get down & dirty in the mud	The old broad finally gets it up the ole wazooo	A shocking realistically disturbed sex scene	Mei and Jin finally give into the temptation that would eventually ruin them

BEST CHARACTER INTRO
Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator	Grace in Dogville	Alice in Closer	Isabelle in The Dreamers	Elasti-Girl in The Incredibles	Puss-in-Boots in Shrek 2

BEST DEATH SCENE
Kill Bill, Volume 2	Hero	Twentynine Palms	The Passion of The Christ	Mean Creek	Million Dollar Baby
Bill finally gets what's coming to him	Jet Li goes out like a Hero	Was that Norman Bates?? see also: Best Closing Scene	An entire religion was based on this death scene	Truth or Dare gone wrong	Eastwood plays Kavorkian

BEST ANIMAL OR ANIMAL-RELATED SCENE
The Big Animal	Dogville	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring	Alexander	Garden State	Kill Bill, Volume 2
Everybody loves a camel, don't they?	Where is that damn barking coming from!?	Disturbing, but poigniant in a learn-your-lesson kinda way	Those are some big motherfucking elephants!!	A pet cemetary	Elle does love her snakes, doesn't she?

BEST (or MOST) DISTURBING SCENE
The Passion of The Christ	Kill Bill, Vol. 2	Maria Full of Grace	Birth	Anatomy of Hell	Hotel Rwanda
How brutal can you get with that whipping scene?	Elle loses her other eyeball - squish!!	Maria's first "taste" of being a drug mule - to swallow 75 cocaine-filled pellets	step 1: 37 year old Nicole Kidman, naked in bathtub step 2: add 10 year old Cameron Bright, also naked step 3: stir	A used tampon steeped cup of tea	Corpses strewn for miles down the road

BEST OPENING SCENE
Brown Bunny	Birth	Notre Musique	Closer	Blissfully Yours	The Time of the Wolf
Around and around and around and around the track we go and go and go and go and go	The last jog in the park - what a great tracking shot	A collage of war and strife	Can't take my eyes off of you	It seems as if they forgot the first reel and went directly to the middle of a scene - Weerasethakul is a brilliant madman	Abrupt and forceful - and surprising as well

BEST CLOSING SCENE
Dogville	House of Flying Daggers	Before Sunset	Twentynine Palms	Dawn of The Dead	The Return
The Town of Dogville finally get their come-uppins	A tragic, elegant and beautifully filmed master battle scene in the snow	Baby, you are gonna miss that plane	Always teetering on the edge, this ending explodes with violence	It ain't over yet kiddies...	Tragedy be"falls" long lost daddy

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