Top Box Office in 2004


1	Shrek 2 (2004)
2	Spider-Man 2 (2004)
3	The Passion of the Christ (2004)
4	The Incredibles (2004)
5	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
6	The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
7	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
8	Meet the Fockers (2004)
9	Shark Tale (2004)
10	The Polar Express (2004)
11	National Treasure (2004)
12	I, Robot (2004)
13	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
14	Troy (2004)
15	50 First Dates (2004)

Best Picture in 2004:
Million Dollar Baby

Best Actor: Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Actress: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
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1	Jerry Orbach
2	Christopher Reeve
3	Marlon Brando
4	Rodney Dangerfield
5	Russ Meyer
6	Janet Leigh
7	Elmer Bernstein
8	Fay Wray
9	Ronald Reagan
10	Tony Randall
11	Alan King
12	Peter Ustinov
13	Jack Paar
14	Spalding Gray

Highest Rated in 2004


1	Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004) (TV)
2	Simon (2004)
3	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
4	Hotel Rwanda (2004)
5	Crash (2004/I)
6	Untergang, Der (2004)
7	Million Dollar Baby (2004)
8	The Incredibles (2004)
9	Something the Lord Made (2004) (TV)
10	Dear Frankie (2004)
11	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
12	Before Sunset (2004)
13	Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004)
14	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
15	Mar adentro (2004/I)

Editors picks for 2004


1	Mala educación, La (2004)
2	Super Size Me (2004)
3	Vera Drake (2004)
4	Garden State (2004)
5	Diarios de motocicleta (2004)
6	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
7	Kinsey (2004)

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 wins the Palme D'Or at Cannes and becomes the biggest grossing documentary ever.

Million Dollar Baby is the second part of a knockout one-two punch for Clint Eastwood following Mystic River.

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ opens during Lent and earns a stunning $370 million at the box-office, ultimately becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of all time.

Sideways was a critical favorite thanks to a smart script by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor and a winning, w(h)ine-ing cast.

Featuring a subdued Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a heart-breaking, brain-bending film.

The folks at Pixar continue their incredible run with The Incredibles, which takes in over $250 million at the box-office. Speaking of $250 million, that's what Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban took in after opening to good notices.

Critics agreed that Spider-Man 2 was better than the first film and audiences confirm it by shelling out more than $110 million over the July 4th holiday.

Jamie Foxx gives a stunning performance as Ray Charles in Ray, one of several biopics this year.


	The 1,500,000th name is added to the database. It took 11 years to get to one million names; less than 3 years to add half that many again. December 31st: IMDb covers 426,791 titles including TV-series and video games. The number of credit entries now is 9,134,245, including TV guest appearance credits. 12,772,550 data items submitted in 2004 alone.

The bombs Alexander and Troy finally, hopefully, bury the sword-and-sandal genre.

Michael Mann uses digital film to shoot Collateral, and, no surprise, the movie looks great.

Julie Delpy, always a sight for sore eyes, stars in Richard Linklater's Before Sunset, a sequel (nine years later) to Before Sunrise.

DreamWorks' Shrek 2 is #1 at the box-office for the year, though it underperforms on DVD, sending DreamWorks Animation stock plummeting.

Catalina Sandino Moreno makes an astonishing big screen debut in the haunting Maria Full of Grace.

In the star-driven summer movie race, Halle Berry stars as Catwoman and critics rip it, and her, to shreds. Matt Damon, however, proves that The Bourne Identity and his turn as an action star was no fluke with The Bourne Supremacy.

House of Flying Daggers is a jaw-dropping visual spectacle, and speaking of which, stars the stunning Ziyi Zhang.


	Time travel is possible in 2004, according to Timecop, and a corrupt politician uses it to ensure his presidency, only Jean-Claude Van Damme stands in his way!