Top Favorite Films of 2004

Directed by Gary Winick

Starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Kathy Baker, Christa B. Allen, Phil Reeves, Sam Ball, Scout Taylor Compton, Sam Ball, Marcia DeBonis, Sean Marquette, Kiersten Warren, Joe Grifasi, Mary Paul Gleason, Lynn Collins, Renee Olstead, Alexandra Kyle, Alex Black, Ashley Benson, Brittany Curran, Brie Larson, Megan Lusk, Julia Roth, Gia Mantegna, Maz Jobrani, Ian Barford, Robinne Lee, and Jim Gaffigan

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Starring Uma Thurman, Michael Madsen, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, James Parks, Jonathan Loughran, Michael Bowen, Samuel L. Jackson, David Carradine, Perla Haney Jardine, Christopher Allen Nelson, Sid Haig, Kenji Ohba, Yoshiyki Morishita, Jun Kunimara, Goro Daimon, Akaji Maro, Lucy Lui, Kazkui Kitamura, Sachiko Fujii, Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Tetsuro Shmaguchi, Yoji Tanaka, Julie Manase, Larry Bishop, So Yamanka, Isse Takahasi, Bo Svenson, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shin'ichi Chiba, Chai Hui Lui, Julie Dreyfus, Helen Kim, Vanessa Valentino, Stephanie L. Moore, Shana Stein, Caitlin Keats,Clark Middleton, Al Polyi, Al Manuel Douglas, Lawrence Bender, Gary Rodriguez, and featuring voice of Quentin Tarantino

Directed by Adam McKay

Starring Will Farrell, Steve Carrel, Christina Applegate, David Koechner, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan, Paul Rudd, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Seth Rogen, Paul F. Tompkins, Danny Trejo, Jerry Minor, Holmes Osborne, Laura Kightlinger, Judd Apatow, Tim Robbins, Jerry Stiller, Missi Pyle, Jake McKinnon, and featuring voice of Bill Kurtis

Directed by Conrad Vernon, Kelly Asbury, and Andrew Adamson

Festuring voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Saunders, John Cleese, Julia Andrew, Larry King, Joan Rivers, Aron Warner, Kelly Asbury, Andrew Adamson, Cody Cameron, Wendy Bilanski, Conrad Vernon, Christopher Knights, Mark Moseley, and Chris Miller

Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Starring Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Troy Garity, Queen Latifah, Make Palmer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Harry J. Lennix, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Kenan Thompson, DeRay Davis, Jazsmine Lewis, Robert Wisdom, Tom Wright, Carl Wright, and Garcelle Beauvais

Directed by Michael Moore

Starring Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Al Gore, Craig Unger, Carol Ashley, James Cloonan, Dan Broidy, Roy Gladding, Jim McDermott, Tammy Baldwin, John Conyers, Patrick Hamilton, Barry Reingold, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Richard Pierce, and Stanley Clarke

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov

Starring Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Galina Tyunina, Yuri Kutsenko, Yuriy Kutsenko, Aleksey Chadov, Zhanna Friske, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Mariya Mironova, Dmitriy Martynov, and featuring voices of Yuri Lowenthal and Darian Weiss

Directed by Zack Snyder

Starring Sarah Polley, Matt Frewer, Lindy Booth, Ving Rhames, Ty Burrell, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Tom Savini, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers, R.D. Reid, Kim Poirer, Jayne Eastwood, Boyd Banks, Inna Kobobkina, Louis Ferreira, Hannah Lochner, Tim Post, Kim Roberts, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Kim Kerns, and Zack Snyder

Directed by James Wan

Starring Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Shawnee Smith, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Paul Gutrecht, Benito Martinez, Mackenzie Vega, Monica Potter, Ned Bellamy, Alexandra Bokyun Chun, and Oren Koules

Directed by Brad Bird

Featuring voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, John Ratzenberger, Dominique Lewis, Eli Fucile, Teddy Newton, Jean Sincere, Maeve Andrews, Wallace Shawn, Spencer Fox, Lou Romano, Sarah Vogell, Brad Bird, Elizabeth Pena, Wayne Canney, Bud Luckey, Mark Andrews, Nicholas Bird, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Jeff Pidegon, Joe Ranft, Peter Sohn, and Andrew Stanton

Directed by Morgan Spurlock

Starring Morgan Spurlock, Neil Barnard, Ashley Sandy, Dallas Travers, Judith C. Young, Carl Geisler, Phyliss Spurlock, Gene Grabowski, Gerald N. Tirozzi, Julian Clayton, Kay Glover, Phil Lawler, Jared Fogel, Caitlin Spurlock, Dave Satcher, Eric Rowley, and Alexandra Jamieson

Directed by Takashi Shimizu

Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Bill Pullman, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea Duvall, KaDee Strickland, Grace Zabriskie, Rosa Blasi, Ted Raimi, Ryo Ishibashi, Yoko Maki, Yuya Ozkei, Takako Fuji, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Haijme Okayama, and Yoshiyuki Morishita

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Starring Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Jay Baruchel, Brian F. O'Bryne. Anthony Mackie, Lucia Rijker, Mike Colter, Ned Eisnberg, Riki Lindhome, Margo Martindale, Benito Martinez, Morgan Eastwood, Don Familton, Michael Pena, Bruce MacVittie, and Jude Ciccolella

Directed by Trey Parker

Featuring voices of Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Phil Hendrie, Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Maurice LaMarche, Daran Norris, Chelsea Maguerite, Jeremy Shada, Fred Tatasciore, Joshia D. Lee, John D. Kim, Paul Louis, David Michie, Christina Papalexis, Elle Russ, and Victor Yerrid

Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber

Starring Vince Vaughan, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Alan Tudyk, Justin Long, Jason Bateman, Chuck Norris, Rip Torn, Joel David Moore, Stephen Root, Chris Williams, Andy Chanley, Curtis Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, Scarlett Chorvat, Amy Stiller, Jamal Duff, Hank Azaria, William Shatner, Suzy Nakamara, Gary Cole, Kevin Porter, Lori Beth Denberg, Al Kaplon, Lance Armstrong, Brandon Molale, Missi Pyle, and Rawson Marshall Thurber

Directed by Edgar Wright

Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Morgan, Nicola Cunningham, Peter Serafinowicz, Chris Martin, Jon Buckland, Trisha Goddard, Joe Cornish, Martin Freeman, Bill Nigby, Jessica Hynes, Vernon Kay, Penelope Wilton, Matt Lucas, Reece Shearsmith, Tasmin Greig, Julie Deakin, Paul Kaye, Garth Jennings, and featuring voices of Edgar Wright, Robert Popper, David Williams, Julia Davis, Mark Gattis, and Keith Chegwin

Directed by Sam Raimi

Starring Tobey Maguire, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Elizabeth Banks, Cliff Robertson, Kirsten Dunst, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, Donna Murphy, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Stan Lee, John Landis, Daniel Gilles, Bill Nunn, Aasif Mandvi, Hal Sparks, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Ferrlito, Mageina Tovah, Elya Baskin, Daniel Dae Kim, Joel McHale, Daniel Dae Kim, Kelly Connell, Christine Eastabrook, Brent Briscoe, Emily Deschanel, Scott Speigel, Molly Check, Phil LeMarr, Chloe Dykstra, Bonnie Sommerville, and Sam Raimi

Directed by Zach Braff

Starring Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgarrd, Jill Flint, Jackie Hoffman, Michael Weston, Jim Parsons, Ron Liebman, Geoffrey Arend, Ann Dowd, Jean Smart, Amy Ferguson, Method Man, and Denis O'Hare

Directed by Michel Gondry

Starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, David Cross, Jane Adams, Thomas Jay Ryan, Ryan Whitney, Debbon Ayer, and Lola Daehler

Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Rupert Evans, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, Karel Roden, Brian Steele, Guillermo del Toro, Ladislav Beran, Biddy Hodson, Corey Johnson, Kevin Trainor, Brian Caspe, James Badbson, Stephen Fisher, Garth Cooper, Angus MacInnes, Jim Howick, William Hoyland, Millie Willkie, Justin Svoboda, Bob Sherman, Helene Wilson, Mike Mignola, and featuring voices of David Hyde Pierce and Michael Lindsay

Directed by Michael Mann

Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jason Statham, Mark Ruffalo, Irma P. Hall, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Javier Bardem, Barry Shabaka Henley, Jada Pickett Smith, Jamie McBride, Debi Mazar, Klea Scott, Bodhi Elfman, and Richard T. Jones

Directed by Mark Waters

Starring Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Lacey Chabert, Ana Gasteyer, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Frazese, Neil Flynn, Amanda Seyfried, Rajiv Sunreda, Elana Shilling, Jonathan Malen, Ky Pham, Eve Crawford, Diego Klattenhoff, Laura de Carteret, Dan Willmott, Nicole Crimi, Jill Morrison, and Bruce Hunter

 

Directed by Alex Proyas

Starring Will Smith, Fiona Hogan, Alan Tudyk, Bridget Moynahan, Chi McBride, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Jerry Wasserman, Shia LaBeouf, Emily Tennant, Scott Heindl, Ian A. Wallace, and Phillip Mitchell

Directed by Peter Segal

Starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Allen Covert, Lusia Strus, Peter Dante, Maya Rudolph, Jonathan Loughran, Amy Hill, Jackie Sandler, Dan Aykroyd, Wayne Federman, Lynn Collins, Missi Pyle, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Jessica Bowman, Katheryn Winnick, and Kevin James

Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar

Starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Nat Faxton, Dan Montgomery Jr., Michael Weaver, Eric Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Lindsay Price, M.C. Gainey, Brian Falkner, Greg Cipes, Heather Pemble, Veronica Segura, Samm Levine, Jessica Moreno, Benjamin Digby, Jordan Ladd, Elana Lyons, Tanja Reichert, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Bill Paxton, Michael Yurchak, Brittany Daniel, Richard Perrillo, and Alison Riamondi

Directed by David Mandel, Alec Berg, and Jeff Schaffer

Starring Scott Melchowicz, Kristen Kreuk, Michelle Trachtenberg, Matt Damon, Vinnie Jones, Lucy Lawless, Jacob Pitts, Cathy Melis, Travis Wester, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Boehrs, Molly Schade, Jakki Degg, Jeff Smith, J.P. Manoux.Fred Armisen, Diedrich Bader, Rade Serbjiza, Walter Sitler, Patrick Malahide, Steve Hytner, Pat Kilbane, Mindy Sterling, and Joanne Lumley

Directed by Jared Hess

Starring Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino, Diedrich Bader, Sandy Martin, Haylie Duff, Trevor Snarr, Ellen Dubin, Shondrella Avery, Bracken Johnson, Elizabeth Miklavic, Lori Badali, Carmen Brady, Brian Petersen, Brett Taylor, Thomas Lefler, Pat Donahue, Scott Thomas, Emily Dunn, Walter Platz, James Gunnell, and Nanette Young

Directed by Alexander Payne

Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Sandra Oh, Virginia Madsen, Marylouise Burke, M.C. Gainey, Jessica Hecht, Missy Doty, Alysia Reiner, Patrick Gallagher, Stephanie Faracy,and Peter Dennis

Directed by Alfonso Cuaron

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Mzrk Williams, Robbie Coltrane, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling, Richard Griffiths, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Adrian Rawlings, Led Ingleby, Geraldine Somerville, Bonnie Wright, Oliver Phelps, Lee Henry, James Phelps, David Thewlis, Chris Rankin, Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray, Pam Ferris, Julie Walters, Dawn French, Warwick Davis, Emma Thompson, and Timothy Spall

Directed by Taylor Hackford

Starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Warwick Davis, Regina King, Richard Schiff, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Curtis Armstrong, Bookem Woodbine, C.J. Sanders, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, David Krumholtz, Wendell Pierce, Denise Dowse, Patrick Bauchau, Kurt Fuller, Julian Bond, Tequan Richmond, Gary Grubbs, and Mike Pniewski

Directed by Danny Leiner

Starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Fred Willard, Robert Tinkler, Paula Garcia, Steve Braun, Dan Bochart, Ethan Embry, Anthony Anderson, David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christopher Meloni, Malin Ackerman, Dov Tiefenbach, Brooke D'Orsay, Gary Anthony Williams, Shaun Majumder, Ryan Reynolds, Jordan Pretince, John Boylan, Thea Andrews, Jamie Kennedy, Boyd Banks, Ryan Reynolds, Hayden Schlossberg, and Jon Hurwitz

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

Starring Nicholas Cage, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, David Dayan Fisher, Stephen A. Pope, Arabella Field, Ron Canada, Annie Parisse, Hunter Gomez, Erik King, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, and Mark Pellegrino

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci, Barry Shabaka Henley, Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Kumar Pallana, Eddie Jones,Jude Ciccolella, Sasha Spielberg, Michael Nouri, Honorine Bell, Scott Adsit, Bob Morrissey, Corey Reynolds, Jim Ishida, Guillermo Diaz, and Dan Finnerty

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita, Ian Holm, Kenneth Walsh, Glenn Plummer, Nestor Serrano, Perry King, Tim Bagley, J.P. Manoux, Amy Sloan, Shelia McCarthy, and Mark Thompson

Directed by Terry George

Starring Don Cheadle, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Jran Reno, Desmond Dube, Tony Kgoroge, Neil McCarthy, Sophie Okonedo, Leleti Khumalo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Fana Mokoena, Antonio David Lyons, and Cara Seymour

Directed by Mark Osborne and Stephen Hillenburg

Starring David Hasselhoff, Bart McCarthy, Paul Zies, Henry Kingi, Aaron Hendry, Todd Duffey, Mageina Tovah, Chris Cummings, and featuring voices of Tom Kenny, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor, Bill Fagerbaake, Caroline Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Jill Talley, Mary Jo Catlett, Alec Baldwin, Dee Bradley Baker, Sierra Irwin, Lori Allan, Thomas F. Wilson, Carlos Alazraqui, Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Blaney, Neil Ross, and Jim Wise

Directed by Paul Haggis

Starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Sean Cory, Tony Danza, Keith David, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Billy Gallo, Brendan Fraser, Nona Gaye, Ludacris, Lorenz Tate, Loretta Devine, Bruno Kirby, Jack McGee, Thandie Newton, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Pena, and Ryan Phillipe

Directed by Stephen Chow

Starring Stephen Chow, Suet Lam, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Yu Xing, Qui Yuen, Si Lu Ren, Chi Chung Lam, Siu-Lung Leung, and Kwok-Kwan Chan

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Amy Sloan, Martin Scorsese, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III, Kenneth Walsh, Brent Spiner, Jude Law, Edward Herrmann, Jacob Davich, Josie Maran, Gwen Stefani, Stanley DeSantis, Williem Dafoe, Francis Conroy, Kelli Garner, Adam Scott, and Matt Ross

Directed by David O.Russell

Starring Jason Schwartzman, Llly Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman, Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Angela Grillo, Naomi Watts, Shania Twain, Darlene Hunt, Jonah Hill, Kevin Dunn, Tippi Hedren, Said Taghmaoui, Jean Smart, Patrick M. Walsh, Talia Shire, Isla Fisher, Bob Gunton, Jeannie Epper, Jake Hoffman, and Richard Jenkins

Directed by Paul Greengrass

Starring Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Karel Roden, Marton Csokas, Michelle Monaghan, John Bedford Lloyd, Chris Cooper, Dominique Chiout, Tom Gallop, and Tomas Arana

Directed by Joel Schumacher

Starring Gerald Butler, Emmy Rossum, Minnie Driver, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Ciran Hinds, Simon Callow, Victor McGuire, Jennifer Ellison, Murray Melvin, Kevin McNally, James Fleet, Imogen Bain, Miles Western, Judith Paris, Halcron Johnston, Paul Brooke, Ramin Karmillo, Chris Overton, Alison Skilbeck, Jesika Cannon, Annabel Porter, Laura Hounson, Lorraine Stewart, Lucy Casson, Jonathan R. Ellis, Jose Tirado, David Langham, Sebastian Triska, and Chris Jarvis

Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Starring Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, J.K. Simmons, Bruce Campbell, Tzi Ma, Marlon Wayans, Ryan Hurst, Greg Grunberg, Diane Delano, George Wallace, Jason Weaver, Aldis Hodge, Stephen Root, Jack McConnell, Robert Baker, George Anthony Bell, Jeremy Suarez, Blake Clark, Jennifer Echols, and featuring voice of Al Fann

Directed by David S. Goyer

Starring Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristoferson, Dominic Purcell, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, Patton Oswalt, Callum Keith Rennie, Eric Bogosian, Paul Levesque, Natasha Lyonne, Mark Berry, Francoise Yip, Christopher Heyerdahl, Ginger Broatch, Micheal Anthony Rawlings, and Ron Selmour