2004
Saw
(2004)
Leigh Whannell, James Wan (story), Leigh Whannell (story)
5 wins & 9 nominations.
Would you kill to live? When a madman tries to teach how much life is worth, two men find themselves in a room with no idea how they got there or why they're there.
Shaun of the Dead
(2004)
Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
13 wins & 20 nominations.
Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive... And get his ex back.
Taking Lives
(2004)
Michael Pye (novel), Jon Bokenkamp (screen story), Jon Bokenkamp (screenplay)
4 nominations.
The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height and he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunting down a serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim...
The Bourne Supremacy
(2004)
Robert Ludlum (novel), Tony Gilroy (screenplay)
5 wins & 20 nominations.
When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
The Football Factory
(2004)
John King (novel), Nick Love
1 win & 1 nomination.
An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.
The Hillside Strangler
(2004)
Stephen Johnston, Chuck Parello
1 nomination.
In the end of the 70's, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi lives with his mother and is obsessed with joining the police force. When his application is refused, his mother sends him to Los ...
The Machinist
(2004)
Scott Kosar
7 wins & 13 nominations.
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
The Stepford Wives
(2004)
Ira Levin (book), Paul Rudnick (screenplay)
3 wins.
Joanna Eberhart, a wildly succesful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the ascerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful, and somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?
Wicker Park
(2004)
Gilles Mimouni (film L'Appartement), Brandon Boyce (screenplay)
1 nomination.
A young Chicago advertising executive believes a woman he sees in a café is his long-lost love. His belief leads to obsession, as he puts his life on hold in order to trail her.