2004 in film

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Events

January 25 - Golden Globe Awards: Major winners include The Return of the King and Lost in Translation.
January 27 - Academy Awards nominations announced, leading films are The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11), Master and Commander (10), Seabiscuit (7), Mystic River (6), and Cold Mountain (6). Keisha Castle-Hughes, at 13, becomes the youngest nominee ever for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
February 15 - BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Scarlett Johansson, Best Actress and Bill Murray, Best Actor
February 22 - Screen Actors Guild Awards: Charlize Theron, The Actor for Best Female Actor, Johnny Depp, The Actor for Best Male Actor, Tim Robbins, The Actor for Best Male Supporting Actor, Renee Zellweger, The Actor for Best Female Supporting Actor.
February 23 - Return of the King becomes the second film in history to gross more than $1 billion in worldwide box office reciepts.
February 28 - Gigli dominates the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 6 awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Jennifer Lopez), Worst Actor (Ben Affleck), Worst Director (Martin Brest), Worst Screenplay (Brest) and worst on-screen couple (Lopez and Affleck). Worst supporting acting awards went to actress Demi Moore for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and actor Sylvester Stallone for Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
February 29 - 76th Academy Awards: The Return of the King wins picture and director awards as well as nine others for a total of 11 Academy Awards, a tie for the most ever won by a single film. Acting honors where as follows: Best Actor: Sean Penn for Mystic River, Best Actress: Charlize Theron for Monster, Best Supporting Actor: Tim Robbins for Mystic River, Best Supporting Actress: Renee Zellweger for Cold Mountain.
May 22 - Fahrenheit 9/11, a controversial documentary by Michael Moore wins the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival.
June 27 - Fahrenheit 9/11 breaks the record for highest opening-weekend earnings in the United States for a documentary, earning $23.9 million.

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Top grossing films

Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004.

The controversial film, The Passion of the Christ, helmed by Mel Gibson became the first blockbuster motion picture of 2004. Taking only eight days, Spider-Man 2 became the fastest film to reach $200 in North American gross box office sales while Shrek 2 and Fahrenheit 9/11 became the highest-grossing animated film and documentary in history, respectively. These are the top 10 grossing estimates as of December 12, 2004 (U.S. and Canada) and December 5, 2004 (United Kingdom):

2004 Rank	Title	Studio	Total Int'l Box Office Gross	North American Box Office Gross	United Kingdom Box Office Gross
1.	Shrek 2	DreamWorks	$885,703,526	$441,226,247	£47,548,741
2.	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Warner Bros.	$789,626,519	$249,526,519	£45,966,441
3.	Spider-Man 2	Columbia Pictures	$783,949,228	$373,570,556	£26,419,256
4.	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	$609,493,825	$370,270,943	£10,604,723
5.	The Day After Tomorrow	20th Century Fox	$542,545,811	$186,740,799	£25,049,442
6.	Troy	Warner Bros.	$497,378,256	$133,378,256	£18,001,854
7.	I, Robot	20th Century Fox	$346,603,327	$144,775,136	£17,790,336
8.	The Incredibles	Warner Bros.	$337,173,246	$232,573,246	£15,944,309
9.	Shark Tale	DreamWorks	$308,014,468	$159,273,065	£22,587,273
10.	Van Helsing	Universal Pictures	$300,157,638	$120,177,084	£15,019,852

So far worldwide, 39 films released in 2004 grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status. Of that group, 15 grossed more than $200 million, 10 more than $300 million, six more than $400 million, five films grossed more than $500 million, four films grossed more than $600 million, three films more than $700 million and one film more than $800 million.

For a complete list of 2004's top-grossing films, follow these links:

Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view=worldwide&yr=2004&p=.htm
- North America: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2004&p=.htm
- United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/

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Deaths

Notable film celebrities who died in 2004 include actors Marlon Brando, Tony Randall, Ronald Reagan and Fay Wray.

A more complete list of notable deaths is as follows: The following deaths are listed by date, name, age and legacy in film.

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January-April

January 2 - Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress
January 7 - Ingrid Thulin, 77, actress
January 14 - Uta Hagen, 84, actress
January 14 - Ron O'Neal, 66, actor
January 17 - Ray Stark, 88, producer
January 22 - Ann Miller, 80, actress and dancer
January 31 - Suraiya, 75, actress and singer
February 15 - Jan Miner, 86, actress
February 23 - Vijay Anand, 70, director
March 2 - Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Oscar-winning actress
March 3 - Cecily Adams, 39, actress
March 6 - Frances Dee, 96, actress
March 7 - Paul Winfield, 63, actor
March 9 - Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor
March 18 - Guillermo Rivas, 72, actor
March 26 - Jan Sterling, 82, actress
March 28 - Peter Ustinov, 82, actor
April 1 - Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
April 5 - Austin Willis, 86, actor
April 17 - Soundarya, 32, actress
April 25 - Feridun Karakaya, 76, actor

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May-June

May 3 - Anthony Ainley, 71, actor
May 9 - Alan King, 76, actor
May 14 - Anna Lee, 91, actress
May 16 - Marika Rökk, 90, actress
May 17 - Tony Randall, 84, actor
May 19 - Mary Dresselhuys, 97, actress
June 4 - Nino Manfredi, 83, actor
June 5 - Ronald Reagan, 93, actor
June 6 - Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, actor
June 6 - Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter
June 7 - Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects producer
June 14 - Max Rosenberg, 89, producer
June 26 - Yash Johar, 75, producer

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Widely released movies (North America)

(Movies released in at least 1,000 North American theatres)

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January - March

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.*
North American Release Date	Title	Studio/Distributor	Notable Cast/Crew
January 9	My Baby's Daddy	Universal Studios	Michael Imperioli
January 9	Chasing Liberty	Warner Bros.	Mandy Moore, Mark Harmon
January 16	Along Came Polly	Universal Studios	Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Philip Seymour Hoffman
January 16	Teacher's Pet	Walt Disney Pictures	Nathan Lane (voice), David Ogden Stiers (voice), Jerry Stiller (voice)
January 16	Torque	Warner Bros.	Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur
January 23	The Butterfly Effect	New Line	Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart
January 23	Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!	DreamWorks SKG	Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel
January 30	The Big Bounce	Warner Bros./Shangri-La Entertainment	Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman
January 30	The Perfect Score	Paramount Pictures	Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans
January 30	You Got Served	Screen Gems	Lil' Kim
February 6	Barbershop 2: Back in Business	MGM	Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Queen Latifah
February 6	Catch That Kid	20th Century Fox	Kristen Stewart, Max Thieriot, Corbin Bleu, Jennifer Beals
February 6	Miracle	Touchstone Pictures/Walt Disney Pictures	Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson
February 13	50 First Dates	Columbia Pictures	Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin
February 20	Against the Ropes	Paramount Pictures	Meg Ryan, Omar Epps
February 20	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	Walt Disney Pictures	Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia, Carol Kane
February 20	Eurotrip	DreamWorks SKG/Blue Sea Productions	Scott Mechlowicz, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lucy Lawless, Matt Damon, Joanna Lumley
February 20	Welcome to Mooseport	20th Century Fox	Gene Hackman, Ray Romano
February 25	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	Jim Caviezel, Mel Gibson (director)
February 27	Club Dread	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Jay Chandrasekhar, Bill Paxton
February 27	Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights	Artisan Entertainment	Romola Garai, Diego Luna
February 27	Twisted	Paramount Pictures	Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia
March 5	Starsky and Hutch	Warner Brothers	Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn
March 5	Hidalgo	Touchstone Pictures	Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Timothy Dalton
March 12	Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London	MGM	Frankie Muñiz, Anthony Anderson
March 12	Secret Window	Columbia Pictures	Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Charles S. Dutton, Timothy Hutton, Ving Rhames, Stephen King (screenwriter)
March 12	Spartan	Warner Bros.	Val Kilmer, William H. Macy, David Mamet (director)
March 19	Dawn of the Dead	Universal Pictures	Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames
March 19	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Focus Features	Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood
March 19	Taking Lives	Warner Bros.	Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez
March 26	Jersey Girl	Miramax	Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, Kevin Smith (director)
March 26	The Ladykillers	Touchstone Pictures	Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (directors, producers, screenwriters)
March 26	Never Die Alone	Fox Searchlight Pictures	David Arquette, DMX
March 26	Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed	Warner Bros.	Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, Seth Green

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April-June

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.*
North American Release Date	Title	Studio/Distributor	Notable Cast/Crew
April 2	Hellboy	Revolution Studios	Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, John Hurt, Guillermo del Toro (director)
April 2	Home on the Range	Walt Disney Pictures	Judi Dench (voice), Roseanne Barr (voice), Jennifer Tilly (voice), Cuba Gooding Jr. (voice), Randy Quaid (voice), Steve Buscemi (voice)
April 2	The Prince & Me	Paramount Pictures/Lions Gate	Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Miranda Richardson
April 2	Walking Tall	MGM	The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Johnny Knoxville
April 7	Johnson Family Vacation	20th Century Fox	Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams, Bow Wow, Solange Knowles, Shannon Elizabeth
April 9	The Whole Ten Yards	Warner Bros.	Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet
April 9	The Alamo	Touchstone	Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric
April 9	The Girl Next Door	20th Century Fox	James Remar
April 9	Ella Enchanted	Miramax	Anne Hathaway, Vivica A. Fox
April 16	Connie and Carla	Universal/Spyglass Entertainment	Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Debbie Reynolds
April 16	Kill Bill Vol. 2	Miramax	Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Quentin Tarantino (director)
April 16	The Punisher	Lions Gate	Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
April 23	13 Going on 30	Columbia Pictures	Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo
April 23	Man on Fire	20th Century Fox/Regency Pictures	Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken
April 30	Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius	Bobby Jones Films LLC	Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani
April 30	Envy	Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks SKG	Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Christopher Walken, Barry Levinson (director)
April 30	Godsend	Lions Gate	Greg Kinnear, Robert De Niro, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
April 30	Laws of Attraction	New Line	Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Nora Dunn, Frances Fisher, Parker Posey
April 30	Mean Girls	Paramount Pictures	Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey
May 7	Van Helsing	Universal Pictures	Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
May 7	New York Minute	Warner Bros.	Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Andrea Martin
May 14	Troy	Warner Bros.	Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Peter O'Toole
May 14	Breakin' All the Rules	Screen Gems	Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Peter MacNicol, Jennifer Esposito
May 19	Shrek 2	DreamWorks SKG	Mike Myers (voice), Eddie Murphy (voice), Cameron Diaz (voice), Antonio Banderas (voice), Jennifer Saunders (voice), John Cleese (voice), Julie Andrews (voice), Larry King (voice), Rupert Everett (voice)
May 28	The Day After Tomorrow	20th Century Fox	Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Perry King
May 28	Raising Helen	Touchstone Pictures	Kate Hudson, Joan Cusack, Paris Hilton
May 28	Soul Plane	MGM	Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, K.D. Aubert, D.L. Hughley, Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson
June 4	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Warner Bros.	Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Richard Griffiths, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith
June 11	The Chronicles of Riddick	Universal Pictures	Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore
June 11	Garfield: The Movie	20th Century Fox	Bill Murray (voice), Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky
June 11	Napoleon Dynamite ‡	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Jon Heder, Jared Hess (director)
June 11	The Stepford Wives	Paramount Pictures/DreamWorks SKG	Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill, Bette Midler, Glenn Close
June 16	Around the World in 80 Days	Walt Disney Pictures	Jackie Chan, Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke Wilson, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Johnny Knoxville, Jim Broadbent, Richard Branson
June 18	Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story	20th Century Fox	Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller
June 18	The Terminal	DreamWorks SKG	Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Steven Spielberg (director)
June 23	Fahrenheit 9/11 ‡	Lions Gate	Michael Moore, George W. Bush
June 23	White Chicks	Columbia Pictures	Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans (director)
June 25	The Notebook	New Line	Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner
June 25	Two Brothers	Universal Pictures	Guy Pearce, Freddie Highmore, Jean-Jacques Annaud (director)
June 30	Spider-Man 2	Columbia Pictures	Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, Sam Raimi (director)

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July-September

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.*
North American Release Date	Title	Studio/Distributor	Notable Cast/Crew
July 7	King Arthur	Touchstone Pictures	Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
July 9	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	DreamWorks SKG	Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, Jack Black
July 9	Sleepover	MGM	Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Sam Huntington
July 16	I, Robot	20th Century Fox	Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan
July 16	A Cinderella Story	Warner Bros.	Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray
July 23	The Bourne Supremacy	Universal Pictures	Matt Damon
July 23	Catwoman	Warner Bros.	Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone
July 30	Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle	New Line	John Cho, Kal Penn, Danny Leiner (director)
July 30	The Manchurian Candidate	Paramount Pictures	Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber
July 30	Thunderbirds	Universal Pictures	Brady Corbet, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley
July 30	The Village	Buena Vista	William Hurt, Adrien Brody, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, M. Night Shyamalan (director)
August 6	Collateral	DreamWorks SKG/Paramount Pictures	Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo
August 6	Little Black Book	Revolution Studios	Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates
August 6	Open Water ‡	Lions Gate	Chris Kentis (director)
August 11	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement	Walt Disney Pictures	Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews
August 13	Alien vs. Predator	20th Century Fox	Lance Henriksen
August 13	Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie	Warner Bros.	Dan Green, Wayne Grayson, Amy Birnbaum, Eric Stuart (voices)
August 20	Benji: Off the Leash!	Myriad Pictures Inc.
August 20	Exorcist: The Beginning	Warner Bros.	Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy, Alan Ford, Ben Cross
August 20	Without a Paddle	Paramount Pictures	Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Burt Reynolds
August 27	Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid	Screen Gems	Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden
August 27	Hero	Miramax	Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, Quentin Tarantino (presented)
August 27	SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2	Triumph Films	Jon Voight
August 27	Suspect Zero	Paramount Pictures	Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss
September 1	Vanity Fair	Focus Features	Reese Witherspoon
September 3	Wicker Park	MGM	Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard
September 3	Paparazzi	20th Century Fox	Cole Hauser, Larry Cedar, Tom Sizemore
September 3	The Cookout	Lions Gate	Danny Glover, Queen Latifah
September 10	Resident Evil: Apocalypse	Screen Gems	Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr
September 10	Cellular	New Line	Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy
September 17	Mr. 3000	Touchstone Pictures	Bernie Mac
September 17	National Lampoon's Gold Diggers	P & A Releasing	Will Friedle,
September 17	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Paramount Pictures	Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon
September 17	Wimbledon	Universal Pictures/Dimension	Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany
September 24	First Daughter	20th Century Fox	Katie Holmes
September 24	The Forgotten	Revolution Studios	Julianne Moore, Alfre Woodard

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October-December

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.*
North American Release Date	Title	Studio/Distributor	Notable Cast/Crew
October 1	Shark Tale	DreamWorks	Will Smith (voice), Robert De Niro (voice), Angelina Jolie (voice), Jack Black (voice)
October 1	Ladder 49	Touchstone	Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta
October 8	Taxi	20th Century Fox	Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bundchen
October 8	Friday Night Lights	Universal Studios	Billy Bob Thornton
October 8	Raise Your Voice	New Line	Hilary Duff
October 15	Team America: World Police	Paramount Pictures	Alec Baldwin, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (producers and directors)
October 15	Shall We Dance	Miramax	Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon
October 22	The Grudge	Columbia Pictures	Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr
October 22	Surviving Christmas	Columbia Pictures	Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, James Gandolfini
October 29	Ray	Universal Pictures	Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington
October 29	Saw	Lions Gate Films	Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell
November 5	The Incredibles	Pixar	Craig T. Nelson (voice), Holly Hunter (voice), Samuel L. Jackson (voice), John Ratzenberger (voice), Jason Lee (voice)
November 5	Alfie	Paramount Pictures	Jude Law, Omar Epps, Nia Long
November 10	The Polar Express	Warner Bros.	Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara (voice)
November 12	After the Sunset	New Line	Pierce Brosnan, Selma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris
November 12	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason ‡	Universal Pictures	Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
November 12	Seed of Chucky	Focus Features	Brad Dourif (voice), Jennifer Tilly, Billy Boyd (voice)
November 19	National Treasure	Walt Disney Pictures	Nicolas Cage, John Voight, Diane Kruger, Christopher Plummer, Sean Bean, Jon Turteltaub (director)
November 19	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Paramount Pictures	Tom Kenny (voice), Stephen Hillenburg (director & writer), Clancy Brown (voice)
November 24	Alexander	Warner Bros.	Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Oliver Stone (director)
November 24	Christmas with the Kranks	Revolution Studios	Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd
December 10	Blade: Trinity	New Line	Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, Dominic Purcell, Triple H (Paul Levesque)
December 10	Ocean's Twelve	Warner Bros.	George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts