NEW YORK, January 10, 2005 -- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won five awards including Best Picture in the 8th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards. The awards were voted by the 150-member Online Film Critics Society, the international professional association of Internet-based cinema journalists.

In addition to Best Picture, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won awards for Michel Gondry as Best Director, Kate Winslet as Best Actress, Charlie Kaufman for Best Original Screenplay and Valdís Óskarsdóttir for Best Editing.

Sideways scored three awards: Paul Giamatti for Best Actor, Thomas Haden Church for Best Supporting Actor, and Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Best Adapted Screenplay Award.

Cate Blanchett was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Aviator. The Chinese epic Hero won two awards: as Best Foreign-Language Film and Christopher Doyle won the Best Cinematography honors. Fahrenheit 9/11 was named Best Documentary and The Incredibles won Best Animated Feature and the Best Music Score honors for Michael Giacchino.

The complete winners list for the 8th Annual OFCS Awards are as follows:

Best Picture: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Director: Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Best Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, Story by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth
Best Adapted Screenplay: Sideways, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, based on the novel by Rex Pickett
Best Cinematography: Hero, Christopher Doyle
Best Editing: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Best Score: The Incredibles, Michael Giacchino
Best Documentary: Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Foreign-Language Film: Hero (China)
Best Animated Feature: The Incredibles
Breakthrough Filmmaker: Zach Braff, Garden State
Breakthrough Performance: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim region, with journalists representing many of the most important online film-related sites including Salon, Slate, TV Guide Online, IndieWire, Netflix, Film Threat, eFilmCritic.com and the Internet Movie Database.

The Society's web site, which has been hosted since January 2001 by the highly influential film resource Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), provides the most comprehensive online listing of reviews and original interviews with the leading artists in today's cinema, plus links to the most important motion picture-related web sites.

For more information, visit the Online Film Critics Society at www.ofcs.org.

For a complete list of the year's nominees, click here. Click Here to Return to Listing of Awards.