2004 CFA Awards Winners - Return of the Crown

       With 13 wins Return of the King becomes the 2nd biggest CFA winner in history. Peter Jackson completes the hat trick with his third straight Best Director win. ROTK wins Best Picture and virtually all the technical categories. Master and Commander won Best Musical Compilation for it's exquisite usage of classical music, some of it actually played by Russell Crowe, who lost to Bill Murray in the Best Actor category. However, Crowe won the "Lord of the Crowns" Award for Lifetime Achievement in the CFAs. Best Actress went to Charlize Theron in Monster, which has yet to be seen by the CFA. J Goo and Longshanks nearly went at the new Fairfax Corners Multiplex with gigantic screens but decided to see Butterfly Effect instead on the smaller screen.  Maybe we can go back in time and fix that mistake too.

     ROTK also pulled in an acting category with Miranda Otto as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the valiant Eowyn. The most surprising pick was perhaps Will Ferrell's win for Best Supporting Actor for his work as "Frank the Tank". We called him and he was so ecstatic that he could only utter "You know it! You know it!" Old School also pulled in Best Original Screenplay ina tight race over Lost in Translation and In America. Old School was the only film other than ROTK to pull in multiple wins with two awards.

   She's still Jenny From The Block and she's still Queen of Clowns. Jennifer Lopez earned Worst Actress for the 2nd straight year and her movie Gigli won Worst Picture. Last year she starred in Enough, which pulled in Worst Picture as well. Gigli has broken the record for most Clown Wins with five. Not to be outdone was Ben Affleck, who won for Worst Actor (Gigli) and Top Clown Daredevil). They had a really great year. Gigli also surprised with unknown Justin Bartha taking home Worst Supporting Actor beating out heavy-weights Al Pacino and Giovanni Ribisi.

    The other big winner was Charlie's Angels which took home four awards including Clown Film, Worst Director McG,  & Worst Supporting Actress Demi Moore. Nicolas Cage was given the El Bozo Grande for Lifetime Achievement in Clown.

The 2003 Winner of the O' Movie Where Art Thou? Award Goes to Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002).  We certainly snubbed the this marvelous gripping drama from Best Picture nomination and other categories. What will be the snubbed from 2002? Find out next year...