Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a 2004 Film

Nominees for the Fifth Annual Cosmique Movie Awards

Awarded to the actress deemed by Cosmo voters to have achieved the best performance in a leading role an eligible 2004 film.

Winner:

Annette Bening - Being Julia

Nominees:

Robin Wright Penn - A Home at the End of the World		Natalie Portman - Closer		Natalie Portman - Garden State
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake		Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby		Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Also Considered: Drew Barrymore for 50 First Dates; Kim Bassinger for The Door in the Floor; Emily Browning for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; Sarah Michelle Gellar for The Grudge; Marina Golbahari for Osama; Anne Hathaway for Ella Enchanted; Bryce Dallas Howard for The Village; Holly Hunter for The Incredibles; Scarlett Johansson for A Love Song for Bobby Long; Ashley Judd for De-Lovely; Laura Linney for Kinsey; Jena Malone for Saved!; Suleka Mathew for Touch of Pink; Helen Mirren for The Clearing; Catalina Sandino Moreno for Maria Full of Grace; Sarah Polley for Dawn of the Dead; Emmy Rossum for The Phantom of the Opera; Blanchard Ryan for Open Water; Meryl Streep for The Manchurian Candidate; Audrey Tautou for A Very Long Engagement; Uma Thurman for Kill Bill, Volume 2; Lily Tomlin for I Heart Huckabees; Tracey Ullman for A Dirty Shame; and Kate Winslet for Finding Neverland