from the 1960 Greek film Never on Sunday at the 33rd Academy Awards. Awards Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). {| class=wikitable |- | valign="top" width="50%" | Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, producers The Aviator – Michael Mann and Graham King, producers Finding Neverland – Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower, producers Ray – Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin and Howard Baldwin, producers Sideways – Michael London, producer | valign="top" width="50%" |Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby Martin Scorsese – The Aviator Taylor Hackford – Ray Alexander Payne – Sideways Mike Leigh – Vera Drake |- | valign="top" | Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland as J. M. Barrie Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator as Howard Hughes Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby as Frankie Dunn | valign="top" | Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald Annette Bening – Being Julia as Julia Lambert Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace as María Álvarez Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake as Vera Rose Drake Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Clementine Kruczynski |- | valign="top" | Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris Alan Alda – The Aviator as Owen Brewster Thomas Haden Church – Sideways as Jack Cole Jamie Foxx – Collateral as Max Durocher Clive Owen – Closer as Larry Gray | valign="top" | Cate Blanchett – The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn Laura Linney – Kinsey as Clara McMillen Virginia Madsen – Sideways as Maya Randall Sophie Okonedo – Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina Natalie Portman – Closer as Alice Ayres/Jane Jones |- | valign="top" | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth The Aviator – John Logan Hotel Rwanda – Terry George and Keir Pearson The Incredibles – Brad Bird Vera Drake – Mike Leigh | valign="top" |Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor based on the novel by Rex Pickett Before Sunset – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Kim Krizan based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan for the film Before Sunrise Finding Neverland – David Magee based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee Million Dollar Baby – Paul Haggis