The 3rd Annual Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2004, were announced on January 25, 2005.
Best Lead Performance
- Hilary Swank – (Million Dollar Baby)
- Runner-Up: Jamie Foxx – (Ray)
Best Direction
- Alexander Payne – (Sideways)
- Runner-Up: Clint Eastwood – (Million Dollar Baby)
Best Ensemble
- I Heart Huckabees
- Runner-Up: Sideways
Best Formal Design
- The Aviator
- Runner-Up: Hero (Ying xiong)
Best Film
- Million Dollar Baby
- Sideways
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Incredibles
- Closer
- Before Sunset
- The Aviator
- Maria Full of Grace
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Dogville
Best Screenplay
- Charlie Kaufman – (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Runner-Up: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – (Sideways)
Best Sound Design
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- Runner-Up: The Village
Best Supporting Performance
- Thomas Haden Church – (Sideways)
- Runner-Up: Clive Owen – (Closer)
Breakthrough Film Artist
- Zach Braff – (Garden State)
- Runner-Up: Catalina Sandino Moreno – (Maria Full of Grace) – (for acting)
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
- Cate Blanchett – (The Aviator, Coffee & Cigarettes and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
- Runner-Up: Jamie Foxx – (Collateral and Ray)