USA TODAY and Coca-Cola Announce Winner of 'Favorite Movie Of The Year' Award The Passion of the Christ Wins Top Honors

USA TODAY and Coca-Cola Announce Winner of 'Favorite Movie Of The Year' Award The Passion of the Christ Wins Top Honors

MCLEAN, Va., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY and Coca-Cola will present the award for Consumers Choice for Favorite Movie of 2004 to The Passion of the Christ at ShoWest in Las Vegas.

Mel Gibson, director, producer, and co-writer of the film, will accept the award tonight at ShoWest's final night banquet and awards ceremony. The award will be presented by Jacki Kelley, senior vice president/advertising for USA TODAY and Kathleen Ciaramello, vice president/entertainment partners and strategic alliances, Coca-Cola North America.

USA TODAY and USATODAY.com readers chose The Passion of the Christ as their favorite movie of the year from among the top ten grossing movies of 2004. This is the first-ever consumer award for movie of the year to be presented at ShoWest, which is the largest annual convention for the motion picture industry.

USA TODAY is the nation's top-selling newspaper. It is published via satellite at 36 locations in the USA and at four sites abroad. With a total average daily circulation of 2.3 million, USA TODAY is available worldwide. USA TODAY is published by Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE:GCI).

USATODAY.com is an award-winning news and information Web site that is updated 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Each month, millions of unique monthly visitors access USATODAY.com News, Money, Sports, Life, Technology, Weather and Travel sections which combine the best of USA TODAY news and information and the latest breaking news with cutting-edge interactive features, information graphics and multimedia functions including audio, video and live Webcasts. USATODAY.com is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI). For more information, please visit http://www.usatoday.com/.

Source: USA TODAY

CONTACT: Steve Anderson, Director Communications, +1-703-854-5872 or
sanderson@usatoday.com or Heidi Henderson, Manager, Media Relations,
+1-703-854-5304 or hhenderson@usatoday.com, both of USA TODAY

Web site: http://www.usatoday.com/

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