The 2004 Muse Awards took place on December 16, 2004

The honorees were:

• Lee Grant
  Actor/Director
• Susan Lucci
  Actress
• Anne Sweeney
  Co-Chairman/Disney Media Networks;
  President/Disney-ABC Television
• Kristi Zea
  Production Designer

The event was emceed by Sandra Bernhardt.

About the Awardees
Lee Grant's award-winning acting career began in her teens. She garnered the Critics Circle Award and Best Actress award at Cannes for her stage and film portrayals of a shoplifter in The Detective Story. Her impressive film debut was cut short by the McCarthy era blacklist, and she did not work again for 12 years. After resuming her career, Grant won two Emmys (Peyton Place and Neon Ceiling) and an Academy Award® (Shampoo). She received two additional Academy Award® nominations (Voyage of the Damned and The Landlord), and appeared in many films, including In the Heat of the Night. She also returned to the stage, where she earned an Obie Award for The Maids. Grant was accepted into the first Women's Project at the American Film Institute, where she adapted Strindberg's The Stronger. Her feature directorial debut, Tell Me A Riddle, was critically acclaimed, as was her first documentary, The Willmar 8. In 1982, she launched a production company with her husband, Joseph Feury. They have produced numerous award-winning films, including five documentaries for HBO's America Undercover — One, Down and Out in America received both a Cable Ace and Academy Award®. She has directed numerous Intimate Portraits for Lifetime Television and recently directed films for Disney/ABC and PBS. She also returned to the screen, appearing in The Amati Girls, Mulholland Drive, and Dr. T and the Women. Grant has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Susan Lucci is celebrating her 30th anniversary as Erica Kane — the dazzling femme fatale on ABC's Emmy Award winning All My Children. After countless nominations, she won an Emmy in 1999 for her portrayal of the woman that viewers love to hate. Lucci began playing the character when she was a teenager. Her portrayal has spanned Kane's nine marriages (to six men) and her career from high fashion model, to philanthropist to magazine publisher. TV Guide calls Erica Kane, "unequivocally the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV". Soap Opera Digest calls the character "…larger than life." Lucci's honors are legion — People's Choice Award, Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Lead Actress, Soap Opera Digest Editor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Daytime Television, and American Academy of Achievement Award. In addition to her work on All My Children, Lucci has starred in numerous prime-time television movies, made commercials for several companies — including the Ford Motor Company, and had her Broadway debut as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. In 1991, Lucci became an entrepreneur — launching the Susan Lucci Collection of hair products and, recently, creating a fragrance called Susan Lucci Invitation.

Anne Sweeney has been named one of Fortune magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." In her role as Co-chairman of Media Networks/The Walt Disney Company and President/Disney-ABC Television, she is responsible for the ABC Television Network — ABC Entertainment, ABC Kids, ABC Daytime, ABC News, and Touchtone Television. She also is in charge of the company's entertainment cable networks — ABC Family, Disney Channel, Toon Disney, and SOAPnet, as well as the Walt Disney Television Animation division. Sweeney manages Disney's equity interest in the cable groups Lifetime Entertainment Services, A&E Television Networks and E! Networks, as well as the company's interests in global television — including 22 wholly-owned international Disney Channels, and the company's majority interest in the international Fox Kids channels. Previously, she was President/ABC Cable Networks Group and Disney Channel Worldwide. Under her leadership, Disney Channel more than quadrupled its subscriber base and is now available on basic cable in 84 million homes. Sweeney also oversaw the successful launches of Toon Disney and SOAPnet. She joined The Walt Disney Company as President of Disney Channel and Executive Vice President of Disney/ABC Cable Networks. Previously, she was Chairman and Chief Executive Office of FX Networks. Her many awards include being named Women in Cable's Executive of the Year (1994) and Woman of the Year (1997), receiving the STAR Award from American Women in Radio and Television, and being inducted into the American Advertising Federation's Advertising Hall of Achievement.

Kristi Zea is a multi-faceted filmmaker who is not only a successful and well-respected production designer, but also a director, an award-winning film producer, and costume designer. She has been both production designer and second unit director on Beloved, Sleepers, Philadelphia, and The Silence of the Lambs. Zea made her directorial debut on HBO's Domestic Dilemma. Part of the Men and Women 2 series, the film received a Cable ACE Award nomination. Her production design credits include The Super, Lorenzo's Oil, Goodfellas, Miss Firecracker, New York Stories, Married to the Mob, and The Family Man. She began her career as a fashion stylist, going on to design costumes for feature films — Silverado, Birdy, Terms of Endearment, Unfaithfully Yours, Shoot the Moon, Endless Love, and Fame. Zea was associate producer of Lucas and Broadcast News and produced As Good As It Gets, which received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Picture, Golden Globe Award, and Producers Guild nomination. She has also worked with directors Roger Mitchell (Changing Lanes) and Brett Ratner (Red Dragon). Zea directed the DVD of singer/songwriter Annie Lennox's most recent world concert tour, as well as the visual accompaniment DVD to Lennox's latest album, Bare.