21st annual cadet film awards 2014

best picture
Top 10 of 2014
1. Interstellar – Christopher Nolan
2. Edge of Tomorrow – Doug Liman
3. Gone Girl – David Fincher
4. Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer
5. Boyhood – Richard Linklater
6. Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
7. Snowpiercer – Bong Joon Ho
8. The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
9. Force Majeure – Ruben Östlund
10. Wild – Jean-Marc Vallée

Honourable Mentions:
Begin Again – John Carney
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Bryan Singer
Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams
Whiplash – Damien Chazelle

best director
Christopher Nolan – Interstellar
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Doug Liman – Edge of Tomorrow
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Bong Joon Ho – Snowpiercer
Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin

best lead actor
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Ben Affleck – Gone Girl
Matthew McConaughey – Interstellar
Johannes Kuhnke – Force Majuere

best lead actress
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Essie Davis – The Babadook
Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow
Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
Reese Witherspoon – Wild

best supporting actor
Edward Norton – Birdman
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
Matthew Goode – The Imitation Game
Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler
JK Simmons – Whiplash

best supporting actress
Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Laura Dern – The Fault in Our Stars
Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
Kim Dickens – Gone Girl
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

best original screenplay
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinerlaris, Armando Bo – Birdman
Jennifer Kent – The Babadook
John Carney – Begin Again
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne – Two Days, One Night

best adapted screenplay
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Jordan Roberts, Dan Gerson, Robert L Baird – Big Hero 6
Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth – Edge of Tomorrow
Paul Webb, Ava DuVernay – Selma
Bong Joon-Ho, Kelly Masterson – Snowpiercer
Nick Hornby – Wild

best original score/soundtrack
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar
Gregg Alexander – Begin Again
Rob Simonsen, West Dylan Thordson – Foxcatcher
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – Gone Girl
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything
Mica Levi – Under the Skin

best original song
”Lost Stars”, Begin Again
“Opportunity” – Annie
“Yellow Flicker Beat” – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
“Everything is Awesome” – The Lego Movie
“What is Love” – Rio 2
“Glory” – Selma

best non-english language film
Force Majuere (Sweden)
Two Days, One Night (Belgium)

best cinematography
Jeff Cronenweth – Gone Girl
Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman
Ryszard Lynzewski, Lukasz Zal – Ida
Hoyte van Hoytema – Interstellar
Robert Elswit – Nightcrawler
Dick Pope – Mr Turner

best film editing
Kirk Baxter – Gone Girl
Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione – Birdman
James Herbert, Laura Jennings – Edge of Tomorrow
Barney Pilling – The Grand Budapest Hotel
John Gilroy – Nightcrawler
Tom Cross – Whiplash

best production design
Interstellar
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Snowpiercer

best costume design
Maleficent
Edge of Tomorrow
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Selma
Snowpiercer

best sound
Interstellar
American Sniper
The Babadook
Big Hero 6
Edge of Tomorrow
Snowpiercer

best makeup and hairstyling
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy
Maleficent
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past

best visual effects
Interstellar
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Maleficent
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past

best stunts
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Godzilla
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past

best documentary
Citizenfour

best ensemble
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Begin Again
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Snowpiercer

best animated feature
Big Hero 6
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie

best titles sequence
Godzilla

best poster
Under the Skin
As Above, So Below
Big Hero 6
The Babadook
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler

top 10 scenes
Under the surface – Under the Skin
Sniper vs Sniper – American Sniper
Live rearrangement – Begin Again
Damon dock – Interstellar
Avalanche – Force Majuere
Cool girl – Gone Girl
Home invasion – Nightcrawler
Darkness massacre – Snowpiercer
Quicksilver – X-Men: Days of Future Past
Hobo – Wild

wins tally

multiple nominations tally

Please note that eligibility periods and category placements may not be 100% accurate, and is in the sole discretion of the writer to do as he wishes. Thanks.