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

Winner:
Christopher Nolan – Interstellar

Nominees:
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Doug Liman – Edge of Tomorrow
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Bong Joon Ho – Snowpiercer
Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin

 

best lead actor

Winner:
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler

Nominees:
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Ben Affleck – Gone Girl
Matthew McConaughey – Interstellar
Johannes Kuhnke – Force Majuere

 

best lead actress

Winner:
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl

Nominees:
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

Winner:
Edward Norton – Birdman

Nominees:
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
Matthew Goode – The Imitation Game
Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler
JK Simmons – Whiplash

 

best supporting actress

Winner:
Rene Russo – Nightcrawler

Nominees:
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Laura Dern – The Fault in Our Stars
Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
Kim Dickens – Gone Girl
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

 

best original screenplay

Winner:
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinerlaris, Armando Bo – Birdman

Nominees:
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

Winner:
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl

Nominees:
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

Winner:
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar

Nominees:
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

Winner:
”Lost Stars”, Begin Again

Nominees:
“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

Winner:
Force Majuere (Sweden)

Runner-up:
Two Days, One Night (Belgium)

best cinematography

Winner:
Jeff Cronenweth – Gone Girl

Nominees:
Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman
Ryszard Lynzewski, Lukasz Zal – Ida
Hoyte van Hoytema – Interstellar
Robert Elswit – Nightcrawler
Dick Pope – Mr Turner

best film editing

Winner:
Kirk Baxter – Gone Girl

Nominees:
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

Winner:
Interstellar

Nominees:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Snowpiercer

best costume design

Winner:
Maleficent

Nominees:
Edge of Tomorrow
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Selma
Snowpiercer

best sound

Winner:
Interstellar

Nominees:
American Sniper
The Babadook
Big Hero 6
Edge of Tomorrow
Snowpiercer

best makeup and hairstyling

Winner:
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Nominees:
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy
Maleficent
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past

best visual effects

Winner:
Interstellar

Nominees:
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Maleficent
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past

best stunts

Winner:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Nominees:
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Godzilla
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past

best documentary

Citizenfour

best ensemble

Winner:
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Nominees:
Begin Again
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Snowpiercer

best animated feature

Winner:
Big Hero 6

Nominees:
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie

best titles sequence

Godzilla

best poster

Winner:
Under the Skin

Nominees:
As Above, So Below
Big Hero 6
The Babadook
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler

top 10 scenes

Winner:
Under the surface – Under the Skin

Nominees:
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.