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.
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.
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