The internet hath spoken.
Best Picture
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
The Lego Movie
Mommy
Nightcrawler
Selma
Two Days, One Night
Whiplash
Under the Skin
Best Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Best Film Not in the English Language
Ida
The Missing Picture
Mommy
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Two Days, One Night
Best Documentary
Citizenfour
Life Itself
The Missing Picture
National Gallery
The Overnighters
Best Director
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – Two Days, One Night
Ava DuVernay – Selma
Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Brendan Gleeson – Calvary
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
Essie Davis – The Babadook
Anne Dorval – Mommy
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Suzanne Clément – Mommy
Agata Kulesza – Ida
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer
Best Original Screenplay
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Selma
Two Days, One Night
Whiplash
Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl
Inherent Vice
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin
We Are the Best!
Best Editing
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
Best Cinematography
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr. Turner
Under the Skin
Best Non-U.S. Release (non-competitive category)
’71
10,000 km
Entre Nós
Han Gong-ju
Hard to Be a God
The Look of Silence
The Salt of the Earth
What We Do in the Shadows
Timbuktu
The Tribe
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This is turning out to be on wacky year–I like!
On the second thought, while my first comment still stands, I have just now seen some love for Birdman in Best Cinematography and Best Editing; so, given some seemingly interesting competitors here, I could see why the film has been left off the BP nom list.
Pretty impressed, though, by the group’s inclusion of the Japanese anime (animation) Princess Kaguya in not only the Best Animated Feature but #also “Best Film Not in the English Language”. Thanks, OFC!
What an outstanding slate, particularly for this group. Love so many things about it, particularly the Best Non-U.S. Release category. I hadn’t expected to see Hard to Be a God crop up on any awards lists this year, so I’m delighted to see one of the very best films of 2014 turn up here. Also very impressed to note that they’ve recognised The Missing Picture, which is a terrific film also.
I like how they’re able to acknowledge the quality of films which they haven’t chosen for their Best Picture ten by rewarding them with other nominations. Both Birdman and Gone Girl pick up several nominations despite not being in their top list. That’s a sign of a smart-minded voting body.
I was really hoping for some more genuinely outside-the-box choices…remember when they gave a Best Picture nomination to Drug War? We Are the Best! is about as far-out as they go.
Because of where I’m living, I haven’t seen Birdman yet. But somehow I feel it just not right for any critics body simply to exclude the film from their year-end (nom, etc.) list — especially the one that has got ten spots rather than five (for instance). Just saying.
As much as I’m happy that “Ida” is quite deservingly popping up now and then in the cinematography line-ups (fingers crossed it gets some ASC love), I’m actually happier that Robert Yeoman is getting some recodnition for “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. The man has been doing stellar (but not your typical) work for years. It’s about time he starts winning some awards.
J, I’d say Birdman was definitely loved. But they just loved 10 films a bit more. I haven’t seen a lot of these but based on some footage and what I’ve read on all of them it’s hard to argue against so many getting in. Maybe with the exception of Lego Movie (which I loved) there doesn’t seem to be an Unbroken or Theory of Everything or Imitation Game or Blind Side type of movie. That’s not to insult any of the other movies…except Blind Side. I don’t think the Online Critics group has ever been about trying to predict the Oscars.
It’s good to see that the 20 Acting nominations come from 17 different films… By comparison last year’s Oscars’ acting nominees came from only 10 films. Talk about spreading the love!
Birdman missing Best Picture doesn’t seem like a snub, given its placement in other categories like Editing and Cinematography… It was clearly liked, but not loved.
Except for Birdman excluded from the main cathegories, which I find honestly quite baffling, it’s a great list.
Perhaps this has already been discussed but is Mommy just another ‘There’s Something Wrong With Kevin’ sort of film?
More recognition for Brendan Gleeson – yes!
This is my favorite list so far, by a large margin.
God, I love this list. The cinematography category is peerless. Would that these were the Oscar nominees…
I’m also completely delighted by the screenplay not for We Are the Best!
I’d love to see some more attention here for Love Is Strange, but I’m happy to give it up for some of the other outstanding inclusions (Essie Davis!). They also shuffled Birdman to the technical categories, which are where I think it actually dazzled, without seeming to be pressured to include the screenplay, which I think is vastly overrated. I’d add a nod for director over Anderson, but again…an inspired selection.
Spall! Gyllenhaal! Gleeson!!!!! Much more impressive turns than some of the ones we expect to be shoo-ins. I mean…I won’t be mad when Cumberbatch gets in. He was very, very good. But these three, in my opinion, were great.
Agata Kulesza – won yestarday, another nomination today, this is awesome!
I love how they embraced foreign language movies: Ida (cinematography and Kulesza!), Mommy (actresses), We are the Best!, 2 Days, 1 Night. Plus Nightcrawler, Fiennes. My favorite lineup of the season so far.
All this Budapest and Under the Skin love is giving me great confidence. I would love nothing more than for Mica Levi to get an Oscar nomination for music. It was sinister and skin crawling, like Hitchcock and Kubrick picked up a few instruments to jam out together.
Ida should get every cinematography award.
Just an anti-Birdman list.
I have not seen Selma or Mommy, I have seen only 4 English language films this year that I thought were great .Boyhood, Birdman, foxcatcher and Love is strange. I like whiplash less then many people and I donot like under the skin at all.
I am glade to see foreign films in the best picture catogory. I which the acadamy would do the same.
I am glad the wonderful 3hr National gallery got nominated for documentary which is not on the academy’s 15 films.
Happy to see a brazilian movie nominated (Entre Nós)..it is a superb flick, and totally deserves it
wow great choices. swinton is really picking up steam. I will be shocked to see her listed for globs/sags…they don’t think -that- out of the box lol.
Marion Cotillard, Essie Davis, Anne Dorval, Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike, Patricia Arquette, Suzanne Clément, Agata Kulesza, Jessica Chastain, Tilda Swinton
alright, I think we have our cast to remake that awful 2008 remake of The Women (1939) and this time do it NOT as a sit-com.
YES!
Ida, Grand Budapest Hotel, Mommy, Under the Skin, Nightcrawler all in.. And not a tear to be shed for Imitation Game, Unbroken, Interstellar and Theory of Everything. Best set of nominations, though I think they missed out excluding Birdman in the Best Picture field.
Wow…no Birdman for Picture, Director, or O. Screenplay. No Emma Stone. This is a disgrace.
Their best nomination is recognizing the INCOMPARABLE work of Lukasz Zal & Ryszard Lenczewski in Cinematography for Ida!!!!
These guys are my kind of people. Always find their overall nods to be superior than many. Diverse, vibrant and impressive.
great to see the great Suzanne Clement nominated!
The internet hath spoken.
Not that the bar was set very high, but looks like the internet is a heckuva lot more sophisticated than the National Board of Review
Basically the best films were released/seen early this year.