Last year, all nine Best Picture nominees were on SEFCA’s list.
Thanks Paddy:
Best Film
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Boyhood
3. Birdman
4. Whiplash
5. The Imitation Game
6. Gone Girl
7. Snowpiercer
8. Nightcrawler
9. Foxcatcher
10. The Theory of Everything
Best Director
1. Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
2. Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Best Actor
1. Michael Keaton (Birdman)
2. Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress
1. Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
2. Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Best Supporting Actor
1. J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)
2. Edward Norton (Birdman)
Best Supporting Actress
1. Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
2. Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)
Best Original Screenplay
1. Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
2. Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
2. Nick Hornby (Wild)
Best Cinematography
1. Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)
2. Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Best Ensemble
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Birdman
Best Animated Film
1. The LEGO Movie
2. Big Hero 6
Best Documentary
1. Life Itself
2. Citizenfour
Best Foreign Language Film
1. Force Majeure
2. Ida
The Gene Wyatt Award for the Film that Best Evokes the Spirit of the South
1. Selma
2. Cold in July
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Dean: It wasn’t that SEFCA members didn’t bother to go to press screenings; it’s that Paramount foolishly only held press screenings in a handful of Southern cities. Enough of us saw the film for it to win the Wyatt Award but, unfortunately, not enough saw it to crack our 10 Best Films list. I was among the lucky ones who lived in a city where it was screened and it placed high on my ballot; had more members been given the opportunity to check it out, I’m certain it would have made the list. Cheers!
Thanks for writing, Zooey. I agree that the problem with most critics’ groups is that the votes for films and performances not really in year-end contention are so scattered, they never gain enough traction or muster enough points to emerge alongside the celebrated titles. For example, on my SEFCA ballot, I included the likes of EDGE OF TOMORROW for Best Adapted Screenplay, THE DANCE OF REALITY for Best Foreign Language Film and THAT GUY DICK MILLER for Best Documentary, but I was probably the only one. Likewise, other members doubtless had their own idiosyncratic picks. With these types of selections so diffuse, it’s no wonder that films most people admire, like BOYHOOD and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, emerge as repeat winners, even if they weren’t the top picks on many individual ballots (for instance, Linklater, Keaton, Simmons and Arquette were not my #1 picks in their respective categories, though Simmons and Arquette were on my ballot in the #2 slots). The only way to probably avoid this is for all members of a voting body to meet in person and argue over their choices face-to-face, but in most cases (like ours, where 54 members are spread out over nine states), that’s an impossibility. Cheers!
Always a pleasure, Sasha 🙂
Thanks Matt! Impressive results for Whiplash and The Grand Budapest Hotel then!
Sasha, these are the Winners, in this particular order. Julianne Moore beat Reese Winsterspoon, and GBH was named Best Picture! I’m so happy for Julianne Moore who also won last week the Women Film Critics Circle.
Roberto: If you mean the 10 Best, yes, they are in order of points earned in the voting. Cheers!
Force Majeure has to win best foreign film now that Mommy is out.
Great list of winners.
Sorry Sasha, are they placed in a particular order?
Love Snowpiercer in BP!