Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2014 Explained

The 27th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 15, 2014. The awards honor the best in film for 2014. The first round ballots were due on December 11, 2014 and the nominations were announced on December 12.^[1] Birdman received the most nominations (9), followed by The Grand Budapest Hotel (8) and Boyhood (7).^[2]

Number:	27
Award:	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date:	December 15, 2014
Site:	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Best Film:	Boyhood
Most Wins:	Boyhood & Whiplash (3)
Most Nominations:	Birdman (9)

Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees for the 27th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:^{[3] [4]}

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Boyhood - Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland Birdman - Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdople The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson Under the Skin - James Wilson and Nick Wechsler Whiplash - Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster	Richard Linklater – Boyhood Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel David Fincher – Gone Girl Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman Christopher Nolan – Interstellar
Best Actor	Best Actress
Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomas Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis "Lou" Bloom David Oyelowo – Selma as Martin Luther King, Jr. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking	Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Alice Howland Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin as Isserley Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice as Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr. Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz	Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year as Laura Dern – Wild as Bobbi Grey Agata Kulesza – Ida as Anna/Ida Lebenstein Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bó Boyhood – Richard Linklater Calvary – John Michael McDonagh Whiplash – Damien Chazelle	Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn based on the novel The Imitation Game – Graham Moore based on the book by Andrew Hodges Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon Under the Skin – Walter Campbell based on the novel by Michel Farber Wild – Nick Hornby based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
The Lego Movie - Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dan Lin and Roy Lee Big Hero 6 - Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli The Boxtrolls - Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura	Force Majeure (Sweden) in Swedish - Directed by Ruben Ostlund Ida (Poland) in Polish - Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Mommy (Canada) in French - Directed by Xavier Dolan The Raid 2 (Indonesia) in Indonesian - Directed by Gareth Evans Two Days, One Night (France) in French - Directed by Luca Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Best Documentary Film	Best Original Score
Life Itself - Steve James, Zak Piper and Garrett Basch Citizenfour - Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky Jodorowsky's Dune - Frank Pavich, Stephen Scarlata and Travis Stevens Last Days in Vietnam - Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester The Overnighters - Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine	Under the Skin – Mica Levi Birdman – Antonio Sánchez The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
Best Production Design	Best Editing
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock Interstellar - Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis Into The Woods - Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock Only Lovers Left Alive - Production Design: Anja Fromm; Set Decoration: Christiane Krumwiede and Malte Nitsche Snowpiercer - Production Design: Stefan Kovacik; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerova	Whiplash – Tom Cross Birdman – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione Boyhood – Sandra Adair Gone Girl – Kirk Baxter The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
Best Cinematography
Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki and The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman Ida – Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal Inherent Vice – Robert Elswit Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema
Most Promising Filmmaker	Most Promising Performer
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler Jennifer Kent – The Babadook Jeremy Saulnier – Blue Ruin Justin Simien – Dear White People	Jack O'Connell – Starred Up as Eric Love and Unbroken as Louis "Louie" Zamperini Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Jr. Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle as Dido Elizabeth Belle and Beyond the Lights as Noni Jean Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Zero Moustafa Jenny Slate – Obvious Child as Donna Stern Agata Trzebuchowska – Ida as Anna/Ida Lebenstein

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
9	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
8	The Grand Budapest Hotel
7	Boyhood
4	Whiplash
	Gone Girl
	Interstellar
	Ida
	Under the Skin
3	Wild
	The Imitation Game
	Inherent Vice
2	Two Days, One Night
	Nightcrawler

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
3	Boyhood
	Whiplash
2	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	The Grand Budapest Hotel

Notes and References

1. News: Reel life: Dann & Raymond aim for the stars. Gire. Dann. December 4, 2014. Chicago Daily Herald. December 12, 2014.
2. Web site: "Birdman" Leads 2014 CFCA Nominations. December 12, 2014. Chicago Film Critics Association. December 12, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151127051249/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/awards/130-birdman-leads-2014-cfca-nominations. November 27, 2015.
3. Web site: "Birdman" Leads 2014 CFCA Nominations. December 12, 2014. Chicago Film Critics Association. December 12, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151127051249/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/awards/130-birdman-leads-2014-cfca-nominations. November 27, 2015.
4. News: Chicago critics pick 'Boyhood' as best 2014 film. Gire. Dann. December 16, 2014. Chicago Daily Herald. December 16, 2014.