Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2014 Explained

8th Houston Film Critics Society Awards
Presenter:	Houston Film Critics Society
Location:	Sundance Cinemas Houston Houston, Texas
Country:	United States
Website:	houstonfilmcritics.com/awards
Previous:	2013
Main:	HFCSA
Next:	2015

The 8th Houston Film Critics Society Awards nominations were announced on the December 16, 2014. The 2014 awards were given out at a ceremony held at the Sundance Cinemas Houston on January 10, 2015.^[1] The awards are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society based in Houston, Texas.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.^[2]

Best Picture	Best Foreign Language Film
Boyhood Birdman The Grand Budapest Hotel Guardians of the Galaxy The Imitation Game Inherent Vice A Most Violent Year Nightcrawler Selma Whiplash	Force Majeure • Sweden Ida • Poland/Denmark Leviathan • Russia The Raid 2 • Indonesia Two Days, One Night • Belgium
Best Actor	Best Actress
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game Tom Hardy – Locke Michael Keaton – Birdman Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything	Julianne Moore – Still Alice Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night Essie Davis – The Babadook Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything Reese Witherspoon – Wild
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice Ethan Hawke – Boyhood Edward Norton – Birdman Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Patricia Arquette – Boyhood Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game Emma Stone – Birdman Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer
Best Director	Best Cinematography
Richard Linklater – Boyhood Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice Damien Chazelle – Whiplash	Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki Unbroken – Roger Deakins Inherent Vice – Robert Elswit Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
Best Animated Feature Film	Best Documentary Feature
The Lego Movie Big Hero 6 The Book of Life The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2	Citizenfour Jodorowsky's Dune Life Itself The Overnighters
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson Birdman – Antonio Sánchez Interstellar – Hans Zimmer	"Everything Is Awesome" by Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton, Shawn Patterson, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone – The Lego Movie "Big Eyes" by Lana Del Rey – Big Eyes "Glory" by John Legend and Common – Selma "I'm Not Going to Miss You" by Glen Campbell – Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me "Lost Stars" by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood – Begin Again
Best Screenplay	Best Poster
Boyhood – Richard Linklater The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo Whiplash – Damien Chazelle Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy	The Grand Budapest Hotel Birdman Godzilla The Grand Budapest Hotel Guardians of the Galaxy Inherent Vice
Texas Independent Film Award	Technical Achievement
Boyhood Above All Else Hellion Joe Stop the Pounding Heart	Boyhood Birdman Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Worst Film
The Identical Blended Dumb and Dumber To Left Behind

Movies with multiple nominations and awards

The following 16 films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
10	Birdman
7	Boyhood
6	The Grand Budapest Hotel
5	Inherent Vice
4	The Imitation Game
Whiplash
3	Nightcrawler
The Theory of Everything
2	A Most Violent Year
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
The Lego Movie
Selma
Two Days, One Night

The following 3 films received multiple awards:

Wins	Film
6	Boyhood
2	The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Lego Movie

External links

• Houston Film Critics Society: Awards

Notes and References

1. Your Houston News (December 17, 2014). ""Birdman" leads Houston Film Critics nominations for 8th Annual Awards". YourHoustonNews.com. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
2. Tapley, Kristopher (December 16, 2014). "'Birdman' and usual critical darling suspects lead Houston critics' nominations" . HitFix.com. Retrieved December 18, 2014.