San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2014 Explained

19th SDFCS Awards

December 15, 2014

----Best Film:
Nightcrawler----Best Director:
Dan Gilroy
Nightcrawler

The 19th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2014.^{[1] [2]}

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Nightcrawler

• Boyhood
• Gone Girl
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Selma
• The Theory of Everything

Best Director

Dan Gilroy  - Nightcrawler

• Wes Anderson  - The Grand Budapest Hotel
• David Fincher  - Gone Girl
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu  - Birdman
• Richard Linklater  - Boyhood

Best Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal  - Nightcrawler

• Ralph Fiennes  - The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Brendan Gleeson  - Calvary
• Tom Hardy  - Locke
• Michael Keaton  - Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne  - The Theory of Everything

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard  - Two Days, One Night

• Felicity Jones  - The Theory of Everything
• Rosamund Pike  - Gone Girl
• Hilary Swank  - The Homesman
• Mia Wasikowska  - Tracks

Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo  - Foxcatcher

• Riz Ahmed  - Nightcrawler
• Ethan Hawke  - Boyhood
• Edward Norton  - Birdman
• J. K. Simmons  - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress

Rene Russo  - Nightcrawler

• Patricia Arquette  - Boyhood
• Carrie Coon  - Gone Girl
• Keira Knightley  - The Imitation Game
• Emma Stone  - Birdman

Best Original Screenplay

Nightcrawler  - Dan Gilroy

• Birdman  - Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
• Boyhood  - Richard Linklater
• The Grand Budapest Hotel  - Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Locke  - Steven Knight

Best Adapted Screenplay

Gone Girl  - Gillian Flynn

• The Fault in Our Stars  - Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• The Theory of Everything  - Anthony McCarten
• Unbroken  - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Nicholson, and Richard LaGravenese
• Wild  - Nick Hornby

Best Animated Film

The Boxtrolls

• Big Hero 6
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• The Lego Movie
• The Nut Job

Best Documentary

Citizenfour

• Last Days in Vietnam
• Life Itself

Best Foreign Language Film

Force Majeure • Sweden

• Heli • Mexico
• Ida • Denmark / Poland
• Two Days, One Night • Belgium
• Venus in Fur • France

Best Cinematography

Nightcrawler  - Robert Elswit

• Force Majeure  - Fredrik Wenzel
• Gone Girl  - Jeff Cronenweth
• Interstellar  - Hoyte van Hoytema
• Unbroken  - Roger Deakins

Best Editing

Edge of Tomorrow  - James Herbert and Laura Jennings

• Boyhood  - Sandra Adair
• Gone Girl  - Kirk Baxter
• The Grand Budapest Hotel  - Barney Pilling
• Nightcrawler  - John Gilroy

Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel  - Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock

• The Imitation Game  - Maria Djurkovic
• Interstellar  - Nathan Crawley
• Into the Woods  - Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock
• The Theory of Everything  - John Paul Kelly

Best Score

Nightcrawler  - James Newton Howard

• Birdman  - Antonio Sánchez
• Gone Girl  - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• The Grand Budapest Hotel  - Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game  - Alexandre Desplat

Best Ensemble

Birdman

• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Selma

Best Body of Work

Willem Dafoe for The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Budapest Hotel, John Wick, A Most Wanted Man, and Nymphomaniac

External links

• Official Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2014 San Diego Film Critics Award Winners. San Diego Film Critics Society.
2. Web site: San Diego film critics really, really love 'Nightcrawler'. HitFix.