The Year in Film: 2014

Best Picture
#1: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
#2: Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
#3: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
#4: Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
#5: Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
#6: Gone Girl (David Fincher)
#7: The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
#8: Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
#9: Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
#10: Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)

Honorable mentions: Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev), Nymph()maniac Vol. I (Lars von Trier), Coherence (James Ward Byrkit), Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch), The Guest (Adam Wingard), Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry), Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson), Whiplash (Damien Chazelle), Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie), Boyhood (Richard Linklater), Horses of God (Nabil Ayouch), Citizenfour (Laura Poitras), Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer), Top Five (Chris Rock), Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz), Noah (Darren Aronofsky), The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller), The Overnighters (Jesse Moss), Selma (Ava DuVernay), and Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi).

Best Director #1: Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) #2: Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) #3: Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida) #4: Christopher Nolan (Interstellar) #5: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night)

Best Actor #1: Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice) #2: Haluk Bilginer (Winter Sleep) #3: Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) #4: Bill Hader (The Skeleton Twins) #5: Joaquin Phoenix (The Immigrant)

Best Actress #1: Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) #2: Julianne Moore (Still Alice) #3: Lisa Loven Kongsli (Force Majeure) #4: Isabelle Huppert (Abuse of Weakness) #5: Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive)

Best Supporting Actor #1: Edward Norton (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)) #2: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) #3: Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice) #4: Waleed F. Zuaiter (Omar) #5: Willem Dafoe (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Best Supporting Actress #1: Agata Kulesza (Ida) #2: Rosario Dawson (Top Five) #3:  Melisa Sözen (Winter Sleep) #4: Carrie Coon (Gone Girl) #5: Kristen Stewart (Still Alice)

Best Original Screenplay #1: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) #2: Coherence (James Ward Byrkit) #3: Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) #4: Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) #5: Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge and Ebru Ceylan)

Best Adapted Screenplay #1: Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) #2: Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn) #3: The Boxtrolls (Irena Brignull and Adam Pava) #4: Under the Skin (Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer) #5: A Most Wanted Man (Andrew Bovell)

Best Cinematography #1: Interstellar (Hoyte van Hoytema) #2: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Robert Yeoman) #3: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Emmanuel Lubezki) #4: Under the Skin (Daniel Landin) #5: Ida (Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski)

Best Film Editing #1: Whiplash #2: Interstellar #3: Inherent Vice #4: The Grand Budapest Hotel #5: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Score #1: Interstellar (Hans Zimmer) #2: The Congress (Max Richter) #3: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Alexandr Desplat) #4: Under the Skin (Mica Levi) #5: Gone Girl (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

Best Song #1: “We Will Not Go” (Virunga) #2: “Glory” (Selma) #3: “Anthonio” (The Guest) #4: “Glass” (Copenhagen) #5: “Lost Stars” (Begin Again)

Best Production Design #1: The Grand Budapest Hotel #2: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) #3: Inherent Vice #4: Mr. Turner #5: Interstellar

Best Costume Design #1: The Grand Budapest Hotel #2: Mr. Turner #3: Inherent Vice #4: Only Lovers Left Alive #5: Snowpiercer

Best Makeup #1: Mr. Turner #2: The Grand Budapest Hotel #3: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies #4: Only Lovers Left Alive #5: Snowpiercer

Best Sound #1: Whiplash #2: Under the Skin #3: Interstellar #4: The Grand Budapest Hotel #5: The Guest

Best Visual Effects #1: Interstellar #2: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) #3: X-Men: Days of Future Past #4: Captain America: The Winter Soldier #5: Lucy

Worst Film of the Year Left Behind (Vic Armstrong); Dishonorable Mentions: Ouija (Stiles White), The Captive (Atom Egoyan), Winter’s Tale (Akiva Goldsman), Blended (Frank Coraci), I, Frankenstein (Stuart Beattie), Dracula Untold (Gary Shore), The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani), Devil’s Knot (Atom Egoyan), and Men, Women & Children (Jason Reitman)