San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2014



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.

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
 * Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
 * Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
 * 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