San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2014



13th SFFCC Awards December 14, 2014

Best Picture:  Boyhood 

The 13th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2014, were given on December 14, 2014.

Best Picture
Boyhood
 * Birdman
 * The Imitation Game
 * Under the Skin
 * Whiplash

Best Director
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
 * Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
 * Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
 * Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
 * Mike Leigh – Mr. Turner

Best Actor
Michael Keaton – Birdman
 * Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
 * Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
 * Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
 * Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner

Best Actress
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
 * Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
 * Essie Davis – The Babadook
 * Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
 * Reese Witherspoon – Wild

Best Supporting Actor
Edward Norton – Birdman
 * Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
 * Gene Jones – The Sacrament
 * Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
 * J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
 * Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
 * Agata Kulesza – Ida
 * Emma Stone – Birdman
 * Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
 * Boyhood – Richard Linklater
 * The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
 * A Most Violent Year – J. C. Chandor
 * Mr. Turner – Mike Leigh
 * Whiplash – Damien Chazelle

Best Adapted Screenplay
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson
 * Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
 * The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
 * Snowpiercer – Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson
 * Wild – Nick Hornby

Best Cinematography
Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
 * Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
 * The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
 * Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
 * Under the Skin – Daniel Landin

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen
 * Birdman – Kevin Thompson
 * Inherent Vice – David Crank
 * Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies
 * Snowpiercer – Ondrej Nekvasil

Best Editing
Boyhood – Sandra Adair
 * Birdman – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione
 * Inherent Vice – Leslie Jones
 * Under the Skin – Paul Watts
 * Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Animated Feature
The Lego Movie
 * Big Hero 6
 * The Boxtrolls
 * How to Train Your Dragon 2
 * The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Best Foreign Language Picture
Ida – Poland / Denmark
 * A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Iran
 * Force Majeure – Sweden
 * Two Days, One Night – Belgium
 * Wild Tales – Argentina

Best Documentary
Citizenfour
 * Finding Vivian Maier
 * Jodorowsky's Dune
 * Life Itself
 * The Overnighters

Marlon Riggs Award for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community
Joel Shepard

Special Citation for under-appreciated independent cinema
The One I Love