(We interrupt your Missi experience this morning to bring you more awards news. Missi returns this afternoon for two final posts.)
The Film Critic (a monolith) floats in his room this month contemplatively, aging rapidly before our eyes. A difficult choice faces him/her: Birdman or Boyhood? After the jump see which cities chose what and which categories they're allowing themselves to have a little fun with...
KANSAS CITY
In the end for Kansas City critics in this scenairo, though Boyhood won two key prizes that it's getting Biblically familiar with of late, they were Riggan Thompson fans through and through and squawked their fandom proudly giving four prizes to Fox Searchlight's Best Picture hopeful Birdman. The KCFCC is one of the nation's oldest film critics groups, with their first Best Picture prize dating all the way back to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). They're the first venerable critics org* this season to venture outside of Boyhood for top honors.
Best Actress appears to be the one category where critics groups are allowing themselves wiggle room performance wise. Moore & Cotillard have had the most wins but they're not the only two cited and so many other categories apparently have but two eligible names whichever city you happen to be in.
Film Birdman
Director Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Actress Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Actor Michael Keaton, Birdman
Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Supporting Actor Edward Norton, Birdman
Adapted Screenplay Obvious Child
Original Screenplay Birdman
Animated Feature The LEGO Movie
Documentary Citizen Four
Vince Koehler Award (honoring sci-fi/fantasy/horror): The Babadook
SAN FRANCISCO
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle is just 12 years old and their Best Picture prizes are usually right along with the status quo but few a few contrarian years in the mid Aughts. So this year they went with nearly all the usual suspects (or the standard top alternate) in their categories
Film Boyhood
Director Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Actress Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Actor Michael Keaton, Birdman
Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Supporting Actor Edward Norton, Birdman
Adapted Screenplay Inherent Vice
Original Screenplay Birdman
Animated Feature The LEGO Movie
Documentary Citizen Four
Cinematography Ida
Editing Boyhood
Production Design Grand Budapest Hotel
Foreign Film Ida
Special Citation The One I Love
Marlon Riggs Award (Courage and Innovation in Bay Area) Joel Shepard, programmer of the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco
DALLAS/FORT WORTH
The Dallas Forth Worth Film Critics Association is 21 years old now so at least they predated the rush of "every city must have two organizations!"
Film Birdman
Top Ten In Order:
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- The Imitation Game
- The Theory of Everything
- Grand Budapest Hotel
- Whiplash
- Gone Girl
- Selma
- Wild
- Nightcrawler
Director Alejandro Inarritu, Birdman
Actress Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Actor Michael Keaton, Birdman
Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Animated Feature The LEGO Movie
Documentary Citizen Four
Cinematography Birdman
Foreign Film Force Majeure
Russell Smith Award (Low Budget / Cutting Edge) Boyhood
ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Finally there really quite amazing list of nominees (DAT BEST ACTRESS CATEGORY -YUM!) that Glenn covered last week here has resulted in a few mild surprises... the main gist of which is that someone finally went with The Grand Budapest Hotel for something other than 'runner up' citations.
Film Grand Budapest Hotel
Director Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Actress Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Actor Michael Keaton, Birdman
Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Supporting Actor Edward Norton, Birdman
Adapted Screenplay Gone Girl
Original Screenplay Grand Budapest Hotel
Animated Feature The LEGO Movie
Foreign Film Two Days One Night
Documentary Life Itself
Cinematography Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Non-US Release (non competitive top ten category)
- 71 (my review... such a good movie. I guess they're waiting for Jack O'Connell to get more famous before they release it?)
- 10,000 km
- Entre Nós
- Han Gong-Ju
- Hard to be a God
- The Look of Silence
- The Salt of the Earth
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Timbuktu
- The Tribe
* A lot sites tend to lump in the NBR with critics groups. It is important to know that it is not a critics group but a civilian organization.