Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2014 Explained

19th FFCC Awards

December 19, 2014

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Best Picture:
Birdman

The 19th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards were given on December 19, 2014.^[1] The nominations were announced on December 16, 2014.^[2]

Winners

Best Picture

Birdman

• Runner-up: Boyhood
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Director

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

• Runner-up: Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
  • Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actor

Michael Keaton – Birdman

• Runner-up: Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
  • Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Best Actress

Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl

• Runner-up: Julianne Moore – Still Alice
  • Reese Witherspoon – Wild

Best Supporting Actor

J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

• Runner-up: Edward Norton – Birdman
  • Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

• Runner-up: Emma Stone – Birdman
  • Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year

Best Original Screenplay

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness

• Runner-up: Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó
  • Boyhood – Richard Linklater

Best Adapted Screenplay

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

• Runner-up: Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten

Best Animated Feature

The Lego Movie

• Runner-up: How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • Big Hero 6

Best Documentary

Life Itself

• Runner-up: Citizenfour
  • Jodorowsky's Dune

Best Foreign Language Film

The Raid 2 • Indonesia

• Runner-up: Force Majeure • Sweden
  • Ida • Poland

Best Ensemble

The Grand Budapest Hotel

• Runner-up: Boyhood
  • Birdman

Best Art Direction / Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock

• Runner-up: Interstellar – Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis
  • Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock

Best Cinematography

Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema

• Runner-up: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
  • Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Score

Under the Skin – Mica Levi

• Runner-up: Gone Girl – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
  • Interstellar – Hans Zimmer

Best Visual Effects

Interstellar

• Runner-up: Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Pauline Kael Breakout Award

Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

• Runner-up: Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle / Beyond the Lights
  • Jennifer Kent – The Babadook

Golden Orange

Borscht Corporation for their tireless championing of independent filmmaking

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2014 FFCC Award Winners . . December 19, 2014.
2. Web site: 'Birdman' leads 2014 Florida Film Critics Awards Nominations . . December 16, 2014.