San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2014 Explained

13th SFFCC Awards

December 14, 2014

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Best Picture:
Boyhood

The 13th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2014, were given on December 14, 2014.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Winners

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

External links

• The San Francisco Film Critics Circle
• 2014 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2014 SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS. 2014-12-14. The San Francisco Film Critics Circle. 2014-12-17.
2. Web site: S.F. Critics Name ‘Boyhood’ Best Film of 2014. 2014-12-14. Variety. 2014-12-17.
3. Web site: Boyhood Wins San Francisco Film Critics’ Top Honors . Sean . Fitz-Gerald. . December 15, 2014 . October 7, 2023 . October 7, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231007025520/https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/san-francisco-film-critics-boyhood.html . live.