Monday, January 5, 2015

Here Are The 2015 Seattle Film Award Nominations


I live in Seattle, and recently the film critics in town got together and voted for our favorite movies of the year. The Seattle Film Awards nominations came out today, and here they are. I voted for some of these, I didn’t vote for some of these, and my favorite movie of the year is nowhere to be found on this list (check out my Top Ten Movies of 2014). A second round of voting begins today and the winners will be announced on January 14, 2015. Here’s the full list:


BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight)
Boyhood (IFC Films)
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (20th Century Fox)
Fury (Sony Pictures)
Gone Girl (20th Century Fox)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
A Most Violent Year (A24 Films)
Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)
Under The Skin (A24 Films)
Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

BEST DIRECTOR:
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater – Boyhood

BEST ACTOR:

Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Tom Hardy – Locke
Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory Of Everything

BEST ACTRESS:

Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones – The Theory Of Everything
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Jenny Slate – Obvious Child

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson (screenplay); Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (story)
A Most Violent Year – J.C. Chandor
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson
Snowpiercer – Bong Joon-Ho & Kelly Marshall (screenplay); Bong Joon-Ho (story)
Under The Skin – Jonathan Glazer
Wild – Nick Hornby

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

Big Hero 6 (Don Hall, Chris Williams, directors)
The Boxtrolls (Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi, directors)
Ernest & Celestine (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, directors)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois, director)
The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, directors)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, director)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Aminpour, director)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, director)
The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, director)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón, director)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

Anita (Freida Lee Mock, director)
CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras, director)
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (Chiemi Karasawa, director)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich, director)
Life Itself (Steve James, director)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
Gone Girl – Jeff Cronenweth
Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema
Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
Under The Skin – Daniel Landin

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran
Snowpiercer – Catherine George
The Theory Of Everything – Steven Noble

BEST FILM EDITING:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
Boyhood – Sandra Adair
Gone Girl – Kirk Baxter
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
Whiplash – Tom Cross

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING:

Foxcatcher – Bill Corso (Makeup), Kathrine Gordon (Hair Stylist)
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon
The Theory Of Everything – Jan Sewell

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Antonio Sanchez
Gone Girl – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
Under The Skin – Mica Levi

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

Begin Again – “Lost Stars” (Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, composers)
Boyhood – “Split The Difference” (Ethan Hawke, composer)
Frank – “I Love You All” (Stephen Rennicks, Lenny Abrahamson, composers)
The LEGO Movie – “Everything Is AWESOME!!!” (Shawn Patterson, composer)
Selma – “Glory” (John Stephens, Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith, composers)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design), Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator)
Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design), Gary Fettis (Set Decorator)
Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies
Noah – Mark Friedberg (Production Design), Debra Schutt (Set Decorator)
Snowpiercer – Ondrej Nekvasil (Production Design), Beata Brendtnerovà (Set Decorator)

BEST SOUND DESIGN:


Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Thomas Varga, Jon
Taylor, Frank A. Montano (Mixing), Martín Hernández, Aaron Glascock (Editing)
Fury – Lisa Pinero, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Marc Fishman (Mixing), Paul N.J. Ottosson (Editing)
Godzilla – David Alvarez, Rick Kline, Gregg Landaker, Tim LeBlanc (Mixing), Erik Aadahl (Editing)
Interstellar – Marc Weingarten, Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker (Mixing), Richard King (Editing)
Under The Skin – Johnnie Burn

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett
Godzilla – Nominees TBD
Guardians Of The Galaxy – Nominees TBD
Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher
Under The Skin – Dominic Parker


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