2014 Awards

DIRECTOR

• Wes Anderson, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL*
• Dan Gilroy, NIGHTCRAWLER
• Tommy Lee Jones, THE HOMESMAN
• David Michod, THE ROVER
• Gillian Robespierre, OBVIOUS CHILD

ACTOR

• Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• Brendan Gleeson as Father James, CALVARY
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom, NIGHTCRAWLER*
• Tom Hardy as Bob Saginowski, THE DROP
• Philip Seymour Hoffman as Günther Bachmann, A MOST WANTED MAN

ACTRESS

• Scarlett Johansson as ?, UNDER THE SKIN
• Keira Knightley as Gretta James, BEGIN AGAIN
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Noni, BEYOND THE LIGHTS
• Hilary Swank as Mary Bee Cuddy, THE HOMESMAN
• Jenny Slate as Donna Stern, OBVIOUS CHILD*

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Michael Fassbender as Frank Sidebottom, FRANK
• Shia LaBeouf as Bible, FURY
• Edward Norton as Mike Shiner, BIRDMAN
• Robert Pattinson as Rey, THE ROVER*
• Matthias Schoenaerts as Eric Deeds, THE DROP

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Rachel McAdams as Annabel Richter, A MOST WANTED MAN
• Rene Russo as Nina Romina, NIGHTCRAWLER*
• Tilda Swinton as Mason, SNOWPIERCER
• Melanie Thierry as Bainsley, THE ZERO THEOREM
• Katherine Waterston as Shasta Fay Hepworth, INHERENT VICE

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• BEYOND THE LIGHTS
• CALVARY
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL*
• NIGHTCRAWLER
• THE ROVER

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• THE DROP
• FRANK
• THE HOMESMAN
• A MOST WANTED MAN
• OBVIOUS CHILD*

DOCUMENTARY

• THE BALLAD OF SHOVELS AND ROPE
• CITIZENFOUR*
• DINOSAUR 13
• FED UP
• HARMONTOWN
• AN HONEST LIAR
• JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
• LIFE ITSELF
• MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS
• SHOWRUNNERS

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• IDA*
• OF HORSES AND MEN
• STRANGER BY THE LAKE
• THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA
• TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT

MUSIC

• BEGIN AGAIN*
• BIRDMAN
• FRANK
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• INTERSTELLAR

SOUND

• BEGIN AGAIN
• EDGE OF TOMORROW
• FURY*
• NOAH
• WHIPLASH

HAIR & MAKEUP

• FOXCATCHER*
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• INHERENT VICE
• SNOWPIERCER
• THE ZERO THEOREM

VISUAL EFFECTS

• DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
• EDGE OF TOMORROW
• INTERSTELLAR*
• NOAH
• UNDER THE SKIN

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• THE DOUBLE
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL*
• A MOST WANTED MAN
• SNOWPIERCER
• THE ZERO THEOREM

EDITING

• EDGE OF TOMORROW*
• FURY
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• NIGHTCRAWLER
• OBVIOUS CHILD

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• IDA
• INHERENT VICE
• NIGHTCRAWLER*
• UNDER THE SKIN

10 OLDER MOVIES SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME

1. FITZCARRALDO (Werner Herzog)
2. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
3. A SUMMER'S TALE (Eric Rohmer)
4. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
5. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
6. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Rob Reiner)
7. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. A FACE IN THE CROWD (Elia Kazan)
9. CODE UNKNOWN (Michael Haneke)
10. PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich)

Favorite Movies of 2014 - Honorable Mentions

In Alphabetical Order:

2015 Most Anticipated Films (and 2014's List Revisited)

1. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams)
2. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino)
3. THE MARTIAN (Ridley Scott)
4. MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Jeff Nichols)
5. TRIPLE NINE (John Hillcoat)
6. BLACK MASS (Scott Cooper)
7. UNTITLED TOM HANKS/COLD WAR THRILLER PROJECT (Steven Spielberg)
8. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve)
9. 99 HOMES (Ramin Bahrani)
10. THE REVENANT (Alejandro G. Inarritu)
11. THE LOBSTER (Yorgos Lanthimos)
12. EX MACHINA (Alex Garland)
13. GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF (Alex Gibney)
14. MAPS TO THE STARS (David Cronenberg)
15. TOMORROWLAND (Brad Bird)

Here was 2014's list and my grades for each (or reasons for not seeing):

1. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson) - A+
2. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson) - A-
3. FOXCATCHER (Bennett Miller) - B+
4. THE MONUMENTS MEN (George Clooney) - D
5. CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh) - A+
6. NIGHT MOVES (Kelly Reichardt) - A-
7. INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan) - C-
8. MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Jeff Nichols) - N/A
• Will be released in Fall 2015
9. A MOST WANTED MAN (Anton Corbijn) - A
10. NYMPHOMANIAC (Lars von Trier) - B+
11. ENEMY (Denis Villeneuve) - A-
12. MOJAVE (William Monahan) - N/A
• Still no release date, otherwise it'd be on my 2015 list
13. ANIMAL RESCUE (Michael R. Roskam) - A
• Renamed to THE DROP
14. THE DOUBLE (Richard Ayoade) - A-
15. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer) - A-
16. 99 HOMES (Ramin Bahrani) - N/A
• Will be released in early 2015
17. THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (Peter Jackson) - C-
• Renamed to THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
18. X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (Bryan Singer) - C
19. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch) - B
20. TUSK (Kevin Smith) - B