20th Critics' Choice Awards

20th Critics' Choice Awards
20th Critics' Choice Awards
Date	January 15, 2015
Site	Hollywood Palladium, California, United States
Hosted by	Michael Strahan
Official website	www.criticschoice.com
Highlights
Best Film	Boyhood
Most awards	Birdman (7)
Most nominations	Birdman (13)
Television coverage
Network	A&E
	← 19th; Critics' Choice Awards; 21st →;

The 20th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 15, 2015, at the Hollywood Palladium, honoring the finest achievements of 2014 filmmaking.^[1]^[2] The ceremony was broadcast on A&E and hosted by Michael Strahan.^[3] The nominees were announced on December 15, 2014.^[4]

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In recognition of the breadth of her accomplishments in 2014, Jessica Chastain received the first-ever Critics' Choice MVP Award. The honor celebrates "one extraordinary actor for his/her standout work in several movies throughout a single year".^[5]

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Best Picture Boyhood Birdman Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Nightcrawler Selma The Theory of Everything Unbroken Whiplash	Best Director Richard Linklater – Boyhood Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Ava DuVernay – Selma David Fincher – Gone Girl Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman Angelina Jolie – Unbroken
Best Actor *Michael Keaton – Birdman* as Riggan Thomson** Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Monsieur Gustave H. Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis "Lou" Bloom David Oyelowo – Selma as Martin Luther King Jr. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking	Best Actress *Julianne Moore – Still Alice* as Dr. Alice Howland** Jennifer Aniston – Cake as Claire Bennett Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor *J. K. Simmons – Whiplash* as Terence Fletcher** Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice as Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans Sr. Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz	Best Supporting Actress *Patricia Arquette – Boyhood* as Olivia Evans** Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year as Anna Morales Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer as Minister Mason
Best Young Actor/Actress *Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood* as Mason Evans Jr.** Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars as Augustus "Gus" Waters Mackenzie Foy – Interstellar as Murphy "Murph" Cooper Jaeden Lieberher – St. Vincent as Oliver Bronstein Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Zero Moustafa Quvenzhané Wallis – Annie as Annie Bennett Noah Wiseman – The Babadook as Samuel Vanek	Best Acting Ensemble Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Into the Woods Selma
Best Original Screenplay Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó – Birdman Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel Damien Chazelle – Whiplash Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler Richard Linklater – Boyhood	Best Adapted Screenplay Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson – Unbroken Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything Graham Moore – The Imitation Game Nick Hornby – Wild
Best Animated Feature The Lego Movie Big Hero 6 The Book of Life The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2	Best Action Movie Guardians of the Galaxy American Sniper Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow Fury
Best Actor in an Action Movie *Bradley Cooper – American Sniper* as Chris Kyle** Tom Cruise – Edge of Tomorrow as Major William Cage Chris Evans – Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Steve Rogers / Captain America Brad Pitt – Fury as First Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy as Peter Quill / Star-Lord	Best Actress in an Action Movie *Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow* as Sergeant Rita Vrataski** Scarlett Johansson – Lucy as Lucy Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 as Katniss Everdeen Zoe Saldaña – Guardians of the Galaxy as Gamora Shailene Woodley – Divergent as Beatrice "Tris" Prior
Best Documentary Feature Life Itself Citizenfour Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Jodorowsky's Dune Last Days in Vietnam The Overnighters	Best Comedy Movie The Grand Budapest Hotel 22 Jump Street Birdman St. Vincent Top Five
Best Actor in a Comedy Movie *Michael Keaton – Birdman* as Riggan Thomson** Jon Favreau – Chef as Carl Casper Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Monsieur Gustave H. Bill Murray – St. Vincent as Vincent MacKenna Chris Rock – Top Five as Andre Allen Channing Tatum – 22 Jump Street as Greg Jenko	Best Actress in a Comedy Movie *Jenny Slate – Obvious Child* as Donna Stern** Rose Byrne – Neighbors as Kelly Radner Rosario Dawson – Top Five as Chelsea Brown Melissa McCarthy – St. Vincent as Maggie Bronstein Kristen Wiig – The Skeleton Twins as Maggie Dean
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Interstellar The Babadook Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Snowpiercer Under the Skin	Best Foreign Language Film Force Majeure (Turist) • France / Norway / Sweden Ida • Denmark / France / Poland / UK Leviathan (Leviafan) • Russia Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) • Belgium / France / Italy Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) • Argentina / Spain
Best Art Direction Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator) – The Grand Budapest Hotel David Crank (Production Designer), Amy Wells (Set Decorator) – Inherent Vice Nathan Crowley (Production Designer), Gary Fettis (Set Decorator) – Interstellar Dennis Gassner (Production Designer), Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator) – Into the Woods Ondřej Nekvasil (Production Designer), Beatrice Brentnerovà (Set Decorator) – Snowpiercer Kevin Thompson (Production Designer), George DeTitta Jr. (Set Decorator) – Birdman	Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman Roger Deakins – Unbroken Dick Pope – Mr. Turner Hoyte van Hoytema – Interstellar Robert Yeoman – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Costume Design Milena Canonero – The Grand Budapest Hotel Colleen Atwood – Into the Woods Mark Bridges – Inherent Vice Jacqueline Durran – Mr. Turner Anna B. Sheppard – Maleficent	Best Editing Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione – Birdman Sandra Adair – Boyhood Kirk Baxter – Gone Girl Tom Cross – Whiplash Lee Smith – Interstellar
Best Score Antonio Sánchez – Birdman Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Gone Girl Hans Zimmer – Interstellar	Best Song "Glory" (Common and John Legend) – Selma "Big Eyes" (Lana Del Rey) – Big Eyes "Everything Is Awesome" (Jo Li and The Lonely Island) – The Lego Movie "Lost Stars" (Keira Knightley) – Begin Again "Yellow Flicker Beat" (Lorde) – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Best Hair and Makeup Guardians of the Galaxy Foxcatcher The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Into the Woods Maleficent	Best Visual Effects Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Edge of Tomorrow Guardians of the Galaxy The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Interstellar

20th Critics' Choice Awards

Winners and nominees

Louis XIII Genius Award

Critics' Choice MVP Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

Films by multiple nominations and wins

References

External links

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