Chicago Film Critics Association
2014

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2014 27th Chicago Film Critics Awards

Best Picture
* Boyhood
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Under the Skin
Whiplash

Best Director
* Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Alejandro G. Inarritu, Birdman
Christopher Nolan, Interstellar

Best Actor
* Michael Keaton, Birdman
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo, Selma
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
* Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best Supporting Actor
* J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher

Best Supporting Actress
* Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Laura Dern, Wild
Agata Kulesza, Ida
Emma Stone, Birdman

Best Orignal Screenplay
* The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson
Birdman, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo
Boyhood, Richard Linklater
Calvary, John Michael McDonagh
Whiplash, Damien Chazelle

Best Adapted Screenplay
* Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Imitation Game, Graham Moore
Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson
Under the Skin, Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer
Wild, Nick Hornby

Best Foreign-Language Film
* Force Majeure
Ida
Mommy
The Raid 2
Two Days, One Night

Best Documentary
* Life Itself
Citizenfour
Jodorowsky's Dune
Last Days in Vietnam
The Overnighters

Best Animated Feature
* The Lego Movie
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Best Art Direction/Production Design
* The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Into The Woods
Only Lovers Left Alive
Snowpiercer

Best Cinematography (TIE)
* Birdman, Emmanuel Lubezki
* The Grand Budapest Hotel, Robert Yeoman
Ida, Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal
Inherent Vice, Robert Elswit
Interstellar, Hoyte Van Hoytema

Best Editing
* Boyhood, Sandra Adair
Birdman, Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrion
Gone Girl, Kirk Baxter
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Barney Pilling
Whiplash, Tom Cross

Best Original Score
* Under the Skin, Mica Levi
Birdman, Antonio Sanchez
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game, Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar, Hans Zimmer

Most Promising Performer
* Jack O'Connell, Starred Up/Unbroken
Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle/Beyond the Lights
Tony Revolori, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jenny Slate, Obvious Child
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida

Most Promising Filmmaker
* Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
Jennifer Kent, The Babadook
Jeremy Saulnier, Blue Ruin
Justin Simien, Dear White People