Precursor: 27th Chicago Critics Nominations (2014)

Leading the pack of the Chicago Film Critics Association’s 2014 awards list, Birdman continues to receive lot of attention from critics as do The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood and Whiplash. Interstellar was much better represented with this group, as was Under the Skin and Wild.

Nominations Tallies

(9) Birdman
(8) The Grand Budapest Hotel
(7) Boyhood
(5) Whiplash
(4) Gone Girl, Interstellar, Under the Skin
(3) The Imitation Game, Inherent Vice, Wild

The Nominations

Best Picture

Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Under the Skin
Whiplash

Best Animated Film

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton – Birdman
David Oyelowo – Selma
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Laura Dern – Wild
Agata Kulesza – Ida
Emma Stone – Birdman

Best Original Screenplay

Birdman
Boyhood
Calvary
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay

Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
Under the Skin
Wild

Best Original Score

Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Under the Skin

Best Editing

Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash

Best Cinematography

Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Inherent Vice
Interstellar

Best Art Direction

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Into The Woods
Only Lovers Left Alive
Snowpiercer

Best Foreign Film

Force Majeure
Ida
Mommy
The Raid 2
Two Days, One Night

Best Documentary

Citizenfour
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Last Days in Vietnam
Life Itself
The Overnighters

Most Promising Performer

Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood
Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle/Beyond the Lights
Jack O’Connell – Starred Up/Unbroken
Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jenny Slate – Obvious Child
Agata Trzebuchowska – Ida