The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics have a unique method of announcing winners among all other precursors. They announce the winners in a ranked order. Much of what’s been discussed this year made it onto their various lists. The big surprises are Reese Witherspoon’s Best Actress win for Wild, Alfred Molina making it into Best Supporting Actor for a co-lead role in Love Is Strange, and the utter absence of Two Days, One Night, which may just not have screened for them..

Award Tallies

(5) Birdman
(2) Boyhood

The Awards

Top Ten Films

1. Birdman
2. Boyhood
3. The Imitation Game
4. The Theory of Everything
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Whiplash
7. Gone Girl
8. Selma
9. Wild
10. Nightcrawler

Best Animated Film

1. The Lego Movie
2. Big Hero 6

Best Director

1. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Birdman
2. Richard Linklater – Boyhood
3. Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. David Fincher – Gone Girl
5. Ava DuVernay – Selma

Best Actor

1. Michael Keaton – Birdman
2. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
3. Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
4. Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
5. Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner

Best Actress

1. Reese Witherspoon – Wild
2. Julianne Moore – Still Alice
3. Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
4. Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
5. Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night

Best Supporting Actor

1. J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
2. Edward Norton – Birdman
3. Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
4. Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
5. Alfred Molina – Love Is Strange

Best Supporting Actress

1. Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
2. Emma Stone – Birdman
3. Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
4. Jessica Chastain – Most Violent Year
5. Laura Dern – Wild

Best Screenplay

1. Birdman
2. Boyhood

Best Musical Score

1. Interstellar

Best Cinematography

1. Birdman
2. Interstellar

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Force Majeure
2. Ida
3. Winter Sleep
4. Leviathan
5. Wild Tales

Best Documentary

1. Citizenfour
2. Life Itself
3. Jodorowsky’s Dune
4. The Overnighters
5. The Great Invisible

Russell Smith Award (best low-budget, cutting-edge independent film)

Boyhood

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Data

First Awards: 1993 (22)