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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

END OF YEAR
My Film Performance Excellence Award Selections Of 2014


Ava DuVernay, who  wrote and directed "Selma".  Publicity photo, 2012
       
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Here are my personal, ranked choices for the year's five best performances, directors, cinematography, editing, music score, ahead of the Golden Globes and SAG Awards next month.  My ten best and worst films of 2014 were written earlier this month.  Note: I did not see "Beyond The Lights", which I deeply regret.


BEST ACTRESS
1. Scarlett Johansson, UNDER THE SKIN
2. Marion Cotillard, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
3. Julianne Moore, STILL ALICE
4. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, BELLE
5. Rosamund Pike, GONE GIRL


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1.  Agata Kulesza, IDA
2.  Patricia Arquette, BOYHOOD
3.  Carmen Ejogo, SELMA
4.  Jessica Chastain, A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
5.  Rene Russo, NIGHTCRAWLER


BEST ACTOR
1.  Brendan Gleeson, CALVARY
2.  Michael Keaton, BIRDMAN
3.  David Oyelowo, SELMA
4.  Eddie Redmayne, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
5.  Jake Gyllenhaal, NIGHTCRAWLER


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1.  Edward Norton, BIRDMAN
2.  J.K. Simmons, WHIPLASH
3.  Michael Kenneth Williams, THE GAMBLER
4.  Nelsan Ellis, GET ON UP
5.  Stephan James, SELMA


BEST DIRECTOR
1. Ava DuVernay, SELMA
2. Wes Anderson, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
3. Jonathan Glazer, UNDER THE SKIN
4. Pawel Palikowski, IDA
5. Richard Linklater, BOYHOOD


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1.  Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, IDA
2.  Robert Yeoman, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
3.  Emmanuel Lubezki, BIRDMAN
4.  Bradford Young, SELMA
5.  Daniel Landin, UNDER THE SKIN


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1.  Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo, BIRDMAN
2.  Wes Anderson, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
3.  John Michael McDonagh, CALVARY
4.  Justin Simien, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
5.  J.C. Chandor, A MOST VIOLENT YEAR


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1.  Paul Thomas Anderson, INHERENT VICE
2.  Graham Moore, THE IMITATION GAME
3.  Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth & John Henry Butterworth, EDGE OF TOMORROW
4.  Andrew Bovell, A MOST WANTED MAN
5.  Steven Knight, THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY


BEST EDITING
1.  Sandra Adair, BOYHOOD
2.  Barney Pilling, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
3.  Paul Watts, UNDER THE SKIN
4.  Spencer Averick, SELMA
5.  Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione, BIRDMAN


BEST MUSIC SCORE
1.  Antonio Sanchez, BIRDMAN
2.  Alexandre Desplat, THE IMITATION GAME
3.  Jonny Greenwood, INHERENT VICE
4.  Jason Moran, SELMA
5.  Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, GONE GIRL



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