Yesterday, the Central Ohio Film Critics announced their nominees for the best of 2014 and they really liked Birdman!  I wonder if the Central Ohio Film Critics ever have fights with the Southwestern Ohio Film Critics or the Ohio/Kentucky Border Critics…

Here are the nominees!

Best Film

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• Gone Girl
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• A Most Violent Year
• Nightcrawler
• Selma
• Snowpiercer
• Whiplash

Best Director

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
• Ava DuVernay – Selma
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor

• Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
• Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• David Oyelowo – Selma
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Best Actress

• Essie Davis, The Babadook
• Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
• Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
• Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
• Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best Supporting Actor

• Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
• J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
• Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
• Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Best Ensemble

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Foxcatcher
• Gone Girl
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

• Jessica Chastain (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Interstellar, Miss Julie, and A Most Violent Year)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Imitation Game)
• Jake Gyllenhaal (Enemy and Nightcrawler)
• Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy and The LEGO Movie)
• Tilda Swinton (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive, Snowpiercer, and The Zero Theorem)

Breakthrough Film Artist

• Damien Chazelle – Whiplash – (for directing and screenwriting)
• Ava DuVernay – Selma – (for directing)
• Jennifer Kent – The Babadook – (for directing and screenwriting)
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle and Beyond the Lights – (for acting)
• Justin Simien – Dear White People – (for directing and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

• Benoît Delhomme – The Theory of Everything
• Hoyte Van Hoytema – Interstellar
• Daniel Landin – Under the Skin
• Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Robert Yeoman – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Film Editing

• Sandra Adair – Boyhood
• Spencer Averick – Selma
• Kirk Baxter – Gone Girl
• Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Tom Cross – Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice
• Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson – Snowpiercer
• Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
• Nick Hornby – Wild
• Graham Moore – The Imitation Game

Best Original Screenplay

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• J.C. Chandor – A Most Violent Year
• Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
• Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Paul Webb – Selma

Best Score

• Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Gone Girl
• Antonio Sanchez – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Hans Zimmer – Interstellar

Best Documentary

• Citizenfour
• Dinosaur 13
• Finding Vivian Maier
• Jodorowsky’s Dune
• Life Itself

Best Foreign Language Film

• Force Majeure (Turist)
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Ida
• Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit)
• We Are the Best! (Vi är bäst!)

Best Animated Film

• Big Hero 6
• The Book of Life
• The Boxtrolls
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• The LEGO Movie

Best Overlooked Film

• The Babadook
• Blue Ruin
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Enemy
• Locke