A number of film critics groups from all across the country have been handing out their various awards over the past month or so (SEFCA, to which Matt belongs, named The Grand Budapest Hotel the Best Film of 2014), and the group of which I am personally a member, the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, announced its winners today. Boyhood was named Best Picture while Richard Linklater picked up the Best Director trophy, and it’s tough for me to argue with these two choices. Elsewhere, Gone Girl picked up two prizes, Best Actress for Rosamund Pike and Best Adapted Screenplay for Gillian Flynn, and we singled out The LEGO Movie and 22 Jump Street filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller for “Best Body of Work” in 2014.
Check out the full list of winners (including our Top 10 of the year) after the jump.
OFCC 2014 Winners
Best Picture
Boyhood
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
The Imitation Game
The LEGO Movie
A Most Violent Year
Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Actor – Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Actress – Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Best Animated Film – The LEGO Movie
Best Body of Work – Chris Miller & Phil Lord – The LEGO Movie & 22 Jump Street
Best Director – Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Documentary – Life Itself
Best First Feature – Nightcrawler
Best Foreign Language Film – Force Majeure
Best Guilty Pleasure – Edge of Tomorrow
Not So Obviously Worst Film – The Monuments Men
Obviously Worst Film – Transformers: Age of Extinction
Best Original Screenplay – Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Adapted Screenplay – Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Best Supporting Actor – Edward Norton, Birdman
Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette, Boyhood