Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2014

8th Houston Film Critics Society Awards

Date| January 10, 2015 (2015-01-10)
Location| Sundance Cinemas Houston
Houston, Texas
Country| United States
Presented by| Houston Film Critics Society
Website| houstonfilmcritics.com/awards
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The 8th Houston Film Critics Society Awards nominations were announced on the December 16, 2014. The 2014 awards were given out at a ceremony held at the Sundance Cinemas Houston on January 10, 2015.[1] The awards are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society based in Houston, Texas.

## Winners and nominees

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Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.[2]

Best Picture | Best Foreign Language Film

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* Boyhood
* Birdman
* The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Guardians of the Galaxy
* The Imitation Game
* Inherent Vice
* A Most Violent Year
* Nightcrawler
* Selma
* Whiplash

* Force Majeure • Sweden
* Ida • Poland/Denmark
* Leviathan • Russia
* The Raid 2 • Indonesia
* Two Days, One Night • Belgium

Best Actor | Best Actress

* Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
* Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
* Tom Hardy – Locke
* Michael Keaton – Birdman
* Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

* Julianne Moore – Still Alice
* Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
* Essie Davis – The Babadook
* Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
* Reese Witherspoon – Wild

Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress

* J. K. Simmons – Whiplash
* Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
* Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
* Edward Norton – Birdman
* Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
* Andy Serkis – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

* Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
* Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
* Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
* Emma Stone – Birdman
* Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Best Director | Best Cinematography

* Richard Linklater – Boyhood
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
* Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice
* Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

* Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
* Unbroken – Roger Deakins
* Inherent Vice – Robert Elswit
* Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema
* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman

Best Animated Feature Film  | Best Documentary Feature

* The Lego Movie
* Big Hero 6
* The Book of Life
* The Boxtrolls
* How to Train Your Dragon 2

* Citizenfour
* Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
* Jodorowsky's Dune
* Life Itself
* The Overnighters

Best Original Score  | Best Original Song

* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
* The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
* The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson
* Birdman – Antonio Sánchez
* Interstellar – Hans Zimmer

* "Everything Is Awesome" by Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton, Shawn Patterson, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone – The Lego Movie
* "Big Eyes" by Lana Del Rey – Big Eyes
* "Glory" by John Legend and Common – Selma
* "I'm Not Going to Miss You" by Glen Campbell – Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
* "Lost Stars" by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood – Begin Again

Best Screenplay | Best Poster

* Boyhood – Richard Linklater
* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
* Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
* Whiplash – Damien Chazelle
* Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

* The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Birdman
* Godzilla
* The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Guardians of the Galaxy
* Inherent Vice

Texas Independent Film Award  | Technical Achievement

* Boyhood
* Above All Else
* Hellion
* Joe
* No No: A Dockumentary
* Stop the Pounding Heart

* Boyhood
* Birdman
* Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Worst Film  |

* The Identical
* Blended
* Dumb and Dumber To
* Left Behind
* Transformers: Age of Extinction

## Movies with multiple nominations and awards

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The following 16 films received multiple nominations:

| Nominations  | Film

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10  | Birdman
7  | Boyhood
6  | The Grand Budapest Hotel
5  | Inherent Vice
4  | The Imitation Game
Whiplash
3  | Nightcrawler
The Theory of Everything
2  | A Most Violent Year
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
The Lego Movie
Selma
Two Days, One Night

The following 3 films received multiple awards:

| Wins  | Film

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6  | Boyhood
2  | The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Lego Movie

## References

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1. ^ Your Houston News (December 17, 2014). ""Birdman" leads Houston Film Critics nominations for 8th Annual Awards". YourHoustonNews.com. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
2. ^ Tapley, Kristopher (December 16, 2014). "'Birdman' and usual critical darling suspects lead Houston critics' nominations" Archived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine. HitFix.com. Retrieved December 18, 2014.

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