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Boyhood

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, has won three top prizes at the 2014 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association.  In addition to the film’s Best Picture award, Linklater has won Best Director, and Patricia Arquette has been named Best Supporting Actress.  The Toronto Film Critics Association also named its three finalists for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award: Enemy, directed by Denis Villeneuve; The F Word, directed by Michael Dowse; and Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan.

Birdman

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the nominees for the 20th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.  “Birdman” leads this year with thirteen nominations including Best Picture, Michael Keaton for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy, Edward Norton for Best Supporting Actor, Emma Stone for Best Supporting Actress, Best Acting Ensemble, Alejandro G. Inarritu for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Comedy, and Best Score.

Boyhood 

Boyhood was the top winner at the 2014 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards, taking the awards in four categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. Birdman  and Whiplash  took two awards each.  There was a three-way tie in the category of Best Ensemble with Birdman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The Best of 2014 as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society (nominees are listed in alphabetical order)

Birdman

“Birdman,” lead the nominations for the 2014 Chicago Film Critics Association awards with nine nominations, including Best Picture, nods for Alejandro G. Inarritu for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Michael Keaton for Best Actor, Edward Norton for Best Supporting Actor, Emma Stone for Best Supporting Actress and additional nominations for Cinematography, Editing and Original Score.

Boyhood

The Indiana Film Journalists Association, announced its annual film awards for 2014, and “Boyhood” won top honors, taking the prize for Best Film and earning a total of three awards. Richard Linklater won in the Best Director category, and the film also took the Original Vision award, which recognizes a film that is especially innovative or groundbreaking. “Whiplash,” which was the runner-up for Best Film, won two awards: Damien Chazelle’s script in the Best Adapted Screenplay race, and J.K. Simmons for Best Supporting Actor.  “Two Days, One Night” took the prize for Best Foreign Language Film and “Life Itself” took Best Documentary.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Online Film Critics Society announced the winners for their 18th annual OFCS awards for excellence in film, and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” won Best Picture of 2014, plus Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.  Past OFCS Awards winners that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture include “12 Years a Slave,” “Argo,” “The Hurt Locker,” “American Beauty,” and “No Country for Old Men.”  Life Itself won for Best Documentary and Two Days, One Night won the award for Best Film Not in the English Language.

IDA

The Polish film IDA was the big winner of the 2014 European Film Awards, winning Best European Film prize and People’s Choice Award 2014 for Best European Film; plus Best European Director for Paweł Pawlikowski, Best European Cinematographer-Prix CARLO DI PALMA and Best European Screenwriter. In IDA, Anna, an orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to take her vows when she’s sent to visit Wanda, her aunt and only living relative. A cynical, hard-drinking Communist Party judge, Wanda reveals that Anna’s real name is Ida and that her parents were Jews murdered during the Nazi occupation. So the two embark on an unusual journey through the wintry countryside to unearth their family’s dark history. 

 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 79 songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2014 are in contention for nominations in the Original Song category for the 87th Oscars®.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 114 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2014 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 87th Oscars®.

The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:

The Russian film Leviathan won the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Award (APSA) for Best Feature Film, the region’s highest accolade in film at the awards ceremony held in Brisbane, Australia.  The APSA for Achievement in Directing, for the third time in the history of the event, went to Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his already Palme d’Or winning film Winter Sleep (Turkey, France, Germany).  The awards recognize and promote cinematic excellence and cultural diversity of the world’s fastest-growing film region.

The nominations for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning at the Beverly Hilton hotel, with HFPA president Theo Kingma, Kate Beckinsale, two-time Golden Globe Award-nominee Peter Krause, Paula Patton, and Golden Globe-winner and five-time nominee Jeremy Piven doing the honors. Birdman leads with seven nominations; Boyhood and Imitation Game follows with five each. The 72nd Annual Golden Globe® Awards, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, will air on Sunday, January 11, 2015, LIVE coast-to-coast on NBC from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (PST)/8:00-11:00 p.m. (EST)