Here Are The 2015 Seattle Film Award Nominations

I live in Seattle, and recently the film critics in town got together and voted for our favorite movies of the year. The Seattle Film Awards nominations came out today, and here they are. I voted for some of these, I didn’t vote for some of these, and my favorite movie of the year is nowhere to be found on this list (check out my Top Ten Movies of 2014). A second round of voting begins today and the winners will be announced on January 14, 2015. Here’s the full list:

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight)

Boyhood (IFC Films)

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (20th Century Fox)

Fury (Sony Pictures)

Gone Girl (20th Century Fox)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

A Most Violent Year (A24 Films)

Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)

Under The Skin (A24 Films)

Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

BEST DIRECTOR:
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

David Fincher – Gone Girl

Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

BEST ACTOR:

Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler

Tom Hardy – Locke

Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Eddie Redmayne – The Theory Of Everything

BEST ACTRESS:

Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night

Felicity Jones – The Theory Of Everything

Julianne Moore – Still Alice

Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl

Jenny Slate – Obvious Child

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

Rene Russo – Nightcrawler

Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Boyhood

Gone Girl

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Inherent Vice

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson (screenplay); Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (story)
A Most Violent Year – J.C. Chandor
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson

Snowpiercer – Bong Joon-Ho & Kelly Marshall (screenplay); Bong Joon-Ho (story)

Under The Skin – Jonathan Glazer

Wild – Nick Hornby

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

Big Hero 6 (Don Hall, Chris Williams, directors)

The Boxtrolls (Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi, directors)

Ernest & Celestine (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, directors)

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois, director)

The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, directors)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, director)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Aminpour, director)

Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, director)

The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, director)

Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón, director)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

Anita (Freida Lee Mock, director)

CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras, director)

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (Chiemi Karasawa, director)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich, director)

Life Itself (Steve James, director)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
Gone Girl – Jeff Cronenweth

Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema

Mr. Turner – Dick Pope

Under The Skin – Daniel Landin

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges

Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Snowpiercer – Catherine George

The Theory Of Everything – Steven Noble

BEST FILM EDITING:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione

Boyhood – Sandra Adair

Gone Girl – Kirk Baxter

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling

Whiplash – Tom Cross

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING:

Foxcatcher – Bill Corso (Makeup), Kathrine Gordon (Hair Stylist)

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon

The Theory Of Everything – Jan Sewell

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Antonio Sanchez

Gone Girl – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat

Interstellar – Hans Zimmer

Under The Skin – Mica Levi

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

Begin Again – “Lost Stars” (Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, composers)

Boyhood – “Split The Difference” (Ethan Hawke, composer)

Frank – “I Love You All” (Stephen Rennicks, Lenny Abrahamson, composers)

The LEGO Movie – “Everything Is AWESOME!!!” (Shawn Patterson, composer)

Selma – “Glory” (John Stephens, Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith, composers)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design), Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator)

Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design), Gary Fettis (Set Decorator)

Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies

Noah – Mark Friedberg (Production Design), Debra Schutt (Set Decorator)

Snowpiercer – Ondrej Nekvasil (Production Design), Beata Brendtnerovà (Set Decorator)

BEST SOUND DESIGN:


Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Thomas Varga, Jon

Taylor, Frank A. Montano (Mixing), Martín Hernández, Aaron Glascock (Editing)

Fury – Lisa Pinero, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Marc Fishman (Mixing), Paul N.J. Ottosson (Editing)

Godzilla – David Alvarez, Rick Kline, Gregg Landaker, Tim LeBlanc (Mixing), Erik Aadahl (Editing)

Interstellar – Marc Weingarten, Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker (Mixing), Richard King (Editing)

Under The Skin – Johnnie Burn

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett

Godzilla – Nominees TBD

Guardians Of The Galaxy – Nominees TBD

Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher

Under The Skin – Dominic Parker