This weekend the Southeastern Film Critics Association will vote on the best films and performances of what -- to my mind, anyway -- has been the best year at the movies since 2007 (the year of No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, Into the Wild, Juno, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Superbad). I'll be in the bunker most of this weekend tabulating that poll, and we'll have the results here next week.
Below you'll find my ballot. (I'll run my list of the year's Top 10 movies in the Dec. 28 Style section. But if you follow me on Facebook, you'll have a good idea about what didn't make it.)
And, as has become our tradition, over the next couple of weeks we'll be running the lists of interesting moviegoers in this space. And more on our blood, dirt & angels blog. So send me an email, if you've got something to say.
BEST ACTOR
Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Thomas Hardy, Locke
BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant
Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Hilary Swank, The Homesman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Naomi Watts, St. Vincent
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer
BEST ENSEMBLE
Birdman
Boyhood
Fury
BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin
David Zellner, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Locke -- Steven Knight
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter -- David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Birdman -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Under the Skin -- Walter Campbell
Inherent Vice -- Paul Thomas Anderson
American Sniper -- Jason Dean Hall
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Stray Dog
Keep on Keepin' On
Jodorowsky's Dune
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Ida (Poland)
Force Majeure (Sweden)
Two Days, One Night (Belgium)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Big Hero 6
The Lego Movie
How to Train Your Dragon 2
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Homesman -- Rodrigo Prieto
Birdman -- Emmanuel Lubezki
Mr. Turner -- Dick Pope
The GENE WYATT AWARD for FILM THAT BEST EVOKES THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH
Cold in July
Hellion
Stray Dog
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MovieStyle on 12/19/2014