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The balloting begins for good year in film

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

  1. Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher

  2. Michael Keaton, Birdman

  3. Thomas Hardy, Locke

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant

  2. Amy Adams, Big Eyes

  3. Hilary Swank, The Homesman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

  2. Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice

  3. Ethan Hawke, Boyhood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Naomi Watts, St. Vincent

  2. Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

  3. Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

BEST ENSEMBLE

  1. Birdman

  2. Boyhood

  3. Fury

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin

  2. David Zellner, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

  3. Richard Linklater, Boyhood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Locke -- Steven Knight

  1. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter -- David Zellner, Nathan Zellner

  2. Birdman -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Under the Skin -- Walter Campbell

  2. Inherent Vice -- Paul Thomas Anderson

  3. American Sniper -- Jason Dean Hall

BEST DOCUMENTARY

  1. Stray Dog

  2. Keep on Keepin' On

  3. Jodorowsky's Dune

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

  1. Ida (Poland)

  2. Force Majeure (Sweden)

  3. Two Days, One Night (Belgium)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

  1. Big Hero 6

  2. The Lego Movie

  3. How to Train Your Dragon 2

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  1. The Homesman -- Rodrigo Prieto

  2. Birdman -- Emmanuel Lubezki

  3. Mr. Turner -- Dick Pope

The GENE WYATT AWARD for FILM THAT BEST EVOKES THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH

  1. Cold in July

  2. Hellion

  3. Stray Dog

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MovieStyle on 12/19/2014

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