Scoreboards – Critics Awards

THE BOSTON ONLINE FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES FOURTH ANNUAL AWARDS

THE BOSTON ONLINE FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES FOURTH ANNUAL AWARDS December 5, 2015 (Boston, MA) -The Boston Online Film Critics Association have chosen their winners for 2015. Awards were selected via a system of online voting and announced on their website at www.bofca.com. After spirited and competitive voting, the recipients of the Fourth Annual BOFCA…

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The 2014 Critics Choice Movie Awards Go To…

Best Picture – “Boyhood” Best Actor – Michael Keaton, “Birdman” Best Actress – Julianne Moore, “Still Alice” Best Supporting Actor – J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash” Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood” Best Young Actor/Actress – Ellar Coltrane, “Boyhood” Best Acting Ensemble – “Birdman” Best Director – Richard Linklater, “Boyhood” Best Original Screenplay – Alejandro G….

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2014 EDA Award Winners

AWFJ EDA ‘BEST OF’ AWARDS These awards are presented to females and/or males. Best Film BOYHOOD Best Director (Female or Male) Richard Linklater for BOYHOOD Best Screenplay, Original BIRDMAN – Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Nicholas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo Best Screenplay, Adapted GONE GIRL – Gillian Flynn Best Documentary CITIZENFOUR – Laura Poitras Best Animated Film…

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Houston Film Critics 2014

Houston Film Critics Honor Boyhood, Gyllenhall and Moore   Richard Linklater’s Boyhood dominated the proceedings, winning awards for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette) and Technical Achievement. It was also received the Texas Independent Film Award, a special recognition for films shot in the state.   Jake Gyllenhall bested a competitive field of leading actors to…

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Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Names Boyhood Top Film of 2014

  OKLAHOMA CITY, January 5, 2015—The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, a statewide group of professional film critics, announced its ninth annual list of awards for achievement in cinema, awarding Best Director to Richard Linklater and naming Linklater’s film, Boyhood, the Top Film of 2014. Boyhood’s Patricia Arquette won Best Supporting Actress, giving the film a total of three…

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Critics Awards 2014: Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics

Best Film: Boyhood Best Director: Richard Linklater (Boyhood) Best Actor: Michael Keaton (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)) Best Actress: Julianne Moore (Still Alice) Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) Best Acting Ensemble: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Youth Performance: Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood) Best Adapted…

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Critics Awards 2014: Boston Online Film Critics

Best Picture Snowpiercer Best Director Birdman, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Best Actor Calvary, Brendan Gleeson Best Actress Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night Best Supporting Actor Edward Norton, Birdman Best Supporting Actress Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer Best Screenplay Calvary, John Michael McDonagh Best Foreign Language Film Two Days, One Night Best Documentary Life Itself Best ANimated Film…

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2014 Critics Awards: New York Film Critics

Best Picture Boyhood Best Director Richard Linklater, Boyhood Best First Film Jennifer Kent, The Babadook Best Actress Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night. Best Actor Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner Best Cinematography Darius Khondji, The Immigrant Best Screenplay The Grand Budapest Hotel  Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, Whiplash Best Nonfiction Film CitizenFour Best Foreign Language Film Ida…

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2014 Critics Awards: Utah Film Critics Association

Picture Birdman Director Alejandro G Iñarritu, Birdman Actor Michael Keaton, Birdman Actress Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl Supporting Actor JK Simmons, Whiplash Supporting Actress Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year Original Screenplay Birdman, screenplay by Alejandro G Iñarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo Adapted Screenplay: (tie) Inherent Vice, screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson; and Snowpiercer,…

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2014 Critics Awards Chicago Film Critics Association

BEST PICTURE Boyhood BEST DIRECTOR Richard Linklater–Boyhood BEST ACTOR Michael Keaton–Birdman BEST ACTRESS Julianne Moore–Still Alice BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR J.K. Simmons–Whiplash BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Patricia Arquette–Boyhood BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Wes Anderson–The Grand Budapest Hotel BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Gillian Flynn–Gone Girl BEST ART DIRECTION The Grand Budapest Hotel BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (TIE) Birdman–Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel–Robert…

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2014 Critics Awards Online Film Critics Society

Best Picture The Grand Budapest Hotel Best Animated Feature The Lego Movie Best Film Not in the English Language Two Days, One Night Best Documentary Life Itself Best Director Richard Linklater – Boyhood Best Actor Michael Keaton – Birdman Best Actress Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Best Supporting Actor Edward Norton – Birdman Best Supporting…

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2014 Critics Awards: Indiana Film Journalists Association

Best Film Boyhood   Best Animated Feature The LEGO Movie   Best Foreign Language Film Two Days, One Night   Best Documentary Life Itself   Best Original Screenplay Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel   Best Adapted Screenplay Damien Chazelle, Whiplash   Best Director Richard Linklater, Boyhood   Best Actress Reese Witherspoon, Wild   Best…

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Chicago Film Critics Association 2014 Nominations

  BEST PICTURE   Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel Under the Skin Whiplash   BEST DIRECTOR   Wes Anderson–The Grand Budapest Hotel David Fincher–Gone Girl Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu–Birdman Richard Linklater–Boyhood Christopher Nolan–Interstellar   BEST ACTOR   Benedict Cumberbatch–The Imitation Game Jake Gyllenhaal–Nightcrawler Michael Keaton–Birdman David Oyelowo–Selma Eddie Redmayne–The Theory of Everything   BEST ACTRESS…

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2014 Critics Awards: Los Angeles Film Critics

Best Picture BOYHOOD Runner-up: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Best Director Richard Linklater, BOYHOOD Runner-up: GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Wes Anderson Best Actor Tom Hardy, LOCKE Runner-up: Michael Keaton, BIRDMAN Best Actress Patricia Arquette, BOYHOOD Runner-up: Julianne Moore, STILL ALICE Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, WHIPLASH Runner-up: Edward Norton, BIRDMAN Best Supporting Actress Agata Kulesza, IDA Runner-up:…

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2014 Critics Awards: National Board of Review

Best Film A Most Violent Year Best Director Clint Eastwood – American Sniper Best Actor (TIE) Oscar Isaac – A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton – Birdman Best Actress Julianne Moore – Still Alice Best Supporting Actor Edward Norton – Birdman Best Supporting Actress Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay Phil…

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2014 Critics Awards: Boston Film Critics

BEST PICTURE SNOWPIERCER BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro González Iñárritu for BIRDMAN BEST ACTOR Brendan Gleeson – for his performance as an emotionally troubled and tortured priest in CALVARY BEST ACTRESS Marion Cotillard – for her role as a desperate wife and mother trying to hold on to her job in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT BEST SUPPORTING…

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Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2013

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS BEST FILM 12 Years a Slave BEST ACTOR Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle BEST DIRECTOR Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity BEST SCREENPLAY Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis BEST FOREIGN FILM The Hunt…

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Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2013

2013 Film Awards Best Film Her Top 10 Films 1. Her 2. American Hustle 3. 12 Years a Slave 4. Gravity 5. Inside Llewyn Davis 6. Captain Philips 7. The Wolf of Wall Street 8. All Is Lost 9. Dallas Buyers Club 10. Prisoners Best Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave Best Actress…

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2013 Critics Awards: Utah Film Critics Association

Best Picture: Gravity Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Best Actress: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color Best Supporting Actor: Bill Nighy, About Time Best Supporting Actress: Scarlett Johansson, Her Best Original Screenplay: Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright, The World’s End Best Adapted Screenplay: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard…

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2013 Critics Awards: Las Vegas Film Critics Society

Best Picture “12 Years a Slave” Best Director Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave” Best Actor Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club” Best Actress Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks” Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club” Best Supporting Actress Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave” Best Screenplay Spike Jonze, “Her” Best Foreign Film “Blue is…

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon