# San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2014

19th SDFCS Awards
December 15, 2014
Best Film:
Nightcrawler
Best Director:
Dan Gilroy Nightcrawler
The 19th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2014.

## Winners and nominees
### Best Film

Nightcrawler
* Boyhood
* Gone Girl
* The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Selma
* The Theory of Everything

### Best Director

Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
* Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
* David Fincher – Gone Girl
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
* Richard Linklater – Boyhood

### Best Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
* Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Brendan Gleeson – Calvary
* Tom Hardy – Locke
* Michael Keaton – Birdman
* Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

### Best Actress

Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
* Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
* Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
* Hilary Swank – The Homesman
* Mia Wasikowska – Tracks

### Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
* Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler
* Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
* Edward Norton – Birdman
* J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

### Best Supporting Actress

Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
* Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
* Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
* Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
* Emma Stone – Birdman

### Best Original Screenplay

Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
* Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
* Boyhood – Richard Linklater
* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
* Locke – Steven Knight

### Best Adapted Screenplay

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
* The Fault in Our Stars – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
* The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten
* Unbroken – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Nicholson, and Richard LaGravenese
* Wild – Nick Hornby

### Best Animated Film

The Boxtrolls
* Big Hero 6
* How to Train Your Dragon 2
* The Lego Movie
* The Nut Job

### Best Documentary

Citizenfour
* Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
* Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
* Last Days in Vietnam
* Life Itself

### Best Foreign Language Film

Force Majeure • Sweden
* Heli • Mexico
* Ida • Denmark / Poland
* Two Days, One Night • Belgium
* Venus in Fur • France

### Best Cinematography

Nightcrawler – Robert Elswit
* Force Majeure – Fredrik Wenzel
* Gone Girl – Jeff Cronenweth
* Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema
* Unbroken – Roger Deakins

### Best Editing

Edge of Tomorrow – James Herbert and Laura Jennings
* Boyhood – Sandra Adair
* Gone Girl – Kirk Baxter
* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
* Nightcrawler – John Gilroy

### Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock
* The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic
* Interstellar – Nathan Crawley
* Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock
* The Theory of Everything – John Paul Kelly

### Best Score

Nightcrawler – James Newton Howard
* Birdman – Antonio Sánchez
* Gone Girl – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
* The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat

### Best Ensemble

Birdman
* Boyhood
* The Grand Budapest Hotel
* The Imitation Game
* Selma

### Best Body of Work

Willem Dafoe for The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Budapest Hotel, John Wick, A Most Wanted Man, and Nymphomaniac