2015 Critics Choice Awards Nominations Led by 'Birdman' with 13 Nominations

Birdman is clearly a favorite this awards season, at least when it comes to nominations as it once again tops a list of nominees, this time the 2015 Critics Choice Awards as it leads the field with 13 total nominations followed by The Grand Budapest Hotel, which continues to surge this awards season with 11 nominations, and Boyhood with eight.

Full disclosure, I’m part of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), which nominates and votes on these awards, but I’m a little nervous my nominees this year weren’t counted as I mistakenly missed the deadline by a few hours thinking it was on Saturday, not Friday. Oops, though looking at these nominations it doesn’t seem as if it would have mattered. For example, I don’t see Locke anywhere, Carrie Coon (Gone Girl) didn’t get a supporting actress nomination, A Most Wanted Man didn’t get an adapted screenplay nomination, no nomination for The Raid 2 in Best Action Movie, no Chef or Wild Tales in Best Comedy and no Keep On Keepin’ On for Best Documentary.

I know I didn’t vote to see Unbroken to get four nominations, which is crazy talk if you ask me. It’s also interesting to see Foxcatcher missing so many nominations but still landing a Best Makeup nom? The nominations for American Sniper are also frustrating, especially in the Best Action category when X-Men: Days of Future Past doesn’t receive a nomination or the aforementioned The Raid 2.

It also would appear one of my nominees in several categories might not have been eligible, because I can’t think of any other reason Xavier Dolan‘s Mommy wouldn’t at least be nominated for Best Foreign Film or why its star, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, wouldn’t have received a Best Young Actor nominations.

Oh well, the winners will be revealed at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, televised on A&E on January 15th at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT, the same day the Oscar nominations are announced. Michael Strahan of all people will be hosting the awards.

The complete list of nominations is directly below.

BEST PICTURE

Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash

BEST DIRECTOR

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Ava DuVernay (Selma)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)
Alejandro G. Inarritu (Birdman)
Angelina Jolie (Unbroken)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

BEST ACTOR

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
David Oyelowo (Selma)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

BEST ACTRESS

Jennifer Aniston (Cake)
Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice)
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)
Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into the Woods
Selma

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Birdman (Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
The Imitation Game (Graham Moore)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Theory of Everything (Anthony McCarten)
Unbroken (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson)
Wild (Nick Hornby)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Birdman (Emmanuel Lubezki)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Robert Yeoman)
Interstellar (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
Mr. Turner (Dick Pope)
Unbroken (Roger Deakins)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Birdman (Kevin Thompson/Production Designer, George DeTitta Jr./Set Decorator)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Adam Stockhausen/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator)
Inherent Vice (David Crank/Production Designer, Amy Wells/Set Decorator)
Interstellar (Nathan Crowley/Production Designer, Gary Fettis/Set Decorator)
Into the Woods (Dennis Gassner/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator)
Snowpiercer (Ondrej Nekvasil/Production Designer, Beatrice Brentnerova/Set Decorator)

BEST EDITING