AwardsWatch’s International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Nominations: Grand Budapest Hotel, Under the Skin, Gone Girl Score
Just when you thought there weren’t any more film nominations…
AwardsWatch’s International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) nominations are in there will be equal parts joy, confusion and seething rage at some of the choices. With a voting block based on the Awardswatch forum community, the nominations run from eclectic and obscure (check out Best Supporting Actor) to mainstream in some of the top categories (where Gone Girl performed very well). In Best Picture the top two films of the Oscar race, Birdman and Boyhood, appear along with Whiplash and Gone Girl. On the very indie side of things we find Mommy and Under the Skin finding their way into Awardswatch best films of the year. Strangely, The Grand Budapest Hotel, which ended up with a field-best nine nominations (including Best Director) did not pull off a Best Picture nomination. Under the Skin also managed a healthy haul of eight nominations, including Best Picture, but failed to earn a Best Director nomination for Jonathan Glazer or, more surprisingly, a Best Actress nomination for Scarlett Johansson. Best Supporting Actor proved to be a cluster of overabundance with ties resulting in seven nominees.
Without further ado, the nominations for AwardsWatch’s 2014 International Online Cinema Awards:
BEST PICTURE
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Mommy
Under the Skin
Whiplash
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro Gonzales Iñárittu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Xavier Dolan – Mommy
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Birdman
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Selma
BEST ACTOR
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton – Birdman
David Oyelowo – Selma
Channing Tatum – Foxcatcher
BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
Essie Davis – The Babadook
Anne Dorval – Mommy
Julianne Moore – Still Allice
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
Patrick d’Assumçao – Stranger by the Lake
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Ben Mendelsohn – Starred Up
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Suzanne Clément – Mommy
Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Gone Girl
Inherent Vice
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin
Wild
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mommy
Nightcrawler
Only Lovers Left Alive
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boxtrolls
The Congress
The Lego Movie
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Citizenfour
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Life Itself
National Gallery
Salt of the Earth
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
Force Majure
Ida
Leviathan
Mommy
Stranger by the Lake
Two Days, One Night
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Birdman
Ida
The Immigrant
Mr. Turner
Under the Skin
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Immigrant
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
BEST FILM EDITING
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Under the Skin
Whiplash
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy
Into the Woods
Snowpiercer
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Birdman
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Under the Skin
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Begin Again – “Lost Stars”
Beyond the Lights – “Masterpiece”
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby – “No Fate Awaits Me”
The Lego Movie – “Everything Is Awesome!!!”
Selma – “Glory”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Snowpiercer
BEST SOUND EDITING
American Sniper
Interstellar
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin
Whiplash
BEST SOUND MIXING
Godzilla
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin
Whiplash
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Under the Skin
Nomination totals:
The Grand Budapest Hotel – 9
Birdman – 8
Under the Skin – 8
Gone Girl – 6
Mommy – 6
Snowpiercer – 6
Boyhood – 5
Into the Woods – 5
Whiplash – 5
Inherent Vice – 4
Interstellar – 4
Foxcatcher – 3
Mr. Turner – 3
Nightcrawler – 3
Selma – 3
Godzilla – 2
Guardians of the Galaxy – 2
Ida – 2
The Immigrant – 2
The LEGO Movie – 2
Only Lovers Left Alive – 2
Stranger by the Lake – 2
Two Days, One Night – 2
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