Awardswatch’s 50 Favorite Performances of 2014: The Shortlist

The shortlist for Awardswatch’s 50 Favorite Performances of 2014 is here! Short being a relative term as a total of 107 performances made the list. Can you name them all? A huge thanks to forum member alilou for compiling and running this year-end contest.

Some statistics regarding Phase I:

• 55 ballots were received
• 183 different performances were mentioned
• 107 made the shortlist
• 5 Oscar-nominated performances missed the shortlist
• 1 AFCA-nominated performance missed the shortlist
• Keira Knightley has the most performances appearing on this shortlist with 3
• Gone Girl, Pride & Birdman are the films with the most performances appearing on this shortlist at 4

Voting on the shortlist will start today and end Saturday, February 21st, 2015.

To be an eligible voter, you must have both:
a.) A join date of the Awardswatch forums prior to December 1st, 2014
b.) A post total greater than 100
you do not have to have voted for the shortlist to be able to vote for this.

For the full list of shortlist mentions, go to Page 2:

Erik Anderson

Erik is the founder/owner and Editor-In-Chief of AwardsWatch and thanks his mother for his love of all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards together since he was in the single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS) and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) and calls the Bay Area his home.

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