‘Birdman’ Leads Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations

Erik Anderson December 12, 2014

Birdman nabs 9 CFCA nominations — *Birdman* nabs 9 CFCA nominations

As it did this week at the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes, Fox Searchlight’s Birdman lands the most nominations at today’s announcement of the Chicago Film Critics Association with nine. The Grand Budapest Hotel, also from Fox Searchlight (who scored a massive 21 nominations), also continues to rake in kudos landing right behind with eight. Jake Gyllenhaal also follows up his SAG and GG noms with a mention here for Nightcrawler and looks to be heading towards another Oscar nomination. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin pulls off some big mentions here in both Best Picture and Best Actress for Scarlett Johansson and LAFCA Best Supporting Actress winner Agata Kulesza (Ida) also came up with a nomination.

In Best Director we only see a 3/5 match-up with Best Picture as David Fincher (Gone Girl) and Christopher Nolan (Interstellar) take the place of the directors of Best Picture nominees Under the Skin (Glazer) and Whiplash from Damien Chazelle.

Notably missing from every category except Best Actor (David Oyelowo), Selma‘s lack of presence here is quite surprising. One has to imagine that if Roger Ebert were still with us that it would have been heavily featured in multiple categories.

The Full list:

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 G. Iñárritu–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

Marion Cotillard–Two Days, One Night

Scarlett Johansson–Under the Skin

Julianne Moore–Still Alice

Rosamund Pike–Gone Girl

Reese Witherspoon–Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Josh Brolin–Inherent Vice

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

Laura Dern–Wild

Agata Kulesza–Ida

Emma Stone–Birdman

BEST ORIGNAL SCREENPLAY

Birdman–Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo

Boyhood–Richard Linklater

Calvary–John Michael McDonagh

The Grand Budapest Hotel–Wes Anderson

Whiplash–Damien Chazelle

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Gone Girl–Gillian Flynn

The Imitation Game–Graham Moore

Inherent Vice–Paul Thomas Anderson

Under the Skin–Walter Campbell

Wild–Nick Hornby

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

Force Majeure

Ida

Mommy

The Raid 2

Two Days, One Night

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Citizenfour

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Last Days in Vietnam

Life Itself

The Overnighters

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Big Hero 6

The Boxtrolls

How to Train Your Dragon 2

The Lego Movie

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Interstellar

Into The Woods

Only Lovers Left Alive

Snowpiercer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Birdman–Emmanuel Lubezki

The Grand Budapest Hotel–Robert Yeoman

Ida–Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal

Inherent Vice–Robert Elswit

Interstellar–Hoyte Van Hoytema

BEST EDITING

Birdman–Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrion

Boyhood–Sandra Adair

Gone Girl–Kirk Baxter

The Grand Budapest Hotel–Barney Pilling

Whiplash–Tom Cross

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Birdman–Antonio Sanchez

The Grand Budapest Hotel–Alexandre Desplat

The Imitation Game–Alexandre Desplat

Interstellar–Hans Zimmer

Under the Skin–Mica Levi

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER

Ellar Coltrane–Boyhood

Gugu Mbatha-Raw–Belle/Beyond the Lights

Jack O’Connell–Starred Up/Unbroken

Tony Revolori–The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jenny Slate–Obvious Child

Agata Trzebuchowska–Ida

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER

Damien Chazelle–Whiplash

Dan Gilroy–Nightcrawler

Jennifer Kent–The Babadook

Jeremy Saulnier–Blue Ruin

Justin Simien–Dear White People

Nominations By The Numbers

9–Birdman

8–The Grand Budapest Hotel

7–Boyhood

5–Whiplash

4–Gone Girl, Ida, Interstellar, Under the Skin

3–The Imitation Game, Inherent Vice, Wild

2–Nightcrawler, Two Days, One Night

1–The Babadook, Belle, Beyond the Lights, Big Hero 6, Blue Ruin, The Boxtrolls, Calvary, Citizenfour, Dear White People, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Into the Woods, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Last Days in Vietnam, The Lego Movie, Life Itself, Mommy, A Most Violent Year, Obvious Child, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Overnighters, The Raid 2, Selma, Snowpiercer, Starred Up, Still Alice, Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Theory of Everything, Unbroken

Now in its 25th year, the CFCA will announce its winners during our year-end awards dinner to be held on the evening of December 15, 2014. Follow @ChicagoCritics on Twitter for the real-time announcement.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.