Los Angeles Film Critics Association Winners: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Birdman,’ ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and more

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association revealed their 2014 winners today and Boyhood continued its domination, winning Best Picture, Director and surprisingly, Best Actress for Patricia Arquette. Her wins and nominations so far this season have all been in supporting And it thwarted Julianne Moore who ended up in 2nd place. Other surprises came in the form of a Best Supporting Actress win for Agata Kulesza (Ida) and Tom Hardy’s Best Actor win for Locke, besting favorite Michael Keaton in Birdman.

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel also had a great day in LA, winning Screenplay and Production Design and runner-up in both Picture, Director and Editing.

Best Picture 
Winner: BOYHOOD
Runner-up: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Best Director
Winner: Richard Linklater, BOYHOOD
Runner-up: Wes Anderson, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Best Actor
Winner: Tom Hardy, LOCKE
Runner-up: Michael Keaton, BIRDMAN

Best Actress
Winner: Patricia Arquette, BOYHOOD
Runner-up: Julianne Moore, STILL ALICE

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: J.K. Simmons, WHIPLASH
Runner-up: Edward Norton, BIRDMAN

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Agata Kulesza, IDA
Runner-up: Rene Russo, NIGHTCRAWLER

Best Screenplay
Winner: Wes Anderson, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Runner-up: BIRDMAN

Best Cinematography
Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki, BIRDMAN
Runner-up: Dick Pope, MR. TURNER

Best Production Design
Winner: Adam Stockhausen, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Runner-up: Ondrej Nekvasil, SNOWPIERCER

Best Editing
Winner: Sandra Adair, BOYHOOD
Runner-up: Barney Pilling, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Best Music Score
Winner: Jonny Greenwood, INHERENT VICE and Mica Levi, UNDER THE SKIN (tie)

Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: IDA
Runner-up: WINTER SLEEP

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
Winner: CITIZENFOUR
Runner-up: LIFE ITSELF

Best Animation
Winner: THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA
Runner-up: THE LEGO MOVIE

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