2014 National Society of Film Critics Awards



49th NSFC Awards

January 3, 2015

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Best Film:
Goodbye to Language

The 49th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2015, honored the best in film for 2014.

Winners

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:
, Best Director winner
, Best Actor winner
, Best Actress winner
, Best Supporting Actor winner
, Best Supporting Actress winner
, Best Screenplay winner

Best Picture

  1. Goodbye to Language
  2. Boyhood
  3. Birdman
  4. Mr. Turner

    Best Director

  5. Richard Linklater - Boyhood
  6. Jean-Luc Godard - Goodbye to Language
  7. Mike Leigh - Mr. Turner

    Best Actor

  8. Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner
  9. Tom Hardy - Locke
  10. Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice
  11. Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Best Actress

  12. Marion Cotillard - The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night
  13. Julianne Moore - Still Alice
  14. Scarlett Johansson - Lucy and Under the Skin

    Best Supporting Actor

  15. J. K. Simmons - Whiplash
  16. Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
  17. Edward Norton - Birdman

    Best Supporting Actress

  18. Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
  19. Agata Kulesza - Ida
  20. Rene Russo - Nightcrawler

    Best Screenplay

  21. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
  22. Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice
  23. Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo - Birdman

    Best Cinematography

  24. Dick Pope - Mr. Turner
  25. Darius Khondji - The Immigrant
  26. Fabrice Aragno - Goodbye to Language

    Best Non-Fiction Film

  27. Citizenfour - Laura Poitras
  28. National Gallery - Frederick Wiseman
  29. The Overnighters - Jesse Moss

    Film Heritage Awards

The Film Heritage Awards were presented for the restorations of classical work of artists in field of film and music:
  1. To Ron Magliozzi, associate curator, and Peter Williamson, film conservation manager, of the Museum of Modern Art, for identifying and assembling the earliest surviving footage of what would have been the feature film to star a black cast, the 1913 Lime Kiln Field Day starring Bert Williams.
  2. To Ron Hutchison, co-founder and director of The Vitaphone Project, which since 1991 has collected and restored countless original soundtrack discs for early sound short films and features, including the recent Warner Bros. restoration of William A. Seiter's 1929 Why Be Good?

    Dedication

As per tradition, ceremony was dedicated to the memory of two distinguished members of the Society who died in the previous year; in 2014 the honorees were Jay Carr and Charles Champlin.