The 13th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2014, were given on December 14, 2014.^[1][2][3]

Winners[edit]

Best Picture[edit]

Boyhood

• Birdman
• The Imitation Game
• Under the Skin
• Whiplash

Best Director[edit]

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
• Mike Leigh – Mr. Turner

Best Actor[edit]

Michael Keaton – Birdman

• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
• Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner

Best Actress[edit]

Julianne Moore – Still Alice

• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
• Essie Davis – The Babadook
• Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild

Best Supporting Actor[edit]

Edward Norton – Birdman

• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
• Gene Jones – The Sacrament
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress[edit]

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

• Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
• Agata Kulesza – Ida
• Emma Stone – Birdman
• Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Best Original Screenplay[edit]

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

• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• A Most Violent Year – J. C. Chandor
• Mr. Turner – Mike Leigh
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle

Best Adapted Screenplay[edit]

Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson

• Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
• The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
• Snowpiercer – Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson
• Wild – Nick Hornby

Best Cinematography[edit]

Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski

• Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
• Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
• Under the Skin – Daniel Landin

Best Production Design[edit]

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen

• Birdman – Kevin Thompson
• Inherent Vice – David Crank
• Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies
• Snowpiercer – Ondrej Nekvasil

Best Editing[edit]

Boyhood – Sandra Adair

• Birdman – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione
• Inherent Vice – Leslie Jones
• Under the Skin – Paul Watts
• Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Animated Feature[edit]

The Lego Movie

• Big Hero 6
• The Boxtrolls
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Best Foreign Language Picture[edit]

Ida – Poland / Denmark

• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Iran
• Force Majeure – Sweden
• Two Days, One Night – Belgium
• Wild Tales – Argentina

Best Documentary[edit]

Citizenfour

• Finding Vivian Maier
• Jodorowsky's Dune
• Life Itself
• The Overnighters

Marlon Riggs Award for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community[edit]

Joel Shepard

Special Citation for under-appreciated independent cinema[edit]

The One I Love

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• The San Francisco Film Critics Circle
• 2014 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards