6th Annual Chrisfilm Awards (2015)
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here, but for a day at least, I’m back. I still don’t think I’m ready to write about every movie I see as I see them, but I at least want to share my favorites of 2014 and continue the tradition of the Chrisfilm Awards.
Every year, to celebrate the Academy Awards, I come up with my personal list of nominations and winners. As per usual, my awards look a lot different than the Oscar nominations, but hopefully this will give my readers an idea of some other quality movies from 2014 that the Academy did not mention. I only saw 3 out of the 8 Oscar Best Picture nominees though, in case you are looking for a point of reference to how ‘in the loop’ I am. Hope you enjoy!
And so begins the 6th Annual Chrisfilm Awards.
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Best Supporting Actor:
Paul Eenhoorn, Land Ho!
Dennis Farina, Authors Anonymous
Gary Poulter, Joe
Peter Sarsgaard, Night Moves
And the winner is…
Robert Pattinson, The Rover
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Best Supporting Actress:
Kim Dickens, Gone Girl
Elle Fanning, Maleficent
Diane Kruger, The Better Angels
Mia Wasikowska, The Double
And the winner is…
Agata Kulesza, Ida
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Best Cinematography:
Natasha Braier, The Rover
Daniel Landin, Under the Skin
Erik Wilson, The Double
Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
And the winner is…
Matthew J. Lloyd, The Better Angels
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Best Actress:
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Zoe Kazan, What If
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
And the winner is…
Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
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Best Actor:
Nicolas Cage, Joe
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Tom Hardy, Locke
Scott Haze, Child of God
And the winner is…
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Best Director:
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
A.J. Edwards, The Better Angels
David Gordon Green, Joe
Paul King, Paddington
And the winner is…
David Fincher, Gone Girl
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Best Picture of 2014:
The Double
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Joe
Land Ho!
Night Moves
The Rover
Under the Skin
And the winner is…
chrisfilm.wordpress.com 
February 22, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Some notes:
1. For the first year since I’ve been doing these awards, the cinematography category was below average. Only The Better Angels would have been been nominated last year.
2. The Best Actor category was extremely competitive this year. I can’t believe how many strong performances I had to leave out. It’s so strong, I have to leave a list of honorable mentions:
a. Christoph Waltz, The Zero Theorem
b. Jesse Eisenberg, The Double
c. Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
d. Guy Pearce, The Rover
e. Ben Affleck, Gone Girl
February 22, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Great list. Gotta say Ben Affleck has really come up in the world!