‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Tops Online Film Critics Society Awards

 

The Online Film Critics Society (of which I am a member) has announced their awards for films released in 2014, and although the nominees – released last week – included such unexpected honorees as SnowpiercerUnder the Skin and We Are the Best!, the winners mostly followed the trends we are already seeing throughout the awards season so far.

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood are both big winners with the Online Film Critics Society awards. Anderson’s comedy won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography, and Linklater’s experimental coming-of-age drama won Best Director, Best Editing and Best Supporting Actress for co-star Patricia Arquette.

Birdman also continues to make a big impression on critics this year, earning Best Actor for Michael Keaton and Best Supporting Actor for Edward Norton. BirdmanThe Grand Budapest Hotel and Boyhood are expected to be among the major contenders throughout the whole awards season, right up until the Oscars, but pundits continue to hold out for Selma, Ava DuVernay’s biopic of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to come around from behind at the last minute. (CraveOnline recently declared Selma one of the best movies of 2014.)

The biggest surprise of the Online Film Critics Society awards this year is the strong showing for David Fincher’s Gone Girl, which won two awards: Best Adapted Screenply and Best Actress for Rosamund Pike. The adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-seller was expected to make a bigger showing this awards season, and the OFCS awards may be able to put it back on the map for Oscar pundits and voters.

The complete list of Online Film Critics Society awards winners is below:

Best Picture: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Actor: Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Actress: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Birdman

Best Supporting Actor: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Best Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Adapted Screenplay: Gone Girl

Best Cinematography: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Editing: Boyhood

Best Animated Feature: The LEGO Movie

Best Film Not in the English Language: Two Days, One Night

Best Documentary: Life Itself

Best Non-U.S. Release (non-competitive category):

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10,000 km

Entre Nos

Han Gong-ju

Hard to Be a God

The Look of Silence

The Salt of the Earth

What We Do in the Shadows

Timbuktu

The Tribe

 

 


William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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