‘Nightcrawler’ Wins Big at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

San Diego Film Critics Society 2014 Award Winners
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in ‘Nightcrawler’ (Photo Credit: Chuck Zlotnick / Open Road Films)

Nightcrawler earned seven San Diego Film Critics Society* awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay in a vote that took place on December 15, 2014. However, the group spread the remainder of the awards around, giving one award to each of the following films released in 2014:

Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Edge of Tomorrow
Boxtrolls
Citizenfour
Force Majeure
Gone Girl
Foxcatcher
Two Days, One Night

When it came to voting on the final award of the year – Best Film – the group overwhelmingly threw their support behind Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler. The voting wasn’t as close in the Body of Work category where Willem Dafoe narrowly edged out Tilda Swinton. The Body of Work award is given out annually to an artist who was involved in a minimum of three films during the year.

2014 San Diego Film Critics Society Winners:

BEST FILM
NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST DIRECTOR
Dan Gilroy, NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST ACTOR
Jake Gyllenhaal, NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mark Ruffalo, FOXCATCHER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rene Russo, NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Dan Gilroy, NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Gillian Flynn, GONE GIRL

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FORCE MAJEURE

DOCUMENTARY
CITIZENFOUR


ANIMATED FILM
THE BOXTROLLS

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Elswit, NIGHTCRAWLER

EDITING
James Herbert, Laura Jennings, EDGE OF TOMORROW

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pincock, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

BEST SCORE
James Newton Howard, NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST ENSEMBLE
BIRDMAN

BODY OF WORK
Willem Dafoe: JOHN WICK, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, A MOST WANTED MAN & NYMPHOMANIAC 2

* – I am a member of this group and voted on these awards.

-By Rebecca Murray

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