Cahiers du Cinema's Top 10 of 2014

Li'l Quinquin

1. Lí'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
2. Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
4. Maps to the Stars (David Croenberg)
5. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
6. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier)
7. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
8. Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
9. Le Paradis (Alain Cavalier)
10. Our Sunhi(Hong Song-Soo)

Sight and Sound's Best of 2014

1) Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
2) Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard)
3) Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
(tie) Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
5) Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
6) The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
7) Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
8) The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshypytskiy)
9) Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
(tie) Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
11) Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
(tie) National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
(tie) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
(tie) Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
15) The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
16) Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inárritu)
(tie) Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
18) CitizenFour (Laura Poitras)
(tie) The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
(tie) The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)

European Film Award Nominations

Ida earns the most 2014 European Film Award nods.

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
Force Majeure
Ida
Leviathan
Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut
Winter Sleep

BEST EUROPEAN COMEDY
Carmina y Amén
The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer
Le Week-End

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep
Steven Knight, Locke
Ruben Ostlund, Force Majeure
Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida
Paolo Virzi, Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson, Calvary
Tom Hardy, Locke
Alexey Serebryakov, Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgard, Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut 
Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner

BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Marian Alvarez, Wounded
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymphomanic - Director's Cut
Agata Kulesza, Ida
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Human Capital
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida  

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Winter Sleep
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night
Steven Knight, Locke
Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin, Leviathan

BEST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
Just the Right Amount of Violence
Master of the Universe
Of Men and War
Sacro Gra
Waiting for August
We Come as Friends 

BEST EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE 
The Art of Happiness  
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Minuscule - Valley of the Lost Ants

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
The Chicken
The Chimera of M.
Daily Bread
Dinola
Emergency Calls
Little Block of Cement with Dishevelled Hair Containing the Sea
The Missing Scarf
Pride
Shipwreck
Still Got Lives
Summer 2014
Taprobana
A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log
Wall

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY
'71
10,000 KM
Party Girl
The Tribe
Wounded    

Best Animated Feature

Twenty features have been submitted to vie for the 2014 Best Animated Feature Academy Award.  With no clear frontrunner and no Pixar this year, this has a fair chance of being a fairly competitive category this year, despite my personal indifference to the slate.  What are you rooting for this year?

• Big Hero 6
• The Book of Life
• The Boxtrolls
• Cheatin
• Giovanni's Island
• Henry & Me
• The Hero of Color City
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
• Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
• The Lego Movie
• Minuscule -- Valley of the Lost Ants
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman
• Penguins of Madagascar
• The Pirate Fairy
• Planes: Fire & Rescue
• Rio 2
• Rocks in My Pockets
• Song of the Sea
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Gotham Independent Film Award Nominations

BEST FEATURE

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Love is Strange
• Under the Skin

BEST ACTOR

• Bill Hader, The Skeleton Twins
• Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
• Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year
• Michael Keaton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Miles Teller, Whiplash

*The Gotham Award jury decided to give the male ensemble of Foxcatcher (Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo) a Special Jury Prize for Best Actor. 

BEST ACTRESS

• Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beyond the Lights
• Julianne Moore, Still Alice
• Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
• Mia Wasikowska, Tracks   

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Actress
• CITIZENFOUR
• Life Itself
• Manakamana
• Point & Shoot

BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR

• Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• James Ward Byrkit, Coherence
• Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
• Eliza Hittman, It Felt Like Love
• Justin Simien, Dear White People

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR

• Riz Ahmed, Nightcrawler
• Macon Blair, Blue Ruin
• Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
• Joey King, Wish I Was Here
• Jenny Slate, Obvious Child
• Tessa Thompson, Dear White People