USC Scripter Award Nominations

Nominations for the 27th USC Scripter Award were unveiled.  Announced by the USC Libraries, the Scripter Award celebrates the best adapted screenplays of the year by honoring both the screenwriter and the writer of the original source material.

• Gone Girl- adapted by Gillian Flynn, based on Flynn's best-selling novel of the same name
• The Imitation Game- adapted by Graham Moore, based on the non-fiction book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Inherent Vice- adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon
• The Theory of Everything- adapted by Andrew McCarten, based on the non-fiction book Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
• Wild- adapted by Nick Hornby, based on the memoir of the same name by Cheryl Strayed

Writers Guild Nominations

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Boyhood- Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher- E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel- Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler- Dan Gilroy
Whiplash- Damien Chazelle

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Sniper- Jason Hall
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
Guardians of the Galaxy- James Gunn, Nicole Perlman
The Imitation Game- Graham Moore
Wild- Nick Hornby

BEST DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Finding Vivian Maier- John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
The Internet's Own Boy- Brian Knappenberger
Last Days in Vietnam- Mark Bailey, Kevin McAlester
Red Army- Gabe Polsky

Nevada Film Critics Society

FILM: Gone Girl
DIRECTOR: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
ACTOR: Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
SUPPORTING ACTOR: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: (tie) Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year; Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
ANIMATED FEATURE: Big Hero 6
DOCUMENTARY: Citizenfour
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Interstellar
VISUAL EFFECTS: Interstellar 
ENSEMBLE CAST: Guardians of the Galaxy
YOUTH PERFORMANCE: Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Nominations

BEST PICTURE
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Selma
Whiplash

BEST DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
Ava DuVernay, Selma
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Alejando Gonzalez Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

BEST ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year
Michael Keaton, Birdman
David Oyelowo, Selma
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

BEST ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Laura Dern, Wild
Emma Stone, Birdman
Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

Golden Satellites Nominations

BEST MOTION PICTURE
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Love is Strange
Mr. Turner
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

BEST DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
Ava DuVernay, Selma
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Alejandro González Inárritu, Birdman  
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game 

BEST ACTOR
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
David Oyelowo, Selma
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything 
Miles Teller, Whiplash

BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Anne Dorval, Mommy
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher 
Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman 
Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer
Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice