BIRDMAN LEADS 2015 CHLOTRUDIS NOMINATIONS

The Chlotrudis Society isn't technically a critics' organisation, but its membership does contain a number of film writers. It's 100% full of film lovers, however, which makes their annual award nominations always interesting to analyse. As usual, their 2014 crop is a quality one, though I'm as perplexed by their adoration for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman as with all the other groups that have lavished praise upon the overrated comedy. I've made one adjustment to the credits: assistant production manager Johanna Bourson probably ought not to be nominated for Best Production Design for The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears - what about art director Julia Irribarria?! Award winners to be announced on the 22nd of March. All the nominees below:

Best Movie

Birdman
Boyhood

A Coffee in Berlin

Ida

Like Father, Like Son

Mommy

Best Director

Jan Ole Gerster (A Coffee in Berlin)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Joanna Hogg (Exhibition)

Koreeda Hirokazu (Like Father, Like Son)

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida)

Best Actor

Adam Bakri (Omar)

Jesse Eisenberg (The Double)

Fukuyama Masaharu (Like Father, Like Son)

Tom Hardy (Locke)

Michael Keaton (Birdman)

Miles Teller (Whiplash)

Best Actress

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

Anne Dorval (Mommy)

Paulina García (Gloria)

Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive)

Agata Trzebuchowska (Ida)

Robin Wright (The Congress)

Best Supporting Actor

Michael Fassbender (Frank)

Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)

Tom Hiddleston (Unrelated)

Edward Norton (Birdman)

J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Supporting Actress

Suzanne Clément (Mommy)

Eva Green (White Bird in a Blizzard)

Agata Kulesza (Ida)

Lydia Leonard (Archipelago)

Imelda Staunton (Pride)

Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)

Best Original Screenplay

Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Steven Knight (Locke)

Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida)

Justin Simien (Dear White People)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson – based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon (Inherent Vice)

Andrew Bovell and Stephen Cornwell – based on the novel by John LeCarré (A Most Wanted Man)

Nick Damici and Jim Mickle – based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale (Cold in July)

Ari Folman – based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (The Congress)

Gary Hawkins – based on the novel by Larry Brown (Joe)

Lukas Moodysson – based on the comic book by Coco Moodysson (We Are the Best!)

Best Cinematography

Philipp Kirsamer (A Coffee in Berlin)

Daniel Landin (Under the Skin)

Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal (Ida)

Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)

Lyle Vincent (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night)

Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Best Editing

Sandra Adair (Boyhood)

Steve M. Choe and Kim Chang Ju (Snowpiercer)

Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione (Birdman)

Anja Siemens (A Coffee in Berlin)

Bill Weber (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden)

Justine Wright (Locke)

Best Production Design

Marco Bittner Rosser (Only Lovers Left Alive)

David Crank (Inherent Vice)

Suzie Davies (Mr. Turner)

Julia Irribarria (The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears)

Ondrej Nekvasil (Snowpiercer)

Adam Stockhausen (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Best Use of Music in a Film

A Coffee in Berlin
Frank

God Help the Girl

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Only Lovers Left Alive

Under the Skin

We Are the Best!

Whiplash

Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast

Archipelago

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Like Father, Like Son

We Are the Best!

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Best Documentary

Finding Vivian Maier

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Life Itself

Particle Fever

Tim’s Vermeer

To Be Takei

Buried Treasure

Borgman

Ilo Ilo

Rocks in My Pockets

The Strange Little Cat

Uzumasa Limelight

The Way He Looks