2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Best Film
Calvary
Only Lovers Left Alive
Birdman
Tracks
Whiplash
Nightcrawler
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wild
Night Moves
The Double
Best Popcorn Flick
Snowpiercer
The Babadook
Gone Girl
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Veronica Mars
Interstellar
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Actress
Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Mia Wasikowska (Tracks)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Rinko Kikuchi (Kumiko the Treasure Hunter)
Tessa Thompson (Dear White People)
Notable Omissions: Julianne Moore - Still Alice, Felicity Jones - the Theory of Everything, Alicia Vikander - Testament of Youth, Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Beyond the Lights/Belle, Hilary Swank - The Homesman, Jennifer Lawrence - Hunger Games Mockingjay, Jenny Slate - Obvious Child, Jessica Chastain - The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Keira Knightley - Laggies/Begin Again, Kristen Wiig - Skeleton Twins, Marion Cotillard - Immigrant/Two Days One Nights, Scarlett Johanson - Under the Skin, Anne Dorval - Mommy. I'd say Juliette Binoche, too, but I think Clouds of Sils Maria comes out here next year?
Best Actor
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
Tom Hiddleston (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Brendan Gleeson (Calvary)
Ralph Fiennes (Grand Budapest Hotel)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Double, Night Moves)
Notable Omissions: David Oyelowo - Selma, Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice, Bill Hader - Skeleton Twins, Oscar Isaac - A Most Violent Year, Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner, Jack O'Connell - Starred Up/Unbroken, John Lithgow - Love is Strange, Philip Seymour Hoffman - A Most Wanted Man, Chadwick Boseman - Get On Up, Guy Pearce - Rover.
Best Supporting Actress
Rene Russo (Nightcrawler)
Laura Dern (Wild)
Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)
Mia Wasikowska (The Double, Only Lovers Left Alive)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Frank)
Notable Omissions: Carmen Ejogo - Selma, Dorothy Atkinson/Marion Bailey - Mr. Turner, Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year, Julianne Moore - Maps to the Stars, Kristen Stewart - Still Alice, Marissa Tomei - Love is Strange, Patricia Arquette - Boyhood, Robin Wright - A Most Wanted Man, Elisabeth Moss - Listen Up Philip, Minnie Driver - Beyond the Lights, Katherine Waterston - Inherent Vice
Best Supporting Actor
Edward Norton (Birdman)
JK Simmons (Whiplash)
Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler)
Michael Fassbender (Frank)
Andrew Scott (Pride)
Notable Omissions: Ethan Hawke - Boyhood, Miyavi - Unbroken, Albert Brooks - A Most Violent Year, Alec Baldwin - Still Alice, Jake Lacy - Obvious Child, Luke Wilson - Skeleton Twins, Robert Duvall - the Judge, Josh Brolin/Martin Short - Inherent Vice. Also apparently Archipelago finally got a release, so at least someone was gunning for Tom Hiddleston in that.
Best Ensemble
Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
Foxcatcher
Into the Woods
Nightcrawler
Pride
Gone Girl
Wild (weird, I know. But I thought all the supporting turns were fantastic.)
Interstellar
Notable Omissions: Selma, Boyhood, Mr. Turner, Inherent Vice, A Most Violent Year, Still Alice, The Homesman, Unbroken, Mommy
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel)
Jim Jarmush (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler
John Michael McDonagh - Calvary
Notable Omissions: Ana Lily Amipour - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Angelina Jolie - Unbroken, LC Chandor - A Most Violent Year, Richard Linklater - Boyhood, Pawel Pawlikowski - Ida
Best Screenplay - Original/Adapted
Birdman (Original)
Nightcrawler (Original)
Grand Budapest Hotel (Original)
Dear White People (Original)
Whiplash (Original)
Calvary (Original)
Gone Girl (Adapted)
Wild (Adapted)
Snowpiercer (Adapted)
Notable Omissions: Linklater - Boyhood, Chandor - A Most Violent Year, DuVernay/Webb - Selma, Sachs/Zacharias - Love is Strange, Coens/etc. - Unbroken, Anderson - Inherent Vice, Stewart - Rosewater
Wow. No wonder I'm sort of underwhelmed at the year in film. I really can't think of 10 scripts I really loved.
Best Animated
umm.... yeah. Totally behind on animated this year. I hear great things about the Tale of Princess Kaguya!
Notable Omissions: Tale of Princess Kaguya, Big Hero 6, Boxtrolls, Song of the Sea
Best Visual Effects
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Maleficent
Edge of Tomorrow
Best Costumes
Grand Budapest Hotel
Gone Girl
Wild
Maleficent
Foxcatcher
Notable Omissions: Mr. Turner, Inherent Vice, Selma, A Most Violent Year, Get On Up
Best Art/Production Design
Grand Budapest Hotel
Snowpiercer
The Babadook
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Interstellar
Foxcatcher
Nightcrawler
Notable Omissions: Mr. Turner, the Hobbit, A Most Violent Year, Inherent Vice
Best Makeup
Foxcatcher
Snowpiercer
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hunger Games (I have yet to see it but... still.)
Maleficent
The Hobbt (Ditto.)
Grand Budapest Hotel
X-Men
I find it hilarious that the Makeup guild nominated Captain America. Like, they were really into Bucky's smeared guyliner?
Best Cinematography
Birdman
Wild
Night Moves
The Double
Tracks
Interstellar
Gone Girl
Foxcatcher
Snowpiercer
Grand Budapest
The Babadook
Notable Omissions: Mr. Turner, Unbroken, Ida, Fury, Inherent Vice, A Most Violent Year, Locke, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, The Immigrant.
Best Editing
Whiplash
Wild
Edge of Tomorrow
Night Moves
Nightcrawler
Interstellar
Grand Budapest Hotel
Calvary
Notable Omissions: Boyhood, A Most Violent Year
Best Song
Agony - Into the Woods
Hate the Sport - We Are the Best
I Love You All - Frank
Bread and Roses - Pride
Hal - Only Lovers Left Alive
Untitled Self Portrait - The Lego Movie
Notable Omissions: Get On Up, the Skeleton Twins, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Inherent Vice, The Rover, Mommy
Best Score
Gone Girl
Only Lovers Left Alive
Godzilla
Whiplash
Interstellar
The Double
(As the Playlist pointed out, Cliff Martinez's score for The Knick deserves special recognition.
Best Sound Editing & Mixing
Godzilla
Interstellar (I really liked the sound mix! I know it was divisive, but it worked for me.)
Birdman
Maleficent
Edge of Tomorrow
Gone Girl
Into the Woods
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men
Captain America
Notable Omissions: Hobbit, Get On Up
Best Animated Short
The Dam Keeper
Me and My Mouton
Sticky
The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl
The Jump
Virtuous Virtuell
Une Balade a la Mer
Close the Lid Gently
Best Live Action Short
Numbers and Friends
Projections in the Forest
Phone Call
Boogaloo and Graham
Las Cieni/ The Shadow Forest
Farewell My King
Campandas
A Sign (Belgian, can't find it online)
Sugar Plum Fairy
Intersection
The Activists (can't find it online)
Film I didn't get to that I am most looking forward to:
Enemy
Cold in July
Beyond the Lights
Ida
Inherent Vice
A Most Violent Year
Best Poster
Enemy
Birdman Also this one
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
Winter Sleep
Foxcatcher
Borgman
White God
The Final Member
Inherent Vice
Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Trailer
Guardians of the Galaxy
Birdman
Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
Maleficent
Best Quote
"I'm pretty sure the answer is "I am Groot."" - Peter, Guardians
“Did he just throw my cat out of the window?” - Kovacks, Grand Budapest
"There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity." - Grand Budapest Hotel
“In case it slipped your mind, Piz is the one without the baggage and the drama.” “I will say this for him: he almost never gets charged with murder.” – Wallace & Mac, Veronica Mars
“In a lesser known epic poem, Dante’s Inferno 2: Hell Freezes Over, ten years after escaping the Nine Circles, Dante returns, you know, for old time’s sake.” – Veronica, Veronica Mars
"If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket." - Lou, Nightcrawler
"Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count." - Samantha, Dear White People
"What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?" - Wild
"Where are my lesbians?" - Pride
"I think forgiveness has been highly underrated." - Calvary
And pretty much all of TARS.
Other Superlatives:
Best Foreign Film: We Are the Best! (Runner Up: Harmony Lessons. I think I included the Strange Little Cat in last year's list, but if not, then that.)
Best Documentary: The Overnighters (Runner Up: Island of Lemurs) (I still really want to see Virunga, Citizenfour, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Mankamana, National Gallery, the Internet's Own Boy, Finding Vivian Maier)
Best Female Action Star: Emily Blunt - Edge of Tomorrow
Best Trailer for a 2015 film: Mad Max Fury Road
Best Action Scene: the Tunnel scene - Snowpiercer (Runner Up: the many deaths of Tom Cruise montage - Edge of Tomorrow)
Best destruction of San Francisco: Godzilla (Runner Up: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't: X-Men Days of Future Past (there were so many right elements here, but the final mix just felt so hollow to me.) (Runner Up: Foxcatcher)
Best Scene in an otherwise okay film: the HALO jump in Godzilla (Runner up: Quicksilver, X-Men Days of Future Past)
Most wasted potential of an idea: The Sacrament. A horror film basically recounting Jonestown should have been so much more horrifying.
Most wasted potential (runner up): Into the Woods. Kill Rapunzel, cast a teenage Red, fix the set and CGI. Anna Kendrick and Emily Blunt were good, Chris Pine was great, and a movie adaptation of Sondheim should be sublime.
Worst Scene in an otherwise sometimes brilliant, sometimes not so great film: Matt Damon's arc in Interstellar
Best Chase: Jeff Goldblum & Willem Dafoe - Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Cameo: Justin Long (Veronica Mars)
Best Breakthrough: Andre Holland (haven't also seen Gugu, Jack O'Connell, Katherine Waterston, etc.)
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Whiplash (runners up: Calvary, Night Moves)
Worst Ending: Words and Pictures. I swear to god the last scene was left in by accident - it's so bad.
Creepiest Teacher: Alison Pill, Snowpiercer
Best Priest fight: Calvary
Best indication Charlie Day can make me laugh in anything: the Lego Movie
Best Dance: Come and Get Your Love - Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Villain: Fletcher, Whiplash
Most Timid Narrative Choices: The Imitation Game
Best Impressions: The Trip to Italy
Most WTF (bad): Tip Top
Most WTF (good): A Field in England
Best Sidekick: Black Widow, Captain America (Runner Up: Rocket, Guardians of the Galaxy)
Worst Paycheck Performance: Gary Oldman - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Best Sociopath: Lou Bloom - Nightcrawler (Runner Up: Amy Dunne - Gone Girl)
Best Cheekbones: Maleficent
Most Overrated: The Lego movie
Best Taylor Swift shoutout: Dear White People
Best Tree: Cinerella's ghost mother willow - Into the Woods, (Runner Up: Groot)
Best Cat: Gone Girl
Best Fish: Snowpiercer
Best Raven: Sam Riley - Maleficent
Best Guinea Pig: Cashew (House of Cards)
Best Ode to Night: Only Lovers Left Alive
Best TV Show: Hannibal BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE SAID ENOUGH. Seriously, the things Bryan Fuller and his merry band of psychopaths are doing at Hannibal rival anything in theaters. Petition to get it onto IMAX screens, too!
Best Film
Calvary
Only Lovers Left Alive
Birdman
Tracks
Whiplash
Nightcrawler
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wild
Night Moves
The Double
Best Popcorn Flick
Snowpiercer
The Babadook
Gone Girl
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Veronica Mars
Interstellar
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Actress
Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Mia Wasikowska (Tracks)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Rinko Kikuchi (Kumiko the Treasure Hunter)
Tessa Thompson (Dear White People)
Notable Omissions: Julianne Moore - Still Alice, Felicity Jones - the Theory of Everything, Alicia Vikander - Testament of Youth, Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Beyond the Lights/Belle, Hilary Swank - The Homesman, Jennifer Lawrence - Hunger Games Mockingjay, Jenny Slate - Obvious Child, Jessica Chastain - The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Keira Knightley - Laggies/Begin Again, Kristen Wiig - Skeleton Twins, Marion Cotillard - Immigrant/Two Days One Nights, Scarlett Johanson - Under the Skin, Anne Dorval - Mommy. I'd say Juliette Binoche, too, but I think Clouds of Sils Maria comes out here next year?
Best Actor
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
Tom Hiddleston (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Brendan Gleeson (Calvary)
Ralph Fiennes (Grand Budapest Hotel)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Double, Night Moves)
Notable Omissions: David Oyelowo - Selma, Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice, Bill Hader - Skeleton Twins, Oscar Isaac - A Most Violent Year, Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner, Jack O'Connell - Starred Up/Unbroken, John Lithgow - Love is Strange, Philip Seymour Hoffman - A Most Wanted Man, Chadwick Boseman - Get On Up, Guy Pearce - Rover.
Best Supporting Actress
Rene Russo (Nightcrawler)
Laura Dern (Wild)
Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)
Mia Wasikowska (The Double, Only Lovers Left Alive)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Frank)
Notable Omissions: Carmen Ejogo - Selma, Dorothy Atkinson/Marion Bailey - Mr. Turner, Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year, Julianne Moore - Maps to the Stars, Kristen Stewart - Still Alice, Marissa Tomei - Love is Strange, Patricia Arquette - Boyhood, Robin Wright - A Most Wanted Man, Elisabeth Moss - Listen Up Philip, Minnie Driver - Beyond the Lights, Katherine Waterston - Inherent Vice
Best Supporting Actor
Edward Norton (Birdman)
JK Simmons (Whiplash)
Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler)
Michael Fassbender (Frank)
Andrew Scott (Pride)
Notable Omissions: Ethan Hawke - Boyhood, Miyavi - Unbroken, Albert Brooks - A Most Violent Year, Alec Baldwin - Still Alice, Jake Lacy - Obvious Child, Luke Wilson - Skeleton Twins, Robert Duvall - the Judge, Josh Brolin/Martin Short - Inherent Vice. Also apparently Archipelago finally got a release, so at least someone was gunning for Tom Hiddleston in that.
Best Ensemble
Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
Foxcatcher
Into the Woods
Nightcrawler
Pride
Gone Girl
Wild (weird, I know. But I thought all the supporting turns were fantastic.)
Interstellar
Notable Omissions: Selma, Boyhood, Mr. Turner, Inherent Vice, A Most Violent Year, Still Alice, The Homesman, Unbroken, Mommy
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel)
Jim Jarmush (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler
John Michael McDonagh - Calvary
Notable Omissions: Ana Lily Amipour - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Angelina Jolie - Unbroken, LC Chandor - A Most Violent Year, Richard Linklater - Boyhood, Pawel Pawlikowski - Ida
Best Screenplay - Original/Adapted
Birdman (Original)
Nightcrawler (Original)
Grand Budapest Hotel (Original)
Dear White People (Original)
Whiplash (Original)
Calvary (Original)
Gone Girl (Adapted)
Wild (Adapted)
Snowpiercer (Adapted)
Notable Omissions: Linklater - Boyhood, Chandor - A Most Violent Year, DuVernay/Webb - Selma, Sachs/Zacharias - Love is Strange, Coens/etc. - Unbroken, Anderson - Inherent Vice, Stewart - Rosewater
Wow. No wonder I'm sort of underwhelmed at the year in film. I really can't think of 10 scripts I really loved.
Best Animated
umm.... yeah. Totally behind on animated this year. I hear great things about the Tale of Princess Kaguya!
Notable Omissions: Tale of Princess Kaguya, Big Hero 6, Boxtrolls, Song of the Sea
Best Visual Effects
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Maleficent
Edge of Tomorrow
Best Costumes
Grand Budapest Hotel
Gone Girl
Wild
Maleficent
Foxcatcher
Notable Omissions: Mr. Turner, Inherent Vice, Selma, A Most Violent Year, Get On Up
Best Art/Production Design
Grand Budapest Hotel
Snowpiercer
The Babadook
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Interstellar
Foxcatcher
Nightcrawler
Notable Omissions: Mr. Turner, the Hobbit, A Most Violent Year, Inherent Vice
Best Makeup
Foxcatcher
Snowpiercer
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hunger Games (I have yet to see it but... still.)
Maleficent
The Hobbt (Ditto.)
Grand Budapest Hotel
X-Men
I find it hilarious that the Makeup guild nominated Captain America. Like, they were really into Bucky's smeared guyliner?
Best Cinematography
Birdman
Wild
Night Moves
The Double
Tracks
Interstellar
Gone Girl
Foxcatcher
Snowpiercer
Grand Budapest
The Babadook
Notable Omissions: Mr. Turner, Unbroken, Ida, Fury, Inherent Vice, A Most Violent Year, Locke, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, The Immigrant.
Best Editing
Whiplash
Wild
Edge of Tomorrow
Night Moves
Nightcrawler
Interstellar
Grand Budapest Hotel
Calvary
Notable Omissions: Boyhood, A Most Violent Year
Best Song
Agony - Into the Woods
Hate the Sport - We Are the Best
I Love You All - Frank
Bread and Roses - Pride
Hal - Only Lovers Left Alive
Untitled Self Portrait - The Lego Movie
Notable Omissions: Get On Up, the Skeleton Twins, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Inherent Vice, The Rover, Mommy
Best Score
Gone Girl
Only Lovers Left Alive
Godzilla
Whiplash
Interstellar
The Double
(As the Playlist pointed out, Cliff Martinez's score for The Knick deserves special recognition.
Best Sound Editing & Mixing
Godzilla
Interstellar (I really liked the sound mix! I know it was divisive, but it worked for me.)
Birdman
Maleficent
Edge of Tomorrow
Gone Girl
Into the Woods
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men
Captain America
Notable Omissions: Hobbit, Get On Up
Best Animated Short
The Dam Keeper
Me and My Mouton
Sticky
The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl
The Jump
Virtuous Virtuell
Une Balade a la Mer
Close the Lid Gently
Best Live Action Short
Numbers and Friends
Projections in the Forest
Phone Call
Boogaloo and Graham
Las Cieni/ The Shadow Forest
Farewell My King
Campandas
A Sign (Belgian, can't find it online)
Sugar Plum Fairy
Intersection
The Activists (can't find it online)
Film I didn't get to that I am most looking forward to:
Enemy
Cold in July
Beyond the Lights
Ida
Inherent Vice
A Most Violent Year
Best Poster
Enemy
Birdman Also this one
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
Winter Sleep
Foxcatcher
Borgman
White God
The Final Member
Inherent Vice
Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Trailer
Guardians of the Galaxy
Birdman
Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
Maleficent
Best Quote
"I'm pretty sure the answer is "I am Groot."" - Peter, Guardians
“Did he just throw my cat out of the window?” - Kovacks, Grand Budapest
"There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity." - Grand Budapest Hotel
“In case it slipped your mind, Piz is the one without the baggage and the drama.” “I will say this for him: he almost never gets charged with murder.” – Wallace & Mac, Veronica Mars
“In a lesser known epic poem, Dante’s Inferno 2: Hell Freezes Over, ten years after escaping the Nine Circles, Dante returns, you know, for old time’s sake.” – Veronica, Veronica Mars
"If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket." - Lou, Nightcrawler
"Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count." - Samantha, Dear White People
"What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?" - Wild
"Where are my lesbians?" - Pride
"I think forgiveness has been highly underrated." - Calvary
And pretty much all of TARS.
Other Superlatives:
Best Foreign Film: We Are the Best! (Runner Up: Harmony Lessons. I think I included the Strange Little Cat in last year's list, but if not, then that.)
Best Documentary: The Overnighters (Runner Up: Island of Lemurs) (I still really want to see Virunga, Citizenfour, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Mankamana, National Gallery, the Internet's Own Boy, Finding Vivian Maier)
Best Female Action Star: Emily Blunt - Edge of Tomorrow
Best Trailer for a 2015 film: Mad Max Fury Road
Best Action Scene: the Tunnel scene - Snowpiercer (Runner Up: the many deaths of Tom Cruise montage - Edge of Tomorrow)
Best destruction of San Francisco: Godzilla (Runner Up: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't: X-Men Days of Future Past (there were so many right elements here, but the final mix just felt so hollow to me.) (Runner Up: Foxcatcher)
Best Scene in an otherwise okay film: the HALO jump in Godzilla (Runner up: Quicksilver, X-Men Days of Future Past)
Most wasted potential of an idea: The Sacrament. A horror film basically recounting Jonestown should have been so much more horrifying.
Most wasted potential (runner up): Into the Woods. Kill Rapunzel, cast a teenage Red, fix the set and CGI. Anna Kendrick and Emily Blunt were good, Chris Pine was great, and a movie adaptation of Sondheim should be sublime.
Worst Scene in an otherwise sometimes brilliant, sometimes not so great film: Matt Damon's arc in Interstellar
Best Chase: Jeff Goldblum & Willem Dafoe - Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Cameo: Justin Long (Veronica Mars)
Best Breakthrough: Andre Holland (haven't also seen Gugu, Jack O'Connell, Katherine Waterston, etc.)
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Whiplash (runners up: Calvary, Night Moves)
Worst Ending: Words and Pictures. I swear to god the last scene was left in by accident - it's so bad.
Creepiest Teacher: Alison Pill, Snowpiercer
Best Priest fight: Calvary
Best indication Charlie Day can make me laugh in anything: the Lego Movie
Best Dance: Come and Get Your Love - Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Villain: Fletcher, Whiplash
Most Timid Narrative Choices: The Imitation Game
Best Impressions: The Trip to Italy
Most WTF (bad): Tip Top
Most WTF (good): A Field in England
Best Sidekick: Black Widow, Captain America (Runner Up: Rocket, Guardians of the Galaxy)
Worst Paycheck Performance: Gary Oldman - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Best Sociopath: Lou Bloom - Nightcrawler (Runner Up: Amy Dunne - Gone Girl)
Best Cheekbones: Maleficent
Most Overrated: The Lego movie
Best Taylor Swift shoutout: Dear White People
Best Tree: Cinerella's ghost mother willow - Into the Woods, (Runner Up: Groot)
Best Cat: Gone Girl
Best Fish: Snowpiercer
Best Raven: Sam Riley - Maleficent
Best Guinea Pig: Cashew (House of Cards)
Best Ode to Night: Only Lovers Left Alive
Best TV Show: Hannibal BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE SAID ENOUGH. Seriously, the things Bryan Fuller and his merry band of psychopaths are doing at Hannibal rival anything in theaters. Petition to get it onto IMAX screens, too!
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