| 2014–15 film awards season | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 23 October 2014 – 22 February 2015 |
| Film Awards seasons | |
The2014–15 film awards season began in December 2014 with theGotham Independent Film Awards 2014 and ended in February 2015 with the87th Academy Awards. Major winners for the year includedThe Grand Budapest Hotel,Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),Boyhood,Whiplash, andThe Theory of Everything, among others.
| Award ceremony | Ceremony date | Best Film | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards | 1 December 2014 | Birdman | N/a | Michael Keaton Birdman | Julianne Moore Still Alice | N/a | [1] | |||
| 87th National Board of Review Awards | 1 December 2015 | A Most Violent Year | Clint Eastwood American Sniper | Oscar Isaac A Most Violent Year Michael Keaton Birdman | Edward Norton Birdman | Jessica Chastain A Most Violent Year | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller The Lego Movie | Paul Thomas Anderson Inherent Vice | [2] | |
| 49th National Society of Film Critics Awards | 3 January 2015 | Goodbye to Language | Richard Linklater Boyhood | Timothy Spall Mr. Turner | Marion Cotillard The Immigrant andTwo Days, One Night | J. K. Simmons Whiplash | Patricia Arquette Boyhood | Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel | [3] | |
| 72nd Golden Globe Awards | 11 January 2015 | Boyhood (Drama) The Grand Budapest Hotel (Musical or Comedy) | Eddie Redmayne (Drama) The Theory of Everything Michael Keaton (Musical or Comedy) Birdman | Julianne Moore (Drama) Still Alice Amy Adams (Musical or Comedy) Big Eyes | Alejandro G. Iñárritu,Nicolás Giacobone,Alexander Dinelaris Jr., andArmando Bó Birdman | [4] | ||||
| 20th Critics' Choice Awards | 15 January 2015 | Boyhood | Michael Keaton Birdman | Julianne Moore Still Alice | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó Birdman | Gillian Flynn Gone Girl | [5] | |||
| 26th Producers Guild of America Awards | 24 January 2016 | Birdman | N/a | [6] | ||||||
| 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards | 25 January 2015 | Birdman (Ensemble Cast) | N/a | Eddie Redmayne The Theory of Everything | Julianne Moore Still Alice | J. K. Simmons Whiplash | Patricia Arquette Boyhood | N/a | [7] | |
| 4th AACTA International Awards | 31 January 2015 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdman | Michael Keaton Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó Birdman | |||||
| 67th Directors Guild of America Awards | 7 February 2015 | N/a | N/a | [8] | ||||||
| 68th British Academy Film Awards | 8 February 2015 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater Boyhood | Eddie Redmayne The Theory of Everything | Julianne Moore Still Alice | J. K. Simmons Whiplash | Patricia Arquette Boyhood | Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel | Anthony McCarten The Theory of Everything | [9] |
| 67th Writers Guild of America Awards | 14 February 2015 | N/a | Graham Moore The Imitation Game | [10] | ||||||
| 19th Satellite Awards | 15 February 2015 | Birdman | Richard Linklater Boyhood | Michael Keaton Birdman | Julianne Moore Still Alice | J. K. Simmons Whiplash | Patricia Arquette Boyhood | Dan Gilroy Nightcrawler | [11] | |
| 30th Independent Spirit Awards | 21 February 2015 | Dan Gilroy Nightcrawler | [12] | |||||||
| 87th Academy Awards | 22 February 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdman | Eddie Redmayne The Theory of Everything | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó Birdman | Graham Moore The Imitation Game | [13] | ||||
| Films | Academy Awards | BAFTA Awards | Golden Globe Awards | Guild Awards | Critics' Choice Awards | Satellite Awards | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noms | Wins | Noms | Wins | Noms | Wins | Noms | Wins | Noms | Wins | Noms | Wins | Noms | Wins | |
| American Sniper | 6 | 1 | 2 | N/a | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 2 | ||||
| Big Eyes | N/a | 2 | 3 | 1 | N/a | 1 | N/a | 6 | 1 | |||||
| Birdman | 9 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 58 | 23 |
| Boyhood | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 38 | 14 |
| Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 1 | 1 | N/a | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | ||||
| Foxcatcher | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 0 | ||||||
| Gone Girl | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 1 | |||||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 2 | 2 | N/a | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 6 | ||||
| Ida | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | N/a | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Inherent Vice | 2 | N/a | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| Interstellar | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 3 | |||
| Into the Woods | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 2 | ||||
| Mr. Turner | 4 | 4 | N/a | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | ||||||
| Nightcrawler | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 1 | |||||
| Paddington | N/a | 2 | N/a | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| Pride | N/a | 3 | 1 | 1 | N/a | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Selma | 2 | 1 | N/a | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 3 | |||
| Still Alice | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | 9 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 17 |
| The Imitation Game | 8 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 44 | 3 | |||
| The Theory of Everything | 5 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 7 | ||
| Unbroken | 3 | N/a | 3 | 1 | 4 | N/a | 10 | 1 | ||||||
| Virunga | 1 | 1 | N/a | 1 | N/a | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Whiplash | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 11 |
| Wild | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 1 | |||||
| Under the Skin | N/a | 2 | N/a | 1 | N/a | 3 | 0 | |||||||
| Award dates | Ceremony | Best Film winner | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2014 | 80th New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Boyhood | [14] |
| 7 December 2014 | 40th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Boyhood | [15] |
| 18 January 2015 | 35th London Film Critics Circle Awards | Boyhood | [16] |