My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices based on viewings.
Filmmaking Breakthrough
Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)
Mélanie Laurent (Respire)
Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child)
James Ward Byrkit (Coherence)
Actress Support
Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)
Agata Kulesza (Ida)
Elena Lyadova (Leviafan)
Melisa Sözen (Kis Uykusu)
Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)
Sound Designing
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Edge of Tomorrow
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Special Effects
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Snowpiercer
Actress Lead
Marion Cotillard (Deux jours, une nuit)
Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Lisa Loven Kongsli (Turist)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Mia Wasikowska (Tracks)
Screenwriting Adapted
Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
Julien Lambroschini, Mélanie Laurent (Respire)
Marion Nelson (Tracks)
Gillian Robespierre, Karen Maine, Anna Bean, Elisabeth Holm (Obvious Child)
Screenwriting Original
Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan (Kis Uykusu)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviafan)
Ruben Östlund (Turist)
Youth Breakthrough
Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)
Mackenzie Foy (Interstellar)
Antoine Olivier Pilon (Mommy)
Zsófia Psotta (Fehér isten)
Noah Wiseman (The Babadook)
Cast Ensemble
Boyhood
Fehér isten
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Selma
Cinematography
Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski (Ida)
Darius Khondji (The Immigrant)
Mandy Walker (Tracks)
Gökhan Tiryaki (Kis Uykusu)
Set Designing
Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Immigrant
Mr. Turner
Snowpiercer
Costume Designing
Belle
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Picture Editing
The Babadook
Gone Girl
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Whiplash
Acting Breakthrough
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights)
Jack O’Connell (Starred Up)
Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Jenny Slate (Obvious Child)
Agata Trzebuchowska (Ida)
Score Composing
Rachel Portman (Belle)
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Gone Girl)
Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
Garth Stevenson (Tracks)
Actor Support
Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Tom Wilkinson (Selma)
Actor Lead
Aleksey Serebryakov (Leviafan)
Tom Hardy (Locke)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
David Oyelowo (Selma)
Haluk Bilginer (Kis Uykusu)
Directing
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Kis Uykusu)
Xavier Dolan (Mommy)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Pawel Pawikowski (Ida)
Motion Picture
Boyhood (Richard Linklater) USA
Deux jours, une nuit / Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) Belgium / France / Italy
Gone Girl (David Fincher) USA
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) USA / Germany / UK
Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski) Poland / Denmark / France / UK
Kis Uykusu / Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Turkey
Leviafan / Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Russia
Le meraviglie / The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher) Italy / Switzerland / Germany
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) Canada
Tracks (John Curran) Australia