The 19th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2014.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Nightcrawler

• Boyhood
• Gone Girl
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Selma
• The Theory of Everything

Best Director

Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• David Fincher – Gone Girl
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler

• Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Brendan Gleeson – Calvary
• Tom Hardy – Locke
• Michael Keaton – Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night

• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
• Hilary Swank – The Homesman
• Mia Wasikowska – Tracks

Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher

• Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
• Edward Norton – Birdman
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress

Rene Russo – Nightcrawler

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
• Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
• Emma Stone – Birdman

Best Original Screenplay

Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

• Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Locke – Steven Knight

Best Adapted Screenplay

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

• The Fault in Our Stars – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten
• Unbroken – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Nicholson, and Richard LaGravenese
• Wild – Nick Hornby

Best Animated Film

The Boxtrolls

• Big Hero 6
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• The Lego Movie
• The Nut Job

Best Documentary

Citizenfour

• Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
• Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
• Last Days in Vietnam
• Life Itself

Best Foreign Language Film

Force Majeure • Sweden

• Heli • Mexico
• Ida • Denmark / Poland
• Two Days, One Night • Belgium
• Venus in Fur • France

Best Cinematography

Nightcrawler – Robert Elswit

• Force Majeure – Fredrik Wenzel
• Gone Girl – Jeff Cronenweth
• Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema
• Unbroken – Roger Deakins

Best Editing

Edge of Tomorrow – James Herbert and Laura Jennings

• Boyhood – Sandra Adair
• Gone Girl – Kirk Baxter
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
• Nightcrawler – John Gilroy

Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock

• The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic
• Interstellar – Nathan Crawley
• Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock
• The Theory of Everything – John Paul Kelly

Best Score

Nightcrawler – James Newton Howard

• Birdman – Antonio Sánchez
• Gone Girl – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat

Best Ensemble

Birdman

• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Selma

Best Body of Work

Willem Dafoe for The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Budapest Hotel, John Wick, A Most Wanted Man, and Nymphomaniac