20th Critics' Choice Awards
The 20th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 15, 2015, at the Hollywood Palladium, honoring the finest achievements of 2014 filmmaking.
[1][2] The ceremony was broadcast on A&E and hosted by Michael Strahan.
[4] In recognition of the breadth of her accomplishments in 2014, Jessica Chastain received the first-ever Critics' Choice MVP Award.
The honor celebrates "one extraordinary actor for his/her standout work in several movies throughout a single year".
[5] Boyhood Richard Linklater – Boyhood Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood as Mason Evans Jr. Birdman Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó – Birdman Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl The Lego Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow as Sergeant Rita Vrataski Life Itself The Grand Budapest Hotel Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson Jenny Slate – Obvious Child as Donna Stern Interstellar Force Majeure (Turist) • France / Norway / Sweden Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator) – The Grand Budapest Hotel Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman Milena Canonero – The Grand Budapest Hotel Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione – Birdman Antonio Sánchez – Birdman "Glory" (Common and John Legend) – Selma Guardians of the Galaxy Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Ron Howard[6] Jessica Chastain (for The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Interstellar, Miss Julie, and A Most Violent Year)[6] Kevin Costner[6] The following thirty-two films received multiple nominations:
