THE MATCHIES 2014 - Final Ballot and Voting - Deadline September 8

[Lazlo]

Look everyone, it's the nominees for the 2014 Matchies! Sort through them and PM me your votes by the 11:59pm EST on September 8. That's next Tuesday!

Some categories have as many as 8 nominees due to ties. More options to choose from! Looking forward to seeing how we narrow all this down.

Best Picture
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Only Lovers Left Alive
Under the Skin

Best Director
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Jonathan Glazer - Under the Skin
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
Tom Hardy - Locke
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Johannes Kuhnke - Force Majeure

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard - The Immigrant
Essie Davis - The Babadook
Scarlett Johansson - Under the Skin
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Tilda Swinton - Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin - Inherent Vice
Patrick d'Assumçao - Stranger By the Lake
Zach Galifinakis - Birdman
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Tyler Perry - Gone Girl
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Agata Kulesza - Ida
Emma Stone - Birdman
Tilda Swinton - Snowpiercer
Uma Thurman - Nymphomaniac
Katherine Waterston - Inherent Vice

Best Ensemble Cast
Birdman - Francine Maisler
Gone Girl - Laray Mayfield
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Douglas Aibel, Antoinette Boulat, Simone Bär, Jina Jay, Alexandra Montag
Guardians of the Galaxy - Sarah Finn and Reg Poerscout-Edgerton
We Are the Best! - Imor Hermann and Maggie Widstrand

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman - Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Armando Bo
Force Majeure - Ruben Östlund
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson; story by Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy
Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch

Best Adapted Screenplay
Edge of Tomorrow - Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth; novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn; based on her novel
Snowpiercer - Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson; graphic novel by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, Jean-Marc Rochette
Under the Skin - Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer; novel by Michel Faber
We Are the Best! - Lukas Moodysson; comic book by Coco Moodysson

Best Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
Ernest and Celestine
The Lego Movie
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Best Documentary
Citizenfour
Jodorowsky's "Dune"
Life Itself
The Missing Picture
The Unknown Known

Best Cinematography
Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki
Gone Girl - Jeff Cronenweth
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert Yeoman
Ida - Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal
Interstellar - Hoyte Van Hoytema
Under the Skin - Daniel Landin

Best Editing
Boyhood - Sandra Adair
Edge of Tomorrow - James Herbert and Laura Jennings
Force Majeure - Jacob Secher Schulsinger
Gone Girl - Kirk Baxter
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling
Nightcrawler - John Gilroy
Whiplash - Tom Cross

Best Art Direction
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen
Interstellar - Nathan Crowley and Dean Wolcott
The Immigrant - Happy Massee and Pete Zumba
Only Lovers Left Alive - Marco Bittner Rosser and Anja Fromm
Snowpiercer - Ondrej Nekvasil and Stefan Kovacik

Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Milena Canonero
Guardians of the Galaxy - Alexandre Byrne
The Immigrant - Patricia Norris
Inherent Vice - Mark Bridges
Only Lovers Left Alive - Bina Daigeler
Snowpiercer - Catherine George

Best Hair and Makeup
Foxcatcher - Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Julie Dartnell and Frances Hannon
Guardians of the Galaxy - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiu and David White
Inherent Vice - Miia Kovero and Gigi Williams
Only Lovers Left Alive - Barbara Kichi
Snowpiercer - Jeremy Woodhead

Best Score
Gone Girl - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar - Hans Zimmer
Only Lovers Left Alive - Jozef van Wissem
Under the Skin - Mica Levi

Best Sound
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Ed White, Andy Nelson, Will Files, Douglas Murray
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar - Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten, Richard King
Snowpiercer

Best Visual Effects
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy - Stephane Ceretti, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas Aithadi, Paul Corbould
Interstellar - Paul J. Franklin , Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R. Fisher
Under the Skin - Tom Debenham and Dominic Parker
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

[Lazlo]

Here's the nominations stats. The Grand Budapest Hotel leads all with 11 nominations, followed by Birdman with 9.

11
The Grand Budapest Hotel

9
Birdman

8
Gone Girl

7
Only Lovers Left Alive
Snowpiercer

6
Under the Skin

5
Boyhood
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar

4
Inherent Vice

3
Edge of Tomorrow
Force Majeure
The Immigrant
Nightcrawler

2
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Ida
We Are the Best!
Whiplash

1
The Babadook
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
Citizenfour
Ernest and Celestine
Foxcatcher
Godzilla
Jodorowsky's Dune
The Lego Movie
Life Itself
Locke
The Missing Picture
Nymphomaniac
Stranger By the Lake
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Unknown Known
X-Men: Days of Future Past

[Spinal]

Thanks for the tallying!

No Charlotte Gainsbourg is fairly tragic, but ah well. I'm looking forward to seeing how it shakes out.

[baby doll]

So why are people voting for Citizenfour? I think Edward Snowden is great, but I can't say I learned that much from watching him sitting in his hotel room watching CNN.

[Lazlo]

So why are people voting for Citizenfour? I think Edward Snowden is great, but I can't say I learned that much from watching him sitting in his hotel room watching CNN.

For me it was the engrossing sense that we were watching history unfold in real time through the run of the film. It's an important moment in American history, though the public didn't seem to care all that much, and there is a camera in place capturing it as it's happening. Really adds something to the film.

[baby doll]

For me it was the engrossing sense that we were watching history unfold in real time through the run of the film. It's an important moment in American history, though the public didn't seem to care all that much, and there is a camera in place capturing it as it's happening. Really adds something to the film.

As Ebert used to say, it's not what a film is about but how it's about it. What's important about the Snowden affair is the information he leaked, not that he spent a week in a hotel room talking to Glenn Greenwald. And despite Snowden's frequent protestations that he didn't want the story to be about him, the balance of the film is 70 percent Snowden (who's kind of a boring guy, by the way) and 30 percent actual information, and the part that's information isn't even new information but stuff I'd already read in the Guardian.

[Pop Trash]

As Ebert used to say, it's not what a film is about but how it's about it. What's important about the Snowden affair is the information he leaked, not that he spent a week in a hotel room talking to Glenn Greenwald. And despite Snowden's frequent protestations that he didn't want the story to be about him, the balance of the film is 70 percent Snowden (who's kind of a boring guy, by the way) and 30 percent actual information, and the part that's information isn't even new information but stuff I'd already read in the Guardian.

I kinda agree with you. I thought the film was decent, but I'm at a loss as to why people considered it significantly better than other docos from last year. Hell, I thought The Internet's Own Boy was a little better and that got about half the critical attention.

[Gizmo]

Only saw 11 films from the year and most were the mainstream type, so I didn't feel right trying to come up with nominations. I'm going to try and watch Birdman and Under the Skin that way I'll have seen at least 3 in most categories, and will feel okay with voting in those categories.

[Lazlo]

Only saw 11 films from the year and most were the mainstream type, so I didn't feel right trying to come up with nominations. I'm going to try and watch Birdman and Under the Skin that way I'll have seen at least 3 in most categories, and will feel okay with voting in those categories.

Cool beans. The more the merrier.

[Lazlo]

Got some pretty interesting results so far, as well as some ties that would be great to bust up. I know it's tough to put together a whole nominating ballot, but it shouldn't take long to breeze through a final vote. Don't feel like you have to vote in every category. It's totally cool to abstain from any where you haven't seen most of the nominees and just vote in categories you feel comfortable about.

C'mon people. Do it for the Matchies!

[Henry Gale]

Oh okay, as someone who didn't realize the nominations were actually being tabulated when they are, I will NOT miss out on these votes. Getting them in just under the wire.

I still feel in catch-up mode from a year that ended almost a year ago..

[Lazlo]

Thanks for all the ballots everyone. VOTING IS STILL OPEN until around 9PM EST tonight. There's still a few ties, so get your votes in!

[Lazlo]

IT'S OVER. Voting is closed, results will be posted in the next few days!