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Filmspots 2014: Final Ballot
« on: March 21, 2015, 11:57:18 PM »
Below is the final ballot for this year's Filmspots. To vote, please copy-and-paste the ballot into a private message to me. You can vote anytime from now through Sunday, March 29 (extending into Monday morning).

You don't have to vote in every category, but there's also no need to abstain just because you haven't seen a key nominee or two. Part I of the ballot lets me know which films you haven't yet seen, and that's taken into account in tabulating the results. That way, your vote for the best nominee you've seen doesn't hurt the nominees you haven't seen.

Voting is open to everyone. You don't have to have submitted a nominations ballot in order to vote on this final ballot.

Winners will be announced in a live chat on Thursday, April at 8pm Eastern time.

If you have any questions, please ask them here.

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PART I: Which of the nominated films have you NOT yet seen? (Delete the ones you have seen from the list below.)

22 Jump Street
The Babadook
Big Hero 6
Bird People
Birdman
Blue Ruin
Boyhood
Calvary
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Citizenfour
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Edge of Tomorrow
Force Majeure
Frank
Godzilla
Gone Girl
Goodbye to Language 3D
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Ida
The Immigrant
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Jodorowsky's Dune
John Wick
The Lego Movie
Life Itself
Like Father, Like Son
Locke
The Missing Picture
National Gallery
Night Moves
Nightcrawler
Obvious Child
The One I Love
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Raid 2
Snowpiercer
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Two Days, One Night
Under the Skin
We Are the Best!
Whiplash
The Wind Rises
X-Men Days of Future Past


PART II:  Select your favorite nominee in each category. It's best for me if you leave only the nominee you're voting for and delete the other four.

Best Picture
     Boyhood
     The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Nightcrawler
     Under the Skin
     Whiplash

Best Director
     Alejandro González Ińárritu, Birdman
     Richard Linklater, Boyhood
     Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin
     Damien Chazelle, Whiplash

Best Original Screenplay
     Richard Linklater, Boyhood
     John Michael McDonagh, Calvary
     Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
     Damien Chazelle, Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay
     Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (from characters created by Jaffa and Silver)
     Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl (from her own novel)
     Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice (from the novel by Thomas Pynchon)
     Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin (from the novel by Michel Faber)
     Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises (from his own manga)

Best Actor
     Brendan Gleeson, Calvary
     Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
     Miles Teller, Whiplash
     Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Tom Hardy, Locke

Best Actress
     Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant
     Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
     Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
     Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
     Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Supporting Actor
     Edward Norton, Birdman
     Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
     J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
     Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice
     Michael Fassbender, Frank

Best Supporting Actress
     Agata Kulesza, Ida
     Emma Stone, Birdman
     Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
     Renee Russo, Nightcrawler
     Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

Best Ensemble Cast
     Birdman
     Boyhood
     Calvary
     The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Inherent Vice

Best Non-English Language Film
     Force Majeure
     Ida
     The Raid 2
     The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
     The Wind Rises

Best Animated Film
     Big Hero 6
     How to Train Your Dragon 2
     The Lego Movie
     The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
     The Wind Rises

Best Documentary
     Citizenfour
     Jodorowsky's Dune
     Life Itself
     The Missing Picture
     National Gallery

Best Editing
     Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione, Birdman
     Sandra Adair, Boyhood
     Barney Pilling, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Paul Watts, Under the Skin
     Tom Cross, Whiplash

Best Sound
     Godzilla
     Interstellar
     Under the Skin
     Whiplash
     The Wind Rises

Best Score
     Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Gone Girl
     Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Hans Zimmer, Interstellar
     Mica Levi, Under the Skin
     Joe Hisaishi, The Wind Rises

Best Soundtrack
     Boyhood
     Frank
     Guardians of the Galaxy
     Inherent Vice
     Whiplash

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

Best Art Direction
     Kevin Thompson and George DeTitta Jr., Birdman
     Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Marco Bittner Rosser, Christiane Krumwiede, and Malte Nitsche, Only Lovers Left Alive
     Ondrej Nekvasil and Beata Brendtnerovŕ,Snowpiercer
     Chris Oddy, Under the Skin

Best Visual Effects
     Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
     Godzilla
     Guardians of the Galaxy
     Interstellar
     Under the Skin

Best Surprise
     Captain America: The Winter Soldier
     Edge of Tomorrow
     Godzilla
     Guardians of the Galaxy
     John Wick

Best Debut Feature
     The Babadook (directed by Jennifer Kent)
     Blue Ruin (directed by Jeremy Saulnier)
     Force Majeure (directed by Ruben Östlund)
     Nightcrawler (directed by Dan Gilroy)
     Obvious Child (directed by Gillian Robespierre)

Best Overlooked Film
     Bird People
     Like Father, Like Son
     Night Moves
     The One I Love
     We Are the Best!

Best Scene (Dramatic)
     The Beach Scene, Under the Skin
     Confessional, Calvary
     Finale, Whiplash
     Going off to College, Boyhood
     Was I Rushing or Dragging?, Whiplash

Best Scene (Comedic)
     At the Bar, Force Majeure
     Calling the Society of the Crossed Keys, The Grand Budapest Hotel
     Captain's Daughter, 22 Jump Street
     Frank Presents His Most Likable Song Ever, Frank
     Time in a Bottle, X-Men Days of Future Past

Best Shot
     Drop to the Beach, Edge of Tomorrow
     Final Shot, The Immigrant
     On My Way, Whiplash
     Tank 360, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
     Two Shots in One, Goodbye to Language 3D

Best Line
     "I thought there 'd be more.", Boyhood
     "Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.", Guardians of the Galaxy
     "There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'.", Whiplash
     "What if my problem wasn't that I don't understand people, but that I don't like them?", Nightcrawler
     "You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse
          that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest,
          humble, insignificant... oh, f—k it.", The Grand Budapest Hotel
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