Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award Nominations

Best Film
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
A Most Violent Year
Nightcrawler
Selma
Snowpiercer
Whiplash

Best Director
Wes Anderson "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Damien Chazelle "Whiplash"
Ava DuVernay "Selma"
Alejandro González Iñárritu "Birdman"
Richard Linklater "Boyhood"

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Jake Gyllenhaal "Nightcrawler"
Michael Keaton "Birdman"
David Oyelowo "Selma"
Eddie Redmayne "The Theory of Everything"

Best Actress
Essie Davis "The Babadook"
Scarlett Johansson "Under the Skin"
Felicity Jones "The Theory of Everything"
Rosamund Pike "Gone Girl"
Reese Witherspoon "Wild"

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin "Inherent Vice"
Ethan Hawke "Boyhood"
Edward Norton "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons "Whiplash"

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette "Boyhood"
Jessica Chastain "A Most Violent Year"
Keira Knightley "The Imitation Game"
Emma Stone "Birdman"
Tilda Swinton "Snowpiercer"

Best Ensemble
Birdman
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy

Actor of the Year
(for an exemplary body of work)
Jessica Chastain (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Interstellar, Miss Julie, and A Most Violent Year)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Imitation Game)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Enemy and Nightcrawler)
Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy and The LEGO Movie)
Tilda Swinton (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive, Snowpiercer, and The Zero Theorem)

Breakthrough Film Artist
Damien Chazelle "Whiplash"
Ava DuVernay "Selma"
Jennifer Kent "The Babadook"
Gugu Mbatha-Raw "Belle" and "Beyond the Lights"
Justin Simien "Dear White People"

Best Cinematography
Benoît Delhomme "The Theory of Everything"
Hoyte Van Hoytema "Interstellar"
Daniel Landin "Under the Skin"
Emmanuel Lubezki "Birdman"
Robert Yeoman "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Film Editing
Sandra Adair "Boyhood"
Spencer Averick "Selma"
Kirk Baxter "Gone Girl"
Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione "Birdman"
Tom Cross "Whiplash"

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson "Inherent Vice"
Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson "Snowpiercer"
Gillian Flynn "Gone Girl"
Nick Hornby "Wild"
Graham Moore "The Imitation Game"

Best Original Screenplay
Wes Anderson "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
J.C. Chandor "A Most Violent Year"
Damien Chazelle "Whiplash"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo "Birdman"
Paul Webb "Selma"

Best Score
Alexandre Desplat "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Jóhann Jóhannsson "The Theory of Everything"
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "Gone Girl"
Antonio Sanchez "Birdman"
Hans Zimmer "Interstellar"

Best Documentary
CitizenFour
Dinosaur 13
Finding Vivian Maier
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Life Itself

Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Ida
Two Days, One Night
We Are the Best!

Best Animated Film
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The LEGO Movie

Best Overlooked Film
The Babadook
Blue Ruin
Edge of Tomorrow
Enemy
Locke