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The Films of 2014. The 15th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards

PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES 

 

AND THE NOMINEES ARE... 

Best Original Score
BIRDMAN
Antonio Sanchez
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Alexandre Desplat
THE HOMESMAN
Marco Beltrami
INTERSTELLAR
Hans Zimmer
UNDER THE SKIN
Mica Levi
  
  
     
 
Runners Up

Finalists: The Boxtrolls - Dario Marianelli; Godzilla - Alexandre Desplat; Snowpiercer - Marco Beltrami
Semi-Finalists: The Theory of Everything - Johan Johansson; Nightcrawler - James Newton Howard; Mr Turner - Gary Yershon


Best Adapted Score / Song Score
(an "extra" category but it's easiest to place it here)
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
Kiosk, Radio Tehran, and various artists
IDA
Kristian Eidnes Andersen, John Coltrane, and various artists
INTO THE WOODS
Stephen Sondheim
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Sqürl, Jozef Van Wissem, and Various Artists
WHIPLASH
Justin Hurwitz, Tim Simonec and a couple of Jazz Standards

 
  
   
 
   
 

Runners Up 

Finalist: Mommy - Noia and various artists; Beyond the Lights - Mark Isham, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Diane Warren, and various artists

Semi-Finalists: Guardians of the Galaxy; Selma;

 

Best Original Song
"Everything is Awesome"
THE LEGO MOVIE
"I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)"
MUPPETS MOST WANTED
"Glory"
SELMA
"Like a Fool"
BEGIN AGAIN
"Lost Stars"
BEGIN AGAIN
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
Runners Up

Finalists: "The Boxtrolls" - The Boxtrolls; and Everything Other Song from Begin Again

Semi-Finalists: "We're Doing a Sequel" - Muppets Most Wanted; "I Love You Too Much" - The Book of Life;  "Mercy Is" Noah; "Something So Right" - Muppets Most Wanted

I Did Not See: Glenn Campbell's I'll Be Me... but if I had... well, I love its song "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" which was Oscar nominated

 

Best Sound Editing
AMERICAN SNIPER BIRDMAN GODZILLA GONE GIRL WHIPLASH
   
 
   
 

 
  
 

Finalists: Grand Budapest Hotel; Captain America: Winter Soldier; Fury

Semi-Finalists: Interstellar; The Babadook

 

Best Sound Mixing
BIRDMAN DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES GONE GIRL UNDER THE SKIN
WILD

 
  
   
 
 
 

 

Runners Up

Finalists: Grand Budapest Hotel; American Sniper; Whiplash

Semi-Finalists: Into the WoodsGet On Up

 

 

TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES - NOMINATION TALLIES THUS FAR...

Nomination Leaders
10 nominations - Birdman
7 nominations - Grand Budapest Hotel
7 nominations - Under the Skin
4 nominations - Boyhood
4 nominations - Ida
4 nominations - Nightcrawler

(only 4 of those made my top ten list)

3 nominations
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Gone Girl
The Lego Movie
Mr Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Selma (or 4 nominations if you use the Oscar-correlative expanded BP lineup)
Snowpiercer 
Wild 

2 nominations
Babadook 
Begin Again
Boxtrolls
Force Majeure
Godzilla
The Immigrant
Interstellar
Pride

1 nomination only 
American Sniper
Captain America: Winter Soldier 
Foxcatcher 
Guardians of the Galaxy 
The Homesman
Inherent Vice 
The Imitation Game 
Mommy (or 2 nominations if you use Oscar correlative expanded BP lineup)
Muppets Most Wanted
A Most Violent Year 
Song of the Sea 
Still Alice
Theory of Everything 
Two Days One Night
Whiplash
Wild Tales  

Zero Nominations
Love is Strange (*sniffle* or 1 for Best Picture if you use the correlative expanded BP lineup -it's in my top ten list

 

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