27th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2014)
Best Film
Boyhood - Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
Birdman - Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdople
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
Under the Skin - James Wilson and Nick Wechsler
Whiplash - Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster
Best Director
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Birdman
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar
Best Actor
Michael Keaton - Birdman as Riggan Thomas
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler as Louis "Lou" Bloom
David Oyelowo - Selma as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking
Best Actress
Julianne Moore - Still Alice as Alice Howland
Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
Scarlett Johansson - Under the Skin as Isserley
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
Reese Witherspoon - Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor
J. K. Simmons - Whiplash as Terence Fletcher
Josh Brolin - Inherent Vice as Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
Edward Norton - Birdman as Mike Shiner
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood as Olivia Evans
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year as
Laura Dern - Wild as Bobbi Grey
Agata Kulesza - Ida as Anna/Ida Lebenstein
Emma Stone - Birdman as Sam Thomson
Best Original Screenplay
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson
Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bó
Boyhood - Richard Linklater
Calvary - John Michael McDonagh
Whiplash - Damien Chazelle
Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn based on the novel
The Imitation Game - Graham Moore based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Inherent Vice - Paul Thomas Anderson based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon
Under the Skin - Walter Campbell based on the novel by Michel Farber
Wild - Nick Hornby based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed
Best Editing
Whiplash - Tom Cross
Birdman - Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione
Boyhood - Sandra Adair
Gone Girl - Kirk Baxter
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling
Best Cinematography
Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki and The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert Yeoman
Ida - Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal
Inherent Vice - Robert Elswit
Interstellar - Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Interstellar - Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
Into The Woods - Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Only Lovers Left Alive - Production Design: Anja Fromm; Set Decoration: Christiane Krumwiede and Malte Nitsche
Snowpiercer - Production Design: Stefan Kovacik; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerova
Best Original Score
Under the Skin - Mica Levi
Birdman - Antonio Sánchez
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game - Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar - Hans Zimmer
Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure (Sweden) in Swedish - Directed by Ruben Ostlund
Ida (Poland) in Polish - Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Mommy (Canada) in French - Directed by Xavier Dolan
The Raid 2 (Indonesia) in Indonesian - Directed by Gareth Evans
Two Days, One Night (France) in French - Directed by Luca Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Best Documentary Film
Life Itself - Steve James, Zak Piper and Garrett Basch
Citizenfour - Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Jodorowsky's Dune - Frank Pavich, Stephen Scarlata and Travis Stevens
Last Days in Vietnam - Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
The Overnighters - Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
Best Animated Film
The Lego Movie - Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dan Lin and Roy Lee
Big Hero 6 - Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls - Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
Most Promising Filmmaker
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler
Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Jeremy Saulnier - Blue Ruin
Justin Simien - Dear White People
Most Promising Performer
Jack O'Connell - Starred Up as Eric Love and Unbroken as Louis "Louie" Zamperini
Ellar Coltrane - Boyhood as Mason Evans, Jr.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Belle as Dido Elizabeth Belle and Beyond the Lights as Noni Jean
Tony Revolori - The Grand Budapest Hotel as Zero Moustafa
Jenny Slate - Obvious Child as Donna Stern
Agata Trzebuchowska - Ida as Anna/Ida Lebenstein