The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association award winners will be announced on December 15th. Here are my nominations.

[Note: I missed our Selma screening before the voting deadline due to a family emergency.]

Best Picture
1. Birdman
2. Blue Ruin
3. Boyhood
4. Whiplash
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Wild Tales
7. Mr. Turner
8. A Most Violent year
9. The Imitation Game
10. Foxcatcher

Best Director
1. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
2. Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
3. Christopher Nolan (Interstellar)
4. Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) 
5. Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin)

Best Actor
1. Michael Keaton (Birdman)
2. Macon Blair (Blue Ruin)
3. Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
4. Jack O’Connell (Starred Up, Unbroken)
5. Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner)

Best Actress
1. Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night; The Immigrant)
2. Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
3. Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
4. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
5. Jenny Slate (Obvious Child)

Best Supporting Actor
1. J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
2. Edward Norton (Birdman)
3. Steve Carrell (Foxcatcher)

Best Supporting Actress
1. Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
2. Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
3. Emma Stone (Birdman)

Best Foreign Language Film
1. Wild Tales
2. The Raid 2
3. Ida
4. Winter Sleep
5. Starred Up

Best Documentary
1. Life Itself
2. Citizenfour
3. The Great Invisible

Best Animated Film
1. The Lego Movie

Best Screenplay
1. Birdman

Best Cinematography
1. Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)

Best Musical Score
1. Interstellar

Russell Smith Award (pick one below)
~~Boyhood~~
~~Citizenfour~~
~~Force Majeure~~
~~Ida~~
Locke