Tags a girl walks home alone at night a most violent year alejandro g. inarritu alfred molina ana lily amirpour bennett miller beyond the lights birdman boyhood case against 8 channing tatum citizenfour damian chazelle dan gilroy david oyelowo dear white people edward norton ellar coltrane ethan hawke Force Majeure foxcatcher gillian robespierre Gold Rush gold rush gang gugu mbatha - raw hilary swank Ida independent spirit awards J. C. Chandor j.k. simmons jake gyllenhaal jenny slate jessica chastain john lithgow julianne moore kristen stewart kristen wiig love is strange mark ruffalo michael keaton mommy mr. turner
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BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Director: Ana Lily Amirpour Producers: Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah Dear White People Director / Producer: Justin Simien Producers: Effie T. Brown, Ann Le, Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Lena Waithe
Nightcrawler Director: Dan Gilroy Producers: Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak
Obvious Child Director: Gillian Robespierre Producer: Elisabeth Holm She's Lost Control Director / Producer: Anja Marquardt Producers: Mollye Asher, Kiara C. Jones
Honorable Mentions: 22 Jump Street, Afflicted, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Big Bad Wolves, Blue Ruin, The Boxtrolls, Boyhood, Calvary, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Citizenfour, Cheap Thrills, Cold in July, Dead Snow 2, The Drop, Enemy, Escape from Tomorrow, Filth, Force Majeur, Frank, Fury, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guest, Honeymoon, Housebound, The Internet's Own Boy, Interstellar, The Interview, Joe, John Wick, Locke, Magic in the Moonlight, Moebius, Neighbors,
Nightcrawler, Noah,
Obvious Child, The One I Love, The Overnighters, The Purge: Anarchy, The Raid 2, The Sacrament, Selma, The Skeleton Twins, Starry Eyes, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears, Stretch, The Theory of Everything, They Came Together, Under the Skin, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Wetlands, and Wild, so don't tell me there were no good movies in 2014.