Skandies

2014 ballot for Daniel Waters

Best Picture

Boyhood 18
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 16
Snowpiercer 15
Leviathan 12
Under the Skin 11
Force Majeure 7
Winter Sleep 6
Finding Vivian Maier 5
Nymph()maniac Vol. I 5
Nymph()maniac Vol. II 5

Best Director

Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin 25
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 17
Bong Joon Ho, Snowpiercer 14
Ruben Östlund, Force Majeure 11
Ramon Zürcher, The Strange Little Cat 7
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan 6
Richard Linklater, Boyhood 5
Christopher Nolan, Interstellar 5
David Michôd, The Rover 5
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep 5

Best Actress

Essie Davis, The Babadook 25
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night 17
Alex Essoe, Starry Eyes 14
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida 11
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymph()maniac Vol. II 7
Elena Lyadova, Leviathan 6
Lindsay Duncan, Le Week-end 5
Isabelle Huppert, Abuse of Weakness 5
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beyond the Lights 5
Gina Piersanti, It Felt Like Love 5

Best Actor

Jack O'Connell, Starred Up 25
Andre Benjamin, Jimi: All Is by My Side 17
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler 14
Haluk Bilginer, Winter Sleep 11
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel 7
Dan Stevens, The Guest 6
Brendan Gleeson, Calvary 5
Michael Keaton, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 5
John Lithgow, Love Is Strange 5
David Oyelowo, Selma 5

Best Supporting Actor

Patrick d'Assumçao, Stranger by the Lake 25
Edward Norton, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 17
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash 14
Alfred Molina, Love Is Strange 11
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher 7
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood 6
Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice 5
Tyler Perry, Gone Girl 5
Gary Poulter, Joe 5
Noah Wiseman, The Babadook 5

Best Supporting Actress

Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer 25
Agata Kulesza, Ida 17
Uma Thurman, Nymph()maniac Vol. I 14
Sandrine Kiberlain, Violette 11
Carrie Coon, Gone Girl 7
Melisa Sözen, Winter Sleep 6
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood 5
Dorothy Atkinson, Mr. Turner 5
Hong Chau, Inherent Vice 5
Mireille Enos, Sabotage 5

Best Screenplay

Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie 25
James Ward Byrkit, Coherence 17
Justin Lader, The One I Love 14
John Michael McDonagh, Calvary 11
Alejandro G. Iñárritu et al., Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 7
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night 6
Ruben Östlund, Force Majeure 5
Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, Leviathan 5
Alex Ross Perry, Listen Up Philip 5
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, Love Is Strange 5

Best Scene

Image capturing "Robin Wright", The Congress 25
The beach, Under the Skin 17
Final solo, Whiplash 14
The whoring bed, Nymph()maniac Vol. I 11
Hammer time, The Raid 2 7
Times Square jaunt, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 6
Avalanche, Force Majeure 5
"Oh.", John Wick 5
Saying goodbye to "The Cool Girl", Gone Girl 5
"Time in a Bottle", X-Men: Days of Future Past 5

Top Ten List

1. Boyhood
2. Birdman
3. Why Do You Play In Hell?
4. Nymphomaniac Director's Cut
5. Snowpiercer
6. Leviathan
7. Under the Skin
8. Force Majeure
9. The World of Kanako
10. Louis "Model"

Ratings

10 Rules for Sleeping Around 0.0
20,000 Days on Earth 3.5
2014 Oscar-Nominated Animation Shorts 2.0
2014 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts 2.5
2014 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts 2.5
22 Jump Street 3.5
24 Exposures 2.5
300: Rise of an Empire 2.5
3 Days to Kill 1.5
About Alex 1.5
About Last Night 2.0
Abuse of Weakness 3.0
Addicted 1.0
Adult World 3.0
Afflicted 3.0
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq 3.0
After the Fall 2.0
Alan Partridge 3.0
Alien Abduction 2.0
All Cheerleaders Die 2.5
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2.0
American Sniper 2.5
Among Ravens 1.0
And So It Goes 1.0
Annabelle 2.0
Annie 1.0
Are You Here 1.5
Art and Craft 3.0
As Above, So Below 2.5
At Middleton 1.5
At the Devil's Door 2.0
Awful Nice 2.5
The Babadook 3.5
Bad Turn Worse 2.5
Bad Words 3.0
Before I Disappear 2.5
Begin Again 2.5
Belle 3.0
Bethlehem 3.0
The Better Angels 1.5
Beyond Outrage 2.0
Beyond the Lights 3.5
Big Bad Wolves 2.5
Big Eyes 3.0
Big Hero 6 3.5
A Birder's Guide to Everything 1.5
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 4.0
Bird People 3.5
Björk: Biophilia Live 2.5
Blended 2.5
Blood Ties 1.0
Blue Ruin 3.5
Borgman 3.0
The Boxtrolls 2.5
Boyhood 4.0
Breathe In 2.5
Brick Mansions 2.0
Butter on the Latch 2.5
Calvary 3.5
Camp X-Ray 2.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3.0
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 3.0
The Captive 2.0
The Case Against 8 3.0
Cheap Thrills 3.5
Chef 3.0
Child of God 2.5
Child's Pose 3.0
Chinese Puzzle 3.0
The Circle 2.5
Citizenfour 3.5
A Coffee in Berlin 2.0
Coherence 3.5
Cold in July 3.0
Comet 2.5
The Congress 3.0
Copenhagen 2.5
The Dance of Reality 3.0
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3.5
Dead Snow: Red vs Dead 3.0
Dear White People 3.0
The Den 3.0
Devil's Due 2.0
Devil's Knot 0.0
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her 2.5
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him 2.5
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them 0.0
Divergent 3.0
The Dog 3.5
Dom Hemingway 2.5
Double Play: James Benning | Richard Linklater 2.5
The Double 3.0
Draft Day 2.0
The Drop 3.0
Drunktown's Finest 2.5
Dumb and Dumber To 2.0
Edge of Tomorrow 3.5
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me 3.0
Elena 2.5
Endless Love 1.0
Enemy 3.0
The Equalizer 2.0
Ernest & Celestine 3.0
Exhibition 3.5
Exodus: Gods and Kings 2.0
Expedition to the End of the World 2.5
The Expendables 3 3.0
Fading Gigolo 2.0
The Fault in Our Stars 2.0
Fed Up 3.0
A Field in England 2.5
Filth 2.0
Finding Vivian Maier 4.0
Force Majeure 4.0
For No Good Reason 2.5
Fort Bliss 2.5
Foxcatcher 3.5
Frank 3.0
Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For 2.0
A Fuller Life 3.0
Fury 3.0
Gabrielle 3.0
The Galápagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden 3.0
Gambit 0.0
The Gambler 3.0
G.B.F. 3.5
The German Doctor 3.0
Get On Up 3.0
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 3.5
The Giver 1.5
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me 3.0
Gloria 3.0
God Help the Girl 3.5
God's Pocket 3.0
Godzilla 3.5
The Golden Era 2.5
Gone Girl 3.5
Goodbye to Language 3.0
Goodbye World 2.0
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia 3.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel 3.5
Grand Piano 2.5
The Green Prince 2.5
Guardians of the Galaxy 3.5
The Guest 3.5
Han Gong-Ju 3.0
Happy Christmas 2.5
Happy Valley 3.0
Hateship Loveship 2.0
The Heart Machine 2.5
Hellion 2.0
Hercules 3.0
Hide Your Smiling Faces 2.5
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2.5
Hollidaysburg 2.0
The Homesman 3.0
Honey 3.0
Honeymoon 2.5
Horns 2.0
Horrible Bosses 2 2.0
How to Train Your Dragon 2 2.5
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I 1.5
Ida 3.5
If I Stay 2.5
The Imitation Game 3.0
The Immigrant 3.5
In Bloom 2.5
In Fear 2.5
Inherent Vice 3.5
In Secret 1.5
Interior. Leather Bar. 2.0
Interstellar 3.5
The Interview 3.0
Into the Storm 2.0
Into the Woods 2.0
I Origins 3.0
It Felt Like Love 3.5
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 1.5
Jealousy 3.0
Jersey Boys 1.5
Jimi: All Is by My Side 3.0
Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian 2.5
Jodorowsky's Dune 3.5
Joe 3.5
John Wick 3.5
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2.5
The Judge 1.5
Kill the Messenger 3.0
Kite 1.5
Labor Day 0.0
Laggies 2.5
Land Ho! 3.0
Last Days in Vietnam 3.5
The Last of Robin Hood 1.5
Last Weekend 1.0
Left Behind 0.0
The Lego Movie 3.5
Let's Be Cops 2.0
Leviathan 4.0
Le Week-end 3.0
The Liberator 2.0
Life After Beth 2.0
A Life in Dirty Movies 3.0
Life Itself 3.0
Life of Crime 2.0
Life Partners 2.5
Like Father, Like Son 3.0
Listen Up Philip 3.0
Locke 3.5
The Longest Week 1.5
Love Is Strange 3.5
Low Down 2.0
Lucky Bastard 3.0
Lucy 3.0
The Lunchbox 3.0
Magic in the Moonlight 2.0
Maleficent 2.0
Manakamana 3.0
A Master Builder 3.5
May in the Summer 2.0
The Maze Runner 3.0
Memphis 2.0
Men, Women & Children 2.0
Merchants of Doubt 3.5
Million Dollar Arm 1.5
A Million Ways to Die in the West 3.0
The Missing Picture 3.5
Miss Lovely 3.0
Mistaken for Strangers 3.0
Moebius 3.5
The Monuments Men 1.0
Mood Indigo 3.0
A Most Violent Year 3.0
A Most Wanted Man 3.0
Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3.0
Mr. Turner 3.5
Mr. X: A Vision of Leos Carax 3.0
Muppets Most Wanted 3.0
Need for Speed 1.5
Neighbors 3.0
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 2.0
Nightcrawler 3.5
Night Moves 2.5
Noah 3.0
No Good Deed 2.0
Non-Stop 3.0
Norte, the End of History 3.5
Not Cool 0.0
The November Man 1.5
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage 2.5
Nymph()maniac Vol. I 3.5
Nymph()maniac Vol. II 3.5
Obvious Child 3.0
Oculus 2.5
Odd Thomas 2.0
Omar 3.5
One Chance 2.0
The One I Love 3.5
Only Lovers Left Alive 3.0
The Other Woman 2.0
The Overnighters 3.5
The Pact 2 2.0
Palo Alto 3.0
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones 2.5
Particle Fever 3.0
A Picture of You 2.5
Pompeii 3.0
The Pretty One 2.5
Pride 3.0
Private Violence 3.0
The Protector 2 2.0
Proxy 3.5
The Purge: Anarchy 2.5
The Quiet Ones 1.0
The Raid 2 3.5
Raze 3.0
Red Army 3.0
Refuge 2.0
Ride Along 2.0
RoboCop 2.0
The Rocket 3.0
Rosewater 2.0
The Rover 3.5
Rudderless 1.5
Run & Jump 3.0
Sabotage 2.5
The Sacrament 2.5
The Salt of the Earth 3.0
Selma 3.5
Sex Ed 3.0
Sex Tape 1.0
The Signal 2.5
The Skeleton Twins 3.0
Small Time 2.0
Snowpiercer 4.0
Song of the Sea 3.0
Space Station 76 2.5
Special ID 2.5
Stage Fright 2.5
Stalingrad 3.0
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 3.0
Starred Up 3.5
Starry Eyes 3.5
Still Alice 2.5
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears 2.5
The Strange Little Cat 3.5
Stranger by the Lake 3.5
St. Vincent 2.0
Summer of Blood 2.5
The Suspect 3.0
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 3.0
Tammy 1.5
Teenage 3.0
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.0
Test 2.5
That Awkward Moment 1.5
The Theory of Everything 2.5
They Came Together 2.5
Think Like a Man Too 2.5
Third Person 2.0
This Is Where I Leave You 1.5
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely 2.5
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People 3.0
Top Five 3.5
Tracks 3.0
Transcendence 2.0
Transformers: Age of Extinction 1.5
The Trip to Italy 3.0
Tusk 2.5
Two Days, One Night 3.5
The Two Faces of January 2.5
Two Night Stand 2.5
Unbroken 2.0
Under the Skin 4.0
The Unknown Known 3.0
Vampire Academy 2.5
Venus in Fur 3.5
Veronica Mars 2.5
Very Good Girls 1.5
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear 3.0
Violette 3.0
Virunga 3.0
Visitors 2.0
The Wait 2.5
A Walk Among the Tombstones 2.5
Walk of Shame 1.0
The Way He Looks 3.0
We Are the Best! 3.5
Wetlands 3.0
What If 2.0
Whiplash 3.5
White Bird in a Blizzard 2.5
WHITEY: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger 3.0
Wild 2.0
Willow Creek 3.0
Winter in the Blood 2.0
Winter Sleep 4.0
Winter's Tale 1.0
Wish I Was Here 0.0
Witching & Bitching 3.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past 3.0
Young & Beautiful 3.0
Young Ones 2.5
Zero Motivation 2.5
The Zero Theorem 2.0