2014 ballot for Zach Ralston
Best Picture
- Under the Skin 22
- Boyhood 19
- Love Is Strange 14
- Two Days, One Night 12
- The Babadook 8
- Force Majeure 5
- Gone Girl 5
- Jodorowsky's Dune 5
- The Skeleton Twins 5
- Snowpiercer 5
Best Director
- Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin 18
- Richard Linklater, Boyhood 16
- Jennifer Kent, The Babadook 12
- Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night 11
- Ira Sachs, Love Is Strange 10
- Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake 8
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice 7
- Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears 7
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 6
- Eugenio Mira, Grand Piano 5
Best Actress
- Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night 20
- Essie Davis, The Babadook 18
- Jenny Slate, Obvious Child 13
- Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin 11
- Reese Witherspoon, Wild 8
- Lisa Loven Kongsli, Force Majeure 7
- Kristen Wiig, The Skeleton Twins 7
- Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymph()maniac Vol. II 6
- Emily Blunt, Edge of Tomorrow 5
- Scarlett Johansson, Lucy 5
Best Actor
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler 13
- Bill Hader, The Skeleton Twins 13
- Tom Hardy, Locke 13
- Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice 13
- Dan Stevens, The Guest 13
- James Franco, The Interview 9
- Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel 7
- Jonah Hill, 22 Jump Street 7
- John Lithgow, Love Is Strange 6
- Chris Pratt, The Lego Movie 6
Best Supporting Actor
- Edward Norton, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 17
- Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice 14
- Randall Park, The Interview 12
- Luke Wilson, The Skeleton Twins 11
- Tony Revolori, The Grand Budapest Hotel 9
- Wyatt Russell, 22 Jump Street 9
- Robert Redford, Captain America: The Winter Soldier 8
- Zac Efron, Neighbors 7
- Ethan Hawke, Boyhood 7
- Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher 6
Best Supporting Actress
- Patricia Arquette, Boyhood 16
- Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer 14
- Marisa Tomei, Love Is Strange 12
- Mireille Enos, Sabotage 11
- Emma Stone, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 11
- Emma Watson, Noah 9
- Olivia Williams, Sabotage 8
- Rose Byrne, Neighbors 7
- Jillian Bell, 22 Jump Street 6
- Agata Kulesza, Ida 6
Best Screenplay
- Richard Linklater, Boyhood 21
- Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl 15
- Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night 12
- Greg Mclean & Aaron Sterns, Wolf Creek 2 10
- Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin 9
- Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler 8
- Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth, Edge of Tomorrow 7
- Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie 7
- Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, Love Is Strange 6
- Michael Bacall and Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman, 22 Jump Street 5
Best Scene
- The beach, Under the Skin 19
- "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", The Skeleton Twins 17
- Slo-mo centerpiece, Proxy 15
- Phone call to mom, Lucy 13
- Ice cream bars, Manakamana 8
- "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" (a drink with Mick), Wolf Creek 2 7
- Avalanche, Force Majeure 6
- Car chase after Chinatown Express, Nightcrawler 5
- Figure drawing, Bird People 5
- Tidal wave on Miller's planet, Interstellar 5
Top Ten List
- 1. Under the Skin
- 2. Boyhood
- 3. Love is Strange
- 4. Two Days, One Night
- 5. The Babadook
- 6. Snowpiercer
- 7. Gone Girl
- 8. Force Majeure
- 9. Jodorowsky's Dune
- 10. The Skeleton Twins
Ratings
- 13 Sins 2.0
- 22 Jump Street 3.0
- American Sniper 2.5
- The Babadook 3.5
- Bad Words 1.5
- Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 3.0
- Bird People 2.5
- Blue Ruin 2.0
- Boyhood 4.0
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2.5
- Cheap Thrills 2.0
- Chef 2.5
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2.0
- Dead Snow: Red vs Dead 2.5
- Edge of Tomorrow 3.5
- Enemy 2.5
- The Equalizer 1.5
- Force Majeure 3.5
- Foxcatcher 3.0
- Frank 2.5
- The Gambler 1.5
- Godzilla 2.0
- Gone Girl 3.5
- The Good Lie 1.0
- The Grand Budapest Hotel 3.0
- Grand Piano 2.5
- Guardians of the Galaxy 2.5
- The Guest 3.5
- Happy Christmas 1.5
- Ida 2.5
- The Immigrant 3.0
- Inherent Vice 3.0
- Interstellar 2.5
- The Interview 3.0
- Jodorowsky's Dune 3.5
- Joe 2.0
- John Wick 3.0
- The Lego Movie 3.0
- Let's Be Cops 1.0
- Listen Up Philip 3.0
- Locke 3.0
- Love Is Strange 4.0
- Lucy 3.0
- Manakamana 3.5
- Million Dollar Arm 2.0
- A Million Ways to Die in the West 1.0
- Moebius 2.0
- A Most Violent Year 2.0
- Neighbors 3.0
- Nightcrawler 3.0
- Noah 2.5
- Non-Stop 2.5
- Nymph()maniac Vol. I 1.5
- Nymph()maniac Vol. II 1.0
- Obvious Child 2.5
- Only Lovers Left Alive 2.5
- Proxy 3.0
- Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets 3.0
- The Raid 2 3.0
- RoboCop 1.0
- Sabotage 3.0
- The Sacrament 2.0
- Selma 2.5
- The Skeleton Twins 3.5
- Snowpiercer 3.5
- Starred Up 2.5
- The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears 3.0
- Stranger by the Lake 3.0
- That Awkward Moment 1.5
- They Came Together 3.0
- Top Five 2.5
- Two Days, One Night 4.0
- The Two Faces of January 2.5
- Under the Skin 4.0
- We Are the Best! 2.5
- Whiplash 2.0
- Wild 2.5
- Wolf Creek 2 3.0
- X-Men: Days of Future Past 0.0