Skandies

2014 ballot for Rachel Jacobson

Best Picture

Ida 16
Boyhood 15
The Grand Budapest Hotel 13
Only Lovers Left Alive 11
Life Itself 10
Force Majeure 9
A Most Violent Year 8
Love Is Strange 7
The Babadook 6
The Overnighters 5

Best Director

Richard Linklater, Boyhood 18
Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida 15
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel 12
Ruben Östlund, Force Majeure 11
Jennifer Kent, The Babadook 9
Ava DuVernay, Selma 9
Steve James, Life Itself 8
Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive 8
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, 20,000 Days on Earth 5
J.C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year 5

Best Actress

Essie Davis, The Babadook 16
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymph()maniac Vol. II 14
Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive 13
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night 11
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida 10
Mira Barkhammar, We Are the Best! 8
Luminita Gheorghiu, Child's Pose 8
Jenny Slate, Obvious Child 8
Viv Albertine, Exhibition 6
Tessa Thompson, Dear White People 6

Best Actor

John Lithgow, Love Is Strange 18
Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year 14
David Oyelowo, Selma 14
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel 11
Noah Wiseman, The Babadook 10
Johannes Kuhnke, Force Majeure 8
Michael Keaton, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 7
Alfred Molina, Love Is Strange 7
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher 6
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jodorowsky's Dune 5

Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher 25
Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice 13
Albert Brooks, A Most Violent Year 10
Tom Wilkinson, Selma 10
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood 9
Edward Norton, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 9
Stellan Skarsgård, Nymph()maniac Vol. II 8
Paul Jesson, Mr. Turner 6
Zach Galifianakis, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 5
Jonathan Pryce, Listen Up Philip 5

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette, Boyhood 18
Agata Kulesza, Ida 17
Uma Thurman, Nymph()maniac Vol. I 12
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year 11
Emma Stone, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 10
Lorraine Toussaint, Selma 9
Naomi Watts, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 7
Marisa Tomei, Love Is Strange 6
Laura Dern, Wild 5
Imelda Staunton, Pride 5

Best Screenplay

Ruben Östlund, Force Majeure 15
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel 14
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, Love Is Strange 11
Jennifer Kent, The Babadook 10
Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida 10
Alejandro G. Iñárritu et al., Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 9
Richard Linklater, Boyhood 9
J.C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year 9
Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive 7
Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child 6

Best Scene

The whoring bed, Nymph()maniac Vol. I 15
Avalanche, Force Majeure 12
Dave's documentary interview, Foxcatcher 12
Packing for college, Boyhood 12
4 little girls , Selma 10
The aunt's [SPOILER], Ida 10
After the last date, walk to the subway, Love Is Strange 8
The deformed man, Under the Skin 8
The Society of the Crossed Keys, The Grand Budapest Hotel 8
Reflection on leadership, abandoned church, The Overnighters 5

Top Ten List

1. Boyhood
2. Ida
3. Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Only Lovers Left Alive
5. Life Itself
6. Force Majeure
7. A Most Violent Year
8. Love is Strange
9. The Babadook
10. The Overnighters

Ratings

1,000 Times Good Night 1.5
20,000 Days on Earth 3.5
22 Jump Street 2.0
About Last Night 1.5
Abuse of Weakness 3.0
Actress 2.5
Advanced Style 2.0
Alan Partridge 2.0
The American Nurse 2.5
American Sniper 1.0
And So It Goes 1.5
Anita 2.5
At Middleton 1.5
The Babadook 3.5
Begin Again 2.0
Belle 2.5
Big Eyes 1.5
Big Men 2.0
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 3.5
Blue Ruin 2.5
Borgman 2.0
Boyhood 4.0
Burt's Buzz 1.5
Calvary 2.5
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 2.5
Chef 2.0
Child's Pose 3.0
Citizenfour 3.5
Coherence 2.5
The Congress 2.0
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3.0
Dear White People 3.0
Dom Hemingway 2.0
Dormant Beauty 2.5
The Double 2.0
Edge of Tomorrow 2.5
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me 2.5
Elena 3.0
Enemy 2.0
Exhibition 3.5
Fading Gigolo 1.5
The Fault in Our Stars 2.0
Fifi Howls From Happiness 3.0
Finding Vivian Maier 2.5
Force Majeure 3.5
Foxcatcher 3.5
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 3.0
Gloria 3.0
Gone Girl 2.5
Goodbye to All That 1.0
Goodbye to Language 2.5
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia 2.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel 4.0
Guardians of the Galaxy 3.0
Hank and Asha 2.5
Happy Christmas 2.5
Happy Valley 3.0
Hateship Loveship 1.0
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I 2.5
Ida 4.0
The Imitation Game 3.0
The Immigrant 2.5
Inherent Vice 3.0
The Internet's Own Boy 2.5
It Felt Like Love 2.5
Jodorowsky's Dune 3.5
Joe 3.5
The Lego Movie 3.5
Leviathan 3.5
Le Week-end 2.0
Life Itself 4.0
Like Father, Like Son 3.5
Listen Up Philip 3.0
Locke 2.5
Love Is Strange 3.5
Lucky Them 2.0
Manakamana 3.0
Men, Women & Children 1.0
Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America 2.5
The Missing Picture 3.0
Mistaken for Strangers 2.5
A Most Violent Year 3.5
A Most Wanted Man 3.0
Mr. Turner 3.5
Neighbors 3.0
Nightcrawler 3.0
Night Moves 3.0
No No: A Dockumentary 2.0
Northern Light 3.0
Nymph()maniac Vol. I 3.5
Nymph()maniac Vol. II 3.5
Obvious Child 3.5
The One I Love 2.0
Only Lovers Left Alive 3.5
The Other Woman 1.5
The Overnighters 4.0
Palo Alto 2.5
Particle Fever 3.0
The Pretty One 2.0
Pride 3.5
Rich Hill 3.0
Rosewater 2.0
Selma 3.5
She's Beautiful When She's Angry 2.5
The Skeleton Twins 2.0
Snowpiercer 2.5
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 3.5
Still Alice 3.0
Stranger by the Lake 3.0
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 3.0
Tales of the Grim Sleeper 3.0
That Awkward Moment 1.0
The Theory of Everything 2.5
They Came Together 1.0
Top Five 3.0
The Trip to Italy 2.5
Two Days, One Night 3.5
Under the Skin 3.0
The Unknown Known 3.0
We Are the Best! 3.5
Wetlands 3.0
Whiplash 3.0
WHITEY: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger 3.0
Wild 3.0
X-Men: Days of Future Past 2.5
Young & Beautiful 3.0
Zero Motivation 3.0