Ranking films I've seen of 2014
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- DirectorJames GunnStarsChris PrattVin DieselBradley CooperA group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe.5/5
Winner:
Best Film (Comedy)
Best Main Ensemble Cast
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Nominee:
Best Visual Effects
Best Costume Design
Overall Technical Accomplishment
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Bradley Cooper
Best Screenplay (Comedy) - DirectorRichard GlatzerWash WestmorelandStarsJulianne MooreAlec BaldwinKristen StewartA linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.5/5
Winner:
Best Non-Genre Film
Best Screenplay (Drama)
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Julianne Moore
Nominee:
Best Cinematography
Best Main Duo (Julianne Moore/ Alec Baldwin) - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEllar ColtranePatricia ArquetteEthan HawkeThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Patricia Arquette
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Ethan Hawke
Best Direction (Tie)
Nominee:
Best Editing
Best Original Song- "Hero"
Best Young Actor- Ellar Coltrane
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Marco Perella
Best Main Ensemble Cast
Best Screenplay (Drama)
Best Film (Drama) - DirectorJennifer KentStarsEssie DavisNoah WisemanDaniel HenshallA single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.5/5
Winner:
Best Young Actor/Actress- Noah Wiseman
Best Direction (Tie)
Nominee:
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Main Pair- Essie Davis/Noah Wiseman
Best Screenplay (Drama)
Best Film (Drama) - DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsReese WitherspoonLaura DernGaby HoffmannA chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.5/5
Winner:
Best Editing
Nominee:
Best Film (Drama)
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Reese Witherspoon
Best Screenplay (Drama)
Best Cinematography
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Laura Dern - DirectorJustin SimienStarsTyler James WilliamsTessa ThompsonKyle GallnerThe lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Screenplay (Comedy)
Nominee:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Teyonah Parris
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Tessa Thompson
Best Main Ensemble Cast
Best Film (Comedy) - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsMichael KeatonZach GalifianakisEdward NortonA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Cinematography
Nominee:
Best Main Ensemble Cast
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Overall Technical Accomplishment
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Emma Stone
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Edward Norton
Best Actor in a Leading Role- Michael Keaton
Best Screenplay (Comedy)
Best Direction
Best Film (Comedy) - DirectorPhil LordChristopher MillerStarsChris PrattWill FerrellElizabeth BanksAn ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.4.5/5
Nominee:
Best Animation
Best Screenplay (Comedy)
Best Original Song- "Everything is Awesome"
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Will Arnett
Best Film (Genre) - DirectorDan GilroyStarsJake GyllenhaalRene RussoBill PaxtonWhen Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Actor in a Leading Role- Jake Gyllenhaal
Best Original Score
Nominee:
Best Screenplay (Drama)
Best Film (Drama)
review of:
http://clarksworldoffilm.blogspot.com/ - DirectorGillian RobespierreStarsJenny SlateJake LacyGaby HoffmannA twenty-something comedienne's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.4.5/5
Nominee:
Best Film (Comedy)
Best Screenplay (Comedy)
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Jenny Slate
Best Main Pair- Jenny Slate/Jake Lacy - DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.4.5/5
Nominee:
Best Film (Drama)
Best Screenplay (Drama)
Best Original Song- "Glory"
Best Actor in a Leading Role- David Oyelowo
Best Main Ensemble Cast
Best Direction - DirectorTomm MooreStarsDavid RawleBrendan GleesonLisa HanniganBen, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Animation
Nominee:
Best Direction
Best Original Score
Best Young Actor- David Rawle - DirectorCraig JohnsonStarsKristen WiigBill HaderLuke WilsonHaving both coincidentally cheated death on the same day, estranged twins reunite with the possibility of mending their relationship.4.5/5
Nominee:
Best Film (Comedy)
Best Actor in a Leading Role- Bill Hader
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Kristen Wiig
Best Main Pair- Bill Hader/Kristen Wiig - DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesF. Murray AbrahamMathieu AmalricA writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Production Design/Art Direction
Overall Technical Accomplishment
Nominee:
Best Editing
Best Hair/Make-up
Best Costume Design
Best Original Score
Best Direction - DirectorCharlie McDowellStarsMark DuplassElisabeth MossTed DansonA troubled couple vacate to a beautiful getaway, but bizarre circumstances further complicate their situation.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Main Pair- Elisabeth Moss/Mark Duplass
Nominee:
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Elisabeth Moss
Best Screenplay (Comedy) - DirectorDavid FincherStarsBen AffleckRosamund PikeNeil Patrick HarrisWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.4.5/5
Nominee:
Best Actress in a Leading Role- Rosamund Pike
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Neil Patrick Harris - DirectorMatt ReevesStarsGary OldmanKeri RussellAndy SerkisThe fragile peace between apes and humans is threatened as mistrust and betrayal threaten to plunge both tribes into a war for dominance over the Earth.4.5/5
Winner:
Best Visual Effects
Nominee:
Best Art Direction - DirectorLenny AbrahamsonStarsMichael FassbenderDomhnall GleesonMaggie GyllenhaalJon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.4/5
Nominee:
Best Actor in a Leading Role- Michael Fassbender
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Maggie Gyleenhaal - DirectorTim BurtonStarsAmy AdamsChristoph WaltzDanny HustonA drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.4/5
Nominee:
Best Original Song- "Big Eyes"
Best Main Pair- Amy Adams/Christoph Waltz - DirectorJon FavreauStarsJon FavreauRobert Downey Jr.Scarlett JohanssonA head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.4/5
Nominee:
Best Editing
Best Cinematography
Best Young Actor- Emjay Anthony - DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsJohannes KuhnkeLisa Loven KongsliClara WettergrenA family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.4/5
Nominee:
Best Cinematography - DirectorTellerStarsTim JenisonPenn JilletteMartin MullInventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.4/5
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsRoger EbertChaz EbertGene SiskelThe life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.4/5
- DirectorJames BobinStarsRicky GervaisTy BurrellTina FeyWhile on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.4/5
Nominee:
Best Hair/Make-up
Best Original Song- "The Interrogation Song" - DirectorMorten TyldumStarsBenedict CumberbatchKeira KnightleyMatthew GoodeDuring World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.4/5
Nominee:
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Production Design - DirectorDon HallChris WilliamsStarsRyan PotterScott AdsitJamie ChungA special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.4/5
Winner:
Best Original Song- "Immortals"
Nominee:
Best Animation - DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda SwintonIn a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.4/5
Winner:
Best Costume Design
Nominee:
Best Editing
Best Hair/Make-up
Best Cinematography
Best Production Design
Overall Technical Accomplishment
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Tilda Swinton - DirectorDoug LimanStarsTom CruiseEmily BluntBill PaxtonA soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.4/5
Nominee:
Best Visual Effects - DirectorRob MarshallStarsAnna KendrickMeryl StreepChris PineA witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.3.5/5
Nominee:
Best Hair/Make-up
Best Costume Design
Best Production Design
Overall Technical Accomplishment
review of:
http://clarksworldoffilm.blogspot.com/ - DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsJason SchwartzmanElisabeth MossJonathan PryceWhen a self-obsessed novelist (Jason Schwartzman) has problems with his novel and his girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss), he seeks refuge in his mentor's cottage where the peace and quiet allow him to focus on his favorite subject - himself.3.5/5
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Elisabeth Moss - DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsJennifer LawrenceJosh HutchersonLiam HemsworthKatniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.3.5/5
- DirectorRichard AyoadeStarsJesse EisenbergMia WasikowskaWallace ShawnThe unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.3.5/5
Nominee:
Best Production Design - DirectorLasse HallströmStarsHelen MirrenOm PuriManish DayalThe Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.3.5/5
- DirectorBrett Ryan BonowiczStarsDon McManusWhit HertfordJames KysonA geneticist creates a website that pairs an individual with their ideal genetic partner for children.3.5/5
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsMatthew McConaugheyAnne HathawayJessica ChastainWhen Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.3.5/5
Nominee:
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Overall Technical Accomplishment - DirectorDon McKellarStarsTaylor KitschBrendan GleesonLiane BalabanTo survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary.3.5/5
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsColin FirthEmma StoneMarcia Gay HardenA romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.3/5
- DirectorRobert StrombergStarsAngelina JolieElle FanningSharlto CopleyA vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child could be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.3/5
Nominee:
Best Costume Design
Best Hair/Make-up - DirectorZach BraffStarsZach BraffJoey KingPierce GagnonA struggling actor, father and husband finds himself at a major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his family and his career.3/5
Nominee:
Best Young Actor- Joey King - DirectorNeil BurgerStarsShailene WoodleyTheo JamesKate WinsletIn a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.2.5/5
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsBrenton ThwaitesJeff BridgesMeryl StreepIn a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.2/5
review of:
http://clarksworldoffilm.blogspot.com/ - DirectorLuc BessonStarsScarlett JohanssonMorgan FreemanChoi Min-sikA woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.1.5/5
Review of:
http://clarksworldoffilm.blogspot.com/ - DirectorMark WatersStarsZoey DeutchLucy FryDanila KozlovskiyRose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi.1/5 on quality
4/5 on unintentional "so bad it's good" entertainment
2.5/5 on the whole
Review of:
http://clarksworldoffilm.blogspot.com/