My Award Winners for 2014!

And here they are. Lots of good work out there this year. So much, in fact, that I couldn't help but acknowledge my runner-up selections for each category.

Enjoy! And feel free to let me know what your picks would be.

Best Picture
WHIPLASH, (Damien Chazelle, Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster)

Runner-up: BOYHOOD, (Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland)

Best Director
RICHARD LINKLATER, BOYHOOD

Runner-up: ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU, BIRDMAN

Best Actor
MICHAEL KEATON, BIRDMAN

Runner-up: JAKE GYLLENHAAL, NIGHTCRAWLER

Best Actress
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, BEGIN AGAIN

Runner-up: MARION COTILLARD, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. SIMMONS, WHIPLASH

Runner-up: EDWARD NORTON, BIRDMAN

Best Supporting Actress
TILDA SWINTON, SNOWPIERCER

Runner-up: PATRICIA ARQUETTE, BOYHOOD

Best Acting Ensemble
BOYHOOD

GONE GIRL

Best Original Screenplay
FOXCATCHER, (E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman)

Runner-up: BIRDMAN,

(Alejando G. Iňárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Armando Bo)

Best Adapted Screenplay
WILD, (Nick Hornby)

Runner-up: GONE GIRL, (Gillian Flynn)

Best Animated Feature
SONG OF THE SEA, (Tomm Moore)

Runner-up: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, (Dean DeBlois)

Best Foreign Film

FORCE MAJEURE, (Ruben Östlund)

Runner-up: IDA, (Paweł Pawlikowski)

Best Documentary
VIRUNGA, (Orlando von Einsiedel)

Runner-up: THE OVERNIGHTERS, (Jesse Moss)

Best Cinematography
BIRDMAN, (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Runner-up: MR. TURNER, (Dick Pope)

Best Film Editing
WHIPLASH, (Tom Cross)

Runner-up: WILD, (Jean-Marc Vallée, Martin Pensa)

Best Production Design
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL,
(Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock, Gerald Sullivan)

Runner-up: SNOWPIERCER,

(Ondrej Nekvasil, Beatrice Brendtnerovà, Stefan Kovacik)

Best Costume Design
THE BOXTROLLS, (Deborah Cook)

Runner-up: INHERENT VICE, (Mark Bridges)

Best Original Score
GONE GIRL, (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)

Runner-up: INTERSTELLAR, (Hans Zimmer)

Best Adapted Score
WHIPLASH, (Justin Hurwitz, Andy Ross)

Runner-up: INTO THE WOODS, (David Crane, Jonathan Tunick)

Best Original Song
"Glory" from SELMA, (John Legend, Common, Rhymefest)

Runner-up: "A Step You Can't Take Back" from BEGIN AGAIN,

(John Carney, Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois)

Best Sound Mixing

WHIPLASH, (Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley)

Runner-up: FURY, (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Marc Fishman, Lisa Pinero)

Best Sound Editing

FURY, (Paul N.J. Ottosson)

Runner-up: GODZILLA, (Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn)

Best Visual Effects
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES,

(Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Matt Kutcher, Daniel Barrett)

Runner-up: INTERSTELLAR,

(Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, Ian Hunter)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, (Jan Sewell)

Runner-up: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY,
(David White, Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou)

So that makes five wins for Whiplash, and two apiece for Boyhood and Birdman.