One more year, in a couple of nights the Oscars ceremony will officially put an end to another awards season and with it to a whole year of cinematographic harvest. The time when our blog releases its annual film review. During the next 48 hours will be looking back at 2014 biggest surprises, disappointments and our favorite Top 50 films of the year.
The Rober Awards Film Poll will also close shortly after the Oscars. You can still cast your votes here. In the meantime, the following are our choices in each and every category. And the RoberAwards 2014 votes go to…
BEST PICTURE: BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater)
BEST DIRECTOR: RICHARD LINKLATER (Boyhood)
BEST ACTOR: JAKE GYLLENHAAL (Nightcrawler) ex-aequo TIMOTHY SPALL (Mr. Turner)
BEST ACTRESS: JULIANNE MOORE (Maps To The Stars)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: PATRICIA ARQUETTE (Boyhood) ex-aequo AGATA KULESZA (Ida)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: J.K. SIMMONS (Whiplash)
RISING STAR: JACK O’CONNELL (Starred Up & ’71)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: BIRDMAN (A. Dinelaris, N. Giacobone, A. G. Iñárritu, A. Bo) ex-aequo THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson & Hugo Guiness)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: UNDER THE SKIN (Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer)
BEST DOCUMENTARY: 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: MR. TURNER (Dick Pope)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Adam Stockhausen)
BEST ANIMATED PICTURE: THE LEGO MOVIE (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)
BEST FIRST FEATURE: NIGHTCRAWLER (Dan Gilroy)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: LEVIATHAN (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
BEST BRITISH PICTURE: MR. TURNER (Mike Leigh)
BEST HISPANIC PICTURE: THE GOLDEN DREAM “La Jaula De Oro” (Diego Quemada-Díez)
BEST SOUNDTRACK: UNDER THE SKIN (Mica Levi)
CUTTING EDGE: STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie) ex-aequo NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY (Lav Díaz)
BEST GENRE FILM: UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer)
BEST COMEDY: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
MOST UNDERRATED PICTURE: OF HORSES AND MEN (Benedikt Erlingsson) ex-aequo THE DANCE OF REALITY (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
BLOCKBUSTER OF THE YEAR: THE LEGO MOVIE (Phil Lord & Christoher Miller)