Alternate Oscars: 2014

A combination of personal favorites and consensus picks ...

Note: while I have set up the polls so that you can only vote once for picture, director and the four acting categories, you may click on multiple answers in the Special Award poll.

Best Picture of 2014

✔ Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Boyhood

Gone Girl

★ The Grand Budapest Hotel

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Imitation Game

Interstellar

John Wick

The Lego Movie

Selma

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Best Actor of 2014 (Poll Closed)

• Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)  12.16%  (9 votes)  
   
• Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)  17.57%  (13 votes)  
   
• Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)  31.08%  (23 votes)  
   
• ★ Michael Keaton (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))  39.19%  (29 votes)  
   
• Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy and The Lego Movie)  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 74

 

Best Actress of 2014 (Poll Closed)

• Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow (Live Die Repeat))  1.54%  (1 votes)  
   
• Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)  21.54%  (14 votes)  
   
• ✔ Julianne Moore (Still Alice)  21.54%  (14 votes)  
   
• ★ Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)  53.85%  (35 votes)  
   
• Reese Witherspoon (Wild)  1.53%  (1 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 65

 

Best Director of 2014

★ Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Ava DuVernay (Selma)

James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy)

✔ Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2014 (Poll Closed)

• Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)  5.26%  (3 votes)  
   
• Edward Norton (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))  29.82%  (17 votes)  
   
• Tyler Perry (Gone Girl)  1.75%  (1 votes)  
   
• Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel)  8.77%  (5 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)  54.39%  (31 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 57

 

Best Supporting Actress of 2014 (Poll Closed)

• ✔ Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)  22.41%  (13 votes)  
   
• ★ Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)  25.86%  (15 votes)  
   
• Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy)  5.17%  (3 votes)  
   
• Emma Stone (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))  18.97%  (11 votes)  
   
• Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)  27.59%  (16 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 58

 

Special Award

"Everything Is Awesome" (The Lego Movie) music and lyrics by Shawn Patterson (song)

Guardians of the Galaxy (soundtrack)

Lance Reddick (John Wick) (best concierge)

Draft Day (best love sonnet to the NFL)

with: his bare hands, a fire extinguisher, barbed wire, garden shears, a power drill, a bathroom mirror, a microwave, and a nail gun (The Equalizer) (how can Denzel Washington kill thee in a hardware store, let me count the ways)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.