The New York Film Critics Online named Richard Linklater’s Boyhood best picture of the year Sunday. It also voted its award for best director to Linklater and chose the movie’s Patricia Arquette as best supporting actress.
The group — not to be confused with the New York Film Critics Circle, which also chose Boyhood when it met on Dec. 1 — also handed three awards to Birdman, which was cited for best screenplay, cinematography and ensemble cast. Eddie Redmayne was honored as best actor for his performance in The Theory of Everything, while Marion Cotillard received the best actess award for her performance in Two Days, One Night, which also won for foreign language film. J.K. Simmons won for best supporting actor for Whiplash.
The complete list of films follows:
PICTURE – Boyhood (IFC Films)
DIRECTOR – Richard Linklater for Boyhood
ACTRESS Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night
ACTOR Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
SUPPORTING ACTOR J.K. Simmons for Whiplash
ENSEMBLE CAST Birdman
DEBUT AS DIRECTOR Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER Jack O’Connell for Unbroken and Starred Up
SCREENPLAY Birdman (Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
CINEMATOGRAPHY Birdman (Emmanuel Lubezki)
USE OF MUSIC Get On Up (score – Thomas Newman; music supervisor – Budd Carr)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE Two Days, One Night
DOCUMENTARY Life Itself
ANIMATED FEATURE The Lego Movie
TOP TEN PICTURES (Alphabetical)
Birdman (Fox Searchlight)
Boyhood (IFC Films)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Walt Disney Pictures)
The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company)
A Most Violent Year (A24 Films)
Mr. Turner (Sony Pictures Classics)
Selma (Paramount Pictures)
The Theory of Everything (Focus Features)
Under the Skin (A24 Films)
Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)
