Best Films Overall of 2014

Nominations have been announced for the 2014 Cosmique Movie Awards, and the nominees for the Best Overall awards are below.

The Best Overall awards recognize films in a variety of general and technical categories regardless of genre -- everything from Best Film of 2014 to Favorite Guilty Pleasure.

Best Film of 2014

• Birdman
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Nightcrawler
• Selma

Best Director of a 2014 Film

• Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
• David Fincher - Gone Girl
• Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
• Richard Linklater - Boyhood
• Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

Best Script of a 2014 Film

• Birdman
• Gone Girl
• The Imitation Game
• Nightcrawler
• The Skeleton Twins
• Whiplash

Best Cinematography, Set Design or Art Direction for a 2014 Film

• Birdman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Interstellar
• Into the Woods
• Maleficent
• Snowpiercer

Best Costume Design or Make-Up for a 2014 Film

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Into the Woods
• Maleficent
• Snowpiercer

Best Visual Effects for a 2014 Film

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Interstellar
• X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Use of (Gratuitous?) Nudity 

• Birdman
• Gone Girl
• Neighbors
• That Awkward Moment
• Under the Skin
• Willow Creek

Favorite Cinematic Guilty Pleasure

• Divergent
• Dumb and Dumber To
• Life After Beth
• The Maze Runner
• Neighbors
• 22 Jump Street