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https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=48e1f60f-f154-429b-9df1-ad9060439472&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&1/6The Best Film of 2014 (and You Haven't Seen It Yet)The Best Film of 2014 (and You Haven't Seen It Yet)What was the best film of 2014? The Oscars said Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance). The NewYork Film Critics said it was Boyhood. The LA Film Critics Association agreed, naming The Grand BudapestHotel as the runner-up. But if the IRAs have anything to say about it, the movie that might well rise in stature andcome to be remembered as one of the defining films of the year is...Nightcrawler. That was the big winner at the40th annual IRA Awards handed out over the weekend. It swept most major awards, including Best Picture, BestDirector and Best Actor. Despite a lot of acclaim (and a juicy supporting performance from Renee Russo thatshould have snagged her an Oscar nomination), it was passed over at the Oscars and by most critics groups. Itgrossed less than $40 million worldwide (most of that in the US), so chances are you haven't seen it yet. Youshould.But wait! Who are the IRAs? The IRAs is a mysterious but august film society that has voted on the best films ofthe year since 1976. More international and indie focused than the Oscars, more mercurial than the LA FilmCritics and more loyal to their favorites than the Golden Globes, the IRAs met over the weekend, voting for thebest film of 2014 (along with all the usual other categories) and capping off a two-year debate by finalizing theirpicks for the best films of the 1960s. They have no more claim to pronounce the best films of the year thananyone else but they've been doing it for decades so, hey, it's tradition!Below are their votes -- including nominees and winners in major categories -- followed by its list of the Top 100Films of the 1960s. If you want to see films that will endure, you could do worse than watch all five of the BestPicture nominees. And are you a serious film buff? Well, tell me, how many of the movies on the 1960s list haveyou seen?And the IRA goes to....BEST PICTURE1. Nightcrawler -- 29 pts. (out of a possible 45 pts.) 2. Foxcatcher -- 21 pts. 3. Stranger By The Lake -- 17 pts. 4. (tie) Boyhood 16 pts. Ida 16 pts.BEST DIRECTOR1. Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler -- 27 pts. 2. Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher -- 22 pts. 3. Pawel Pawlikoska for Ida -- 16 pts. 4. (tie) Alain Guiraudie for Stranger By The Lake -- 15 pts. Richard Linklater for Boyhood -- 15 pts.BEST ACTORJake Gyllenhall for Nightcrawler by acclamation1. Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler -- 35 pts.
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https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=48e1f60f-f154-429b-9df1-ad9060439472&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&2/62. Tom Hardy for The Drop and Locke -- 19 pts. 3. Oscar Isaac for A Most Violent Year and The Two Faces of January -- 16 pts. 4. Joaquin Phoenix for The Immigrant and Inherent Vice --10 pts. 5. Channing Tatum for Foxcatcher -- 9 pts.BEST ACTRESS1. Essie Davis for The Babadook -- 24 pts.2. Emmanuelle Seigner for Venus In Fur -- 21 pts. 3. Marion Cotillard for The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night -- 18 pts. 4. (tie) Amy Adams for Big Eyes --11 pts. Lisa Loven Kingsli for Force Majeure -- 11 pts.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR1. Ethan Hawke for Boyhood -- 23 pts. 2. Riz Ahmed for Nightcrawler -- 15 pts. 3. (tie) Patrick d'Assumçao for Stranger By The Lake -- 12 pts. Jeremy Renner for The Immigrant --12 pts. 5. Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher -- 9 pts.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS1. Agata Kulesza for Ida -- 27 pts. 2. Renee Russo for Nightcrawler -- 21 pts. 3. Tilda Swinton for The Grand Budapest Hotel and Snowpiercer -- 16 pts. 4. Marion Bailey for Mr. Turner --13 pts. 5. Bharati Achrekar for The Lunchbox -- 9 pts.BEST SCREENPLAY1. Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler -- 37 pts. 2. Ritesh Batre for The Lunchbox -- 17 pts. 3. E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman for Foxcatcher -- 16 pts.4. Alain Guiraudie for Stranger By The Lake --12 pts. 5. Richard Linklater for Boyhood -- 10 pts.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY1. Robert Elswit for Inherent Vice and Nightcrawler -- 31 pts. 2. Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal for Ida -- 26 pts. 3. Dick Pope for Mr. Turner -- 20 pts. 4. Greig Fraser for The Gambler and Foxcatcher -- 20 pts. 5. Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) -- 7 pts.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN1. Suzie Davies for Mr. Turner -- 23 pts. 2. Jess Gonchor for Foxcatcher -- 19 pts. 3. Rick Heinrichs for Big Eyes -- 16 pts. 4. Kevin Kavanaugh for Nightcrawler --13 pts. 5. Josefin Åsberg for Force Majeure -- 12 pts.BEST SCORE
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https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=48e1f60f-f154-429b-9df1-ad9060439472&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&3/61. Mica Levi for Under The Skin -- 21 pts. 2. James Newton Howard for Nightcrawler -- 19 pts. 3. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Gone Girl -- 14 pts. 5. Danny Elfman for Big Eyes--10 pts. 5. Alexandre Desplat for The Grand Budapest Hotel --9 pts.BEST EDITING1. (tie) Jay Cassidy, Stuart Levy and Conor O'Neill for Foxcatcher -- 12 pts. Simon Njoo for The Babadook -- 12 pts. 3. Jean Christophe Hym for Stranger By The Lake -- 11 pts. 4. Sandra Adair for Boyhood --9 pts. 5. Justine Wright for Locke -- 7 pts.BEST COSTUME1. (tie) Jacqueline Durran for Mr. Turner -- 23 pts. Kasia Walicka-Maimone for Foxcatcher and A Most Violent Year -- 23 pts. 3. Milena Cononero for The Grand Budapest Hotel -- 13 pts. 4. (tie) Colleen Atwood for Big Eyes and Into The Woods --10 pts. Maja Meschede and Anna B. Sheppard for Fury -- 10 pts.SOMINEX (The movie that put you to sleep)1. The Monuments Men -- 21 pts. 2. Into The Woods -- 13 pts. 3. Jersey Boys -- 7 pts. 4. (tie) Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) 5 pts. The Congress -- 5 pts. Exhibition -- 5 pts. Only Lovers Left Alive -- 5 pts.DRAMAMINE (The film that made you sick)1 The Imitation Game -- 23 pts. 2. Whiplash -- 12 pts. 3. Nymphomaniac -- 10 pts. 4. The Lego Movie -- 9 pts. 5. Into The Woods -- 8 pts.MECHANICAL ACTRESS1. Lilla Crawford for Into The Woods -- 25 pts. 2. Sofía Vergara for Chef -- 18 pts. 3. Meryl Streep for Into The Woods -- 14 pts. 4. Kate Winslet for Labor Day -- 6 pts. 5. (tie) Keira Knightley for Begin Again and The Imitation Game -- 9 pts. Elizabeth Olsen for Godzilla and Very Good Girls -- 9 pts. Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl -- 9 pts. Robin Wright for The Congress -- 9 pts.MECHANICAL ACTOR1. The entire cast of The Monuments Men -- 17 pts.
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https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=48e1f60f-f154-429b-9df1-ad9060439472&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&4/62. Noah Wiseman for The Babadook -- 16 pts. 3. Tom Wilkinson for Selma -- 16 pts. 4. Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game --11 pts. 5. (tie) Johnny Depp for Into The Woods -- 7 pts. J. K. Simmons for Whiplash -- 7 pts.For an explanation of voting, a list of winners from past years and more, go here.IRAs: THE BEST MOVIES OF THE 1960s1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 2. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) 3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 5. Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) 6. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968) 7. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) 8. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) 9. When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960) 10. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)11. Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965) 12. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) 13. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dryer, 1964) 14. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) 15. Army Of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) 16. Home From The Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960) 17. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962) 18. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) 19. Band Of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) 20. The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963)21. Play Dirty (André De Toth, 1969) 22. Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) 23. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol, 1960) 24. Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan, 1965) 25. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) 26. Advise And Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962) 27. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969) 28. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) 29. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) 30. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)31. Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968) 32. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961) 33. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) 34. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) 35. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967) 36. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) 37. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967) 38. Belle De Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
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https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=48e1f60f-f154-429b-9df1-ad9060439472&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&5/639. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) 40. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)41. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963) 42. Ride The High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962) 43. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) 44. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) 45. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) 46. Knife In The Water (Roman Polanski, 1962) 47. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) 48. Bonnie And Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) 49. Jules And Jim (François Truffaut, 1962) 50. Shoot The Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960)51. The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) 52. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966) 53. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) 54. Rocco And His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) 55. Eyes Without A Face Georges Franju, 1962) 56. Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1960) 57. Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) 58. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) 59. Cleo From 5 To 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) 60. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)61. The Sorrow And The Pity (Marcel Ophuls, 1969) 62. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) 63. The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961) 64. The Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) 65. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) 66. Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960) 67. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) 68. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) 69. Splendor In The Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961) 70. El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1966)71. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965) 72. The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) 73. Two Weeks In Another Town (Vincente Minnelli, 1962) 74. My Night At Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969) 75. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) 76. Breakfast At Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961) 77. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964) 78. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1968) 79. Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) 80. Two For The Road (Stanley Donen, 1967)81. Night Of The Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) 82. The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966) 83. Valley Of The Dolls (Mark Robson, 1967)
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https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=48e1f60f-f154-429b-9df1-ad9060439472&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&6/684. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) 85. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) 86. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) 87. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) 88. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962) 89. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) 90. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)91. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) 92. Planet Of The Apes (Franklin J Schaffner, 1968) 93. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967) 94. The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis, 1963) 95. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) 96. A Shot In The Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964) 97. The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1967) (49/337) 98. The President's Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker, 1967) 99. The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1964) 100. Gunn (Blake Edwards, 1967)MOVIES BY YEAR1960 -- 12 movies XXXXXXXXXXXX 1961 -- 07 movies XXXXXXX 1962 -- 18 movies XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1963 -- 10 movies XXXXXXXXXX 1964 -- 10 movies XXXXXXXXXX 1965 -- 7 movies XXXXXXX 1966 -- 9 movies XXXXXXXXX 1967 -- 14 movies XXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1968 -- 07 movies XXXXXXX 1969 -- 06 movies XXXXXXFor an explanation on how the voting was done, go here.For more IRA lists, like the Top 100 Films Of All Time, the Top 100 Films of the 1950s and so on, go here.For my personal list of the best films of all time, by year, go here._____________Thanks for reading. Michael Giltz is the founder and CEO of the forthcoming website BookFilter, a book lover'sbest friend. It's a website that lets you browse for books online the way you do in a physical bookstore, providescomprehensive info on new releases every week in every category and offers passionate personalrecommendations every step of the way. It's like a fall book preview or holiday gift guide -- but every week inevery category. He's also the cohost of Showbiz Sandbox, a weekly pop culture podcast that reveals theindustry take on entertainment news of the day and features top journalists and opinion makers as guests. It'savailable for free on iTunes. Visit Michael Giltz at his website and his daily blog. Download his podcast ofcelebrity interviews and his radio show, also called Popsurfing and also available for free on iTunes.