Best Director

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Ava DuVernay, Selma
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Angelina Jolie, Unbroken
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Christopher Nolan, Interstellar
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

James Marsh, The Theory of Everything
Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
J.C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year
Rob Marshall, Into the Woods
Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner
Tim Burton, Big Eyes
Clint Eastwood, American Sniper
Jean-Marc Vallee, Wild
Chris Rock, Top Five
Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, Still Alice

Last Updated: 11/12/14

*No official release date (could push to 2015)

Falling Off: Rupert Wyatt, The Gambler

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