Boyhood, Grand Budapest Hotel, Lego Movie, Mr Turner and Babadook triumph in New York Critic’s Awards

While Alejandro Gonzalez Innarritu’s black comedy Birdman led the way in the Indie Spirit Awards, a new leader has been tipped off as an Oscar front runner from the New York Critics’ Circle. The foremost winner was Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s film twelve years in the making charting a boy’s coming of age (the whole time played by newcomer actor Ellar Coltrane). Here’s the list of winner’s in full.

Best Film:

Boyhood

Best Director:

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor:

Timothy Spall – Mr Turner

Best Actress:

Marion Cotillard – Two Days One Night

Best Supporting Actor:

JK Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress:

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

Best Animated Film:

The Lego Movie

Best Screenplay:

Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Cinematography:

Daries Khondji – The Immigrant

Best First Film:

Jennifer Kent – The Babadook

Best Foreign Language Film:

Ida

Best Non-Fiction:

Citizenfour

The current leaders in the Oscar race are Boyhood, Birdman, Whiplash, Interstellar, Unbroken, Nightcrawler, The Theory of Everything, The Imitation Game and (at a long shot) Guardians of the Galaxy.