San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2014 I Love San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2014 The 13th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2014, were given on December 14, 2014. Boyhood Richard Linklater – "Boyhood" Michael Keaton – "Birdman" Julianne Moore – "Still Alice" Edward Norton – "Birdman" Patricia Arquette – "Boyhood" "Birdman" – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo "Inherent Vice" – Paul Thomas Anderson "Ida" – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski "The Grand Budapest Hotel" – Adam Stockhausen "Boyhood" – Sandra Adair The Lego Movie "Ida" – Poland / Denmark Citizenfour Joel Shepard
Richard Linklater for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film "Before Sunset", and was nominated for the same award with its sequel "Before Midnight" in 2014. Many of Linklater's films take place in one day, a narrative approach that has gained popularity in recent years. "Slacker", "Dazed and Confused", "Tape", "Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset", and "Before Midnight" are examples of this method. Two of his films, ("A Scanner Darkly" and "Waking Life"), used rotoscoping animation techniques. Working with Bob Sabiston and Sabiston's program Rotoshop to create this effect, Linklater shot and edited both movies completely as live action features, then employed a team