San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2014 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 The One
Richard Linklater (where he also played baseball), until dropping out to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He frequently read novels on the rig and, upon returning to land, developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory theater in Houston. At this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas. He was influenced by Martin Scorsese, Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. He enrolled in Austin