Best Of 2014: a Summary of World Cinema

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2014 Film Festivals

Country:	Awarded Film	Event
	Winter Sleep	Cannes Film Festival	France
	A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence	Venice Film Festival	Italy
	Black Coal, Thin Ice	Berlin International Film Festival	Germany
	Magical Girl	San Sebastian Film Festival	Spain
	The Imitation Game	Toronto Film Festival (TIFF)	Canada
	Whiplash	Sundance Film Festival	USA
	Come to my Voice	Mar del Plata International Film Festival	Argentina
	My Man	Moscow International Film Festival	Russia
	Trash	International Rome Film Festival	Italy
	I Origins	Film Festival of Catalonia	Spain
	The Farewell Party	Seminci - International Film Festival	Spain

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2014 Awards

Country:	Awarded Film	Award
	Birdman	Oscars - Academy Awards	USA
	Boyhood (Drama) The Grand Budapest Hotel (Comedy)	Golden Globes Awards	USA
	Ida	European Film Awards (EFA)	Europe
	Boyhood	BAFTA - British Academy Film Awards	G.B.
	Timbuktu	Cesar Awards (France)	France
	Black Souls	David di Donatello Awards (Italy)	Italy
	Marshland	Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards)	Spain
	Victoria	German Film Awards (Deutsche Filmpreis)	Germany
	Turist (Force Majeure)	Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Film Institute)	Sweden

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Critics' Association Awards 2014

Country:	Awarded Film	Awards
	A Most Violent Year	National Board of Review (NBR)	USA
	Boyhood	New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)	USA
	Boyhood	Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (LAFCA)	USA
	Boyhood	Chicago Film Critics Association	USA
	Boyhood	Boston Society of Film Critics	USA
	Boyhood	Critics' Choice Awards	USA

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Best Films of 2014 According to World Famous Film Critics:

Peter Travers, Chief Critic of Rolling Stone - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Boyhood
2		Birdman
3		Foxcatcher
4		Selma
5		Gone Girl
6		Whiplash
7		The Grand Budapest Hotel
8		Unbroken
9		Under the Skin
10		Interstellar

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A. O. Scott, Chief Critic of The New York Times - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Boyhood
2		Ida
3		Citizenfour
4		Leviathan
5		Selma
6		Love Is Strange
7		We Are the Best!
8		Birdman
8		Listen Up Philip
8		Mr. Turner
9		Dear White People
10		The Babadook

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Manohla Dargis, Co-Chief Critic of The New York Times - Source Sorted by alphabetical order:

Country:	Film
	American Sniper
	Beyond the Lights
	Birdman
	Boyhood
	The Dog
	Edge of Tomorrow
	Gloria
	Goodbye to Language
	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Inherent Vice
	Interstellar
	Listen Up Philip
	Manakamana
	The Missing Picture
	National Gallery
	Selma
	Snowpiercer
	Violette
	Top Five

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Peter Bradshaw, Co-Chief Critic of The Guardian - Source (No particular order)

Country:	Film
	Boyhood
	Under the Skin
	12 Years a Slave
	Mr. Turner
	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Two Days, One Night
	Exhibition
	Maps to the Stars
	Norte, the End of History
	Ida

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Richard Brody, Chief Critic of The New Yorker - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Grand Budapest Hotel
2		Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
3-4		Goodbye to Language
3-4		The Last of the Unjust
5		The Immigrant
6		American Sniper
7		Listen Up Philip
8		Actress
9		Memphis
10		Butter on the Latch

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Richard Corliss, Chief Critic of Time - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Grand Budapest Hotel
2		Boyhood
3		The Lego Movie
4		Lucy
5		Goodbye to Language
6		Jodorowsky's Dune
7		Nightcrawler
8		Citizenfour
9		Wild Tales
10		Birdman

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Ann Hornaday, Chief Critic of Washington Post - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Boyhood
2		Birdman
3		Citizenfour
4		Turist (Force Majeure)
5		Foxcatcher
6		Under the Skin
7		Selma
8		Edge of Tomorrow
9		Beyond the Lights
10		Locke

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Luis Martí­nez, Chief Critic of El Mundo - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Boyhood
2		The Grand Budapest Hotel
3		Inside Llewyn Davis
4		Snowpiercer
5		The Wolf of Wall Street
6		Winter Sleep
7		Interstellar
8		All Is Lost
9		Magical Girl
10		Stranger by the Lake

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Javier Ocaña, Critic of El País - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Boyhood
2		Her
3		Nebraska
4		Inside Llewyn Davis
5		The Wolf of Wall Street
6		Winter Sleep
7		Magical Girl
8		Marshland
9		Gone Girl
10		Oslo, August 31st

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Editors group of Cinemania - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Boyhood
2		Magical Girl
3		Inside Llewyn Davis
4		Nebraska
5		The Wolf of Wall Street
6		The Wind Rises
7		The Grand Budapest Hotel
8		The Lego Movie
9		Marshland
10		Ida

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2014:

The Highest Grossing Films of 2014 Worldwide

#	Country:	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1		Transformers: Age of Extinction	Sci-Fi	Paramount / Hasbro	$1.087.400.000
2		Guardians of the Galaxy	Sci-Fi	Marvel / MPC / Disney	$772.300.000
3		Maleficent	Fantasy	Disney / MPC / Roth	$757.800.000
4		X-Men: Days of Future Past	Sci-Fi	20th Century / Bad Hat	$746.000.000
5		Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Action	Marvel / Sony	$714.100.000
6		The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Fantasy	Marvel / Columbia / Sony	$709.000.000
7		Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Sci-Fi	20th Century / Chernin	$708.300.000
8		The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I	Sci-Fi	Lionsgate / Colorforce	$669.700.000
9		Interstellar	Sci-Fi	Warner / Syncopy / Paramount	$641.300.000
10		How to Train Your Dragon 2	Animation	DreamWorks / Mad Hatter	$618.900.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2014 in the US

#	Country:	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1		Guardians of the Galaxy	Sci-Fi	Marvel / MPC / Disney	$332.800.000
2		The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I	Sci-Fi	Lionsgate / Color Force	$306.700.000
3		Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Action	Marvel / Sony	$259.800.000
4		The Lego Movie	Animation	Animal / LEGO / Lin	$257.800.000
5		Transformers: Age of Extinction	Sci-Fi	Paramount / Hasbro	$245.400.000
6		Maleficent	Fantasy	Disney / MPC / Roth	$241.400.000
7		X-Men: Days of Future Past	Sci-Fi	20th Century / Bad Hat	$233.900.000
8		Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Sci-Fi	20th Century / Chernin	$208.500.000
9		The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Fantasy	Marvel / Columbia / Sony	$202.900.000
10		Godzilla	Sci-Fi	Legendary / Warner	$200.700.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2014 in their Country of Origin

Country:	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
	Vaterfreuden	Comedy	Pantaleon / Wiedemann & Berg	$24.300.000
	O Candidato Honesto	Comedy	Camisa Listrada / Panorama	$10.000.000
	Ocho apellidos vascos	Comedy	Lazonafilms / Kowalski / Telecinco	$77.500.000
	Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?	Comedy	Les films du 24 / TF1 Film	$104.700.000
	Stand by Me Doraemon	Animation	Fujiko / Shirogumi	$79.000.000
	The Inbetweeners 2	Musical	Bwark	$55.700.000

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The Best Films of 2014 According to Filmaffinity Users

The Best Films of 2014 according to Filmaffinity Users
Ranking order obeys to several criteria: films with a high number of votes, films released in various countries, etc.

Rating	Country:	Film
8.2		Birdman
8.0		Interstellar
7.9		Wild Tales
7.8		Mommy
7.8		Whiplash
7.6		Boyhood
7.6		Magical Girl
7.5		Winter Sleep
7.5		Marshland
7.4		Big Hero 6

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The Best TV Series of 2014 according to Filmaffinity Users

Rating	Country:	TV Series
8.6		True Detective
8.2		Gomorrah
8.2		Fargo
7.7		The Knick
7.7		Happy Valley
7.7		Transparent
7.5		The End of Comedy
7.5		The Honourable Woman
7.5		24: Live Another Day
7.4		No Game, No Life

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• Best of:
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• 2011
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• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020
• 2021
• 2022
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