Top 10 Female Performances of 2014

Better late than never! Here are my top 10 performances by women in the films of 2014, going by UK release dates.

10. Aubrey Plaza in Life After Beth

9. Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin

8. Shailene Woodley in The Fault in Our Stars

7.  Juno Temple in Magic Magic

6.  Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars

5.  Hilary Swank in The Homesman

4.  Essie Davis in The Babadook

3.  Naomie Harris in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

2.  Lupita N’yongo in 12 Years A Slave

1. Patricia Arquette in Boyhood

Screen Actors Guild Award Winners 2015

Over the weekend, we had the Producer's Guild Awards and the Screen Actor's Guild Awards announce their winners for the past year of film making. At the PGA's, the producers of Birdman, The Lego Movie, TV's Breaking Bad and Fargo won the big prizes while there was a fascinating spread of movies that won at the SGA's. Below I have listed the nominees (for the movie categories) and in bold are the winners. Not one movie had two winners, meaning that The Theory of Everything, Still Alice, Whiplash, Boyhood and Birdman all picked up awards. It's great to see all these films picking up something and it will be very interesting to see if this is repeated at the Oscars.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
STEVE CARELL Foxcatcher
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The Imitation Game
JAKE GYLLENHAAL Nightcrawler
MICHAEL KEATON Birdman
EDDIE REDMAYNE The Theory of Everything

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
JENNIFER ANISTON Cake
FELICITY JONES The Theory of Everything
JULIANNE MOORE Still Alice
ROSAMUND PIKE Gone Girl
REESE WITHERSPOON Wild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
ROBERT DUVALL The Judge
ETHAN HAWKE Boyhood
EDWARD NORTON Birdman
MARK RUFFALO Foxcatcher
J.K. SIMMONS Whiplash

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
PATRICIA ARQUETTE Boyhood
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY The Imitation Game
EMMA STONE Birdman
MERYL STREEP Into the Woods 
NAOMI WATTS St Vincent

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
BIRDMAN
BOYHOOD

 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

THE IMITATION GAME

 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING