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These are all the winners from the 2015 Critics' Choice Movie Awards



Los Angeles - Dark comedy Birdman and coming-of-age drama Boyhood shared top prizes on Thursday at the Critics' Choice awards, continuing their winning run in Hollywood's annual awards season.

Boyhood took best picture and best director for Richard Linklater among four prizes for the evening, only beaten by Birdman which won seven awards including best actor for Michael Keaton.

Best actress went to Julianne Moore as a professor succumbing to early onset Alzheimer's Disease in Still Alice.

Stylish crime caper The Grand Budapest Hotel won three prizes including best comedy.

JK Simmons won best supporting actor for his role as a bullying jazz drumming teacher in Whiplash, while best supporting actress prize went to Patricia Arquette in Boyhood.



The Critics' Choice awards were handed out only hours after nominations were unveiled for the all-important Oscars, the climax of Tinseltown's awards season which will be held on 22 February.

Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel shared top honours there, winning nine nominations each, followed by The Imitation Game and American Sniper with eight apiece.

The Lego Movie, which was left out of the Oscar nominations, own Best Animated Feature at the Critics' Choice awards, held at the Hollywood Palladium theater.

Here is the complete list of winners of the 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards:

Best Picture
Boyhood

Best Actor
Michael Keaton – Birdman

Best Actress
Julianne Moore - Still Alice

Best Director
Richard Linklater - Boyhood

Best Acting Ensemble
Birdman

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman

Best Comedy
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actress in a Comedy
Jenny Slate - Obvious Child

Best Actor in a Comedy
Michael Keaton – Birdman



Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Song
Glory - Common/John Legend, Selma

Best Animates Feature
The Lego Movie

Best Action Movie
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Actress in a Action Movie
Emily Blunt - Edge of Tomorrow

Best Actor in a Action Movie
Bradley Cooper - American Sniper

Best Young Actress/Acton
Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood

Best Sci Fi/Horror Movie
Interstellar

Best Documentary Feature
Life Itself

Best Cinematography
Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Visual Effects
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Best Editing
Birdman - Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione

Best Art Direction
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator

Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Milena Canonero

Best Hair and Makeup
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Score
Antonio Sanchez – Birdman

Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure (Sweden)

Lifetime Achievement Award
Kevin Costner

(Photos: AP)

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