2014 Film Junk Reader’s Choice Award Winners

As we put the finishing touches on our own individual Best of 2014 lists, it’s time to announce the results of this year’s Film Junk Reader’s Choice Awards. Despite our best attempts to keep things competitive, almost every category seemed to have a pretty clear winner with the exception of the sci-fi flicks and thrillers. Does that mean it was a weak year for cinema? You tell me.
The top vote-getters in most categories also ended up making appearances in the open-ended voting for best movie of the year. I expected a bit more variation from the write-in votes but I suppose it always comes back to the handful of movies that the majority of people have seen. So what do you think… do Film Junk readers have their heads and hearts in the right place or are they way off the mark? Check out a full breakdown of the this year’s voting after the jump.
Best Horror

1. The Babadook — 46%
2. Tusk — 8%
3. The Purge: Anarchy — 7%
4. The Sacrament — 5.7%
5. Oculus — 5.5%
6. Annabelle — 2.1%
Best Comedy

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel — 48%
2. 22 Jump Street — 21%
3. Neighbors — 9.7%
4. Chef — 6.5%
5. The Trip to Italy — 5%
6. St. Vincent — 0.7%
Best Action

1. The Raid 2 — 30%
2. Fury — 19%
3. Godzilla — 17%
4. The Guest — 13%
5. John Wick — 5.2%
6. Transformers: Age of Extinction — 2.1%
Best Comic Book Movie

1. Guardians of the Galaxy — 52%
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past — 26%
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier — 11.6%
4. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 — 1.8%
5. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For — 0.7%
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — 0.7%
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy

1. Interstellar — 27%
2. Edge of Tomorrow — 25%
3. Under the Skin — 20%
4. Snowpiercer — 14.5%
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — 8.7%
6. Lucy — 0.7%
Best Animated Movie

1. The Lego Movie — 47%
2. How to Train Your Dragon 2 — 19%
3. The Tale of Princess Kayuga — 7.3%
4. Big Hero 6 — 5.5%
5. The Boxtrolls — 4.7%
6. The Book of Life — 1%
Best Thriller

1. Gone Girl — 40%
2. Nightcrawler — 38%
3. Blue Ruin — 5%
4. The Drop — 1.8%
4. Cold in July — 1.8%
6. A Most Wanted Man — 1.3%
Best Drama

1. Boyhood — 30%
2. Birdman — 23%
3. Locke — 11%
4. Whiplash — 10%
5. Foxcatcher — 8.4%
6. Wild — 0.5%
Best Documentary

1. Jodorowsky’s Dune — 36%
2. Tim’s Vermeer — 13%
3. Life Itself — 12%
4. 20,000 Days on Earth — 7.6%
5. Citizenfour — 3.9%
6. The Overnighters — 1.5%
Best Foreign Film

1. Nymphomaniac — 26%
2. Force Majeure — 10%
3. Stranger By the Lake — 7.6%
4. Borgman — 6.8%
5. Mood Indigo — 6.3%
5. We Are the Best! — 6.3%
Most Anticipated December Release

1. Inherent Vice — 52%
2. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — 20%
3. The Interview — 7.6%
4. A Most Violent Year — 5.7%
5. Exodus: Gods and Kings — 3.7%
6. Big Eyes — 2.3%
Best Movie of the Year

1. Interstellar
2. Boyhood
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Under the Skin
5. Gone Girl
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Birdman
8. Nightcrawler
9. Whiplash
10. Edge of Tomorrow
Worst Movie of the Year

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction
2. Tusk
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
4. Godzilla
4. Lucy
4. Transcendence
8. A Million Ways to Die in the West
8. Sabotage
10. Robocop
10. Left Behind
10. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes




































































