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Richard Linklater's “Boyhood” to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2014 – Best Film of the Year

Richard Linklater's 12-year project Boyhood was chosen the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI.

The poll for the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2014 – Best Film of the Year gathered votes from 553 members throughout the world. In a first phase, participants nominated any feature-length films that had had their world premiere no earlier than July 1, 2013. This led to a final round between the four finalists: Boyhood, by Richard Linklater, Ida, by Pawel Pawlikowski, The Grand Budapest Hotel, by Wes Anderson, and Kış Uykusu / Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Boyhood arrived in a comfortable first place.

This is the first time a film by Richard Linklater receives FIPRESCI's Grand Prix, which has already gone to Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others, since its establishment in 1999.

Boyhood will have a special screening at the San Sebastián Film Festival on Friday 19, where the FIPRESCI Grand Prix has been presented from the start.