The Kansas City Film Critics Circle named Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s genre-defying “Birdman” the best film of 2014, as the second oldest movie critics’ organization in the country voted for the 48th time Sunday.

In addition to best film, “Birdman” also won awards for best actor (Michael Keaton), best supporting actor (Edward Norton), and best original screenplay (Iñárritu and his co-writers Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo).

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The Robert Altman Award for best director went to Richard Linklater for “Boyhood,” while his groundbreaking 12-year film experiment also won the best supporting actress category for Patricia Arquette’s moving portrayal of a struggling mother.

The best actress category was a close vote, but Rosamund Pike came out the winner for David Fincher’s adaptation of “Gone Girl.”

The adapted screenplay award was won by Gillian Robespierre, first-time writer/director of “Obvious Child,” a challenging romantic comedy that subverts many of that genre’s norms and is based on her 2009 short film of the same name.

“The Lego Movie” took home the best animated film award, while Laura Poitras’ Edward Snowden portrait “Citizenfour” won the award for best documentary film.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s extraordinary Polish film “Ida” won the award for best foreign-language film, and the Vince Koehler Award for best science fiction, fantasy or horror film went to the Australian horror film “The Babadook,” which personifies a mother’s fears as an evil character in a children’s pop-up book.

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Dr. James Loutzenhiser founded the The Kansas City Film Critics Circle in 1966, and the annual film awards are now called The Loutzenhiser Awards. The group is comprised of 25 Kansas City-area film critics.

Here is the complete list of the 2014 KCFCC Loutzenhiser Awards winners:

Best picture: “Birdman”

Robert Altman Award for best director: Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”

Best actor: Michael Keaton, “Birdman”

Best actress: Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”

Best supporting actor: Edward Norton, “Birdman”

Best supporting actress: Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

Best original screenplay: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, “Birdman”

Best adapted screenplay: Gillian Robespierre, “Obvious Child”

Best animated film: “The Lego Movie”

Best documentary film: “CitizenFour”

Best foreign language film: “Ida” (Poland)

Vince Koehler Award for best sci-fi, horror or fantasy film: “The Babadook”

For more information on the Kansas City Film Critics Circle and previous year’s awards going back to 1966, go to kcfcc.org.