The film received the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival ; Chazelle 's short film of the same name took home the jury award in the U.S. fiction category one year prior . The film also took the grand prize and the audience award for favorite film at the 40th Deauville American Film Festival . '' Whiplash '' was originally planned to compete for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , but on January 6 , 2015 , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) announced that the film would instead be competing in the Adapted Screenplay category to the surprise of many , including Chazelle . Although the Writers Guild of America categorized the screenplay as original , AMPAS classed it as an adaptation of the 2013 short version . At the 87th Academy Awards , J. K. Simmons received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance , Tom Cross won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and Craig Mann , Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing . In December 2015 , the score received a Grammy nomination , and the film was nominated for the NME Award for Best Film
2014 Sundance Film Festival
2014 Sundance Film Festival
Whiplash (2014 film)