In a move that inspires little other than a deep sigh, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science unleashed the 2015 Oscar nominees to a thud. With snubs that ran the category gambit – David Fincher‘s Gone Girl was almost entirely ignored, Dan Gilroy’s transcendent Nightcrawler received a single nomination (Best Original Screenplay), Ava DuVernay’s Selma went almost entirely without recognition (although received a Best Pic nomination), The Lego Movie wasn’t nommed for Animated – and unfettered celebration for the likes of Morten Tyldum’s by-the-books The Imitiation Game, which nabbed 8 mighty nominations, while Clint Eastwood’s jingoistic portrait of a trigger-happy, home-bred Americano in American Sniper scored 6.
Listed below are the nominees with those that I called highlighted in red. But first, a run down of how many noms each film scored:
Nomination Run Down
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 9 nominations
- The Grand Budapest Hotel – 9 nominations
- The Imitation Game – 8 nominations
- American Sniper – 6 nominations
- Boyhood – 6 nominations
- Foxcatcher – 5 nominations
- Interstellar – 5 nominations
- The Theory of Everything – 5 nominations
- Whiplash – 5 nominations
- Mr. Turner – 4 nominations
- Into the Woods – 3 nominations
- Unbroken – 3 nominations
- Guardians of the Galaxy – 2 nominations
- Ida – 2 nominations
- Inherent Vice – 2 nominations
- Selma – 2 nominations
- Wild – 2 nominations
Best Picture
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Selma
- The Theory of Everything
- Whiplash
Best Director
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
- Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
- Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
- Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Best Actor
- Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
- Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
- Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman)
- Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress
- Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
- Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
- Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
- Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
- Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Best Supporting Actor
- Robert Duvall (The Judge)
- Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
- Edward Norton (Birdman)
- Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
- J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Best Supporting Actress
- Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
- Laura Dern (Wild)
- Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
- Emma Stone (Birdman)
- Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)
Adapted Screenplay
- Jason Dean Hall (American Sniper)
- Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
- Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything)
- Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Original Screenplay
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo (Birdman)
- Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
- E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher)
- Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
Animated Feature Film
- Big Hero 6
- The BoxTrolls
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Song of the Sea
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Documentary (feature)
- CitizenFour
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Last Days in Vietnam
- The Salt of the Earth
- Virunga
Film Editing
- Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach (American Sniper)
- Sandra Adair (Boyhood)
- Barney Pilling (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- William Goldenberg (The Imitation Game)
- Tom Cross (Whiplash)
Cinematography
- Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)
- Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal (Ida)
- Dick Pope (Mr. Turner)
- Roger Deakins (Unbroken)
Original Score
- Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
- Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
- Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything)
- Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner)
Original Song
- “Lost Stars” from Begin Again
- “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
- “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie
- “Glory” from Selma
- “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights
Sound Mixing
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- Interstellar
- Unbroken
- Whiplash
Sound Editing
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Interstellar
- Unbroken
Visual Effects
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Interstellar
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Costume Design
- Milena Canonero (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Mark Bridges (Inherent Vice)
- Colleen Atwood (Into the Woods)
- Anna B. Sheppard (Maleficent)
- Jacqueline Durran (Mr. Turner)
Production Design
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Interstellar
- Into the Woods
- Mr. Turner
Makeup & Hairstyling
- Foxcatcher
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Guardians of the Galaxy
Foreign Language Film
- Tangerines
- Ida
- Leviathan
- Timbuktu
- Wild Tales
Documentary Short Subject
- Crisis Veterans Hotline: Press 1
- Joanna
- Our Curse
- The Reaper (La Parka)
- White Earth
Animated Short Film
- The Bigger Picture
- The Dam Keper
- Feast
- Me and My Moulton
- A Single Life
Live Action Short Film
- Aya
- Booglaoo and Graham
- Butterfly Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
- Parvaneh
- The Phone Call
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