2015 Oscar Nominations Fail to Excite

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

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 9 nominations
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel – 9 nominations
3. The Imitation Game – 8 nominations
4. American Sniper – 6 nominations
5. Boyhood – 6 nominations
6. Foxcatcher – 5 nominations
7. Interstellar – 5 nominations
8. The Theory of Everything – 5 nominations
9. Whiplash – 5 nominations
10. Mr. Turner – 4 nominations
11. Into the Woods – 3 nominations
12. Unbroken – 3 nominations
13. Guardians of the Galaxy – 2 nominations
14. Ida – 2 nominations
15. Inherent Vice – 2 nominations
16. Selma – 2 nominations
17. 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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