The 87th Academy Awards

[Jimmy]

Best Picture

• "American Sniper"
• "Birdman"
• "Boyhood"
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "The Imitation Game"
• "Selma"
• "The Theory of Everything"
• "Whiplash"

Directing

• Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
• Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
• Bennett Miller, "Foxcatcher"
• Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• Morten Tyldum, "The Imitation Game

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"

Cinematography

• "Birdman"
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "Ida"
• "Mr. Turner"
• "Unbroken"

Costume Design

• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "Inherent Vice"
• "Into the Woods"
• "Maleficent"
• "Mr. Turner"

Foreign Language Film

• "Ida," Poland
• "Leviathan," Russia
• "Tangerines," Estonia
• "Timbuktu," Mauritania
• "Wild Tales," Argentina

Makeup and Hairstyling

• "Foxcatcher"
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "Guardians of the Galaxy"

Original Score

• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "The Imitation Game"
• "Interstellar"
• "Mr. Turner"
• "The Theory of Everything"

Adapted Screenplay

• "American Sniper"
• "The Imitation Game"
• "Inherent Vice"
• "The Theory of Everything"
• "Whiplash"

Original Screenplay

• "Birdman"
• "Boyhood"
• "Foxcatcher"
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "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"

And the rest:

Documentary Short Subject

• "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1"
• "Joanna"
• "Our Curse"
• "The Reaper (La Parka)"
• "White Earth"

Film Editing

• "American Sniper"
• "Boyhood"
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "The Imitation Game"
• "Whiplash"

Original Song

• "Everything Is Awesome," "The Lego Movie"
• "Glory," "Selma"
• "Grateful, "Beyond the Lights"
• "I"m Not Gonna Miss You," "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me"
• "Lost Stars," "Begin Again"

Production Design

• "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
• "The Imitation Game"
• "Interstellar"
• "Into the Woods"
• "Mr. Turner"

Animated Short Film

• "The Bigger Picture"
• "The Dam Keeper"
• "Feast"
• "Me and My Moulton"
• "A Single Life"

Live Action Short Film

• "Aya"
• "Boogaloo and Graham"
• "Butter Lamp"
• "Parvaneh"
• "The Phone Call"

Sound Editing

• "American Sniper"
• "Birdman"
• "The Hobbitt: The Battle of the Five Armies"
• "Interstellar"

Sound Mixing

• "American Sniper"
• "Birdman"
• "Interstellar"
• "Unbroken"
• "Whiplash"

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"

Can't believe Lego Movie didn't get nominated for Best Animation.

Overjoyed that Marion Cotillard was nominated. So deserved, and although I imagine it won't, I'm hoping she'll win. Two Days, One Night got snubbed though in its category. Also no surprise that no foreign films made Best Picture again.

Really surprised Imitation Game is up for as much as it is. I know it ticks the boxes, but it really wasn't anything amazing.

Oh, and poor Timothy Spall.

Got so much to catch up on film wise before I can say much more than that, a lot of the Best Picture stuff has only just been released over here, and I'm way behind on docs and foreign film.

[King Ellis]

I hope Dick Poop wins.

[Benjamin]

Wow, very surprised Life Itself didn't get nominated for best documentary. These other docs better be fucking amazing.

Seriously, though, if Boyhood doesn't win everything... well, I wouldn't be surprised, actually.

Surprised Gone Girl isn't up for Best Picture as well, it's basically made for the Oscars.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I would make predictions, but I haven't seen half the films that have been nominated yet Will likely make some picks on Sunday once I've seen a few more of them.

I'm offended by the lack of nominations for Nightcrawler though, Jake Gyllenhal was awesome in that.

Also wanna echo the confusion at no Lego Movie in the animation category. That was a surefire win if it had gone up.

[Your Mom]

I am so out of touch. I've seen one best picture nominee and I didn't really like it

[Berober]

Lego Movie got robbed I tells ya!

[Benjamin]

Yeah I have no idea why it wasn't nominated, animated films don't really need to run an Oscar campaign, and it has to be the best animated feature. Oh well, I guess Princess Kaguya wins that one.

[Maxx]

JK Simmons had better win.

[Benjamin]

He's definitely winning, best supporting actor has become something of a surefire bet with the Oscars, just like last year.

Miles Teller not getting nominated is a crime, but LOL Oscars.

[GoGo Yubari]

No David Oyelowo or Ava DuVerney? No "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)?" No fucking LEGO Movie?

This is the most boring set of nominees overall I've seen in quite a while. Rosamund Pike making it is pretty much the only thing that made me excited.

[Benjamin]

She was a shoe-in, though. Best Actress is probably between her and Moore.

[GoGo Yubari]

She was a shoe-in, though. Best Actress is probably between her and Moore.

Eh, there was speculation that Gone Girl wasn't going over that huge. Which is further evidenced by the fact that it's not up for Best Picture.

Also, man, Robert Duvall got his nomination for his treacley Oscar bait movie. Blah.

EDIT: In fact, I didn't even fully realize that this is the ONLY thing Gone Girl got. I had just assumed that it'd gotten in for Adapted Screenplay and Score too.

[Benjamin]

I might add, that if Julianne Moore should have been nominated for anything (and she was in 3142732 movies last year), it should have been for Map to the Stars. She was batshit insane in that one, and it was amazing.

[Jimmy]

She was great, and even though I think Maps To The Stars was flawed, that film is like toxic to the Oscars, she was never going to nominated for it. Even if it was an incredibly brave and brilliant performance.

Cotillard and Dick Pope's cinematography nominations were enough for me to not find it too boring, but I was still holding out for a Timothy Spall nomination.

[GoGo Yubari]

Best Actor was brutal this year. You could probably fill out a secondary list of five (probably something like David Oyelowo/Jake Gyllenhaal/Timothy Spall/Ralph Fiennes/Miles Teller) that'd be better than other years' five that actually made it.

[Benjamin]

I'm going to be the only one thinking this, but the only person that deserved the Best Actor above Miles Teller was Guy Pearce for me.

[GA!]

BAFTA have been more on target this year. Ralph Fiennes deserved a Best Actor nod. Lego Movie deserved Best Animated Film outright. I wasn't that impressed by Steve Carell either.

Extremely happy for Whiplash though. The Oscars definitely got that one right.

[LL!]

Ugh. I say it every year, and every year I mean it more. Cue Ron Swanson:

How do you completely skip over Nightcrawler, at least in regards to Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in which he completely trumps fat Bradley Cooper's hardly-impressive Texan accent?

And the biggest crime of all, LEGO Movie not being nominated for Animated Feature.

Another year, another year I don't watch the Oscars.

[GoGo Yubari]

Rene Russo not making it into Best Supporting Actress is pretty bad too. I'd put her performance above Emma Stone's (can't judge Dern, Streep, or Knightley because I haven't watched those movies yet).

[GA!]

Oh yeah, mandatory Meryl Streep nomination. Fuck off, Meryl Streep.