2015 Oscar Nominations
It’s Oscar season and the nominations were announced earlier today. As usual, the big news is just as much about the movies not included as it is about the movies that are. Personally, the big miss for me was The Lego Movie in the animation category. Another notable absentee is Ava DuVernay for directing in Selma, yet the film did manage to acquire a Best Picture nomination—but no other nominations except for Original Song. I don’t have the statistics in front of me, but it’s somewhat unusual to not have an actor, actress, director or even hair and makeup nomination for a film that still achieves Best Picture. Finally Unbroken faired poorly with only three technical nominations for cinematography, sound editing and sound mixing. Enough said… here are the nominations. And you can click on the linked movies to see our Parent Previews reviews.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 87th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
BEST PICTURE American Sniper Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash
ACTOR—in a Leading Role Steve Carell – Foxcatcher Bradley Cooper – American Sniper Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game Michael Keaton – Birdman Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
ACTRESS—in a Leading Role Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore – Still Alice Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon – Wild
ACTOR—in a Supporting Role Robert Duvall – The Judge Ethan Hawke – Boyhood Edward Norton – Birdman Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
ACTRESS—in a Supporting Role Patricia Arquette – Boyhood Laura Dern – Wild Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game Emma Stone – Birdman Meryl Streep – Into the Woods
DIRECTING Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)—Alejandro G. Iñárritu Boyhood—Richard Linklater Foxcatcher—Bennett Miller The Grand Budapest Hotel—Wes Anderson The Imitation Game—Morten Tyldum
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2 Song of the Sea The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
COSTUME DESIGN The Grand Budapest Hotel– Milena Canonero Inherent Vice– Mark Bridges Into the Woods– Colleen Atwood Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran
CINEMATOGRAPY Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel– Robert Yeoman Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Unbroken – Roger Deakins
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Last Days in Vietnam The Salt of the Earth Virunga
FILM EDITING American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach Boyhood – Sandra Adair The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg Whiplash – Tom Cross
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
BEST SCORE The Grand Budapest Hotel—Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game—Alexandre Desplat Interstellar—Hans Zimmer The Theory of Everything—Jóhann Jóhannsson
BEST SONG Everything Is Awesome – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson – The Lego Movie Glory – Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn –Selma Grateful – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren –Beyond the Lights I’m Not Gonna Miss You – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond – Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me Lost Stars—Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois—Begin Again