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Nominations
Best Picture
“American Sniper” Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers
“Boyhood” Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland,

Producers
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers
“The Imitation Game” Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman, Producers
“Selma” Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
“The Theory of Everything” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten, Producers
“Whiplash” Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster, Producers

Actor
Steve Carell in “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper in “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game”
Michael Keaton in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything”

Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall in “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke in “Boyhood”
Edward Norton in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Mark Ruffalo in “Foxcatcher”
J.K. Simmons in “Whiplash”

Actress
Marion Cotillard in “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones in “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon in “Wild”

Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Laura Dern in “Wild”
Keira Knightley in “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Meryl Streep in “Into the Woods”

Animated Feature
“Big Hero 6” Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
“The Boxtrolls” Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
“How to Train Your Dragon 2” Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
“Song of the Sea” Tomm Moore and Paul Young
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya"

Adapted Screenplay
“American Sniper” Written by Jason Hall
“The Imitation Game” Written by Graham Moore
“Inherent Vice” Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Theory of Everything” Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
“Whiplash” Written by Damien Chazelle

Original Screenplay
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
“Boyhood” Written by Richard Linklater
“Foxcatcher” Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
“Nightcrawler” Written by Dan Gilroy

Cinematography
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Robert Yeoman
“Ida” Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
“Mr. Turner” Dick Pope
“Unbroken” Roger Deakins

Costume Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Milena Canonero
“Inherent Vice” Mark Bridges
“Into the Woods” Colleen Atwood
“Maleficent” Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive
“Mr. Turner” Jacqueline Durran

Director
“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

Documentary Feature
“CitizenFour” Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
“Finding Vivian Maier” John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
“Last Days in Vietnam” Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
“The Salt of the Earth” Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier
“Virunga” Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Documentary Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1” Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
“Joanna” Aneta Kopacz
“Our Curse” Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
“The Reaper (La Parka)” Gabriel Serra Arguello
“White Earth” J. Christian Jensen

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” Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Original Score
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Alexandre Desplat
“The Imitation Game” Alexandre Desplat
“Interstellar” Hans Zimmer
“Mr. Turner” Gary Yershon
“The Theory of Everything” Jóhann Jóhannsson

Original Song
“Everything Is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie”
Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
“Glory” from “Selma”
Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
“Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from “Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from “Begin Again”
Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Production Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“The Imitation Game” Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
“Interstellar” Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
“Into the Woods” Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“Mr. Turner” Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts

Animated Short Film
“The Bigger Picture” Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
“The Dam Keeper” Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
“Feast” Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
“Me and My Moulton” Torill Kove
“A Single Life” Joris Oprins

Live Action Short Film
“Aya” Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
“Boogaloo and Graham” Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
“Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)” Hu Wei and Julien Féret
“Parvaneh” Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
“The Phone Call” Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Sound Editing
“American Sniper” Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
“Interstellar” Richard King
“Unbroken” Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Sound Mixing
“American Sniper” John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
“Interstellar” Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
“Unbroken” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
“Whiplash” Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Visual Effects
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
“Interstellar” Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldb

TL; DR
Selma and LEGO Movie got snubbed
7.8/10 Too Many White Actors

Host: Neil Patrick Harris
Show Date: February 22nd

What's your thoughts on the nominees? Will you watch it??

The Oscars are pretty much the only big award ceremony I watch. The biggest snubs were definitely Foxcatcher and Gone Girl for Best Picture and The Lego Movie and Book of Life for Best Animated Picture. Oh, and if you say that Guardians of the Galaxy or The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies deserves Best Picture, then you're a fool who needs to expand your horizons.

if you say that Guardians of the Galaxy or The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies deserves Best Picture, then you’re a fool who needs to expand your horizons.

Of course I know that they won't get best picture despite their good critical reaction (well the former that is) despite them being some of my favorites of the year. The only time I don't want a film to win is if either Martin Scorsese or Leo is attached to one of the films, or worse, both of them. That's why The Departed is my most hated Best Picture win.

You're still riding that inexplicable DiCaprio hate boner, eh? And I see we've added a new member to the club! I'm sure Scorsese is honored.

I'm kind of in disbelief about The Lego Movie not getting at least nominated, though due to its nature (licensed and whatnot) it was probably never going to win anyway. To be honest, I'm actually kind of glad, because what that really says is that animation has made a big-time comeback. It was only a few years ago that due to the lack of qualified films they had to let literally anything in that wasn't just plain shit.

And as for the "lack of diversity" bitch-fest: come on, a guy named Alejandro González Iñárritu is in the Best Director category for fuck's sake! Nobody can accept that random probability just might be a factor in all this. Selma is of course the specific one that everyone's complaining about being snubbed… even though it's in the Best Picture catagory. It's the actor and the director, but all these categories are so loaded that it makes sense, and assuming it's just because of their race is a serious case of conformation bias, especially considering last year's awards.

How the fuck are only three movies nominated for Best Picture? Was cinema really that bad this year?

Yeah, I think this year's nominees for best Animated Film were really poor. Book of Life was way better story/animation than Big Hero 6 IMO, and Boxtrolls only feels deserving because it was stop animation and thus a really demanding medium. I've never even heard of the last two, but I guess that doesn't mean they weren't deserving of nominations. Lego Movie got supper snubbed as well, but I could see how they might have disqualified it because of the 1-2 minutes of non-animated scenes. It's still complete BS if that's the only reason why it didn't get nominated. The only one I fully agree with on that list is HTTYD2. It far exceeded my expectations in being a sequel and as far as it's re-watch value. I really only put it and Boxtrolls as the two contenders for Best Animated Picture…that is unless people put up enough ruckus about Lego Movie getting snubbed.

(Also, watch Book of Life if you get a chance. 10/10 I fully recommend it. Both the style and story were good. Channing Tatum was even in it. Who knew he could voice act? Lol.)

Well After doing research, I found Out why the LEGO Movie got snubbed. Due to a quick Live Action scene in the movie disqualified it. Also due to the judges incompetence when Judging Animated Films.

As much as I enjoyed The Lego Movie, I don't think Everything is Awesome should win Best Original Song.

I haven't even seen any of the best picture nominees.

Well, I recommend Boyhood and Birdman. The problem with the Oscars is that most Americans have NOT seen any Best Picture nominees.

@Jimmy

Did you not see the other five nominees?

i saw the movie birdman and thought it was very good. i want to watch boyhood because i really like richard linklater's movies.

lol at everyone talking about animated movies… children

tfw boyhood, Birdman and the grand budapest hotel was not shown in your country.
I feel really left out.

I swear to Rassilon if "Grand Budapest" doesn't get cinematography, I'm going to be pissed.

I have now. OP just posted three of them for some reason.

Grand Budapest didn't get a Best Picture nomination :\

Yeah it did, as it was mentioned before the OP only posted 3 of the 8. Here's the full list:

American Sniper

Birdman

Boyhood

The Imitation Game

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Selma

The Theory of Everything

Whiplash

The Oscars are going to air tomorrow night at 7:30 PM CT on ABC.

Thanks for the bump Chowz.

Did anyone else see The Theory of Everything? I saw it, and liked it pretty well, but I'm not quite feeling it for Best Picture. The actor (Eddie Redmayne), I totally get him getting a nomination because his acting from going from functioning to full on ALS was really great and brought a lot of emotion to the film, but the film didn't feel as monumental as some of the others.

Also, I'm not feeling Grand Budapest for Best Picture either. For Cinematography sure, the movie flowed pretty well and had some interesting scenes, but I hardly see it as being a "Best Picture".

Although, now that I think about it, those are the only two on that list I actually have seen. I want to see Birdman, AS, Imitation Game, and Boyhood, but I haven't got a chance yet. Maybe TToE and GB were two of the only good movies this year (lol). I've heard the most buzz about American Sniper though, so I have a feeling that one is probably going to get it.

Cave Johnson won an Oscar…

Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Best Foreign Film: Ida (Poland)
Best Short Film: The Phone Call
Best Animated Short: Feast
Best Animated Film: Big Hero 6

As if there was any doubt that Disney wouldn't get the Best Animated Film award.

Why do I get the feeling that the Academy Members were just like: "Aw screw it, just give the Animated award to Disney, no one really care about animation, anyway" again?

Best Documentary – Citizen Four
Best Original Song – Glory (Selma)

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Apparently, the two foreign movies are nothing more than "Freakin Chinese F**kin Things" that no one gives a crap about. (Funnily enough, Song Of The Sea and Princess Kaguya aren't even Chinese but Irish and Japanese (Studio Ghibli) respectively, that's just how whacko some of these people are.)

I think I just facepalmed my head off, excuse me while I go find it…

Best Original Score – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Original Screenplay – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Best Adapted Screenplay – The Imitation Game

Best Director – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
Best Actor – Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress – Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

So what's gonna win Best Picture?

AND THE BEST PICTURE GOES TO….

BIRDMAN!!!

BTFOHOOD LOST BIRDMAN WINS!!

Yes! Fucking Birdman wins over the blatant Oscar bait! I can die happy now!

Wait, that's not right…

>the city of American Sniper

Oh, man, I can't WAIT to hear Fox News bitch about this.

- Who give to this son of bitch green card?
Sean Penn.

Honestly, I never was a fan Inarritu's movies, but I'm glad and happy (and little jealous) to see him win an Oscar for his own merits.
Now let the cocksucking from the Mexican media begin.
But it's really sad to watch one of the two best filmmakers from my country, who must let this shithole that is Mexico to get the maximum prestige that any mortal would desire, the American Citizenship an Oscar.

Congratulations Mr. Inarritu!
Mexico (and any Mexican that want to jump to the Oscar bandwagon)…you…you just shut the hell up.

They will bitch about the Patricia Arquette speech.

Didn't actually watch the ceremony. What was that about?

Arquette talked about wage equality and feminism.

Just checked it out. So true, and it's gonna get righties sooo mad. Beautiful.

But hey, why are we talking about politics? Birdman was fucking fantastic, and I'm so happy it won.

And now we have this completely rational headline from our friends at Huff Post:

SEAN PENN'S GREEN CARD COMMENT MAY HAVE RUINED THE ENTIRE OSCARS!!!

I can see why it's a good idea to get some variety in your news sources, amirite guys lol lol.

Ladies and gentlemen, the ultimate in smug.

(Though he did earn it.)

>mfw

I'm just glad Iñárritu didn't take it too seriously that joke, unless all those people on twitter who felt triggered about Penn's joke.

>Huffington Post

Speaking about the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/fox-news-patricia-arquette-stacey-dash-oscars-pay-equality_n_6735716.html