Oscar 2015 Nominations

'Birdman' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' lead the Academy Award nominations with nine nods each.

The movies were both nominated for the main accolade, Best Picture, but will face stiff competition from 'American Sniper', 'Boyhood', 'Selma', 'The Theory of Everything', 'Whiplash' and 'The Imitation Game', which has eight nods.

'American Sniper' and 'Boyhood' both got six nominations at in this afternoon's (15.01.15) announcement with the former's Bradley Cooper picking up a nod in the Best Actor category.

'The Theory of Everything' managed a nod in both the Best Actor and Best Actress categories thanks to Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne, but, as well as Bradley, he will be up against Steve Carell ('Foxcatcher'), Benedict Cumberbatch ('The Imitation Game') and Michael Keaton ('Birdman').

Felicity will go up against Gone Girl's Rosamund Pike, but Wild's Reese Witherspoon will also be looking to get her hands on the trophy, as well as Marion Cotillard ('Two Days, One Night') and Julianne Moore ('Still Alice').

J.K. Simmons, fresh from his Best Supporting Actor win at the Golden Globes earlier this month, picked up a nomination in the same category at the Oscars, but will have to go up against Robert Duvall, Edward Norton, Mark Ruffalo and Boyhood's Ethan Hawke.

The movie also got a nod in the Best Supporting Actress category through Patricia Arquette, but she will face stiff competition from Birdman's Emma Stone, Keira Knightley ('The Imitation Game'), Laura Dern ('Wild') and Into The Woods' Meryl Streep, who now has a career total of 19 nods, extending her lead as the most-nominated actress ever.

The first category announced was Best Song which saw John Legend, Adam Levine, Glen Campbell and Tegan & Sara's 'The Lego Movie' track all receive a nod.

However, there was no nod for the motion picture in the Animated Feature Film category as 'Big Hero 6', 'Boxtrolls', 'How To Train Your Dragon 2', 'Song of the Sea' and 'Tale of Princess Kaguya' were all nominated.  

'American Sniper' picked up a nod in the Adapted Screenplay category, where 'The Imitation Game', 'Inherent Vice', 'The Theory of Everything' and 'Whiplash' were also recognised.

The Grand Budapest Hotel's Wes Anderson is nominated in the Directing category alongside Alejandro G. Inarritu ('Birdman'), Richard Linklater ('Boyhood'), Bennett Miller ('Foxcatcher') and Morten Tyldum ('The Imitation Game').

For the first time, the nominations were announced live in two separate sections with directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron reading the first section of nods and actor Chris Pine and academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announcing the second eight minutes later.


Full list of Academy Award 2015 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
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
JK Simmons – Whiplash

Best supporting actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Laura Dern – Wild
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods

Best original screenplay
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr and Armando Bo – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
E Max Frye and Dan Futterman – Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler

Best adapted screenplay
Jason Hall – American Sniper
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice
Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

Best foreign film
Ida
Leviathan
Tangerines
Timbuktu
Wild Tales

Best documentary
CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best animation
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best original song
Everything Is Awesome (music and lyric by Shawn Patterson, performed by Tegan & Sara feat The Lonely Island) – The Lego Movie
Glory (music and lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn, performed by Common and John Legend) – Selma
Grateful (music and lyric by Diane Warren, performed by Rita Ora) – Beyond the Lights
I’m Not Going to Miss You (music, lyric and performance by Glen Campbell) – Glen Campbell ... I’ll Be Me
Lost Stars (music and lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois, performed by Adam Levine) – Begin Again

Best documentary short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman
Robert Yeoman – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski – Ida
Dick Pope – Mr Turner
Roger Deakins – Unbroken

Best 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

Best sound editing
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman – American Sniper
Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock – Birdman
Brent Burge and Jason Canovas – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Richard King – Interstellar
Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro – Unbroken

Best sound mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin – American Sniper
Jon Taylor, Frank A Montaño and Thomas Varga – Birdman
Gary A Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten – Interstellar
Jon Taylor, Frank A Montaño and David Lee – Unbroken
Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley – Whiplash

Best makeup and hair
Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard – Foxcatcher
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White – Guardians of the Galaxy

Best original score
Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar
Gary Yershon – Mr Turner
Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything

Best production design
Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana Macdonald – The Imitation Game
Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis – Interstellar
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock – Into the Woods
Suzie Davies and Charlotte Watts – Mr Turner

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

Best costume design
Milena Canonero – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mark Bridges – Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood – Into the Woods
Anna B Sheppard and Jane Clive – Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran – Mr Turner

Best short film (animated)
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best short
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh
The Phone Call