The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman lead way with 9 nominations this year
Nominations for the 87th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning in Los Angeles. The first set of nominees were announced by directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron. The second set were announced by actor Chris Pine and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. The announcement began at 8:30 am Eastern.
The dark show business comedy Birdman and the quirky Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest Hotel led the nominations with nine nominations a piece. The Imitation Game had eight nominations. American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s movie about Chris Kyle, tied with Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, the movie that took 12 years to make, with six nominations – and Bradley Cooper nabbed a Best Actor nod, nudging out Selma‘s David Oyelowo and Nightcrawler‘s Jake Gyllenhaal.
Winners will be announced on Feb. 22 in the annual Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
The complete list of nominees is below:
Best Picture
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Selma
- The Theory of Everything
- Whiplash
Best Director
- Alexandro G. 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
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 Foreign Language Film
- Ida, Poland
- Leviathan, Russia
- Tangerines, Estonia
- Timbuktu, Mauritania
- Wild Tales, Argentina
Best Adapted Screenplay
- American Sniper, Jason Hall
- The Imitation Game, Graham Moore
- Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Theory of Everything, Anthony McCarten
- Whiplash, Damien Chazelle
Best Original Screenplay
- Birdman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
- Boyhood, Richard Linklate
- Foxcatcher, E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
- Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- 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
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Interstellar
- Mr. Turner
- The Theory of Everything
Best 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
Best Animated Feature
- Big Hero 6
- The Boxtrolls
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Song of the Sea
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Best Documentary—Short
- Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
- Joanna
- Our Curse
- The Reaper
- White Earth
Best 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
Best 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
Best Animated Short
- The Bigger Picture
- The Dam Keeper
- Feast
- Me and My Moulton
- A Single Life
Best Live Action Short
- Aya
- Boogaloo and Graham
- Butter Lamp
- Parvaneh
- The Phone Call
Best Sound Editing
- American Sniper, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
- Birdman, 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
Best Sound Mixing
- American Sniper, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
- Birdman, 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
Best 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 Waldbauer
Best Documentary — Feature
- Citizenfour
- Finding Vivien Maier
- Last Days of Vietnam
- The Salt of the Earth
- Virunga
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
