Oscars 2015: Nominees!

Nominations for the Academy Awards 2015 were announced today and Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel led the pack with 9 nods each.

As per usual, the 2015 lineup has its fair share of happy surprises - Laura Dern! Everything Is Awesome! Lost Stars! - but there are still enough glaring insults to leave us scalding with rage. Seriously. No love for The Lego Movie. The absence of Jake Gyllenhaal. And Nightcrawler. The disappearance of Gone Girl in every single category - save for Rosamund Pike - and Gillian Flynn getting shut out of Adapted Screenplay also for Gone Girl. Oh Lorde and Lana Del Rey for Original Song.

Bennett Miller's Best Director nod for Foxcatcher, but completely left out of the Best Picture race. Bradley Cooper? Birdman getting snubbed for Film Editing.

End of rant. Haha.

Anyway, here's a quick list of some of the nominees this year, and be back in a couple of weeks for DAM NATION's prediction. 

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 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

BEST 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

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
JK Simmons, Whiplash

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into The Woods

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr. Turner
Unbroken

BEST FILM EDITING
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Everything Is Awesome, The Lego Movie
Glory, Selma
Grateful, Beyond The Lights
I'm Not Going To Miss You, Glen Campbell.. I'll Be Me
Lost Stars, Begin Again

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Big Hero 6
The Box Trolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Songs of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya