2015 Oscar nominations announced

THE 2015 Academy Awards nominations have been announced, with two films leading the way by grabbing nine nominations apiece. 

Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ – about a hotel concierge framed for murder – has received nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. 

The only other movie to receive as many nominations is Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu’s ‘Birdman,’ starring Michael Keaton and Edward Norton, telling the story of a faded Hollywood actor famous for playing a superhero. ‘Birdman’ received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, among others. 

Both movies won Golden Globe awards last week. The nominations were announced this Thursday morning during a live telecast from Los Angeles. This edition of the Oscars – the 87^th Academy Awards – is scheduled to take place on February 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The full list of Oscar nominations for 2015 are as follows:

Best Picture

• American Sniper
• Birdman
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Selma
• The Theory of Everything
• Whiplash

Best Director

• Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman
• Richard Linklater, Boyhood
• Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

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 Actor

• Steve Carell, Foxcatcher 
• Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
• Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
• Michael Keaton, Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
• Laura Dern, Wild
• Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
• Emma Stone, Birdman
• Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall, The Judge
• Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
• Edward Norton, Birdman
• Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
• J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
• Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
• Jason Hall, American Sniper
• Anthony McCarten, The Theory of Everything
• Graham Moore, The Imitation Game

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Foreign Language Film

• Leviathan
• Ida
• Tangerines
• Timbuktu
• Wild Tales

Best Documentary Feature

• CITIZENFOUR
• Finding Vivian Maier
• Last Days in Vietnam
• The Salt in the Earth
• Virunga

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Film Editing

• American Sniper
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Whiplash

Best Original Song

• Everything is Awesome from The LEGO Movie (written by Shawn Patterson)
• Glory from Selma (written by Common and John Legend)
• Grateful from Beyond the Lights (written by Diane Warren)
• I’m Not Gonna Miss You from “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” (written by Glen Campbell)
• Lost Stars from Begin Again (written by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood)

Best Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
• Johann Johannsson, The Theory of Everything
• Gary Yershon, Mr. Turner
• Hans Zimmer, Interstellar

Best Cinematography

• Roger Deakins, Unbroken
• Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman
• Dick Pope, Mr. Turner
• Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida

Best Costume Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Inherent Vice
• Into the Woods
• Maleficent
• Mr. Turner

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Foxcatcher
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Production Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Interstellar
• Into the Woods
• Mr. Turner

Best Sound Editing

• American Sniper
• Birdman
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Interstellar
• Unbroken

Best Sound Mixing

• American Sniper
• Birdman
• Interstellar
• Unbroken
• Whiplash

Best Visual Effects

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Interstellar
• X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Short Film, Live Action

• Aya
• Boogaloo and Graham
• Butter Lamp
• Parvaneh
• The Phone Call

Best Short Film, Animated

• The Bigger Picture
• The Dam Keeper
• Feast
• Me and My Moulton
• A Single Life

Best Documentary, Short Subject

• Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
• Joanna
• Our Curse
• The Reaper
• White Earth