Thursday, January 15, 2015

87th Academy Awards: Nominees

By Anant Mathur (January 15, 2015)

With Oscar night just a few of week away the nominees were announced today. Here is the list of nominees for the 87th Academy Awards ceremony:


BEST PICTURE

American Sniper 

Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan

Birdman 

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole

Boyhood

 Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland

The Grand Budapest Hotel 

Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson

The Imitation Game 

Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman

Selma
Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner


The Theory of Everything
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten


Whiplash  

Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster


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 

J.K. 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 DIRECTOR

Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Birdman
 

Richard Linklater 
Boyhood

Bennett Miller
Foxcatcher

Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Morten Tyldum
The Imitation Game


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

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 
Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura 


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Birdman 

Emmanuel Lubezki 

The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Robert Yeoman 

Ida 
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski 

Mr. Turner 
Dick Pope

Unbroken 
Roger Deakins


BEST 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


BEST 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


BEST 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


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 

Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry 

Joanna 
Aneta Kopacz 

Our Curse 
Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki 

The Reaper (La Parka) 
Gabriel Serra Arguello 

White Earth 
J. Christian Jensen


BEST FOREIGN FILM

 
Ida 

Poland; Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski 

Leviathan 
Russia; Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev 

Tangerines 
Estonia; Directed by Zaza Urushadze 

Timbuktu 
Mauritania; Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako 

Wild Tales 
Argentina; Directed by Damián Szifron


BEST 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


BEST MUSIC - 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


BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG 

"Everything Is Awesome" 
THE LEGO MOVIE 
Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson 

"Glory" 
SELMA 
Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn 

"Grateful" 
BEYOND THE LIGHTS 
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren 

"I'm Not Gonna Miss You"  
GLEN CAMPBELL...I'LL BE ME 
Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond 

"Lost Stars" 
BEGIN AGAIN 
Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) 

The Imitation Game 
Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration) 

Interstellar 
Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) 

Into the Woods 
Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) 

Mr. Turner 
Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)


BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATED 


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

BEST SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION 

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


BEST SOUND EDITING 


American Sniper 
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman 

Birdman 
Martin 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 WRITING - 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


BEST WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

Birdman 
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


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