2014 Awards and Critics' Lists

[Henry Gale]

BEST PICTURE:

• American Sniper
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Selma
• The Theory Of Everything
• Whiplash

Mostly as expected for Picture, with the only weird blemish being Bennett Miller coming out of nowhere for Best Director and yet his Foxcatcher didn't show up in Picture. Gone Girl, Nightcrawler proved to be too dark and weird to land spots.

No Chris Nolan nod or Interstellar BP nod. Hollywood fail.

Nah, even as someone who loved the movie, it had not shot. Once it came out and was as divisive as it was, it was never squeezing in with the more straightforward (boring) likes of Imitation Game.

[transmogrifier]

I've only seen one of those films and didn't really like it (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Interstellar didn't deserve to be there, though, and certainly not for direction.

[TGM]

No Chris Nolan nod or Interstellar BP nod. Hollywood fail.

I feel your pain.

[Henry Gale]

And damn, I really didn't want to bother watching American Sniper.

The Academy really loves Cooper, though don't they? My man's gonna bump Gyllenhaal, Spall, Fiennes and Oyelowo?! Three nominations in three years too.

[transmogrifier]

And damn, I really didn't want to bother watching American Sniper.

The Academy really loves Cooper, though don't they? My man's gonna bump Gyllenhaal, Spall, Fiennes and Oyelowo?! Three nominations in three years too.

I don't understand why; he's a deeply average actor. Not terrible, but lacks charisma and range.

[dreamdead]

Full list of nominees:

Best Picture
“Birdman”
“Boyhood”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”
“The Imitation Game”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“American Sniper”
“Whiplash”

Actress in a Leading Role
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”
Marion Cotillard, “Two Days One Night”

Actor in a Leading Role
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”

Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game”
Bennett Miller, “Foxcatcher”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”
Laura Dern, “Wild”

Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”
Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
Robert Duvall, “The Judge”

Foreign Language Film
“Ida”
“Leviathan”
“Tangerines”
“Wild Tales”
“Timbuktu”

Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game”
Damien Chazelle, “Whiplash”
Anthony McCarten, “The Theory of Everything”
Jason Hall, “American Sniper”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”

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

Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman”
Roger Deakins, “Unbroken”
Robert D. Yeoman, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Dick Pope, “Mr. Turner”
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lynzewski, “Ida”

Music – Original Score
Hans Zimmer, “Interstellar”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”
Johann Johannsson, “The Theory of Everything”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Gary Yershon, “Mr Turner”

Makeup and Hairstyling
“Foxcatcher”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”

Costume Design
Colleen Atwood, “Into the Woods”
Anna B. Sheppard, “Maleficent”
Milena Canonero, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Jacqueline Durran, “Mr. Turner”
Mark Bridges, “Inherent Vice”

Music – Original Song
“Glory” by Common and John Legend, “Selma”
“Lost Stars” by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood, “Begin Again”
“Everything Is Awesome” by Shawn Patterson, “The LEGO Movie”
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” by Glen Campbell, “Glenn Campbell: I’ll Be Me”
“Grateful,” “Beyond the lights”

Visual Effects
“Interstellar”
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
“Captain America: Winter Soldier”
“X-Men: Days of Future Past”

Documentary Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1”
“Joanna”
“Our Curse”
“White Earth”
“The Reaper”

Documentary Feature
“Citizenfour”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Virunga”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Finding Vivian Maier”

Film Editing
Sandra Adair, “Boyhood”
Tom Cross, “Whiplash”
William Goldenberg, “The Imitation Game”
Joel Cox and Gary Roach, “American Sniper”
Barney Pilling, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Sound Editing
“Interstellar”
“Unbroken”
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”

Sound Mixing
Mark Weingarten, “Interstellar”
Thomas Curley, ”Whiplash”
“Unbroken”
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”

Production Design
“Into the Woods”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Interstellar”
“The Imitation Game”
“Mr. Turner”

Short Film – Live Action
“Boogaloo and Graham”
“Aya”
“Butterlamp”
“Parvenah”
“The Phone Call”

Short Film – Animated
“Feast”
“The Bigger Picture”
“A Single Life”
“The Dam Keeper”
“Me and My Moulton”

Animated Feature Film
“Big Hero 6”
“How to Train Your Dragon 2”
“The Boxtrolls”
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”
“Song of the Sea”

[Irish]

Interstellar was never gonna happen.

Surprised at lack of noms for Oyelowo, Fincher & Flynn. Thought those were shoe-ins. Brain froze when they announced the animation noms because it felt like something was missing. A thousand nerds cried out on twitter, and then were silenced. And I cackled like a nutjob.

I yelled at the screen any time Theory of Everything was mentioned in any context.

Cheered loudly at Reese Witherspoon's nom.

Cheered quietly when Unbroken picked up a few nods.

It's almost impossible not to sound like a rightwing nutjob when I say this, but: Since Unbroken is out of the running for most major awards, I hope American Sniper wins everything it was nominated for.

[Irish]

Mostly surprised that these nominations seemed controversial as hell while largely nominating the same small handful of films across multiple categories.

[Dukefrukem]

I don't understand why; he's a deeply average actor. Not terrible, but lacks charisma and range.

Well he does have a southern draw in American Sniper so let's see how he does. I think I'm gonna start seeing these movies tonight. American Sniper, 2 hours 15 minutes. Yeesh.

[dreamdead]

Disappointed that the lead actor nominees only has one role not based around a biopic portrayal.

Pleased that the Aniston resurgence failed, and that Cotillard snuck in.

Also pleased that Ida received a cinematography nominee.

Depressed that the best songs category is so stupid that none of We are the Best or God Help the Girl (which I admittedly still have to see) could be nominated.

Super-excited that Takahata's film got mentioned.

[Dukefrukem]

Best song omitted?

[TGM]

On the bright side, maybe now that Whiplash has been nominated they'll bring it back to theaters for longer than a week this time. :P

[transmogrifier]

I'm at the point now where I don't care one way or the other who gets nominated. As much as I don't think Interstellar is anywhere near one of the best films of the year, I wouldn't have cared if it got a nomination, and as much as I think Gone Girl was excellent, the fact it got just one nomination doesn't bother me.

I look at the list of for Best Picture and think, wow, that looks pretty weak, and then I go and see 2011:

The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
Tree of Life
War Horse

and think, bloody hell, that was a weak year, and then 2008

Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader

and think, no, that was a weak year, and then I realize.....why do I care again? It has always been full of weak movies and performances, and "shocks" that are only shocks because they weren't first concocted and discussed to death by the incestuous "Oscar prognosticators" who on one hand decry the stuffiness of the Academy while at the same time create lists of what they think the Academy will favor, thus reinforcing the rules for the crappy game they (for some reason) devote a lot of their journalistic attention to.

I know no-one likes people on the internet loudly proclaiming how much they really don't care about something, so I promise this will be the last time I speak about the Oscars ever again on any message board for any reason. Should be a pretty easy resolution to stick to.

[Irish]

but lacks charisma and range.

A lot of people consider Cooper insanely good looking. Personally, I never saw it; on some level he will always be the wimpy dude on a Alias to me.

As for range ... He went from playing a CGI racoon to a US Navy SEAL within the same year. How's that not an exhibition of range?

[number8]

As for range ... He went from playing a CGI racoon to a US Navy SEAL within the same year. How's that not an exhibition of range?

They're both gun-toting violently unstable homicidal characters.

[Irish]

They're both gun-toting violently unstable homicidal characters.

:lol: fair point

[Watashi]

"David Oyelowo was snubbed to make room for Bradley Cooper, making this the 2nd time Martin Luther King has been taken out by a sniper."

[Dead & Messed Up]

I literally gasped when I read the Animation category and saw no Lego Movie.

[Irish]

[[ETM]]

I literally gasped when I read the Animation category and saw no Lego Movie.

And here I am going "Song of the Sea! Yess!"

I love the fact that Tomm Moore is now "two time Academy Award nominee".

[Mr. McGibblets]

Vin Diesel was robbed

[TGM]

So I'm only just now realizing that Foxcatcher didn't get a best picture nomination. Huh.

[Ezee E]

I didn't realize Cooper was a good actor until I came across Place Beyond the Pines.

[TGM]

I didn't realize Cooper was a good actor until I came across Place Beyond the Pines.

He had impressed me in other roles prior to this, but I would definitely say that Pines is his best performance to date.

[Dukefrukem]

I didn't realize Cooper was a good actor until I came across Place Beyond the Pines.

Far and away from A-team.