2015 Oscar Nominations

by RT Staff | January 15, 2015

Actor Chris Pine, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams announced today the nominations for all 24 Oscar categories at a live news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Read through for the full list of nominees.

BEST PICTURE

DIRECTING

Birdman

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

91%
Boyhood

Richard Linklater

97%
Foxcatcher

Bennett Miller

88%
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson

92%
The Imitation Game

Morten Tyldum

90%

ACTOR in a Leading Role

ACTRESS in a Leading Role

ACTOR in a Supporting Role

ACTRESS in a Supporting Role

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Ida

Poland

95%
Leviathan

Russia

97%
Tangerines

Estonia

88%
Timbuktu

Mauritania

98%
Wild Tales

Argentina

94%

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

CINEMATOGRAPHY

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

COSTUME DESIGN

Milena Canonero for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mark Bridges for Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood for Into the Woods
Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive for Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran for Mr. Turner

FILM EDITING

Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach for American Sniper
Sandra Adair for Boyhood
Barney Pilling for The Grand Budapest Hotel
William Goldenberg for The Imitation Game
Tom Cross for Whiplash

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard for Foxcatcher
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White for Guardians of the Galaxy

MUSIC – Original Score

Alexandre Desplat for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat for The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer for Interstellar
Gary Yershon for Mr. Turner
Jóhann Jóhannsson for The Theory of Everything

MUSIC – Original Song

“Everything Is Awesome”; Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson from The Lego Movie
“Glory”; Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn from Selma
“Grateful”; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren from Beyond the Lights
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You”; Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond from Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me
“Lost Stars”; Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois from Begin Again

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration) for The Imitation Game
Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) for Interstellar
Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for Into the Woods
Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration) for Mr. Turner

SOUND EDITING

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman for American Sniper
Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock for Birdman
Brent Burge and Jason Canovas for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Richard King for Interstellar
Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro for Unbroken

SOUND MIXING

John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin for American Sniper
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga for Birdman
Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten for Interstellar
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee for Unbroken
Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley for Whiplash

VISUAL EFFECTS

Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould for Guardians of the Galaxy
Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher for Interstellar
Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer for X-Men: Days of Future Past

WRITING – Adapted Screenplay

Written by Jason Hall for American Sniper
Written by Graham Moore for The Imitation Game
Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten for The Theory of Everything
Written by Damien Chazelle for Whiplash

WRITING – Original Screenplay

Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo for Birdman
Written by Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman for Foxcatcher
Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written by Dan Gilroy
for Nightcrawler