The 2015 Oscar Nominations are Announced!

Hello fellow moviegoers!
The nominations for the 2015 Oscars were finally announced this morning. For the most part I agree with them, but there were a few snubs in here and there. If you don't know already, here are the nominees...

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 

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

Live Action Short Film
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh
The Phone Call

Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
The Theory of Everything


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



Film Editing
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash

Documentary Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper (La Parka)
White Earth

Director
Alejandro G. Inarritu (Birdman)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Bennet Miller (Foxcatcher)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Original Screenplay
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Lara Dern (Wild)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)

Actress
Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

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

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

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

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

Original Song
"Everything Is Awesome" The Lego Movie
"Glory" Selma
"Grateful" Beyond the Lights
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" Glen Campell...I'll Be Me
"Lost Stars" Begin Again

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

Foreign Language Film
Ida
Leviathan
Tangerines
Timbuktu
Wild Tales

Documentary Feature
CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

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

Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

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

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

Overall, I really like these nominees. While I have not seen all of the movies nominated yet, I have heard great things about them and their actors and actresses. There were a couple films I thought were snubbed though.

The big one that got snubbed was The Lego Movie. How is that movie not one of (if not the) best animated films of the year?! That movie is so good! I absolutely loved Big Hero 6, but The Lego Movie was even better! That was a poor call on the Academy's part. At least "Everything is Awesome" got nominated for Best Original Song. It better win!

 Another thing that should be on here is David Oyelowo's performance in Selma. While I won't call it a snub because I agree with the other choices. He definitely should have been nominated! I am happy that Selma was nominated for Best Picture though. It probably won't win, but it's still in the discussion. If he was nominated though, who would be taken out? It's such a hard decision!

One category I am really interested in seeing who wins is the Best Visual Effects category. Most likely, it will come down to either Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Interstellar. I would like to say Planet of the Apes will win because those apes looked so real, but all of the things in Interstellar looked so amazing! I mean, think about that black hole! It was so realistic! 

It's amazing how good this year was in film. You never really notice it until you realize how stacked the competition is for the Oscars. So what do you think of the Oscar Nominations this year? Who got snubbed? Who's going to win? Let me know by commenting on this post!

Thanks for stopping by!