05 Oscar Finalists Announced

The news that filmmakers and those in filmmaking have been waiting for: The 2015 Oscar final nominations have been announced!

For Best Animated Feature, there were some surprises. Big Hero 6 (Disney), The Boxtrolls (Laika/Focus Features), and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation) made the list, as expected. However, two foreign animations also were selected: Song of the Sea, a hand-drawn animated film from Ireland by Cartoon Saloon and directed by Tomm Moore, and Tale of the Princess Kaguya, a Japanese animated film from Studio Ghibli, done in its signature painterly style and directed by Isao Takahata. Surprisingly, the LEGO Movie was not on the list.

Making the cut for Best Visual Effects is Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. The epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, which did not woo audiences as expected, did not make the cut. But the big surprise was that the final installment of The Hobbit, The Battle of the Five Armies, from Peter Jackson and Weta, did not make the list.

As for the Animated Short Films, The Bigger Picture, The Dam Keeper, Feast, Me and My Moulton, and A Single Life were nominated.

For Best Picture, none of the Oscar nominees, like those up for BAFTAs, are big VFX films. The finalists are: American Sniper, Birdman, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, and Whiplash.

The full list of finalists are:

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 Gonz lez I rritu, Birdman

Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Bennet Miller, Foxcatcher

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:

Damien Chazelle, Whiplash

Jason Hall, American Sniper

Graham Moore, The Imitation Game

Anthony McCarten, The Theory of Everything

Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice

Best Original Screenplay:

Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness, The Grand Budapest Hotel

E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman, Foxcatcher

Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler

Alejandro Gonz lez I rritu, Nicol s Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo, Birdman

Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Animated Feature:

Big Hero 6

The Boxtrolls

How To Train Your Dragon 2

Song of the Sea

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best Documentary Feature:

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Last Days In Vietnam

Virunga

Finding Vivian Maeir

The Salt of the Earth

Best Documentary Short:

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Joanna

Our Curse

The Reaper W

hite Earth

Best Film Editing:

American Sniper

Boyhood

The Imitation Game

Tom Cross, Whiplash

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Original Song:

Everything is Awesome, The Lego Movie

Glory, Selma

I'm Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Lost Stars, Begin Again

Grateful, Beyond the Lights

Best Production Design:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

Interstellar

Into The Woods

Mr. Turner

Best Animated Short:

The Bigger Picture

The Dam Keeper

Feast

Me and My Moulton

A Single Life

Best Live Action Short:

Aya

Boogaloo and Graham

The Phone Call

Butter Lamp

Parvaneh

Best Sound Editing:

American Sniper

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Interstellar

Birdman

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 Cinematography:

Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman

Ryszard Lenczewski and ukasz al, Ida

Dick Pope, Mr. Turner

Robert D. Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Roger Deakins, Unbroken

Best Costume Design:

Colleen Atwood, Into The Woods

Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jacqueline Durran, Mr. Turner

Anna B. Sheppard, Maleficent

Mark Bridges, Inherent Vice

Best Foreign Language Film:

Ida (Poland)

Leviathan (Russia)

Tangerines (Estonia)

Timbuktu (Mauritania)

Wild Tales (Argentina)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Foxcatcher

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Original Score:

Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game

Johann Johannsson, The Theory of Everything

Hans Zimmer, Interstellar

Gary Yershon, Mr. Turner

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