Oscar nominations: Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel top list

  • Breaking
  • 15/01/2015

Dark comedy Birdman and stylish crime caper The Grand Budapest Hotel have topped the Oscars nominations list, with nine each, firing the starting gun on the home stretch of Hollywood's awards race.

New Zealand writer Anthony McCarten has a nod for his work on the Stephen Hawking film, The Theory of Everything, as did Weta Digital for its work on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Lorde and Bret McKenzie both missed out on a Best Original Song nomination after making the shortlist.

In second place was World War II code-breaking thriller The Imitation Game, with eight nominations. Clint Eastwood's American Sniper and coming-of-age drama Boyhood each earned six nods.

The five films were all shortlisted for best picture, along with US civil rights drama Selma, Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything and jazz drumming saga Whiplash.

The golden statuettes will be handed out on February 22 at the Dolby Theatre in downtown Hollywood.

For best actor, Birdman star Michael Keaton and Britain's Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) - Golden Globes winners just a few days ago - are up against Steve Carell (Foxcatcher), Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game).

The best actress race includes two former Oscar winners - Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night and Reese Witherspoon (Wild).

They will compete against Globes winner Julianne Moore (Still Alice), along with two British actresses - Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl).

The makers of both Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Wes Anderson, are both in the race for best director along with Richard Linklater for Boyhood, Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher and Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game.

The Oscar nominees - chosen by the 6000-plus members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - were revealed in a pre-dawn ceremony in Beverly Hills.

Voting for the 87th Oscars starts on February 6 and closes on February 17.

This year's crop of hotly-tipped movies is heavy on true stories: several of the films on the Oscars best picture shortlist were based on real-life events.

Among the historical figures depicted in those films are astrophysicist Hawking (The Theory of Everything), British mathematician Alan Turing (The Imitation Game) and Martin Luther King Jr (Selma).

The eagerly-awaited Oscars announcement came just four days after Boyhood emerged triumphant from the Golden Globes, winning best film and best director honours, along with a prize for best supporting actress Patricia Arquette, also an Oscar nominee.

Birdman - about a washed-up film actor (Keaton) trying to revive his career on stage - and The Theory of Everything, about Hawking's descent into disability, each took home two awards.

The Globes - for which Birdman had led nominations with seven nods - produced a few surprises, which injected some drama into the race to the Oscars.

"My first caution to Globes winners: don't get over-confident," said Variety awards editor Tim Gray, warning that the Globes are often a poor predictor of Oscars glory.

Possibly the biggest surprise of the Globes ceremony came when Anderson's stylish crime caper The Grand Budapest Hotel took home the prize for best comedy/musical film over Birdman.

"The Grand Budapest triumph throws something of a curveball into the Oscar race," wrote the Los Angeles Times.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

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

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

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

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

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods
Laura Dern – Wild

Best Director
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher

Original Screenplay
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo – Birdman
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman – Foxcatcher

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

Foreign Language Film
Ida (Poland)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Wild Tales (Argentina)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Live Action Short Film
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
Parvaneh
The Phone Call

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

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

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

Production Design
Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana MacDonald – The Imitation Game
Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis – Interstellar
Suzie Davies and Charlotte Watts – Mr. Turner
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock – Into the Woods

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

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

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

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

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