Our favorite girl next door was snubbed for an Oscar for her role in the movie Cake, the gut-wrenching, makeup-less role in which she plays a woman battling some pretty raw and visceral situations, and quite frankly, it looks like the performance of a lifetime. It seems both depressing and uplifting, and how could she not get a nomination for it?
But the most notable Oscar snub would have to be Selma. What is critics' deal with Selma? I understand they didn't have the rights to Dr. King's speeches, but geez. David Oyelowo did not receive a Best Actor nod and amazing and crazy talented Ava DuVernay didn't receive a nomination for Best Director. I just don't understand.
Other prominent snubs include the omission of Clint Eastwood for Best Director for American Sniper, Jessica Chastain for Best Supporting Actress in A Most Violent Year, Lorde and Lana Del Rey were left off the list of Best Song for their tunes in Big Eyes and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, respectively. David Fincher wasn't nominated for Gone Girl, and how on earth was The Lego Movie not nominated for Best Animated Feature?
Omgosh.
But there were some pretty amazing films, actors and actresses grabbing up top numbers of nominations. The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman led the movie pack with nine nominations each. The Imitation Game nabbed eight nods, while Meryl Streep earned her 19th nomination and Bradley Cooper his third consecutive one.
I guess now we will have to go see Birdman?
Check out all the nominations below.
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