Oscars: Birdman & The Grand Budapest Hotel lead nominations with 9 nods each

Oscars: Birdman & The Grand Budapest Hotel lead nominations with 9 nods each
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Show business satire “Birdman” and colorful caper “The Grand Budapest Hotel” led the nominees for Academy Awards on Thursday (January 15), with nine

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Show business satire “Birdman” and colorful caper “The Grand Budapest Hotel” led the nominees for Academy Awards on Thursday (January 15), with nine nods apiece including best picture, in the quest for Hollywood’s top film prize.

The other best picture nominees are “American Sniper,” “Boyhood,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything” and “Whiplash.” The Academy chose only eight films, although it can nominate up to 10.

Best Picture

*2014 winner: 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)*2015 nominees (watch the trailers for all these films at the bottom of the page):

  • ‘American Sniper’ by Clint Eastwood
  • ‘Birdman’ by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  • ‘Boyhood’ by Richard Linklater
  • ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ by Wes Anderson
  • ‘The Imitation Game’ by Morten Tyldum
  • ‘Selma’ by Ava DuVernay
  • ‘The Theory of Everything’ by James Marsh
  • ‘Whiplash’ by Damien Chazelle

Best director

*2014 winner: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)*2015 nominees:

  • Alejandro G. Iñárritu, ‘Birdman’
  • Richard Linklater, ‘Boyhood’
  • Bennett Miller, ‘Foxcatcher’
  • Wes Anderson, ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
  • Morten Tyldum, ‘The Imitation Game’

Best actor in a leading role

*2014 winner: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)*2015 nominees:

  • Steve Carell, ‘Foxcatcher’
  • Bradley Cooper, ‘American Sniper’
  • Benedict Cumberbatch, ‘The Imitation Game’
  • Michael Keaton, ‘Birdman’
  • Eddie Redmayne, ‘The Theory of Everything’

Best actress in a leading role

*2014 winner: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)*2015 nominees:

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

Best foreign language film

*2014 winner: The Great Beauty (Italy, Paolo Sorrentino)*2015 nominees:

  • ‘Ida’, Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland)
  • ‘Leviathan’, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
  • ‘Tangerines’, Zaza Urushadze (Estonia)
  • ‘Timbuktu’, Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania)
  • ‘Wild Tales’, Damián Szifron (Argentina)

The full nomination list is available here.

The 87th Oscars ceremony will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris (who starred in TV show ‘How I met your Mother’) on Sunday, February 22.

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