AND THE NOMINATIONS ARE...
BEST PICTURE
American Sniper: Biopic of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, one of the most lethal snipers in the U.S.
Birdman: Michael Keaton plays a washed-up actor who stages a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his fame
Boyhood: Coming of age drama, shot over 12 years tracing a boy and his older sister’s path to adulthood
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Ralph Fiennes plays urbane concierge, who teams up with an employee to prove his innocence on a murder charge
The Imitation Game (above): Film about how pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing cracked Nazis’ Enigma code
Selma: Moving biopic about Martin Luther King Jr
The Theory of Everything: Eddie Redmayne is physicist Stephen Hawking in film about his first marriage
Whiplash: Teenage student’s struggle to earn the drum seat in the jazz orchestra at a music school, and his relationship with his disciplinarian teacher
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette: Boyhood
Laura Dern: Wild
Keira Knightley: The Imitation Game
Emma Stone: Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Meryl Streep: Into The Woods - A childless couple set out to end a curse placed on them by a witch
BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard: Two Days, One Night - Sandra (Cotillard) has a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so she can keep her job
Felicity Jones: The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore: Still Alice - Plight of college professor (Moore) as Alzheimer’s slowly destroys her mind
Rosamund Pike (above): Gone Girl - Thriller about the disappearance of an unhappy wife and the effects on her husband and the marriage
Reese Witherspoon: Wild - Story of Cheryl Strayed (Witherspoon) who hiked 1,100 miles to deal with her grief over her mother’s death
BEST ACTOR
Steve Carell: Foxcatcher - Wrestler Mark Schultz is invited by wealthy heir John du Pont (Carell) to move on to his estate to form an Olympic team
Bradley Cooper: American Sniper
Benedict
Cumberbatch: The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton: Birdman
Eddie Redmayne: The Theory of Everything