The 87th Academy Awards. Nominations Are Here!
Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 9:05AM Straight off the bat the happy shockers are Marion Cotillard for Two Days One Night (edging out Jennifer Aniston), Laura Dern for Wild (where many assumed Jessica Chastain would be), the weird surprise is Bennett Miller in Director for Foxcatcher, our first "lone director" nod since the Academy expanded the Best Picture field. In terrible news there were only two nominations (Best Picture & Song) for the grand Selma... which places it in the unfortunate company of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Blind Side. Yikes! In less horrific but still weird disappointing news: Nightcrawler pulled an Into the Wild by doing really well at the guilds but not so much with Oscar.
Oscar had a boner for Birdman with many nominations
Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman led the nominations with 9 honors each (though I correctly predicted Birdman being shut out of film editing so people will say it will have trouble winning now, statistically). You can see the complete nomination chart here. I'll be spending the day updating the individual charts with polls, stats, and whatnot. So Stay tuned!
I got perfect scores in only four categories this year prediction wise: Picture, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, and Makeup and Hair... though I'm proud of several individual predictions in my 4/5s categories like seeing The Hobbit's omission in Visual Effects and the love for Mr. Turner in a few places and I'm stunned to have gotten 4/5 in the always tricky sound categories. Unfortunately my very worst stat this year 3/5 came in two headline categories: Best Director and Best Actor! And the headline categories are usually the easiest.
How'd you do on your predictions and what was your happiest and saddest moment?
See also: Five Stage of Grief. Oscar Snubs and Why Wes? Why Now?
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Reader Comments (120)
yes to marion, dern and no amy (she's no meryl)!
I actually predicted Marion Cotillard over Jennifer Anniston, I actually told someone "Stop trying to make Jennifer Anniston happen this year, it's not going to happen."
Be right back, gotta go do some backflips for Laura Dern.
I really wanted Rene Russo to make it -- oh well!
Cotillard validates the critics -- shows they still have muscle when they are on the same page. I always like seeing a foreign language Best Actor candidate as well -- it livens things up.
Happy for Dern, but disappointed for Jakey Poo.
And really surprised how poorly Gone Girl and Selma did.
Snubs, whatever. The biggest surprise, for me, was seeing Bennett Miller get nominated for FOXCATCHER, and then seeing 8 other films nominated for Best Picture.
When the Academy decided to expand the number of Best Picture nominees, I assumed that meant that the Directors Branch would never again deviate from the Best Picture list. But it happened today.
Man, Jakey G. cannot catch a break with Oscar. Thought for sure he had the nomination. Bradley Cooper does it again. Three consecutive nominations is simply shocking to me. He's definitely come to play the last few years.
Dern over Chastain....I'm cool with that.
Surprised over the Foxcatcher love...especially in Best Director?!? No Picture nomination but Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and Screenplay - wierd.
Definitely in the minority here but happy for the non-nominations for The Lego Movie / Gone Girl ... just didn't get them! LOL.
Marioooon!!! Thank You Academy! I forgive you everything! Even Robert Duvall!!!
So the verdict on Selma's campaign strategy is in.
THRILLED for Marion and Laura. No words.
Bummed for many things, including that we made way for two surprises in Best Actor and neither was Fiennes or Spall. Before they reached that category, I had hope for each with the popularity of their respective movies.
This is Bradley Cooper's third nominated year in a row, Meryl's second.
Both Reese and Marion are receiving their second nomination, after they won on their first.
So, three biggies for Foxcatcher? And Whiplash for BP? Wow. Thrilled with the noms for Best Actress, and so glad Dern got in for Wild.
Well, snubbing Fiennes is not cool!
Funny, exact opposite of what happened to Marion Cotillard a few years back... she got everything and then no Oscar nod. This time, she got nothing and then got the Oscar nod lol. Very happy with her. I was at the point where I just wanted Jennifer Aniston to be nominated so Amy Adams wasn't but nice to see the better actress overall make it in.
I predicted Song of the Sea and Princess Kayuga to both get in, but obviously not at the expense of The Lego Movie.
No adapted screenplay for Gone Girl feels wrong.
Oyelowo and Duvernay snubbed... it hurts. Gyllenhaal snubbed. It hurts.
Laura Dern is cool, but I was really pulling for Rene Russo. I was kinda wondering as they were announcing if Meryl was gonna be snubbed. Glad she got her moment with the BAFTAs though. I would've preferred Jessica Chastain over Dern tbh.
Seems silly to nominate Selma for Best Picture if its only other nomination was Original Song. How is that representative of a "best" picture at all?
Fuck American Sniper.
wow this is Bradley Cooper's THIRD consecutive nomination!
Take a break dude!
I think the writing has been on the wall for Selma now, it's missed out with pretty much all the guilds. I hate this idea that the Academy couldn't get behind 'another black movie' after 12 Years A Slave winning last year but it sure feels like that.
Noticed that Oscar website says Foxcatcher received 4 noms. Actually it is 5. They forgot to mention Mark Ruffalo.
http://oscar.go.com/nominees?cid=oscars_nominees_announcement_cadillac
Interesting for all the talk about how lead actress was such a weak year and lead actor was so strong, the actress line-up totally blows actor out of the water in the end. Swap out Jones for either Scarlett Johansson or Jenny Slate and it would be near perfect.
trivia: iñárritu, anderson and linklater are nominated against each other three categories: film/director/original screenplay
just happy about Grand Budapest Hotel. I really liked that movie and since Gone Girl didn't get much, I will celebrate that.
Cotillard, Dern, yes!. No Gillian Flynn? Three time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper?
Overjoyed for Marion and for the Mr. Turner tech love. Crushed for Ava and Jessica, who is better than all five nominees.
WHIPLASH 5 NOMINATIONS WHOOO HOOO!!!!!!! So happy to see the Best Pic nom and the screenplay nom!!!
So Selma is good enough to be a bp but it misses all other categories but one. Some Logic!
At this rate, Streep is also going to own the best supporting actress record, (Not that I am complaining).
Tweet of the morning so far?
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/555725176055156737
I agree with you Sean C. Selma's campaign was awful.
Refusing to send out screeners to members until the last minute was a major mistake.
Selma will win Original Song and that's it.
The competition is now between Boyhood and Birdman for the big one.
God help us if that American Sniper rubbish wins.
Philip H it seems like there was enough broad support for Selma to get the BP nod (as all members vote on that, with passionate #1 votes) but my guess is that it didn't translate for each branch where I am guessing it just missed out.
MARION MARION MARION!!!!!!! Freaking Out!!!!!
Marion! Je te aime.
I'll be crucified for saying this, but I would love it if Marion won for a bravo performance and Julianne to sit this one out and win later for an equally bravo performance. I still would be on cloud nine if either of them won.
What the hell is with shutting Lego Movie out from the animated movie. And yes i felt a little underwhelmed by Gone Girl after loving its book but I figure it should've gotten adapted screenplay along with Pike.
Magicub, Cooper's first two nominations were wholly deserved (I haven't seen American Sniper yet).
Foxcatcher! Yipee!!
A lot of weird things going on, with the Foxcatcher love everywhere but BP (I love the film and am glad, but seriously what's up with that?), Selma in BP and song but nothing else (campaigning? release date? something racial? or just overhyped film?).
But hard to complain when there are just as many great surprises as there are unfortunate snubs. Yes, it sucks that the Lego Movie didn't get in, but Song of the Sea is beautiful.
Yes, it sucks that Robert Duvall got in, but how about Marion Cotillard?!
Okay, so Jake G and David O were snubbed, but Bradley Cooper is a nice surprise.
Meryl Streep gets nominated for anything these days, but who doesn't love Laura Dern?
I'm a little disappointed by the lack of love for Gone Girl and Nightcrawler, and the overwhelming love for The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game, but that was expected.
Again, we can find places where the Academy went wrong, but overall some great choices.
Marion Cotillard's presence makes the Best Actress category infinitely better, and removes the possibility that the narrative could turn for Aniston (Imagine if she wins the SAG now!). If Julianne was ever beatable, the only outside shot has just been removed from the lineup. Onward!
As for Dern, I'm so, so, so happy. Happy that Chastain was ignored, happy that Dern's stalwart presence has been rewarded. Can't wait to see what she does in the next few years.
I'm so freakin' happy about Marion Cotillard's nomination that I almost don't care about all the Selma snubs!
Pike being the only nomination for Gone Girl is really weird - and that it fell out of Adapted Screenplay for Inherent Vice even weirder, since it was the biggest hit in the hunt for major nominations (save possibly Interstellar), and Vice was so divisive.
Steve Carell: Further proof that a prosthetic nose in an against-type role will get you an Oscar nomination.
I have always thought than Nightcrawler was too dark for the Academy.
What a joke. I officially hate the Oscars
@Mustafa- I was kind of thinking the same thing about Moore. If she looses this year she becomes even more overdue and next year she has Map to the Stars and the Ellen Page movie where she is playing a deglamed, dying lesbian. That's practically the perfect combo for a nomination. Maybe she gets back to back noms?
Streep! 19 Oscar nominations despite the streep fatigue felt by many on this board. There was no way a snub was happening this morning with such a huge hit movie and rave reviews. Looks like Oscar does not feel the same fatigue...
I am incredibly disgusted by Bradley Cooper's nomination for American Sniper.
They might have as well dropped Marion Cotillard nominated Megan Fox for Ninja Turtles.
Joy for Marion nearly totally wiped out by how badly Selma was snubbed (and to top it off, a BP nod for a movie based on a racist hate-filled homicidal maniac). Yeah, it freaking hurts.
Happy to see Ida. Happy to see that Boyhood didn't miss it's expected nominations.
Dismayed with all of the American Sniper noms.
So many surprises this morning - which I prefer to a boring, predictable set of nominations.
Happy Oscar nomination morning everyone! :)
Lovely surprises: Marion Cotillard, no hobbit except Sound Editing, Ida in Cinematography
Weird surprises: Bennett Miller for Director... don't like that nom, but I didn't see it coming and it's nice to have noms coming out of the blue (next time, choose a better option though). LEGO not in Animated Feature. Again, nice to be surprised, but they could have snubbed Big Hero 6 instead!
Horrible surprises: Just 2 noms for Selma, Cooper for best actor (not a bad performance, but over Fiennes, Gyllenhaal and Oyelowo? I think not!),
Categories I like: Leading Actress (not my choices, but considering the precursors, it's the best we could have had), Production Design, Costume Design (love that Inherent Vice nom) and wow, the song category actually looks nice! That's two years in a row (if you forget the Alone Yet Not Alone debacle)
Categories I Hate: Leading Actor (we could have had such a strong line-up and instead it's just blah. Rooting hard for Keaton) and Director (Tyldum and Miller? Really?)
Thing that pisses me off the most: American Sniper getting SIX nominations while Selma only has two!
So happy for Wild Tales, Cotillard and the Foxcatcher love, even without BP. So so happy. Those were all my biggest Oscar wish list items.
Kinda grossed out by the American Sniper love, but I'm glad Selma got, almost, left out. The sole BP nod is kinda funny.
"Pike being the only nomination for Gone Girl is really weird - and that it fell out of Adapted Screenplay for Inherent Vice even weirder, since it was the biggest hit in the hunt for major nominations (save possibly Interstellar), and Vice was so divisive."
I agree, although I guess we should be happy with Pike's nomination. When you think about it, Pike's performance is one of the weirdest, craziest female performances nominated in a long time. I thought Gone Girl's best picture chances were iffy at best, but Flynn's absence from adapted screenplay reeks of "good ol' boys" club sexism. It just doesn't seem like any branch particularly liked the film that much, since it missed out on other deserving nominations in editing, score, and cinematography.
What an IMPRESSIVELY boring and white Best Actor category!
Is American Sniper really that bad? It hasn't opened here yet, but I've heard very divisive and polarizing opinions from friends in NYC and LA who have seen it. Some love it, some hate it. All of them thought Bradley Cooper was pretty great, though. I predicted him for a nomination but I am surprised he took out either David Oyelowo or Jake Gyllenhaal.
More like Four time academy award nominee Bradley Cooper (see best picture)!
No Gozilla in Sound Editting and VFX is so wrong!
No Gone Girl in Screen Play, Fienes in Actor is also wrong
WHERE THE FUCK IS LEJEND?
Calling it now - Bradley Cooper wins. They clearly like him, he's currently got a hit Broadway play, he's got what it takes to charm voters, and the conservative set will want a way to reward the movie. With neither Keaton or Redmayne building a consensus, Cooper steals it.
denny -prosthetic nose. haha
philip-good observation
I'm confused how the visual effects people ignored GODZILLA. that was all kinds of amazing f/x to me
Aaron - think Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Cooper is good, and the movie is that bad.