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2015 Academy Awards

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The nominees are:

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

Best Director:
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher

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

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

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
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into The Woods

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

Best Original Screenplay:
Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness, The Grand Budapest Hotel
E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman, Foxcatcher
Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Animated Feature:
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best Documentary Feature:
CITIZENFOUR
Last Days In Vietnam
Virunga
Finding Vivian Maier
The Salt of the Earth
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American Sniper and Birdman really have no place in there, but Imitation Game?? that has to be a joke.

It's just there for padding. It's a shambles of a film from about halfway to the end.
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Weird to see Nolan is not there...Birdman best movie?


Im a big Whiplash fan; but im ok with boyhood winning.
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Boyhood should be a shoo-in...Only one I havent seen is Grand Budapest Hotel, and I've a feeling im not missing out.

Selma is ok I guess. Best film? not sure.

Redmayne deserves Best actor.
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oh and budapest? best movie???
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birdman forever
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Oh, fuck Birdman.
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birdman is the best movie i've ever seen
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Hanna-Barbera Birdman is great. Adult Swim Birdman is also good. Iñarritu Birdman is just... okay.
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iñarritu birdman is the apex of human expression
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SETTLE DOWN

Birdman's not gonna win. Christ.
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when i look at the sundry miracles of creation--the eyes of the innocent child, the blue fire of war, the silent sailing of a fallen leaf--i see birdman
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when i die and ascend to heaven, i will kneel to greet the creator humbly, and michael keaton will respond, "rise, child. i am no better than you. we are all birdmen here."
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I haven't seen Big Eyes but I'm kinda bummed for my girl Amy Lou.
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dimejinky99 wrote:American Sniper and Birdman really have no place in there, but Imitation Game?? that has to be a joke.

It's just there for padding. It's a shambles of a film from about halfway to the end.
Birdman or Budapest will never win, though they deserve to.

Oscars are for movies like Sniper or Selma or Imitation Game. They seem to get more conservative every year. At this point the Oscar bait formula is so predictable these movies are no better than summer blockbusters.
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really want to see last days in vietnam
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i am a complete wes anderson apologist, but even i don't understand why grand budapest hotel has received so much more acclaim than his other works
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dimejinky99 wrote:Boyhood should be a shoo-in...Only one I havent seen is Grand Budapest Hotel, and I've a feeling im not missing out.
Seems people have a love/meh relationship with GBH. I'm on the love side.
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i am a complete wes anderson apologist, but even i don't understand why grand budapest hotel has received so much more acclaim than his other works
probably because of the cast that more recognizable to most people
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