2015 Oscar Award Nominees List

Los Angeles - The 87th annual Academy Awards Nominees have been announced in Beverly Hills, California on Thursday.

Set to be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, on Sunday, 22 February 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Actor Chris Pine and director JJ Abrams will be joined by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to unveil the nominees.

The full list of nominees:Best Picture
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
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
JK Simmons, Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Laura Dern – Wild
Keira Knightly - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into the Woods

Best Director
Alexandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki - Birdman
Robert D. Yeoman - Grand Budapest Hotel
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lynzewski - Ida
Dick Pope - Mr Turner
Roger Deakins - Unbroken

Best Foreign Language Film
Ida - Poland
Leviathan - Russia
Wild Tales - Argentina
Tangerines - Estonia
Timbuktu - Mauritania

Best Adapted ScreenplayJason Hall - American Sniper
Graham Moore - The Imitation Game
Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice
Anthony McCarten - The Theory of Everything
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash

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

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

Best Documentary Feature
Citizen Four
Finding Vivian Myer
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth Virunga

Best Film Editing
Joel Cox and Gary Roach - American Sniper
Sandra Adair - Boyhood
Barney Pilling - Grand Budapest Hotel
William Goldenberg - Imitation Game
Tom Cross - Whiplash

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner


Best Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X:Men: Days of Future Past

Best Sound Editing
American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Birdman
Mark Weingarten - Interstellar
Unbroken
Thomas Curley - Whiplash

Best Costume Design
Milena Canonero - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mark Bridges - Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood - Into the Woods
Anna B. Sheppard - Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran - Mr. Turner

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat - The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar
Gary Yershon - Mr. Turner
Johann Johannsson - The Theory of Everything

Best Documentary Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best Original Song
Lost Stars - Begin Again
Everything is Awesome -  The LEGO Movie
Glory - Selma
Grateful - Beyond the Lights
I’m Not Gonna Miss You -  Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me

Best Animated Short Film
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best Live Action Short
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh