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Best picture 1.Boyhood 2.Birdman 3.The Imitation Game 4.The Theory of Everything 5.The Grand Budapest Hotel 6.Selma 7.Whiplash 8.Gone Girl 9.American Sniper 10.Nightcrawler Alt. Foxcatcher Director 1.Richard Linklater, Boyhood 2.Alejandro Inarritu, Birdman 3.Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel 4.Clint Eastwood, American Sniper 5.Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game Alt. David Fincher, Gone Girl Actor 1.Michael Keaton, Birdman 2.Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything 3.Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game 4.Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler 5.Bradley Cooper, American Sniper Alt. David Oyelowo, Selma Actress 1.Julianne Moore, Still Alice 2.Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl 3.Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything 4.Reese Witherspoon, Wild 5.Amy Adams, Big Eyes Alt. Jennifer Aniston, Cake Supp. Actor 1.J.K. Simmons, Whiplash 2.Ethan Hawke, Boyhood 3.Edward Norton, Birdman 4.Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher 5.Steve Carell, Foxcatcher Alt. Robert Duvall, The Judge Supp. Actress 1.Patricia Arquette, Boyhood 2.Emma Stone, Birdman 3.Meryl Streep, Into the Woods 4.Rene Russo, Nightcrawler 5.Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year Alt. Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game Original Screenplay 1.Boyhood 2.Birdman 3.The Grand Budapest Hotel 4.Nightcrawler 5.Selma Alt. Foxcatcher Adapted Screenplay 1.Gone Girl 2.Whiplash 3.The Imitation Game 4.The Theory of Everything 5.American Sniper Alt. Guardians of the Galaxy Animated Feature 1.The LEGO Movie 2.The Tale of Princess Kaguya 3.The Boxtrolls 4.How to Train Your Dragon 2 5.Big Hero 6 Alt. Song of the Sea Cinematography 1.Birdman 2.Interstellar 3.The Grand Budapest Hotel 4.Mr. Turner 5.Unbroken Alt. Gone Girl Costume Design 1.Into the Woods 2.The Grand Budapest Hotel 3.The Imitation Game 4.Mr. Turner 5.Maleficent Alt. Guardians of the Galaxy Editing 1.Boyhood 2.Birdman 3.Whiplash 4.The Imitation Game 5.American Sniper Alt. The Grand Budapest Hotel Makeup and Hair 1.Foxcatcher 2.Guardians of the Galaxy 3.The Grand Budapest Hotel Alt. Maleficent Production Design 1.Into the Woods 2.The Grand Budapest Hotel 3.Birdman 4.The Imitation Game 5.Interstellar Alt. Guardians of the Galaxy Score 1.The Theory of Everything 2.Interstellar 3.Gone Girl 4.The Imitation Game 5.The Grand Budapest Hotel Alt. Unbroken Sound Editing 1.Guardians of the Galaxy 2.Unbroken 3.Whiplash 4.Interstellar 5.American Sniper Alt. Fury Sound Mixing 1.Whiplash 2.American Sniper 3.Guardians of the Galaxy 4.Into the Woods 5.Interstellar Alt. Gone Girl Visual Effects 1.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2.Interstellar 3.Guardians of the Galaxy 4.X-Men: Days of Future Past 5.The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Alt. Maleficent Original Song 1."Glory" in Selma 2."Lost Stars" in Begin Again 3."Everything is Awesome" in The LEGO Movie 4."Big Eyes" in Big Eyes 5."Split the Difference / Ryan's Song" in Boyhood Alt. "For the Dancing and Dreaming" in How to Train Your Dragon 2

People bring up the "First time in x since it happened" as if it actually matters. Just because something hasn't happened often doesn't mean there are exceptions or bucks to a trend.

A's Birdman: Or The Unexpected Nature of Ignorance Boyhood Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fury Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Guardians of the Galaxy Interstellar The LEGO Movie Snowpiercer The Theory of Everything X-Men: Days of Future Past B's 22 Jump Street Bad Words Bears Begin Again Big Hero 6 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Chef Edge of Tomorrow The Fault in Our Stars The Giver Godzilla How to Train Your Dragon 2 Neighbors Next Goal Wins Noah Only Lovers Left Alive St Vincent C's About Last Night That Awkward Moment Blended Divergent Dracula Untold God's Not Dead The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Life Itself The Monument's Men A Most Wanted Man Muppets: Most Wanted Oculus Veronica Mars D's 300: Rise of An Empire Alexander and the No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Annabelle Dumb and Dumber To Jersey Boys Maleficent A Million Ways to Die in the West Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop Transcendence F's Deliver Us From Evil Endless Love I, Frankenstein The Nut Job Ouija Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Trans4mers: Age of Extinction Winter's Tale Z's America: Imagine a World Without Her I'm eager to start my countdown, but I won't do it until either January 31st or until I see these movies 1.Whiplash 2.Wild 3.The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 4.Into the Woods

Patricia Arquette is currently in the lead to win the Oscar not just be nominated, and Ethan Hawke is about the only one I can see actually pulling an upset on Simmons (although I doubt it)

How would Boyhood not get more than 5? It's all but locked for Picture, Director, Supp actor and actress, Screenplay, and Editing. (Some nom chances elsewhere as well)

Really, the nominations would have looked more like this 2009 Slumdog Millionare The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Wall-E Doubt The Wrestler The Dark Knight 2008 No Country For Old Men Atonement Juno Michael Clayton There Will Be Blood The Driving Bell and the Butterfly Atonement 2007 The Departed Babel Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen United 93 Pan's Labyrinth Notes on Scandal 2006 Crash Brokeback Mountain Capote Good Night, and Good Luck. Munich Walk the Line Pride and Prejudice 2005 Million Dollar Baby The Aviator Finding Neverland Ray Sideways Vera Drake Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Incredibles 2004 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Lost in Translation Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Mystic River Seabiscuit City of God Finding Nemo 2003 Chicago Gangs of New York The Hours The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Pianist Talk to Her Road to Perdition Adaption Far From Heaven 2002 A Beautiful Mind Gosford Park In the Bedroom The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Moulin Rouge! Mulholland Drive Black Hawk Down Amelie Iris 2001 Gladiator Chocolat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Erin Brockovich Traffic Billy Elliot Almost Famous 2000 American Beauty The Cider House Rules The Green Mile The Insider The Sixth Sense Being John Malkovich Magnolia The Matrix 1999 Shakespeare in Love Elizabeth Life is Beautiful Saving Private Ryan The Thin Red Line The Truman Show Gods and Monsters Elizabeth 1998 Titanic As Good as It Gets The Full Monty Good Will Hunting L.A. Confidential The Sweet Hereafter Boogie Nights 1997 The English Patient Fargo Jerry Maguire Secrets and Lies Shine The People vs. Larry Flynt Sling Blade Hamlet 1996 Braveheart Apollo 13 Babe Il Postino: The Postman Sense and Sensibility Dead Man Walking Leaving Las Vegas The Usual Suspects Toy Story 1995 Forrest Gump Four Weddings and a Funeral Pulp Fiction Quiz Show The Shawshank Redemption Bullets Over Broadway Three Colors: Red The Madness of King George

There was so much talk about this holiday season being bigger than the summer...

I bet 50 points Into the Woods is over Annie Domestic. 2 people I bet 75 points Into the Woods has a higher OW than Annie. 2 people

I'll give today for any last minute entries

My Predicts Best picture 1.Boyhood 2.Birdman 3.The Imitation Game 4.The Grand Budapest Hotel 5.The Theory of Everything 6.Selma 7.Gone Girl 8.Whiplash 9.Foxcatcher 10.Into the Woods Director 1.Richard Linklater 2.Alejandro Inarritu 3.Ava DuVernay 4.Morten Tyldum 5.Wes Anderson Actor 1.Michael Keaton 2.Benedict Cumberbatch 3.Eddie Redmayne 4.David Oyelowo 5.Jake Gyllenhaal Actress 1.Julianne Moore 2.Rosamund Pike 3.Felicity Jones 4.Reese Witherspoon 5.Marion Cotillard Supp. Actor 1.J.K. Simmons 2.Ethan HAwke 3.Edward Norton 4.Mark Ruffalo 5.Tom Wilkinson Supp. Actress 1.Patricia Arquette 2.Emma Stone 3.Meryl Streep 4.Keira Knightley 5.Jessica Chastain Original Screenplay 1.Boyhood 2.Birdman 3.The Grand Budapest Hotel 4.Selma 5.Foxcatcher Adapted Screenplay 1.Gone Girl 2.The Theory of Everything 3.The Imination Game 4.Wild 5.Inherent Vice Animated Feature 1.The LEGO Movie 2.How to Train Your Dragon 2 3.Big Hero 6 4.The Tale of Princess Kaguya 5.The Boxtrolls Cinematography 1.Birdman 2.Interstellar 3.Gone Girl 4.The Grand Budapest Hotel 5.Mr. Turner

Well it's looking like we Gone Girl or Into the Woods are the only 100m films with Oscar nom chances.

Linklater Alejandro Ava DuVerney Whoever directed Imitation Bait Wes Anderson This is starting to look like Linklater's to lose (and I would be 100% supportive of it, he deserves it)

So you're saying Anniston or Swank were better than her? No, if TFIOS wasn't a young adult film then Woodley would have been a shoe in.

The big question now, is Duvall going to make it in? I'm still thinking he'll miss.

Everything is shaping up for Boyhood to win. Nominee likelihood is looking like 1.Boyhood 2.Birdman 3.The Imitation Game 4.The Theory of Everything 5.The Grand Budapest Hotel 6.Selma 7.Foxcatcher 8.Whiplash 9.Gone Girl 10.Into the Woods 11.St Vincent 12.Big Eyes Unbroken and American Sniper are dead.

I love those nominations.

I definitely agree with that. I was having a slim hope Woodley might get in, however these nominations as a whole are a bit confusing. For example, no Selma. I am happy Unbroken missed though.

Such a sham really, Oscar bait that doesn't live up to the hype really should be treated as such.

It's hard to see how Unbroken is locked, the reviews are very poor for this type of film. If it got in it looks like it'd be as bad as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close making it in. Because Unbroken is blatant, unapologetic Oscar bait and the reviews are telling it as of now.

Juliane Moore has won about 25% of the critic awards though. Nobody is really sweeping this year. Boyhood, Arquette, and Linklater have been the most consistent.

If Unbroken gets nominated over Budapest or Gone Girl I will gag.

I don't get mad when blockbusters aren't nominated, but I do get mad when deserving ones are snubbed because they aren't seem artsy enough. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Andy Serkis are definitely deserving nods by academy standards, yet they won't even be considered because it's a franchise. The LEGO Movie is deserving of a nod but it won't be considered because it's animated and not Disney. I also get mad when smaller films like Snowpiercer or The Grand Budapest Hotel get snubbed because of release dates and them not being studio films. But in the end it doesn't matter. I don't care in the end what the academy picks through politics. Even if my favorite wins I don't really care too much, my favorite is still my favorite with or without a gold statue.

Meh, NA has lots of religious groups that will run and see it for the first two days or so before word gets around that it's not that flattering to the actual biblical story.

Actually, yes. After Jaime and Brienne's storyline I found myself liking him and it kind of sickened me. I actually don't even hate Cersei as much, I still think she's cruel and needs to die, but she's just to strong of an antagonist. Joffrey is still annoying but the Tyrell girl seems to have him under control, and I am quickly starting to hate and despise Tywin (who was my second favorite of the Lannister's at first). I don't usually pirate things, but I am very tempted to pirate Season 4 so I can watch it and then buy it in February once it comes out. However if I do that im just going to be in the same position agonizingly awaiting Season 5.

Apes isn't getting snubbed.