Oscar 2015: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman Lead With 9 Nominations

The nominations for the granddaddy of awards, the Oscars, were announced in a two-part ceremony today.
Eight films were nominated for Best Picture. The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman led the nominees list with nine nods each. In Pics
The Imitation Game, Boyhood and American Sniper also have multiple nominations.
The nominees list contained few surprises. The major upsets were Jennifer Aniston who failed to score a Best Actress nod for Cake, David Oyelowo who was overlooked for Best Actor for playing Martin Luther King, Jr in Selma, Golden Globe winner Amy Adams who wasn't nominated for Best Actress for Big Eyes, and Jessica Chastain who was passed over for a Best Supporting Actress nod for A Most Violent Year.
The redoubtable Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar for the 19th time, earning a Best Supporting Actress nod for her performance as a fairytale witch in Into The Woods. (Also Read: Meryl Streep Scores Her 19th Nomination)
It's a good year to be Alexandre Desplat, who was nominated twice for Best Original Score for  his work on The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
India is absent from the nominees list with A R Rahman failing to make it to the final five of either Original Score or Original Song. Sonu Niigam and Bickram Ghosh, who were on the longlist for their Jal score, are also absent from the nominee list.
The nominations were announced by directors Alfonso Cuaron and J J Abrams, actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
Here are the nominees:
BEST FILM
Boyhood
Birdman
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Selma
American Sniper
Whiplash

BEST DIRECTOR

Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Alejandro Gonzalez Anarritu - Birdman
Wes Anderson - Grand Budapest
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game
Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
BEST ACTOR
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper - American Sniper
BEST ACTRESS
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
Reese Witherspoon - Wild
Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
JK Simmons - Whiplash
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Robert Duvall - The Judge
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Emma Stone - Birdman
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Meryl Streep - Into The Woods
Laura Dern - Wild
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr Turner
Unbroken
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Boyhood
Birdman
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ida, Poland
Leviathan, Russia
Tangerines, Estonia
Timbuktu, Mauritania
Wild Tales, Argentina

BEST  MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
The Theory of Everything
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr. Turner
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
Salt of the Earth
Virunga
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth
BEST FILM EDITING
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Lost Stars, Begin Again
Grateful," Beyond the Lights
I'm Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
Everything is Awesome, The Lego Movie
Glory, Selma

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Paraveneh
The Phone Call
BEST SOUND EDITING
American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken
BEST SOUND MIXING
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

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