Como todos los años, la ceremonia de premiación más esperada son los Oscares de la Academia. Para este año tiene una lista de nominados muy interesantes. La gran favorita a mejor película del anño están: The Imitation Game y Boyhood. Para mejor director el súper favorito es Alejandro G. Iñárritu con la película Birdman. Dentro la categoría de mejor actor está el increíble «comeback» de Michael Keaton en Birdman y su más fuerte rival Eddie Redmayne con La Teoría del Todo. Habrá que esperar hasta el 22 de febrero para conocer quienes tendrán la más preciada estatuilla de todas.
Best Original Song
«Everything is Awesome» Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson — The Lego Movie
«Glory» Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn — Selma
«Grateful» Music and Lyric by Diane Warren — Beyond the Lights
«I’m Not Gonna Miss You» Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond — Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me
«Lost Stars» Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois — Begin Again
Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier— Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes— Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy — Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
Interstellar— Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past— Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer
Short Documentary
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 — Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Joanna — Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse —Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
The Reaper (La Parka)— Gabriel Serra Arguello
White Earth — J. Christian Jensen
Feature Documentary
Citizen Four— Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier — John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam— Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth — Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier
Virunga— Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
Film Editing
American Sniper — Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
Boyhood — Sandra Adair
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Barney Pilling
The Imitation Game — William Goldenberg
Whiplash — Tom Cross
Sound Editing
American Sniper — Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Birdman — Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
Interstellar — Richard King
Unbroken — Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro
Sound Mixing
American Sniper — John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Birdman — Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
Interstellar — Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
Unbroken — Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
Whiplash — Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
The Imitation Game — Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
Interstellar — Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
Into the Woods — Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Mr. Turner — Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)
Live Action Short Film
Aya — Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham — Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak) — Hu Wei and Julien Féret
Parvaneh — Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call — Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
Animated Short Film
The Bigger Picture —Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
The Dam Keeper — Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
Feast — Patrick and Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton — Torill Kove
A Single Life — Joris Oprins
Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6 —Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls — Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 — Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea — Tomm Moore and Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
Actor in a Supporting Role
Robert Duval — The Judge
Ethan Hawke — Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette — Boyhood
Laura Dern — Wild
Keira Knightley — The Imitation Game
Emma Stone — Birdman
Meryl Streep — Into the Woods
Makeup & Hairstyling
Bill Corso & Dennis Liddiard — Foxcatcher
Frances Hannon & Mark Coulier — The Grand Budapest Hotel
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou & David White — Guardians of the Galaxy
Costume Design
Milena Canonero — The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mark Bridges — Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood — Into the Woods
Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive — Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran — Mr. Turner
Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki — Birdman
Robert Yeoman – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lukasz Zal & Ryszard Lenczewski — Ida
Dick Pope — Mr Turner
Roger Deakins — Unbroken
Adapted Screenplay
Jason Hall — American Sniper
Graham Moore — The Imitation Game
Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice
Anthony McCarten — The Theory of Everything
Damien Chazelle — Whiplash
Original Screenplay
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & 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
Original Score
Alexandre Desplat — The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat — The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer — Interstellar
Gary Yershon — Mr. Turner
Jóhann Jóhannsson — Theory of Everything
Foreign Language Film
Ida — Poland; Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan— Russia; Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tangerines — Estonia; Directed by Zaza Urushadze
Timbuktu— Mauritania; Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales—Argentina; Directed by Damián Szifron
Directing
Alejandro G. Iñárritu — Birdman
Richard Linklater — Boyhood
Bennett Miller — Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson — The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum — The Imitation Game
Actress in a Leading Role
Marion Cotillard — Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones — The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore — Still Alice
Rosamund Pike — Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon — Wild
Actor in a Leading Role
Steve Carell — Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper — American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch — The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton — Birdman
Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything
Best Picture
American Sniper —Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan
Birdman — Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood — Richard and Cathleen Sutherland
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
The Imitation Game — Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman
Selma — Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything — Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten
Whiplash — Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster