✖ - need to watch ☆ - my pick ★ - winner

This is one of the hardest Oscar years ever because I love all of these movies and all of these performances

Best Picture

• American Sniper
• The Imitation Game ☆
• Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) ☆/★
• Selma
• Boyhood
• The Theory of Everything
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Whiplash

Best Actor Leading

• Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
• Michael Keaton - Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Bradley Cooper - American Sniper
• Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything ☆/★
• Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game

Best Actor Supporting

• Robert Duvall - The Judge ✖
• Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
• Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
• J.K. Simmons - Whiplash ☆/★
• Edward Norton - Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Actress Leading

• Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night ✖
• Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
• Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
• Reese Witherspoon - Wild ☆
• Julianne Moore - Still Alice ✖ ★

Best Actress Supporting

• Patricia Arquette - Boyhood ☆/★
• Emma Stone - Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Laura Dern - Wild
• Meryl Streep - Into the Woods ✖
• Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game

Best Animated Feature Film

• Big Hero 6 ☆/★
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Song of the Sea ✖
• The Boxtrolls ✖
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya ✖

Best Director

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) ★
• Richard Linklater - Boyhood ☆
• Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
• Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

Best Documentary Feature ✖

• CitizenFour ★
• Finding Vivian Maier
• Last Days in Vietnam
• The Salt of the Earth
• Virunga

Cinematography

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)☆/★
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Ida
• Mr. Turner
• Unbroken

Original Score

• The Grand Budapest Hotel ★
• The Imitation Game
• Interstellar
• Mr. Turner
• The Theory of Everything ☆

Original Song

• Everything is Awesome - The Lego Movie
• Glory - Selma ☆/★
• Grateful - Beyond the Lights
• I'm Not Gonna Miss You - Glen Campbell.. I'll Be Me
• Lost Stars - Begin Again

Adapted Screenplay

• American Sniper
• The Imitation Game ☆/★
• Inherent Vice ✖
• The Theory of Everything
• Whiplash

Original Screenplay

• Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) ☆/★
• Boyhood
• Foxcatcher
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Nightcrawler