by
Julien Faddoul
Below
is the full list of nominees for the 87th Academy Awards with my
written reactions.
A
few of notes:
Many
people dislike the word “snub” so if I end up relying on it too heavily please
forgive me.
Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel receive the
most nominations with 9 each,
followed by The Imitation Game with 8, American
Sniper and Boyhood with 6, and Foxcatcher, Interstellar,
The Theory of Everything and Whiplash with 5.
Selma takes the Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/The
Blindside position of being a Best Picture nominee with only one other
nomination. This is obviously going to upset a lot of people. One could argue
this is because of its somewhat late arrival to campaign. It is DuVernay’s
omission that feels the queasiest. Prepare for all the sexism/racism
accusations your computer can show you!
Foxcatcher receiving as
many nominations as it did I think proves it just missed out of the top
category by a hair’s lack of number 1 votes.
Gone Girl received
only 1 nomination in the end. Oh, well.
The Hobbit
ends its reign of terror with only a single nomination. Take that Jackson!
The Lego Movie! Yikes!
Nothing for Big Eyes.
The only category where I scored perfectly were PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY.
PICTURE
American
Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand
Budapest Hotel
The
Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory
of Everything
Whiplash
8/8 correct, though I did throw the net to 10 for the sake of
fortuitousness.
I have no doubt that Foxcatcher
would have been the 9th.
DIRECTOR
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Bennett Miller, "Foxcatcher"
Wes Anderson, "The
Grand Budapest Hotel"
Morten Tyldum, "The
Imitation Game"
4/5
correct, missing Miller for Ava DuVernay.
Bennett
Miller becomes the first director since 2007 to be nominated for a film not
nominated in the top category. Many were predicting Clint Eastwood (not me) but
this shows that the directors have their own branch and they will do their own
thing. DuVernay’s snub means the total number of female nominations stands
at four.
ACTOR
Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher"
Bradley Cooper, "American
Sniper"
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The
Imitation Game"
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Eddie Redmayne, "The
Theory of Everything"
3/5 correct, missing Carell and Cooper for Jake Gyllenhaal and
David Oyelowo.
As I said in my predictions post, any five men could have landed
due the competitiveness of the category, though I really thought Gyllenhaal was
in.
ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, "Two
Days, One Night"
Felicity Jones, "The
Theory of Everything"
Julianne Moore, "Still
Alice"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone
Girl"
Reese Witherspoon, "Wild"
4/5 correct, missing Cotillard for Jennifer Aniston.
Yay Marion! One of my favourite surprises of the morning. It’s
funny that someone who campaigned as hard as Aniston was bumped off by someone
who is really only here due to critical praise for her and her film. Yeah, it’s
certainly funny.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Duvall, "The
Judge"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"
5/5 correct.
As Duvall’s name was read out I sunk into my hole of
inescapability. Ah, what’ya gonna do.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Laura Dern, "Wild"
Keira Knightley, "The
Imitation Game"
Emma Stone, "Birdman"
Meryl Streep, "Into
the Woods"
4/5 correct, missing Dern for Jessica Chastain.
Didn't I say this category likes to surprise us! Laura Dern
receives her first nomination since 1991’s Rambling
Rose.
ANIMATED FEATURE
"Big Hero 6"
"The Boxtrolls"
"How to Train Your
Dragon 2"
"Song of the Sea"
"The Tale of
Princess Kaguya"
4/5 correct, missing Song
of the Sea for The Lego Movie.
Holy shit you guys!! By far the biggest surprise of the list. The Lego Movie was the best-reviewed and
(domestically) highest-grossing animated film of the year. There are a number
theories one can muster: First of all, the merchandise-oriented essence of the
film might have rubbed the animation branch the wrong way. Also, despite the
film’s clever ideas, it isn’t the most progressive film in terms of character
animation or performativity techniques. We have seen this occur before with
movies like The Adventures of Tintin
(2011) or Tangled (2010) that
were respected more by critics than by animators.
ONE MORE NOTE: Two of the films are HAND-DRAWN and one is STOP
MOTION, so hats off to the old school!
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Wild Tales"
(Damián Szifrón; Argentina)
"Tangerines"
(Zaza Urushadze; Estonia)
"Timbuktu"
(Abderrahmane Sissako; Mauritania)
"Ida"
(Pawel Pawlikowski; Poland)
"Leviathan"
(Andrey Zvyagintsev; Russia)
4/5 correct, missing Tangerines
for Force Majeure.
I was virtually the only person who left Tangerines off their
predictions list. I’m an idiot.
ADAPATED SCREENPLAY
"American Sniper"
(Jason Hall)
"The Imitation Game"
(Graham Moore)
"Inherent Vice"
(Paul Thomas Anderson)
"The Theory of
Everything" (Anthony McCarten)
"Whiplash"
(Damien Chazelle)
4/5 correct, missing PT Anderson for Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl adaptation.
As I stated above, Gone
Girl fell hard.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Birdman"
(Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando
Bo)
"Boyhood"
(Richard Linklater)
"Foxcatcher"
(E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman)
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel" (Wes Anderson, Hugo Guiness)
"Nightcrawler"
(Dan Gilroy)
5/5 correct.
I was right about the Selma
script.
CINEMATOPGRAHY
"Birdman"
(Emmanuel Lubezki)
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel" (Robert D. Yeoman)
"Ida"
(Ryszard Lenczweski; Lukasz Zal)
"Mr. Turner"
(Dick Pope)
"Unbroken"
(Roger Deakins)
4/5 correct, missing the Ida
guys for Interstellar.
This is one where I am kicking myself. I had a hunch there’d be
an Ida surprise (many did actually)
but I went safe. Foolishness!
PRODUCTION DESIGN
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel" (Adam Stockhausen; Anna Pinnock)
"The Imitation Game"
(Maria Djurkovic; Tatiana Macdonald)
"Interstellar"
(Nathan Crowley; Gary Fettis, Paul Healy)
"Into the Woods"
(Dennis Gassner; Anna Pinnock)
"Mr. Turner"
(Suzie Davies; Charlotte Watts)
4/5 correct, missing Interstellar
for Big Eyes.
I dunno, I thought they’d go for Big Eyes. Clearly, I was wrong.
COSTUME DESIGN
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel" (Milena Canonero)
"Inherent Vice"
(Mark Bridges)
"Into the Woods"
(Colleen Atwood)
"Mr. Turner"
(Jacqueline Durran)
"Maleficent"
(Anna B. Sheppard, Jane Clive)
4/5 correct, missing Bridges for The Imitation Game.
Mark Bridges is one of the best costume designers working today
and I am always happy when he’s recognized.
FILM EDITING
"American Sniper"
(Joel Cox, Gary Roach)
"Boyhood"
(Sandra Adair)
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel" (Barney Pilling)
"The Imitation Game"
(William Goldenberg)
"Whiplash"
(Tom Cross)
3/5 correct, missing American
Sniper and The Grand Budapest Hotel
for Birdman and Gone Girl.
Birdman’s
omission here is really surprising to me. The thinking here was probably that a
film designed to look like one continuous take has less editing or something stupid like that.
MAKEUP
"Foxcatcher"
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel"
"Guardians of the
Galaxy"
1/3 correct, missing Foxcatcher
and Guardians for Maleficent and The Theory of Everything.
Every year this category screws me in my predictions, but I have
to say this ain’t a bad lineup.
ORIGINAL SCORE
"The Grand Budapest
Hotel" (Alexandre Desplat)
"The Imitation Game"
(Alexandre Desplat)
"Interstellar"
(Hans Zimmer)
"Mr. Turner"
(Gary Yershon)
"The Theory of
Everything" (Jóhann Jóhannsson)
3/5 correct, missing Hotel
and Mr Turner for Gone Girl and The Judge.
I purposely didn’t predict Hotel
because I didn’t think Desplat would
be nominated twice. And as for Gary Yershon, he wasn’t even in my alternates!
ORIGINAL SONG
"Lost Stars" from "Begin Again"
"Grateful" from "Beyond the Lights"
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me"
"Everything is Awesome" from "The LEGO Movie"
"Glory" from "Selma"
3/5 correct.
Eh, whatever.
SOUND EDITING
"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"The Hobbit: The
Battle of the Five Armies"
"Interstellar"
"Unbroken"
3/5 correct, missing Birdman
and The Hobbit for Guardians of the Galaxy and Transformers: Age of Extinction.
I am really unhappy Interstellar
shows up in both sound categories. The mixing of that film is so poor!
SOUND MIXING
"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Interstellar"
"Unbroken"
"Whiplash"
3/5
correct, missing Interstellar and Whiplash for Into the Woods and The Imitation Game.
Whiplash’s nomination
came out of nowhere for me.
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"
4/5 correct, missing Captain
America for The Hobbit.
Good call by the academy, though Godzilla should be here.
DOCUENMTARY FEATURE
"CITIZENFOUR"
"Finding Vivian
Maier"
"Last Days in
Vietnam"
"The Salt of the
Earth"
"Virunga"
3/5 correct, missing The
Salt of the Earth and Virunga for
The Overnighters and Life Itself.
Very surprised by the snub for The Overnighters.
SHORT FILM ANIMATED
"The Bigger Picture"
"The Dam Keeper"
"Feast"
"Me and My Moulton"
"A Single Life"
4/5 correct, missing A
Single Life for Duet.
Feast
:)
Duet
:(
SHORT FILM LIVE ACTION
"Aya"
"Boogaloo and Graham"
"Butter Lamp"
"Parvaneh"
"The Phone Call"
I
didn’t predict this category.
DOCUEMNTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"Crisis Hotline:
Veterans Press 1"
"Joanna"
"Our Curse"
"The Reaper"
"White Earth"
I
didn’t predict this category.
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