Het meest begeerde beeldje ven het filmjaar, de Oscar, stuit al jaren op kritiek van veelvuldige kanten en daar verandert dit jaar blijkbaar niets aan. Te weinig vrouwen genomineerd en te kaukasisch wordt er vanuit ‘de denkbeeldige kleedkamers’ of de politiek correcte kringen geschreeuwd. Bij MoviePulp begrijpen we al jaren bepaalde keuzes niet zoals waarom Leonardo DiCaprio nooit een oscar kreeg voor bvb. The Wolf of Wall Street, waarom Avatar nooit gewonnen heeft als beste film tegen The Hurt Locker in 2010 en ga zo maar verder. De selectie van dit jaar zint ons wel in bepaalde aspecten: Rosamund Pine als best actrice in Gone Girl en de sublieme muziek van Hans Zimmer in Interstellar werden in de nominaties opgenomen. Nu nog hopen dat ze verstand hebben bij de jury door dit jaar zeker deze kandidaten te verkiezen. De volledige lijst met usual suspects die we reeds kende van The Golden Globes vind je onder:

Beste film

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Beste regisseur

Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Beste acteur

Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Beste actrice

Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

Beste acteur in een bijrol

Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Beste actrice in een bijrol

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Laura Dern (Wild)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)

Beste script (Adapted Screenplay)

American Sniper, Written by Jason Hall
The Imitation Game, Written by Graham Moore
Inherent Vice, Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Theory of Everything, Written by Anthony McCarten
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle

Beste script (Original Screenplay)

Birdman, Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, Armando Bo
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher, Written by Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Written by Wes Anderson
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy

Beste film uit het buitenland

Ida (Music Box Films), Poland, Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan (Sony Pictures Classics), Russia, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tangerines, Estonia, Zaza Urushadze
Timbuktu (Cohen Media Group), Mauritania, Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales (Sony Pictures Classics), Argentina, Damián Szifrón

Beste animatiefilm

Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train a Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game – Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
Into the Woods – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Mr. Turner – Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts

Beste cinematografie

Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)
Robert Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski (Ida)
Dick Pope (Mr. Turner)
Roger Deakins (Unbroken)

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)

Film Editing

Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach (American Sniper)
Sandra Adair (Boyhood)
Barney Pilling (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
William Goldenberg (The Imitation Game)
Tom Cross (Whiplash)

Beste documentair

Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Makeup & Hairstyling

Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard (Foxcatcher)
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Beste muziek (Original Score)

Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything)

Beste muziek (Original Song)

“Everything Is Awesome” from The LEGO Movie Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
“Glory” from Selma Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
“Grateful” from Beyond the Lights Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from Begin Again Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Sound Mixing

John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin (American Sniper)
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga (Birdman)
Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten (Interstellar)
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee (Unbroken)
Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley (Whiplash)

Sound Editing

Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman (American Sniper)
Martín Hernández & Aaron Glascock (Birdman)
Brent Burge & Jason Canovas (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)
Richard King (Interstellar)
Becky Sullivan & Andrew DeCristofaro (Unbroken)

Beste Visual Effects

Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill & Dan Sudick (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett & Erik Winquist (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner & Paul Corbould (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter & Scott Fisher (Interstellar)
Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie & Cameron Waldbauer (X-Men: Days of Future Past)