The 2015 Oscar Nominations Are In!

For my favorite Oscar categories only...

Which one of the 2014 movies will win an Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year? Will it be...?

• American Sniper (6 nominations)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (9 nominations)
• Boyhood (6 nominations)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (9 nominations)
• The Imitation Game (8 nominations)
• Selma (2 nominations)
• The Theory of Everything (5 nominations)
• Whiplash (5 nominations)

Best Director?

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

Best Actor?

• Foxcatcher (Steve Carrell)
• American Sniper (Bradley Cooper)
• The Imitation Game (Benedict Cumberbatch)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Michael Keaton)
• The Theory of Everything (Eddie Redmayne)

Best Actress?

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

Best Supporting Actor?

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

Best Supporting Actress?

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

Best Original Screenplay?

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• Foxcatcher
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Nightcrawler

Best Adapted Screenplay?

• American Sniper
• The Imitation Game
• Inherent Vice
• The Theory of Everything
• Whiplash

Best Animated Feature?

• Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams)
• The Boxtrolls (Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable)
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois)
• Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)

Best Production Design?

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Interstellar
• Into the Woods
• Mr. Turner

Best Costume Design?

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Inherent Vice
• Into the Woods
• Maleficent
• Mr. Turner

Best Cinematography?

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

Best Film Editing?

• American Sniper
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Whiplash

Best Makeup and Hairstyling?

• Foxcatcher
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy

Best 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)

Best Original Song?

• The LEGO Movie ("Everything Is Awesome")
• Selma ("Glory")
• Beyond the Lights ("Grateful")
• Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me ("I'm Not Gonna Miss You")
• Begin Again ("Lost Stars")

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

Best Sound Mixing?

• American Sniper
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Interstellar
• Unbroken
• Whiplash

Best Sound Editing?

• American Sniper
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Interstellar
• Unbroken

Tune in to find out during ABC's 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 22nd. Hosted by Neil Patrick Harris!