Oscar Nominations 2015 - Were The Right Films Picked?

[@nilewhidden5119]

No Jake Gyllenhaal or David Oyelowo. To quote Matt, "What the fucking fuck."

[@25DoubleDare]

Biggest snubs are Ava DuVernay as Best Director for Selma, The Lego Movie as Best Animated Film, Life Itself for Best Documentary, and finally Ralph Fiennes (Grand Budapest Hotel) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) were both denied Best Actor nominations. Every year good people or good films are forgotten by The Academy.

[@Janootz]

Everything Is Awful. So much love for "The Theory of Everything" and "The Imitation Game." Why? They're incredibly boring and pretentious, transparent Oscar bait. Too few nominations for Selma, The Lego Movie, Gone Girl, and Nightcrawler, the latter three are easy contenders for best picture. 2015 is the year the Academy Awards became a parody of itself.

[@zylo999]

Also, switch those American Snper nominations for these movies. Also I thought Gone Girl was great, and it needs more nominations as well.

[@Pikapikapoke]

Lego sucked...

[@cinematube9163]

Ethan Reuben exactly thank you nobody talks about gone girl what's happening?

[@idawg7332]

They probably didn't go for Gone Girl because POSSIBLE SPOILERS of how strange and gruesome some of the sex scenes were. Then again, they went for Wolf of Wall Street (great movie) which was full of sex so what do I know

[@emmaburke628]

The theory of everything is a good movie and the imitation was a great movie but I agree that gone girl and nightcrawler deserved to get best picture nominations not as much the Lego movie but it did deserve to get nominated for best animated feature (the tale of the princess kaguya is in opinion the best animated film of the year) I more so got pissed off that american sniper got as many nominations as it did.also interstellar deserved to get Aton more nominations then it did

[@ttgfan6925]

I'm kinda surprised that almost nobody is talking about Interstellar.

[@MajorAlenko]

Jessica Chastain being overlooked for A Most Violent Year really annoyed me lol She was incredible in it.

[@wolfstar675]

That wasn't a snub because she didn't had a chance on being nominated.

[@oldmoviemusic]

Meryl Streep should've been pushed out so Jessica Chastain could be nominated.

[@MajorAlenko]

oldmoviemusic I agree. I watched Into the Woods and while Meryl was great, it wasn't a mind blowing performance worthy of an oscar nomination.

[@TheOneThatGotAwayRMAPLS]

oldmoviemusic She wasn't nominated this year..

[@aaronhendrix7347]

This year angered me so much. No Ana DuVernay? No David Oyelowo? No Nightcrawler? That being said, I was glad to see Foxcatcher, Inherent Vice, and Grand Budapest Hotel.

[@michaellamarsimeon9373]

My biggest complaint with the Oscar in terms of diversity is it only seems like black movies/actors get nominated when they are doing something racism related (The Help, The Color Purple, 12 Years A Slave, etc) or the movie is a biopic (Ray, Malcolm X, Lady Sings the Blues, etc) Very rarely will we get nominated or even recognized for simply a good movie that has black actors in it. Say for example The Best Man Holiday, which was a very good movie, with great actors, direction, etc. I'm not necessarily saying it was perhaps an Oscar level movie for the year it came out, but my point is a movie like that wouldn't even get considered.

[@richfictionfighter]

What are your thoughts on Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture while Do The Right Thing didn't get nominated?

[@MisterScones]

You guys pretty much covered all of my gripes. "Life Itself" is my favorite film of 2014, so I would consider that to be the biggest oversight this year. I was pretty happy with Marion Cotillard getting nominated for Best Actress over Amy Adams and Jennifer Aniston (merely solid performances in bad movie, though Adams is definitely the better of the two). I'm also glad Laura Dern got a Best Supporting Actress nomination, since she seemed to have lost some steam leading up to today, but I wish her nomination hadn't been at the expense of some of Jessica Chastain's best work in "A Most Violent Year"; if you ask me, Meryl Streep should've been pushed out. She's fine in "Into the Woods" but it didn't seem like a particularly challenging or deep performance.

[@10owenj]

Ana Jeremic Totally agree!

[@Smartass8504]

Na, sorry. Jennifer Aniston's performance in Cake was far better than Amy Adams' and Meryl Streep's.

[@RetroJunkie94]

Ana Jeremic I'd add in Robert Duvall for The Judge too as a joke.

[@loganrollins5042]

James owen Ana Jeremic I don't even see how you could even question Emma Stone's nomination. By far her best work, and an incredibly complex and moving performance in one of the best movies of the year. She could win.

[@Shibby21]

I'm shocked with the nods. I'm 27 and i don't rember to be this disappointed with the Academy, especially in such a great year for cinema. But i'm even more shocked to watch a 14min video of 3 film critics talking albout the ones forgotten this year by the Academy and NONE OF THEM event mention Jake Gyllenhaal! I mean, come on!!!

[@zylo999]

I have been disappointed in the Academy ever since The Shawshank Redemption won none of its 6 nominations.

[@samweinberg3279]

***7

[@Drwilliam1]

First. AND NIGHTCRAWLER SHOULD GET MORE THAN 1 FUCKING NOMINATION.

[@awqa4486]

Not only the movie but Jake Gyllenhaal too, god he was perfect

[@comparemenot]

Jake should have gotten a nom , but I hope Birdman takes as many wins as it can.

[@TheHarry612]

yeaaa

[@ginofactap]

i'm still laughing at the Bradley Cooper nomination, and over Jake's? heck, i'm laughing at every single American Sniper nom, I mean seriously, wtf rofl

[@TheNewEdyer12]

Shoulda got best pic and best actor noms

[@ResevoirGod]

Why has everyone forgot about Interstellar?

[@Gavin48]

Cause while it was visually stunning. The movie was a Mess with only 2 characters to care about

[@hankmehere017]

Gavin48 Its not the movie's fault that you cant follow it. The movie is perfectly fine.

[@Gavin48]

shanks17 Ok blind Nolanite

[@hankmehere017]

Gavin48 Yeah ignorant hater. Atleast Nolan produced good films. Unlike you, Michael Bay fanboy.

[@alexramos3003]

christopher Nolan (also paul Anderson) is the most visually stunning director alive today the acting in interstellar and cinematography heavily influenced by the greatest (Stanley Kubrick) with a masterful score and a story so philosophical deep it contemplates the meaning of life makes this not only a masterpiece but one of the greatest sci fi epics ever made while most of nolans films story is for the most part are told through dialogue he gave me the greatest experience in a movie theatre I have ever had an emotional and downright epic one saying someone has no taste in movies because they like Nolan is in bad taste and kind of ignorant

[@Robkinggozer]

If Gyllenhaal's character died, was arrested and/or rehabilated by the end of the movie, I bet he would have been nominated. The Oscar jury doesn't like to see bad people not get their comeuppance in movies. God forbid that we are reminded that reality often sucks like that.

[@Emzsz]

Excuse me???? Nightcrawler and Jake Gyllenhaal?????

[@Stuie299]

Alonso annoyed me at the beginning. If you don't care then why are you in the video. The point is not "boo hoo they didn't nominate Under the Skin for best picture". The point is there were some realistic nominations that could/should have happened but didn't.

[@zylo999]

The worst nomination being American Sniper for Adapted Screenplay. Half of the movie is fabricated BS with no semblance to the actual entity its based on.

[@Stuie299]

Ethan Reuben OMG YES! Replace that shit with Gone Girl. I thought Gone Girl was gonna be the runaway in that category, but it wasn't even nominated.

[@zylo999]

Stuie Malan Definitely agree.

[@alexcastro8308]

So true, and yes under the skin deserved a best picture nomination

[@madsstaysnoided558]

The only performance that blew my mind this year was Gyllenhaal's, what a shameful snub

[@csjcsj2906]

It was surprising to see Marion Cotillard and Laura Dern in the list, and for that part, I am satified with those two choices.

[@DJJAYKK13]

Best Picture additions : Mockingjay part 1 & Gone Girl Best Screenplay: Gone Girl Best director: DAVID FUCKING FINCHER!! the man is a pure artiste Best original song: The Hanging Tree

[@anthonythompson403]

Did no one think Chadwick Boseman should have been nominated for best male performance? He was amazing!

[@ParkerBai92]

Jake Gyllenhaal should be nominated for best actor

[@awsumpossum1]

i love benedict cumber as much as everyone else but....why? American sniper is pretty crap overall...and why meryl streep is on there i have 0 fucking idea.

[@ZepawFox]

It's a federal crime to not nominate Streep for at least one Oscar.

[@DarkDennis1961]

on the nomination form Streep's name is pre-printed, the academy just fills in the other nominations around her

[@awsumpossum1]

***** selma no, imitation game and theory of everything...maybe?

[@217vigilante]

People need to shut up about how all the white nominees. That doesn't mean that the Academy is racist, it means that the best of the year happened to be white. Plus, The Lego Movie wasn't that fantastic.

[@wolfstar675]

Birdman was my favorite film of the year so I'm great with that. Aside from that my only criticisms is Gyllenhaal not getting nominated and Mica Levi not getting consideration for best score for "Under The Skin" everything else is fine by me.

[@aplleyva]

Can we pass on Meryl Streep for at least one year? Duvall too. They're great actors but Damn give someone else some recognition

[@NicAyBear]

I think every nomination for The Imitation Game should be removed and Nightcrawler should replace it (except Best Director). Gone Girl and Edge of Tomorrow for Adapted Screenplay. That's about it. Normal Oscar slog.

[@sirgnome]

I'm really upset that Jake Gyllenhaal didn't get nominated for Best Actor.

[@ginofactap]

you guys forgot to mention Jake Gyllenhaal NOT-nomination for Nightcrawler! I mean, what the fucking fuck is wrong with the academy this year.

[@mikeridley2821]

As a fan of indie films, the best films I saw this year were Frank, The Babadook, and Under the Skin. They were all very original. Boyhood was good and the most original big movie, actually Gone Girl wasn't too bad as well as Nightcrawler. Didn't like Birdman or the The Imitation Game. GBH was OK in parts too.

[@DamitaJo]

I find this really important, a critic, Zeba Blay pointed out how the films celebrated at award shows tend to reflect the current social, political and economic climate at least in America. So for Selma, a movie reflecting the current racialised police brutality and Nightcrawler reflecting media coverage and pop culture atrocities, for these two films to get almost no recognition is baffling. But what do we get? 8 movies about a white man who's a complicated and troubled genius. This just reflects the self obsessed oscar voters and how they see themselves. Hate my opinion all you want but look for yourself at what the Oscars are telling us

[@icu812a]

Selma gets hosed over complaints over historical accuracy, yet American Sniper and The Imitation Game in all their cynical Oscar-baityness get off scot-free.

[@genericname34]

People crying that the Selma Director didn't get nominated because she's a black woman is the most ignorant statement ever. She wasn't as good as Miller or Linklater. That's all.

[@neiladlington950]

If you said, "Selma Director didn't WIN....' your statement would have had some validity, but that's not what we're talking about here. OF COURSE she should have been nominated. Who's ignorant here?

[@genericname34]

neil adlington the only one who could have maybe been subbed out is Tyldum for Imitation, but even with him I felt he got more out of his actors and had better camera work than Selma. That's an opinion, but I bet that's what most voters thought too

[@loganrollins5042]

tropicAces Nah it was a huge mistake to not recognize her. Obviously they just didn't like the movie (or there is a race problem) because Selma's snubbed basically everywhere except Best Picture which has NEVER happened in a long time. She did one of the best jobs of the year and many predicted it'd be either her, Linklater, or Iñárritu winning.

[@brendan71488]

Glad for the two nominations for "Ida". One of the best treats I've had at the cinema in years. Also the Russian film (forgot the title at the moment) is nominated and that was a great film too. Wasn't overjoyed about the the best picture selection however "Boyhood" was very good!!!

[@Nzombii]

I admit to being somewhat tired after 12 Years and The Butler, BUT Selma was really good, David Oyelowo is really awesome! It wasn't really emotionally evocative for me until the credits roll and a song about Ferguson, Eric Garner, Treyvon, etc etc etc. I'm really glad they did that because you know some people are going to proclaim how racism is over and MLK would think this or that.

[@spidavenom4]

I can see why you would get tired but the black experience of America is the only way those of African descent are being noticed by film critics in these situations. I would understand where you are coming from, but it's a 500-year-long story that keeps going. There's war movies that come out every year, abusive stories, gay women stories, biographical, etc. It's what gets the most recognized.

[@TruthSerum101]

Tired of what exactly?

[@Nzombii]

Brenden Johnson Yeah it'd be nice to see black actors cast in regular old films. TV is doing a far better job there. The most bothersome subject now is biblical movies. Nobody likes them! They're not the most cohesive plots (non sequitur, non sequitur, non sequitur) then religious people get upset because it's not just how they want it. Everyone else couldn't give a shit, might as well watch any movie, Peter Pan has a better story.

[@Nzombii]

TruthSerum101 Don't get me wrong, aside from the Butler I really enjoyed them, but hollywood gets in these theme ruts. Brenden listed a bunch of other ruts. I have nothing against them but to work they tend to borrow the same thematic structure. Butler and Selma share some of these (and Opra...). Uh the dialogue-free "timeskip" of working mashup with music dubbed over; and the same thing but with sit ins in Butler. Pride felt like half the movie was that, but everyone will maul me for insulting Pride so nvm! Other times and geographies could be very compelling. I'd like to see something french, I barely know history of blacks there beside they were supposed to be full citizens after the revolution. France held on to its colonies far longer than any other country.

[@brendagz5417]

We do need more color in film and T.V. Star Trek, they had color on the crew but did not make a big deal about it. My problem with 12 years, Selma and movies like these are that they are very inaccurate. They are as historically accurate as 300. Also they play to the victim card. Every time I hear Oprah play the card I say really one of the riches people in the world? Once you are richer than 99% of the world it is time to put that card down.

[@Balnazzardi]

NO, you are WRONG, not everyone loves the Lego Movie! I certainly didnt, and I and quite many other people didnt find it that great at all, in fact I found it to be rather annoying movie, filled with stupid jokes and that annoying song (which ironically got nominated) Still I was really surprised to see it didnt get nominated, considering how it was generally considered to win the animated movie Oscar, but personally I I thought that that Oscar clearly belongs to HTTYD 2 anyways, clearly the superior animated movie of the year AND also the most succesfull animated movie of 2014 WORLDWIDE, just because it didnt do that well in USA doesnt mean shit.

[@Jared_Wignall]

the acting nominations were good, sure some people are snubbed, but that's how it goes. My picks for Best actor based on the nominees are: 1st: Steve Carell- Foxcatcher 2nd: Eddie Redmayne- The Theory of Everything 3rd: Michael Keaton- Birdman 4th: Bradley Cooper- American Sniper 5th: Benedict Cumberbatch- The Intimidation Game Some of you may think differently, that's fine. Some may think the same as me or similar, that's fine too. Everyone thinks differently and shouldn't be forced to think one way or another. The reason I pick Steve Carell first, is that he embodied the character he played so well, as did everyone nominated with him, that there were points in the film I forgot I was watching Carell and thought I was watching John du Pont. I believed he was the guy he portrayed and that doesn't happen often. That's me though, but hey everyone's got their own opinion, so why not respect each others opinions instead of saying people are idiots for not agreeing with us. Cause really, that's just ignorant and stuff like that has been done to death anyway, so lets stop with that. Also, we should keep in mind that the Oscars can be unpredictable, just look at some of the nominations, so who knows who'll win what award. If Carell doesn't win, sure I'll be disappointed as he was my favorite actor of 2014, but there is a list of people nominated alongside him, who did just as good of a job as he did in Foxcatcher, that I won't be too disappointed that he lost. But hey, who knows what'll happen...

[@TheOneThatGotAwayRMAPLS]

The Best thing about this year Of the Oscar of this Year was Julianne Moore winning Best Actress:)

[@OurYoungProtagonist]

I enjoyed The Lego Movie a lot, but it definitely didn't need a boost from the Oscars. It's already a multi-million dollar success everyone's already seen or at least heard of. I say let the lesser known gems who need more exposure have the Animation category.

[@Balnazzardi]

True and from the more well known animated movies, HTTYD 2 was clearly the best anyways, atleast in my opinion. It really annoys me that so many people especially in USA COMPLETELY overlooked/dismissed it

[@basquat76]

Here's what i don't get about 8 out of 10 in best film category. Are they seriously telling me that not one person voted for a ninth. Cause that's all it really should take to get nominated when they have room for ten films. It makes no sense. Somebody who did get votes have been left out. What a hustle.

[@thisisnancybot]

Yeah, that was kind of bullshit, especially when there were deserving films that could have filled the last two slots.

[@MultiplexShow]

The way the Academy's nominations work is that 5% of the 6000+ members have to vote the film as their "first place film" in order to qualify. It's not deciding between nominating 8 movies, 9 movies or 10 movies, it's about whether or not that many films received enough votes.

[@xCrazyxJayx]

That's not how the voting process works. Your film has to get votes within a certain margin to be nominated. Nobody knows the exact statistics, but let's say there are 100 voters and each of the 8 nominees gets 10 votes, and about 10 other films get 1 or 2 votes each. None of those other 10 films are going to get nominated, because even though one of them may have gotten the 9th or 10th most votes it's not close enough to the leading 8 to be considered. Basically, nobody's going to nominate a movie with 1 or 2 votes.

[@basquat76]

***** Ahh i see. Thank you for the explanation. But they could and maybe should seeing that is ten movies now just say the top ten movies who got the most votes, cause the 8 out of 10 still seems silly to me.

[@xCrazyxJayx]

basquat76 If I recall correctly, they've done that in the past, and realized that there was really no point in nominating 10 films when 4 or 5 of them have no chance of winning. Sure, it might be better for the films, but it complicates the voting process and makes it more likely for there to be a tie.

[@cine_caro]

The LEGO Movie raised the bar for animated movies and was funny and entertaining throughout. It is certainly better than the "f***ing Boxtrolls".

[@Balnazzardi]

maybe better than Boxtrolls, but then again I even enjoyed such movies like Rio 2 (which many people considered to be bad) and Book of Life (many ppl completely overlooked) better than The Lego Movie.....but that being said in my opinion the superior animated movie of 2014 was by FAR, How to Train Your Dragon 2....for me THAT raised the bar for animated movies, atleast from pure technical point of view, the animation and visuals in that movie are by far the best I've seen in computer animated movies so far. It truly deserved the Golden Globe and I think it really deserves to win Oscar as well....heck In my honest opinion the first HTTYD would have deserved to win already in 2011 over Toy Story 3.

[@Gavin48]

Raised the bar? No it didn't. it was no Toy Story, Up or Frozen. Lego movie didn't do anything we hadn't seen before & it had a ham fisted ending that had to spoon feed the meaning of the movie to the audience. When it didn't need to

[@cine_caro]

Yeah, I thought How To Train Your Dragon 2 was my second favorite animated movie after The LEGO Movie with splendid visuals. I'm just saying that I would trade The Boxtrolls for The LEGO Movie for a nomination. HTTYD 2 belong in this category with now a great chance to win.

[@Balnazzardi]

Jonathan Caro yeap, I would have given Lego Movie the place of Boxtrolls in nominations as well. But ye, this is propably Dreamwork's best chance to win the Oscar in years, I think they had good shot for it in 2012 as well with Kung Fu Panda 2, but for me it wasnt that much better than Rango which win the the category that year....the original HTTYD would have in my honest opinion deserved the Oscar over Toy Story 3, but I knew there was not going to be any chance there.

[@daytrippera]

I would love to see you guys doing reviews of the foreign language nominees.

[@gregfeasel5874]

No mentions of the Jake Gyllenhaal snub. I am not a big fan of these nominations either, but at the same time, the Oscar nominations are completely subjective and can only fit 5 nominees for most of the categories.

[@Jadewizard]

You hate these nominations, you think the Oscars suck? They don't mean a f-ing thing? Yet, here you sit blabbing about it… but I still love this! ;-)

[@MaryC546]

Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of Birdman, is a Mexican director. He is only the second Mexican Director in the history of the academy to be nominated for Best Director. The Noms were not completely Cloroxed.

[@shanewilliams35]

Look, judge Interstellar how you want, I personally think it is one of the best films of the year. I am honestly surprised by no nomination for writing, directing, and a best picture because of it's themes and originality. I thought the academy would've responded to the "strive for advancement" and actually this old theme present in westerns to expand and also to dream big with also the love of your child a central theme... You can't deny the fact that it is wholly original, no one else could've written or presented a movie like that... I don't know.. just my thoughts. its original, it is epic and great to me lol

[@csjcsj2906]

The rule states that 75% of the film must be animated. The Lego Movie is 100 minutes long, so if the live-action parts exceed 25 minutes, then it would be deemed disqualified. However, the live-action scenes, in total, are about 16-17 minutes long, so The Lego Movie shouldn't be considered ineligible.

[@6373billy]

Meryl Streep got nominated because she's Meryl Streep, I didn't think she deserves another nod at least not for Into the Woods. I liked Theory of Everything and Imitation Game but scrap them out of best picture and maybe American Sniper I did like American Sniper better than Theory and Imitation but I wouldn't have given it a best pic nod. Nightcrawler, Gone Girl, Lego Movie (biggest WTF for animation first thing I said when I heard it) there some of what's wrong this year

[@NorcenFilms]

"Under the Skin" should have been at least nominated for Best Score. Mica Levi's music was captivating, disturbing, and transformative. Instead, the nominated scores are, in my opinion, boring and very safe.

[@RhenishHelm]

Could we have possibly seen Score nominations for Under The Skin or Gone Girl in place of one of two Desplat noms?

[@schmoab]

The only thing that really bothered me about the nominations was the snubs of Wild and Nightcrawler. I don't get why these guys hate Theory of Everything and Imitation Game so much-I guess because they don't have science backgrounds. I'll be happy enough if Birdman, Boyhood or the science movies sweep everything-however Reese should take best Actress.

[@Gavin48]

They're hating on them cause they're British OSCAR Bait type movies. My gripe with that is weren't these the same people who over praised American Hustle & Silver Linings Playbook who were both the defination of OSCAR Bait? Also Hustle and Playbook weren't even half the movies that TOE and TIG are. So a bit of hypocrisy there.

[@loganrollins5042]

Gavin48 I agree TOE and TIG aren't really Oscar Bait, they just happen to be recognized, and I agree American Hustle is a little Oscar Bait-like, but that's because David O. Russell was so established as a director of great movies and great performances by then. Two movies with four acting nominations each. I think SLP wasn't Oscar Bait, as I remember many people were surprised by how good it was after Toronto. I just wish they'd pick out of the box movies like Nightcrawler and Gone Girl.

[@screenwriterdave]

No mention of Jakey G for Nightcrawler? c'mon son...

[@leobergmiller873]

JAKE GYLENHAAL FOR NIGHTCRAWLER IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SNUBS I HAVE EVER SEEN

[@MsRandomnotes1]

I really wanted "The Book Of Life" to at least get a nomination for best animated feature, *sigh*, What was also interesting was in Documentary the Glen Campbell documentary wasn't nominated, but a song he co-wrote for the film WAS nominated for Best Song! Go figure?

[@tbone4782]

I really don't understand how you think these are bad nominations! Birdman and Boyhood and Grand Budapest Hotel all getting very positive mentions speaks to what a great year it was for indie film. Ida getting cinematography and Marion Cottiard getting a best actress nomination - all great. Selma wasn't overlooked, it got a BP nomination. Yeah, two of the BP films are obviously subpar (Theory of Everything, American Hustle). And I wouldve liked to see Calvary get something. But overall - very good!

[@coosoorlog]

"Everything is Awesome" was nominated for "best original song". That tells you all you need to know about the academy awards.

[@icu812a]

Which 5 would you take: Redmayne, Cooper, Cumberbatch, Keaton, Carell OR Gyllenhaal, Fiennes, Hardy, Oyelowo, Boseman

[@MikeAtHumber]

TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY - How Dare Oscars nominate stop motion and hand-drawn animation? I loved Lego Movie and I'd pick it over Big Hero 6 but I respect that Oscar Voters always nominate Claymation/Stop-Motion/Hand-drawn and other stuff that I don't understand.

[@honestabe2726]

Tom hardy/Locke??? 😫

[@edwinsuijkerbuijk5106]

I wonder if being a product/toy tie in movie hurth the lego movies oscar chances. where some people might have had hesitations voting for what could be sens as a feture length comercial for a product.

[@DTRILLION2k100]

I'm so happy for inherent vice, grand Budapest, and Foxcatcher got something . But almost everything else is just bs to promote the movies. American sniper for best picture. Give me a fucking break. I am a little happy. nothing for "the Lego movie" that movie is so annoying. Nothing for jake fucking gyllenhaal. How is that even possible. Dude had one of the best performances of the year...... I like angelina Jolie... But I'm happy that little shitty Oscar bait movie didn't get more than 1 nod. So far, I have yet to see somebody who is actually happy with all the nominations. Usually it's one or two nominations people don't like. But this year it's almost everything. Those old ass voters are out of touch,who ever they are.

[@noelk2751]

Jake Gyllenhaal not even getting a nomination was bad joke!

[@regiseduardo9124]

I just love how Christy open up saying how awful this year's nominations really are... I mean, c'mon Academy... are you really want so bad be a joke, or what?

[@harryvater792]

Anyone else notice she was on facebook at 10:04 ?

[@Ajax-0137]

The Lego Movie not being nominated for best animated picture is the biggest injustice!!!!!!!

[@lacajadeari]

sorry guys ... but ,, do you ever have some reviews or critics about foreign languages movies ( at least the nominees) ??

[@glenndoss2222]

The Grand Budapest Hotel was my favorite movie of 2014 so I'd like to see it win at least a few of the categories it's nominated in.

[@spidavenom4]

Matt and Christy raise an interesting point. Those who vote for the Oscars are mostly Republican and conservative. Backlash on Selma for making LBJ not look like an angel and called inaccurate, American Sniper has inaccuracies the common person knows and gets six nominations.

[@MrDesertBrad]

Actually they said, conservative but not in a political way. A better word might have been reserved. They said Selma did not get nominated because the producers dropped the ball.

[@spidavenom4]

Brad Manh I know that, but that's not what I was referring to. You heard them talk about the LBJ/American Sniper thing, don't try to flip the script.

[@matthewflynn2748]

LBJ is extremely liberal, though.

[@spidavenom4]

Matthew Flynn he is said to be for that time period but the movie like many others say he's not the angel people thought he was.

[@Sighphi]

So wait... the people voting for the Oscars need to go out and see the movies so some studios instead mail screeners and the theory that Selma didnt get a lot of noms is that the studio didnt send out a lot of screeners so that shows how the system is broken. Why isnt there a standard to the system that puts all movies in an even field? Why are we complain about rules that dont exist?

[@isaacruthen9313]

I'd bump Cooper and Carell from Best Actor and add Oyelowo and Gyellenhaal. Then replace Duvall with Carell for supporting since Carell was toally a supporting character. Then definitely replace Streep with Chastain for A Most Violent Year. Stop nominating Streep just because she shows up.

[@blinkzone1]

Disappointed with the nominations this year. Selma got snubbed, Nightcrawler got snubbed although it got a nomination, Steve James got snubbed and Roger Deakins will not win an Oscar again....

[@Twilightlove800]

The fact that David Oyelowo was not nominated for best actor is a travesty. I am so upset, but unfortunately, not shocked.

[@wWeFaN031694]

Didn't like: -how Gone Girl didn't get any nominations except for Rosamund Pike -Lego Movie was snubbed -the Robert Duvall nomination -Meryl Streep, the perennial, everything-she-does-is-Oscar-worthy nomination -Bennett Miller for Best Director, but Foxcatcher's not up for Best Picture, like.. What? -Felicity Jones, Emma Stone, Keira Knightley nominations- WTF. -Oyelowo, Gyllenhaal, Tom Hardy, Rene Russo, Swinton and Chastain snubs -no Force Majeure -no Best Original Score noms for Mica Levi (Under the Skin) nor Trent Reznor (Gone Girl) I liked: -Marion Cotillard and Laura Dern getting nominations -the Jennifer Aniston/Angelina Jolie snubs -the Grand Budapest noms

[@matthewbecker3997]

Everything that Matt just said in the beginning, I could not agree more. Always loved the Oscars felt for the better of them, but this year I get the hate too. I'm hoping for The Grand Budapest Hotel to just take home everything with its middle finger to the crowd

[@aishakhanna7536]

I can't take Benedict Cumberbatch seriously. he acts like a sherlock in every effing movie. Jake's performance is good but It cannot be compared to Bradley Cooper's powerhouse performance in American Sniper yo.

[@jamesbarlow5401]

What about Jennifer Anniston for cake or channing Tatum for foxcatcher?

[@underreppin]

Matt, you don't need to sit through the ceremony to see JK Simmons, best supporting actor is always first up.

[@rodneymckay8860]

The only film nominated that I care for is Whiplash. It was the best movie I've seen this year. The acting, directing & music was all riveting. Other than that, the oscars have always been a political joke.

[@huamulan9279]

7:37 "The *Fucking* Boxtrolls!"

[@newnuance]

also no Babadook or Nightcrawler

[@brmadness8467]

I get the frustrations about Lego Movie and easy picks like Theory of Everything and Imitation Game, but calling it a race thing because Selma isn't there.. That's just one movie and a lot of people don't find it a great one to begin with (one look at the ratings will tell you that). The nominated pics and actors fit pretty well with the track record of the AA's, they're sensitive to certain types of movies, that's how it's always been. I agree with Alonso on one thing though: Boyhood being a favorite to win Best Picture could make this a pretty memorable Oscar year.

[@MichaelMoorePDX]

I agree with Alonso that if "Boyhood" wins that will partly make up for some of the more bizarre omissions and inclusions -- at the very least, "Boyhood" is a more of a genuine and interesting expression of talent and ambition than some of the more rote films nominated. That said, I'm glad the Academy resisted some of the more over-hyped, over-praised (especially by critics) mediocre films by big-name directors -- Nolan, Fincher, PT Anderson. If what the gang theorizes is true -- that "Selma" was overlooked because Paramount didn't get DVD screeners to Academy members -- what does that say about the ongoing viability of movie theaters? I mean, if even the people who make movies are too disinterested too get themselves to a movie theater, then it's no wonder box office numbers are at record lows.

[@vansievert5632]

You know, I'm not against diversity, but this idea that Hollywood has a problem because of one year of white actors and that the academy is entitled to nominate people of different race, color, creed, not for the sake of art, but for the sake of "Diversity" is ridiculous. You when people complain that the academy is all politics, this is an example of it.

[@BRADYSMITH8395]

I liked Interstelkar a lot better than you guys did so I'm glad it got a decent amount of noms but I think it should have also got cinematography because the sound mixing was not nom worthy imo. I was so shocked and angry about the lego movie. They need some new voters in there because I'm sick of historical movies sucking up 90% of the noms every year. Glad Birdman won though. Different than usual winners, but no screenplay for Gone Girl? I mean it's not like the Academy doesn't like that type of thriller, basic instinct and fatal attraction had multiple nominations. I agree they don't matter but there were just so many things that should have been nominated that weren't

[@HugoCheguevara1]

how the fucking fuck could jake gyllenhaal not be nominated ?

[@YamiTildaSwinton]

Problem is, these DO mean a f**king thing. This is the most visible "high profile" gets to the average American. So unfortunately, that posturing means this all matters in terms of trend.

[@PurushaDesa]

Oh well. I really like Crash. But then I like Daredevil and hate onions. So I guess I'm a creep.

[@rbdriftin]

Jake Gyllenhaal?

[@RachelsReviews]

I was glad for Boyhood but the rest ticked me off. I loved animation this year but I would definitely have put Lego in the place of Boxtrolls. I didn't think Theory of Everything was all that great. It was good but fairly standard with good performances.

[@Advent3546]

I was originally okay with these nominations. A lot of my favorites got some love, Whiplash especially got more love than I thought. But then I thought about it for a while, and yeah. I really hate this roster of nominations!

[@BRADYSMITH8395]

And I'm sick of Streep too. When's the last time she wasn't nominated? Holy crap

[@nikko1187]

The academy votes on who was the best that year in a particular category. If they start voting on a movie simply because the director is a female or because we haven't voted for any black men yet, they would no longer be voting on what actor or what film did best. The fact all nominees are white this year shouldn't be a conversation or controversy. Thee same way if all were Asian or black it shouldn't be a conversation or controversy. It's simply that year the best films or performances happened to be white folks. There is no logic or reasoning behind these comments so many people have been making. The truly diverse person doesn't notice all white folks or all black folks or all Mexican folks they see human beings.

[@beautifulstranger0_0]

Nothing is going to change as far as how these films are being chosen. We can bitch, but yeah nothing's changing.

[@KeeperOfProphecies]

"They didn't nominate what I want! I am the arbiter of whom the Oscars get to pick!" Get over yourself. Everytime I have seen this "issue" pop-up, it comes off as essentially wanting blacks/women nominated BECAUSE they're black/female -- which is ironically racist/sexist. I am going to clue some people in something fundamental: people have different tastes/opinions. Don't like whom the Oscars picked? Well, I guess too bad for you. The only bad thing about all of this are the people making a racial issue out of everything -- and act as if nominating a black, or two, suddenly makes us a more harmonious planet.

[@clandestinecoherence]

hope wes finally wins best director for being at the top of his game for grand budapest but it'll likely go for the director of birdman.

[@MajorAlenko]

THE FUCKING BOXTROLLS argh! you tell them Christy lol

[@honestabe2726]

Limited release screws every body up, why do it??

[@anthonyatkinson9245]

I thought Amy Adams should have got nominated ''Best Actress'' for Big Eyes, and Christoph Waltz should have got nominated ''Best Supporting actor'' for Big Eyes. I also think that Melissa McCarthy was pretty good in ''St. Vincent'', and deserved a nomination for ''Best Supporting actress''. She really shockingly would've had what it took to snub Meryl Streep for ''Into the woods''! no offense to Meryl, she's still the Queen of the actresses.

[@Enchantmentofeternity]

Crash was much better than Brokeback Mountain. That's one of the few times the Oscar actually got it right.

[@Enchantmentofeternity]

The truth is, I disagree with you 3, just as much as I do with the Oscars, so kind of ironic to listen to you sit there and bad mouth them, even though I'm sure a lot of what you said was true, but if you 3 were in charge it'd be no better.

[@TheatreofSymphony]

In a perfect world, Essie Davis would have won any Best Actress award

[@alexmiom]

No Lorde for OST or Song?

[@OPMario]

I really don't see how it matters if there were no black or homosexuals nominated. Skin colour and sexuality should be irrelevant.