Official 2014 Oscar Nominations Thread (1 Viewer)

[Mike Frezon]

It's that time of year again!

Red Carpets, elegant gowns, spiffy tuxedos, long "thank you" speeches and high honors for cinematic achievement!
The Academy Awards!

[*]Best Picture

[*]American Hustle
Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
[*]Captain Phillips
Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
[*]Dallas Buyers Club
Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
[*]Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
[*]Her
Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
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[*]Nebraska
Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
[*]Philomena
Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
[*]12 Years a Slave
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
[*]The Wolf of Wall Street
Nominees to be determined
[/list][*]Actor in a Leading Role

[*]Christian Bale
American Hustle
[*]Bruce Dern
Nebraska
[*]Leonardo DiCaprio
The Wolf of Wall Street
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[*]Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 Years a Slave
[*]Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club
[/list][*]Actress in a Leading Role

[*]Amy Adams
American Hustle
[*]Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine
[*]Sandra Bullock
Gravity
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[*]Judi Dench
Philomena
[*]Meryl Streep
August: Osage County
[/list][*]Actor in A Supporting Role

[*]Barkhad Abdi
Captain Phillips
[*]Bradley Cooper
American Hustle
[*]Michael Fassbender
12 Years a Slave
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[*]Jonah Hill
The Wolf of Wall Street
[*]Jared Leto
Dallas Buyers Club
[/list][*]Actress in a Supporting Role

[*]Sally Hawkins
Blue Jasmine
[*]Jennifer Lawrence
American Hustle
[*]Lupita Nyong'o
12 Years a Slave
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[*]Julia Roberts
August: Osage County
[*]June Squibb
Nebraska
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[*]Animated Feature Film

[*]The Croods
Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
[*]Despicable Me 2
Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri

[*]Ernest & Celestine
Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner

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[*]Frozen
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
[*]The Wind Rises
Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
[/list][*]Directing

[*]American Hustle
David O. Russell
[*]Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
[*]Nebraska
Alexander Payne
[*]12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
[*]The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese
[/list][*]Cinematography

[*]The Grandmaster
Philippe Le Sourd

[*]Gravity
Emmanuel Lubezki
[*]Inside Llewyn Davis
Bruno Delbonnel

[*]Nebraska
Phedon Papamichael
[*]Prisoners
Roger A. Deakins
[/list][*]Costume Design

[*]American Hustle
Michael Wilkinson

[*]The Grandmaster
William Chang Suk Ping

[*]The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin

[*]The Invisible Woman
Michael O'Connor

[*]12 Years a Slave
Patricia Norris
[/list][*]Film Editing

[*]American Hustle
Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten

[*]Captain Phillips
Christopher Rouse

[*]Dallas Buyers Club
John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa

[*]Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

[*]12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker
[/list][*]Documentary Feature

[*]The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen

[*]Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher

[*]Dirty Wars
Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill

[*]The Square
Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer

[*]20 Feet from Stardom
Nominees to be determined
[/list][*]Documentary Short Subject

[*]CaveDigger
Jeffrey Karoff

[*]Facing Fear
Jason Cohen

[*]Karama Has No Walls
Sara Ishaq

[*]The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed

[*]Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Edgar Barens
[/list][*]Foreign Language Film

[*]The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium

[*]The Great Beauty
Italy

[*]The Hunt
Denmark

[*]The Missing Picture
Cambodia

[*]Omar
Palestine
[/list][*]Makeup and Hairstyling

[*]Dallas Buyers Club
Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

[*]Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Stephen Prouty

[*]The Lone Ranger
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
[/list][*]Music Original Score

[*]The Book Thief
John Williams

[*]Gravity
Steven Price

[*]Her
William Butler and Owen Pallett

[*]Philomena
Alexandre Desplat

[*]Saving Mr. Banks
Thomas Newman
[/list][*]Music Original Song

[*]"Alone Yet Not Alone" from ALONE YET NOT ALONE
Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel

[*]"Happy" from DESPICABLE ME 2
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams

[*]"Let it Go" from FROZEN
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

[*]"The Moon Song" from HER
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze

[*]"Ordinary Love" from MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
[/list][*]Production Design

[*]American Hustle
Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration)

[*]Gravity
Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration)

[*]The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)

[*]Her
K.K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)

[*]12 Years a Slave
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration)
[/list][*]Short Film Animated

[*]Feral
Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden

[*]Get a Horse!
Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
[*]Mr. Hublot
Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares

[*]Possessions
Shuhei Morita

[*]Room on the Broom
Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
[/list][*]Short Film Live Action

[*]Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Esteban Crespo

[*]Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras

[*]Helium
Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson

[*]Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari

[*]The Voorman Problem
Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
[/list][*]Sound Editing

[*]All Is Lost
Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns

[*]Captain Phillips
Oliver Tarney

[*]Gravity
Glenn Freemantle

[*]The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Brent Burge

[*]Lone Survivor
Wylie Stateman
[/list][*]Sound Mixing

[*]Captain Phillips
Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro

[*]Gravity
Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

[*]The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson

[*]Inside Llewyn Davis
Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

[*]Lone Survivor
Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
[/list][*]Visual Effects

[*]Gravity
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould

[*]The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds

[*]Iron Man 3
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick

[*]The Lone Ranger
Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier

[*]Star Trek Into Darkness
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
[/list][*]Writing Adapted Screenplay

[*]Before Midnight
Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

[*]Captain Phillips
Screenplay by Billy Ray
[*]Philomena
Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
[*]12 Years a Slave
Screenplay by John Ridley
[*]The Wolf of Wall Street
Screenplay by Terence Winter
[/list][*]Writing Original Screenplay

[*]American Hustle
Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
[*]Blue Jasmine
Written by Woody Allen
[*]Dallas Buyers Club
Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
[*]Her
Written by Spike Jonze
[*]Nebraska
Written by Bob Nelson
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[Michael Elliott]

I will start the WTFs:BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR getting nothing. STORIES WE TELL no love from the documentary department. Feel bad for Robert Redford but it was a very crowded field. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS no hope for any box office now. Lets go GROWN UPS 3 and its green light. HER blah. Saw this last night and didn't care for it. I doubt most in America will either so somewhat of a head scratcher. Overall I thought the list was pretty good. Still not feeling the 12 YEARS A SLAVE orgy as it has overshadowed both THE BUTLER and FRUITVALE STATION.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Personally, I am stunned Emma Thompson did not receive a nomination for Saving Mr. Banks.

 

[Jeff Adkins]

Personally, I am stunned Emma Thompson did not receive a nomination for Saving Mr. Banks.

That is indeed surprising, even though I wasn't a fan of the film. I would have never have guessed that Saving Mr. Banks would get the same number of nominations as Bad Grandpa.

 

[John Stell]

Really glad to see Jonah Hill on the Supporting Actor list and that Philomena is a Best Picture nom.

 

[Michael Elliott]

I need to see Philomena and August Osage County to finish off the bigger awards. I haven't heard anything good about the second title so I'm a little surprised to have the noms, although Streep gets nominated for everything.

 

[TravisR]

Happy to see lots of deserved attention for The Wolf Of Wall Street.

For once, I don't have anything to catch up on (although I still want to see Frozen- nominee or not).

I thought Tom Hanks gave possibly the best performance of his career in Captain Phillips so I'm frankly stunned that he didn't get even nominated.

Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Nebraska and Philomena were all fine movies but Inside Llewyn Davis was so much better so it's lame (though not entirely unexpected) that it didn't even get a BP nomination.

 

[Craig S]

If my counts are right, Gravity & American Hustle lead the way with 10 nods; 12 Years A Slave is nipping at their heels with 9.

Biggest shocker to me: no Best Actor nod for Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips). He had to have been a close miss.

Re: Streep over Thompson. Just proof that there's a large percentage of Academy voters who are going to tick the box next to Streep's name no matter what. I thought Thompson was extraordinary in Saving Mr. Banks and should have got the nomination, but in the end it won't matter - this is Cate Blanchett's year.

Re: Disappointed (but not surprised) at the lack of love for Inside Llewyn Davis. I was certain there would be a Song nomination for the hilarious "Please, Mr. Kennedy".

For the second year in a row, David O. Russell has directed four actors to nominations, one per category. And I'm predicting that (like last year) there will be one winner out of the four, and that will be Jennifer Lawrence.

Best Actor is a real horse race. Jarod Leto is probably the favorite for Supporting Actor, but Jonah Hill could give him a run for his money.

 

[Tino]

Very happy that Gravity leads with 10 nominations tied with American Hustle.

 

[Michael Elliott]

I predicted Blanchett the second the lights came up in the theater so to me she's a sure thing Actor is the roughest category. The message and weight loss of Matthew makes him a favorite but DiCaprio was so damn great as well. Like Peter Fonda in ULEE'S GOLD, Dern's nomination is his win.

 

[Keith Cobby]

Do Academy members actually watch the films they vote for?

 

[Michael Elliott]

Do Academy members actually watch the films they vote for?

I seriously doubt it. That's why the Critic awards are probably more accurate but the Oscars are just insiders congratulating insiders.

 

[TravisR]

Biggest shocker to me: no Best Actor nod for Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips). He had to have been a close miss.

Yeah, I'm guessing that having both Captain Phillips and Saving Mr. Banks split the vote for him.

 

[Freddie Z]

Well, I saw 8 out of the 9 Best Pictures. Maybe I'll go out and watch Dallas Buyers Club now. Anyway, was shocked that Tom Hanks didn't get a nom for Captain Phillips but I have to say the 5 nominees were deserving. Just a crowded field. Also, surely there were enough good films to warrant 10 Best Picture nominees.

 

[mattCR]

Stunned, just stunned at the exclusion of Blue is the Warmest Color from best foreign films. Just.. wow. Biggest shock to me of the whole thing.

 

[Michael Elliott]

Both actresses from BLUE deserved to be nominated but I knew that would be a very long shot. Supporting Actor for James Gandolfini is another miss.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

It's hard to argue that Bradley Cooper was more deserving of a Best Supporting Actor slot than George Clooney. I think Clooney got overlooked because a lot of voters thought it was just Clooney being Clooney, but he did some really subtle work in Gravity and Cooper was just way too over-the-top in American Hustle.

 

[Freddie Z]

To be fair, Blue is the Warmest Color was not eligible for this year's Foreign Language category. You can blame France for that.

 

[Craig S]

Remember when Jonah Hill broke out just 6 and a half years ago in Superbad (2007)? Is there ANYBODY who would have predicted then that he would have earned two Oscar nominations by the time he was 30??

 

[TravisR]

It's hard to argue that Bradley Cooper was more deserving of a Best Supporting Actor slot than George Clooney. I think Clooney got overlooked because a lot of voters thought it was just Clooney being Clooney...

I think another thing against Clooney was that even for a supporting role, he had a fairly small part in Gravity.