{"id":26460,"date":"2015-01-15T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=26460"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T05:58:34","slug":"oscar-nominations-my-own-two-bits-and-a-complete-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/01\/oscar-nominations-my-own-two-bits-and-a-complete-list-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar nominations \u2014 my own two bits, and a complete list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"grandbudapesthotel\"<\/a>It is extremely rare for a film to win Best Picture without also being nominated for its director, its film editing<\/a>, and its screenplay. So it looks like this year\u2019s top Oscar will go to one of three films: Boyhood<\/i>, The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/i> or The Imitation Game<\/i>. But there are exceptions to every rule, and we can\u2019t entirely rule out Birdman<\/i>, which is tied with The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/i> for the most nominations of any film this year; Birdman<\/i> was snubbed in the film-editing category, but that could<\/i> be because the film was seamlessly edited to look as though it was all filmed in one long take.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, here are a few points that jumped out at me:<\/p>\n

There were no nominations for either of the year\u2019s big Bible movies \u2014 not even for Patti Smith\u2019s theme song for Noah<\/i><\/a>, which got a Golden Globe nomination.<\/p>\n

The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/i> has more nominations than all previous Wes Anderson films combined. Prior to this, The Royal Tenenbaums<\/i> and Moonrise Kingdom<\/i> were nominated for their screenplays, while Fantasic Mr Fox<\/i> was nominated for best original score and best animated feature. None of those films won.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Boyhood<\/i> has more nominations than all previous Richard Linklater films combined. Prior to this, Before Sunset<\/i> and Before Midnight<\/i> were nominated for their screenplays, and that was it. Neither film won.<\/p>\n

Every film directed by Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu has been nominated for at least one award now. Prior to Birdman<\/i>, Amores Perros<\/i> and Biutiful<\/i> were nominated for foreign language film, 21 Grams<\/i> and Biutiful<\/i> were nominated for their actors, and Babel<\/i> was nominated for seven awards (of which it won one, for original score).<\/p>\n

Belgian film Two Days, One Night<\/i> was nominated for best actress (Marion Cotillard), but not for best foreign language film, because it was left off the shortlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only other foreign language film that was recognized outside of the foreign film category was the Polish film Ida<\/i>, which was nominated for its cinematography.<\/p>\n

The Lego Movie<\/i> was nominated for best original song (\u2018Everything Is Awesome\u2019), but not for best animated feature. A part of me wonders if this is because of the film\u2019s heavy reliance on Batman and other DC Comics characters, which might have prevented it from being taken as seriously, on an artistic level, as animated-feature nominees like Song of the Sea<\/i> and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya<\/i>. (Yes, yes, Big Hero 6<\/i>, which is based on a Marvel comic, got nominated \u2014 but it\u2019s based on an obscure<\/i> Marvel comic. And it\u2019s a Disney film, so there\u2019s that, too.)<\/p>\n

This is the second year in a row in which there are no Pixar nominees. That\u2019s partly because Pixar didn\u2019t release any feature-length films, but it\u2019s also because their short film Lava<\/i> \u2014 which did qualify<\/a> for an award \u2014 was left off the Oscar shortlist.<\/p>\n

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies<\/i> got a single nomination, for sound editing. And thus the final prequel to a trilogy that was once widely celebrated for its ground-breaking visual effects failed to get even so much as a nomination in that category. In this, the film resembles Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith<\/i>, which got a single nomination\u2026 for makeup<\/a>. (Each of the first two Hobbit<\/i> films were nominated for visual effects and two other awards, but didn\u2019t win anything in the end.)<\/p>\n

X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/i>, which is the seventh film in the X-Men<\/i> franchise, is also the first film in that series to be nominated for anything<\/i> \u2014 namely visual effects.<\/p>\n

Here are the feature films that have been nominated for Oscars, from those with the most nods to those with only one. The titles of those I have seen are in bold:<\/p>\n

9 nominations<\/b><\/p>\n