It’s that time of year again, the Oscars are right around the corner. Sam Fragoso, contributing writer for Forbes, touched on a subject that is seemingly often overlooked: the fact that again, “a predictable, uncontroversial lot of films” were selected to represent the past year in cinema.

Before you check that out, here’s the full list of nominees for 2015′s Academy Awards show:

Best Picture

American Sniper

Birdman

Boyhood

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

Selma

The Theory of Everything

Whiplash

 

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)

Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)

Michael Keaton (Birdman)

Eddie Redmayne (Theory of Everything)

 

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)

Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)

Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

Roasumund Pike (Gone Girl)

Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

 

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall (The Judge)

Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)

Edward Norton (Birdman)

Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)

J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Supporting Actress


Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

Laura Dern (Wild)

Kiera Knightley (The Imitation Game)

Emma Stone (Birdman)

Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)

 

Best Director

Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman)

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Bennett Miller (Foxtcatcher)

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Sniper

The Imitation Game

Inherent Vice

Theory of Everything

Whiplash

 

Best Original Screenplay

Birdman

Boyhood

Foxcatcher

The Grand Budapest

Nightcrawler

 

Best Foreign Language Film

Ida (Poland)

Leviathan (Russia)

Tangerines (Estonia)

Timbuktu (Mauritania)

Wild Tales (Argentina)

 

Best Cinematography

Birdman

The Grand Budapest

Ida

Mr. Turner

Unbroken

 

Best Documentary Feature

CITIZENFOUR

Finding Vivian Maier

Last Days in Vietnam

The Salt of the Earth

Virunga

 

Best Animated Feature

Big Hero 6

Boxtrolls

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Song of the Sea

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

 

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-Jamaal Fisher (@jamaalfisher)