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)
