Boyhood, Birdman and The Theory Of Everything fight it out at the Oscars

Oscar nominated Best Picture director Richard Linklater for Boyhood Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

This year's Oscar nominations were announced today in Los Angeles by Chris Pine, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams.

Best Picture

• American Sniper
• Birdman
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Selma
• The Theory Of Everything
• Whiplash

Best Director

• Alejandro Iñárritu - Birdman
• Richard Linklater - Boyhood
• Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
• Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

Best Actor

• Steve Carrell - Foxcatcher
• Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
• Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
• Michael Keaton - Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne - The Theory Of Everything

Best Actress

• Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night
• Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
• Julianne Moore - Still Alice
• Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
• Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
• Laura Dern - Wild
• Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
• Emma Stone - Birdman
• Meryl Streep - Into The Woods

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall - The Judge
• Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
• Edward Norton - Birdman
• Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
• JK Simmons - Whiplash

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ida
• Leviathan
• Tangerines
• Timbuktu
• Wild Tales

Best Animated Feature Film

• Big Hero 6
• The Boxtrolls
• How To Train Your Dragon 2
• Song Of The Sea
• The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Best Live Action Short Film

• Aya
• Boogaloo and Graham
• Butter Lamp
• Parvaneh
• The Phone Call

Best Documentary Feature

• Citizenfour
• Finding Vivian Maier
• Last Days In Vietnam
• The Salt Of The Earth
• Virunga

Best Documentary, Short Subject

• Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
• Joanna
• Our Curse
• The Reaper (La Parka)
• White Earth

Best Animated Short

• The Bigger Picture
• The Dam Keeper
• Feast
• Me And My Moulton
• A Single Life

Best Original Screenplay

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr and Armando Bo, Birdman
• Richard Linklater, Boyhood
• E Max Frye and Dan Futterman, Foxcatcher
• Wes Anderson and Hugo GuinnessThe Grand Budapest Hotel
• Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Jason Hall, American Sniper
• Graham Moore, The Imitation Game
• Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
• Anthony McCarten, The Theory of Everything
• Damien Chazelle, Whiplash

Best Cinematography

• Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman
• Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida
• Dick Pope, Mr. Turner
• Roger Deakins, Unbroken

Best Film Editing

• Joel Cox and Gary D Roach, American Sniper
• Sandra Adair, Boyhood
• Barney Pilling, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• William Goldenberg, The Imitation Game
• Tom Cross, Whiplash

Best Visual Effects

• Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould, Guardians Of The Galaxy
• Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher, Interstellar
• Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer, X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Best Production Design

• Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Production design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald, The Imitation Game
• Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis, Interstellar
• Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock, Into The Woods
• Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts, Mr. Turner

Best Costume Design

• Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Mark Bridges, Inherent Vice
• Colleen Atwood, Into The Woods
• Anna B Shephard, Maleficent
• Jacqueline Durran, Mr. Turner

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard, Foxcatcher
• Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White, Guardians Of The Galaxy

Best Sound Editing

• Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, American Sniper
• Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock, Birdman
• Brent Burge and Jason Canovas, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Richard King, Interstellar
• Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro, Unbroken

Best Sound Mixing

• John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin, American Sniper
• Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga, Birdman,
• Gary A Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark WeingartenInterstellar
• Jon Taylor, Frank A Montaño and David Lee, Unbroken
• Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley, Whiplash

Best Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
• Hans Zimmer, Interstellar
• Gary Yershon, Mr. Turner
• Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Theory Of Everything

Best Original Song

• Everything Is Awesome - The Lego Movie, Music and Lyrics by Shawn Patterson
• Glory - Selma, Music and Lyrics by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
• Grateful - Beyond The Lights, Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
• I'm Not Gonna Miss You - Glen Campell... I'll Be Me, Music and Lyrics by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
• Lost Stars - Begin Again, Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Anne-Katrin Titze writes:-

Lorelei Linklater, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke at the premiere of Boyhood at Sundance Film Festival Photo: Amber Wilkinson

At the Museum of Modern Art New York premiere, Boyhood star and Oscar nominee Patricia Arquette spoke about what surprised her when she first saw Richard Linklater's 12-years-in the making opus with Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter (and read what the director and stars said about the film at Sundance).

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on Two Days, One Night and working with Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard. After having suffered a nervous breakdown Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a worker in a Belgian solar panel factory, finds out that in her absence, her 16 co-workers were asked by management to vote on if they preferred to have her return or to take a €1,000 bonus for themselves.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard hosted a reception and screening at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York of Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida. I spoke with Pawel about the freedom Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie, starring Anna Karina, gave him; Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue; Odysseus; Milos Forman's Loves Of A Blonde and Fireman's Ball; fairytales with Jean-Pierre Dardenne; Luc Dardenne and Yoko Ono; Paul Celan's Fugue Of Death, until we ended wtih the tale of Winnie the Pooh.

Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Leonardo DiCaprio has come on board as executive producer for Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel's documentary on the plight of Virunga Park Director Emmanuel de Merode and the mountain gorillas of the Congo. At a luncheon in the Harbor Room of the 21 Club in Midtown Manhattan where von Einsiedel was being feted by Netflix, he gave me an update on where we are today.

Finding Vivian Maier directors Charlie Siskel and John Maloof at a reception for Vivian Maier: In Her Own Hands at the Howard Greenberg Gallery on West 57th Street in New York, gave me a tour of the exhibition and some history on their exploration of her work as filmmakers. (Read what Siskel also said about the film when he came to Edinburgh Film Festival, here).

The Best Song nomination, I'm Not Gonna Miss You performed and written by Glen Campell comes from James Keach's debut feature Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, about his family embarking on a farewell tour following Glen being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

We'll be live blogging the Oscars when the awards ceremony takes place on 22 February, plus you can follow our live tweeting at @eyeforfilm. Join us then to catch the results as they come in, let us know if you think the Academy got it right, and hear more about the stories behind the scenes.