A full list of nominations for the 87th Academy Awards, to be held in Los Angeles on 22 February.

Best picture
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best director
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro G Inarritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Best actor
Steve Carell, 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 actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
JK Simmons, Whiplash

Best supporting actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Best adapted screenplay
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best original screenplay
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Best animated feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best animated short
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best cinematography
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr Turner
Unbroken

Best costume design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr Turner

Best documentary feature
CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best documentary short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best film editing
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash

Best foreign language film
Ida (Poland)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Wild Tales (Argentina)

Best live action short
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
Parvaneh
The Phone Call

Best make-up & hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best music
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best production design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr Turner

Best song
'Everything is Awesome', The Lego Movie
'Glory', Selma
'Grateful', Beyond the Lights
'I'm Not Gonna Miss You', Glen Campbell… I'll Be Me
'Lost Stars', Begin Again

Best sound editing
American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best sound mixing
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

Best visual effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead the race for this year's Oscars with nine nominations each.

The Imitation Game, Boyhood and American Sniper also have multiple nominations.

There was good news for British actors as Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Rosamund Pike, Felicity Jones and Keira Knightley are all nominated.

Up against Cumberbatch and Redmayne for best actor are Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper and Michael Keaton.

Cumberbatch, who plays codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, said he was "knocked for six" by the nomination.

"So excited and honoured to receive this recognition," he said.

"It's wonderful to be included by the Academy in this exceptional year of performances. To ring my parents, who are both actors, and tell them that their only son has been nominated for an Oscar is one of the proudest moments of my life."

Films with most nominations
9 - Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
8 - The Imitation Game
6 - American Sniper, Boyhood
5 - Foxcatcher, Interstellar, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash

This year it is very difficult to try and pick the winners for I have only seen a handful of the total films.

This year it is very difficult to try and pick the winners for I have only seen a handful of the total films.
The films on the list of nominations that I have seen are:

Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gone Girl
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past

I will give a critical review towards the my selection of winners in a few days time.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says she wants to see more diversity in Oscar nominations, responding to a row about this year's nominees.

President Obama is hosting a special screening of the Oscar-nominated film Selma at the White House.

The film depicts the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

It is a contender for best picture at next month's Academy Awards, alongside seven other films including Birdman, Boyhood and Grand Budapest Hotel.

Cast and crew, including director Ava DuVernay, are expected to attend the screening on Friday.

The film picked up just two nominations for the Oscars, the second being a nomination for best original song, Glory, by John Legend and Common.

But British actor David Oyelowo missed out on a best actor citation, for his depiction of Martin Luther King, and Ava DuVernay failed to make the cut for best director.

Had she been nominated, DuVernay would have become the first African-American woman to be nominated in that category.

The Oscar nominations have come under fire from some commentators for their lack of diversity, after it was revealed that all 20 contenders for the acting categories were white.

However, the Academy's first African-American woman president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, told New York magazine's Vulture blog that the organisation does not have a diversity problem "at all".

The films on the list of nominations that I have seen are:

Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gone Girl
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past

I will give a critical review towards the my selection of winners in a few days time.
This year I will not trying pick the winner like last year, I cannot be critical for I have not seen all the films, like last year. Of whs t I have seen, I would like Boyhood to be best picture.

The Oscar nominations have come under fire from some commentators for their lack of diversity, after it was revealed that all 20 contenders for the acting categories were white.

However, the Academy's first African-American woman president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, told New York magazine's Vulture blog that the organisation does not have a diversity problem "at all".


I love the hypocrisy of the politically-correct "diversity mob".

You do not hear them decrying the lack of "diversity" in the NBA or most positions in the NFL where the racial makeup is grossly disproportionate to the general population. And for good reason... Those players got there because they were the best. So be it for the Oscars too.

I love the hypocrisy of the politically-correct "diversity mob".

You do not hear them decrying the lack of "diversity" in the NBA or most positions in the NFL where the racial makeup is grossly disproportionate to the general population. And for good reason... Those players got there because they were the best. So be it for the Oscars too.
Exactly, it is the best achieved for that year!

The film I had list in my mind for best 'soundtrack' turns out that "Inside Llewyn Davis" was from last year 2014.

My best actor was to be Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Most Wanted Man", the Academy never choose that, and that I have not seen any of the film film in the Best Actor category, I will skip one this.

As mentioned above my best picture was "Boyhood", and I sticking with it for best director too!

My best actress goes to Rosamund Pike in "Gone Girl", the only film I have seen in that category.

"Boyhood" won best film and best director at the BAFTA's last night.

Wes Anderson's off-beat comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel wins the top film prize at the Writers Guild Awards.

With the Oscar ceremony about to start, just recap, it is for me "Boyhood" to win all it's nominations, and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" for visual effects.

First award of the night

Best supporting actor - JK Simmons, Whiplash

Best costume design - The Grand Budapest Hotel, Milena Canonero

Best make-up and hair - The Grand Budapest Hotel, Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier

Best foreign film - Ida (Poland)

Awesome

It's the live performance of Everything is Awesome, another nominee for best song. The stage is rocking with technicolour mechanics holding mini Lego Oscars. Last time we saw a Lego Oscar was the day the film was snubbed, after missing out on an Oscar nomination for best animated movie.

Best live action short film - The Phone Call, Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best documentary short - Crisis Hotline: Veteran Press 1

Country singer Tim McGraw is next to perform a best original song nominee - I'm Not Gonna Miss You from Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me.

Best sound mixing - Whiplash, Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best sound editing - American Sniper, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Best supporting actress - Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Best visual effects - Interstellar, Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R Fisher.

Best visual effects - Interstellar, Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R Fisher.
Not my choice with the apes!

Best animated short film - Feast, Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

Best animated film - Big Hero 6

Congratulations to all the winners... I actually hadn't been keeping track of them, but earlier today I went to a party at someone's house, and they had the TV tuned to the red carpet show, and I happened to see parts of that.

Congratulations to all the winners... I actually hadn't been keeping track of them, but earlier today I went to a party at someone's house, and they had the TV tuned to the red carpet show, and I happened to see parts of that.
There are more awards to be announced.

There are more awards to be announced.

I figured as much. :)

Best production design - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman

Best cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman
Second successive cinematography Oscar win for Emmanuel Lubezki, last year for "Gravity".

Meryl Streep gave a moving introduction to the montage of movie industry greats we lost in the past year.
Among others, Mickey Rooney, James Garner, Maya Angelou, Richard Attenborough, Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall and Bob Hoskins were all mentioned.

Best film editing - Whiplash, Tom Cross

Best documentary feature - CitizenFour

Best original song - Glory, Selma

Best original score - The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alexandre Desplat

Best original screenplay - Birdman

Best adapted screenplay - The Imitation Game, Graham Moore

Best director - Alejandro G Inarritu, Birdman

Best actor - Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best actress - Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best picture: Birdman

Oh my God. Go Juliane Moore!!

They forgot to mention Joan Rivers in the memorial. :(

The US TV broadcast of this year's Oscars ceremony scores the event's lowest ratings in six years with 36.6m, down 16% on 2014.

A $150,000 custom-made Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress, worn by actress Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars, has been stolen in Hollywood.

The dress, studded with 6,000 natural white pearls, was taken from the London Hotel in West Hollywood when Nyong'o was out of the room.

The Kenyan won best supporting actress last year for Twelve Years a Slave and was a presenter at Sunday's ceremony.

People magazine named her the most beautiful person of 2014.

A $150,000 custom-made Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress, worn by actress Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars, has been stolen in Hollywood.

The dress, studded with 6,000 natural white pearls, was taken from the London Hotel in West Hollywood when Nyong'o was out of the room.

The Kenyan won best supporting actress last year for Twelve Years a Slave and was a presenter at Sunday's ceremony.

People magazine named her the most beautiful person of 2014.
A dress "resembling" the $150,000 (£97,000) outfit worn by actress Lupita Nyong'o at this year's Oscars that was stolen this week has been recovered, Los Angeles police have said.

It was found in a bathroom of the same Hollywood hotel where it was taken.

Police were tipped off by gossip site TMZ, who said they were contacted by a man claiming to be the thief.

He said he had returned the dress after learning the pearls studding the dress were fake.

The custom Calvin Klein-designed gown is coated with 6,000 natural pearls, but the purported thief said he took two of them for testing and were told they were not real.

Detectives are working with the owners of the dress to confirm if it is the dress.

But Michael White of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said he believed it was. No arrests have been made.

''Whether the jewels on the dress are fake or real... we still have a burglary and we still have a grand theft,'' Mr White said.

Nyong'o won best supporting actress in 2014 for 12 Years a Slave and was a presenter at Sunday's ceremony.

Speaking about the dress's design, the 31-year-old said: "We talked about it being fluid and liquid. I wanted it to be an homage to the sea."

Sean Penn has said he has "absolutely no apologies" to make over his controversial green card Oscars quip.

Before announcing the best picture winner at last month's Academy Awards, the actor joked: "Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?"

Penn was referring to Birdman's Mexican director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Inarritu, a long-time friend of the actor who directed him in 21 Grams, said he found it "hilarious". But some pundits were less impressed.

Entertainment Weekly's Nina Terrero tweeted she would never see a Penn film again, saying she was "shocked, angry upset" at his "disgusting" comment.