‘Birdman’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ lead 2015 Oscar nominations

Nominations for the 87th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning. The nominees for all 24 categories were named on ABC during Good Morning America. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel each earned nine nods, the most among this year’s nominees.

You can read the complete list of Oscar nominees here. Here are the nominations in the five major (i.e., the ones most people care most about) categories:

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

Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

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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
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Laura Dern – Wild
Keira Knightly – The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods

We’ll have more on the 2015 Oscar nominations, particularly the snubs (Nightcrawler! David Oyelowo! Ava DuVernay!) later today at The AP Party.

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