Oscar Nominations 2014

It's finally here!  The nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning.  There were the ones everyone was expecting, a few missing names that surprised me, and a couple of inclusions that made me question the validity of this medium.  I'll let you figure out which ones those are.  As usual, bolded titles are ones I have yet to see and links will take you to ones already reviewed.  If it's bolded and linked, it means I got to it after this was published, in case you're checking back on it.

Best Picture

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor


Christian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress

Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August:  Osage County

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August:  Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

Best Animated Film

The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest and Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best Cinematography

The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

Best Costumes

American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave

Best Director

David O. Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Documentary

The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom

Best Documentary Short

Cavedigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6:  Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal:  The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best Film Editing

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave

Best Foreign Film

Broken Circle Breakdown
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Missing Picture
Omar

Best Hair and Makeup

Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents:  Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

Best Original Score

The Book Thief
Gravity
Her
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Original Song


"Alone Yet Not Alone" - Alone Yet Not Alone  (Disqualified!)
"Happy" - Despicable Me 2
"Let It Go" - Frozen
"The Moon Song" - Her
"Ordinary Love" - Mandela:  Long Walk to Freedom

Best Production Design

American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave

Best Animated Short

Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom

Best Live Action Short

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Helium
Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Do Everything?)
The Voorman Problem

Best Sound Editing

All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit:  The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

Best Sound Mixing

Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit:  The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Best Visual Effects

Gravity
The Hobbit:  The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Adapted Screenplay

Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska

What the everloving fuck, Academy?  Bad Grandpa?!  If I didn't know for a fact that the AMPAS members have no sense of humor, I would assume we had all just been pranked.  And to put it in Best Makeup and Hair, thereby robbing American Hustle of its combover glory?!  Are you shitting me?  That age makeup doesn't even look good in the trailers!

I'm going to stop thinking about that for a moment before I burst a blood vessel.  Let's talk about some of the other curveballs this year.  Not a single nomination for Lee Daniels' The Butler?  Or Rush?  And what is up with Inside Llewyn Davis getting nominated for Sound Mixing but not Best Original Song?  It was like the one non-animated musical this year!  I'm a little surprised Blackfish didn't get nominated for Best Documentary.  Maybe the SeaWorld lobbyists got to them.

Well, I have until 7 p.m. March 2nd to watch 48 films.  Between the theater, Netflix, and On Demand, I think I can get this done.  Keep checking back to find out.