Best Cinematography Birdman, Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel, Robert Yeoman Ida, Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski Mr. Turner, Dick Pope Unbroken, Roger Deakins Lubezki won last year for Gravity Yeoman worked in three different aspect ratios. Lenczewski quit a few days into shooting Ida. Deakins has not won, after 12 nominations. Best Cinematography Birdman, Emmanuel Lubezki Your runaway winner! Best Film Editing American Sniper, Joel Cox & Gary Roach Boyhood, Sandra Adair The Grand Budapest Hotel, Barney Pilling The Imitation Game, William Goldenberg Whiplash, Tom Cross Cox works almost exclusively with Eastwood. Adair works almost exclusively with Linklater. Pilling has never edited for Anderson before. Goldenberg beat himself for this Oscar in 2012. Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Laura Dern, Wild Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game Emma Stone, Birdman Meryl Streep, Into the Woods Knightley waited 9 years for her second nom. Dern waited 23 years for her second nom. Streep has now been nominated 19 times. Arquette and Stone are first-time nominees. Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Your runaway winner! (Knightley was a distant second, then Streep) Best Supporting Actor Robert Duvall, The Judge Ethan Hawke, Boyhood Edward Norton, Birdman Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher J.K. Simmons, Whiplash Duvall is now the oldest actor ever nominated. Norton was nominated twice in the 1990s. Hawke waited 13 years for his second nom. Simmons is the only first-time nominee. Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, Whiplash Your runaway winner! (He got 14 votes. No one else got more than 3.) 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 Moore has never won. This is her fifth nom. Witherspoon produced Gone Girl. Cotillard has been nom’d twice for French roles. Best Actress Julianne Moore, Still Alice Your runaway winner! (Pike was a very distant second) Best Actor Steve Carell, Foxcatcher Bradley Cooper, American Sniper Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game Michael Keaton, Birdman Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything All first-time nominees except Cooper, who has been nominated three years in a row. The last actors to achieve that streak were Russell Crowe (99-01), Renée Zellweger (01-03). Best Actor Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything By only one vote—the last one that arrived! (Keaton was right behind him… as may well be true on Sunday night!) Best Original Screenplay Alejandro González Iñárritu, et al., Birdman Your winner! (Birdman received 10 votes. Boyhood got 6.) Best Adapted Screenplay Graham Moore, The Imitation Game Your winner! (Imitation got the twice as many votes as the runner-up, American Sniper.) Best Director Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman Richard Linklater, Boyhood Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game Anderson, Linklater have been nom’d as writers. Miller is the first director since 2007 to be nominated here without a Best Picture mention. Best Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman Your winner! (Iñárritu got 11 votes, compared to 5 apiece for Linklater and Tyldum.) Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel - 0 The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel - 0 The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash - 1 Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel - 0 The Imitation Game - 2 Selma - 2 The Theory of Everything Whiplash - 1 Best Picture American Sniper - 3 Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel - 0 The Imitation Game - 2 Selma - 2 The Theory of Everything - 3 Whiplash - 1 Best Picture American Sniper - 3 Birdman - 5 Boyhood - 6 The Grand Budapest Hotel - 0 The Imitation Game - 2 Selma - 2 The Theory of Everything - 3 Whiplash – 1 A real squeaker! This was fun!.