*Huge amounts of guess work and some wishful thinking involved

Best Picture

Boyhood

Birdman

American Sniper

Whiplash

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

Selma

The Theory of Everything

Best Director

Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher

Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Best Actor

Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Steve Carell, Foxcatcher

Michael Keaton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Bradley Cooper, American Sniper

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game

Best Actress

Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything

Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night

Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

Best Supporting Actor

JK Simmons, Whiplash

Ethan Hawke, Boyhood

Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher

Edward Norton, Birdman

Robert Duvall, The Judge

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Laura Dern, Wild

Emma Stone, Birdman

Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game

Foreign Language Film

Ida

Leviathan

Wild Tales

Tangerines

Timbuktu

Cinematography

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Emmanuel Lubezki

Ida, Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski

Unbroken, Roger Deakins

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Robert Yeoman

Mr. Turner, Dick Pope

Adapted Screenplay

Whiplash

American Sniper

Imitation Game

Inherent Vice

The Theory of Everything

Original Screenplay

Birdman

Boyhood

Foxcatcher

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Nightcrawler

Animated Feature

Big Hero 6

How to Train Your Dragon 2

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Boxtrolls

Song of the Sea

Visual Effects

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Guardians of the Galaxy

Interstellar

X:Men: Days of Future Past

Captain America: The Winter Soldier