My rankings of the major Oscar contenders of 2015:
BEST PICTURE
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Whiplash
3. Birdman *
4. Selma
5. The Imitation Game
6. Boyhood
7. The Theory of Everything
8. American Sniper
DIRECTING
1. Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
2. Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman) *
3. Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
4. Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
5. Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
ACTOR - IN A LEADING ROLE
1. Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) *
2. Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
3. Michael Keaton (Birdman)
4. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
5. Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
ACTRESS - IN A LEADING ROLE
1. Julianne Moore (Still Alice) *
2. Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
3. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
4. Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
5. Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
2. Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
3. Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) *
4. Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything)
5. Jason Hall (American Sniper)
WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
2. Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo (Birdman) *
3. Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
4. Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
5. E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher)
*Actual Winners
