The extravagant comedies Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel are tied for the most Oscar nominations with nine each, including for best picture, the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed this morning from Hollywood.
Birdman, about a washed-up actor who played a superhero, and The Grand Budapest Hotel, about a concierge who teams up with an employee to prove he was framed for murder, were joined in the race for best picture by:
- Boyhood.
- Whiplash.
- The Theory of Everything.
- The Imitation Game.
- American Sniper.
- Selma.
The vaunted academy unveiled its list of nominees in all 24 categories on Thursday, in a two-part news conference from the Dolby Theatre in California.
The Imitation Game, with eight nominations, trailed closely behind Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Michael Keaton portrays Riggan in a scene from Birdman. Keaton was nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role. (Atsushi Nishijima/Fox Searchlight/AP)
Clint Eastwood's Navy SEAL drama American Sniper landed six nods, including for best actor for Bradley Cooper.
Also with six nominations was Richard Linklater's coming-of-age epic Boyhood, which remains the best-picture favourite.
Last year's Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, drew 43 million viewers, making it the most-watched entertainment telecast in a decade. 12 Years a Slave took best picture.
Canadians nominated in animated categories
Canadians are represented in the animated film categories, with three nominations.
Richard Linklater's Boyhood is nominated in 6 categories and remains a favourite in the best picture race. (IFC Films/Associated Press)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 director Dean DeBlois, fresh off a Golden Globe win for best animated feature, is now up for an Academy Award in the same category. He's from Aylmer, Que.
Graham Annable of Sault Ste Marie, Ont., is also nominated for a best animated feature Oscar as a co-director for The Boxtrolls.
And Norway-born, Montreal-raised Torill Kove is up for a prize in the best animated short film category for Me and My Moulton. She won the Oscar in the same category in 2007 for The Danish Poet and was nominated for her animated short My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts in 2000.
Grand Budapest Hotel surprises
But Wes Anderson's old Europe caper The Grand Budapest Hotel, which also won best comedy or musical at the Golden Globes, has emerged as the most unexpected awards heavyweight.
Released nearly a year ago last winter, the film CBC's Eli Glasner calls "a weird, wonderful, strange kooky masterpiece" is also the most lucrative entry in the best picture category. That may change once the final numbers for American Sniper, which doesn't open in Canada until this Friday, are tallied.
Announcement flub gets guffaws
The nominations announcement ceremony Thursday had a few unexpected moments as well.
Director J.J. Abrams introduced his Star Trek leading man as "an actor named Chris Pine" at the end of the first session of announcements.
As well, academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs may have cemented some online notoriety for herself when she announced Dick Pope as a nominee for cinematography in Mr. Turner, mispronouncing his name as "dick poop" before quickly correcting herself.
This year's ceremony on Feb. 22 will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
You can take part in a live chat with CBC's Eli Glasner and CBC Online's Lauren O'Neil breaking down the entire slate, and what to expect at the main event, tonight at 7 p.m. ET.
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