Boyhood was alright, but the only thing it has going for it is the 12 year filming period. It's a movie I will never watch again. Now Birdman is a movie that has everything going for it and I'm hoping it wins best picture.

On a related note, I feel American Sniper got too much award recognition. Best picture and best actor? Cooper did well, but he was not top 5 material. Gyllenhaal deserved that nomination and if not him then Oyelowo.

The only movie that got snubbed was Interstellar.

I thought Selma was really good, better than 12 Years a Slave in my opinion. Although I don't really rank 12 Years a Slave that high, I thought Dallas Buyers Club and Wolf of Wall Street were better films last year.

I thought Selma was a good movie and deserved to be nominated, but I don't think it should win best picture. I've only seen The Imitation Game, American Sniper and Selma this year so I haven't seen all the nominated movies yet, but so far I would rank the movies like this: The Imitation Game>>> Selma>>>>>>> American Sniper.

I think most people are up in arms about the Oscar noms becuase they feel there is not enough diversification and so they wish Selma had more noms to diversify the nomination pools. Atleast that's what most people were complaining about on Twitter. Oyelowo probably should have been nominated, but I don't think its that big of a deal personally.

12 Years A Slave is a much better movie then Dallas Buyers since it actually stayed closer to its source material the autobiography its based on, on top of it the acting, plot and score was better.  The real Ron Woodroof wasn't this homphobic man as depicted in the movies as a matter of fact there are some sources that claim that he was homosexual or bisexual himself.  Plus they skipped the whole fact that he was married when he contracted HIV.  Philadelphia although mostly fictonal is a much better movie about the HIV crisis then Dalllas Buyers Club.  On top of that you had a much better documentary about the AIDS crisis released shortly before Dallas Buyers club came out named How to Survive a Plague.

Yes...the most critically acclaimed (and highest metacritic scored) movie...is definitely a bad movie. Its sitting at a whopping 89 Metacritic score. The problem is no one cares about a biopic right now and it needs more commercialization causig legs, or something is truly wrong on the viewer end.  That movies sales dont match the critic scores at all. Chances are because of its lack of popularity that also cost it awards as well.

Lets just hope the Academy doesn't account for sales or else Selma is screwed. Taken 3 beat Selma........

I repeat... Taken 3 beat Selma.

Nah. That was Nolan's most overblown movie. It's getting nominated for the right stuff. It just shouldn't be for any of the acting, writing, or directing awads. He needs to reel himself back in again.

Actually Boyhood was the highest rated movie of last year it got so many perfect reviews that it metascore is 100/100.

Feels like Zimmer should win just about every year.

Exactly it got nominated for the right stuff.  Hopefully it will win for best score because that is the one thing that truely stands out about the movie.  Too bad it couldn't have been like The Right Stuff which has a great score and is a great movie and is one of the most underrated movies from the 80s.