Oscars 2015: who will win the best supporting actress race?

Oscars 2015: who will win the best supporting actress race?

In the first of our assessments of this year’s runners and riders, Guy Lodge urges you to place your money wisely when it comes to choosing between Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Keira Knightley, Emma Stone and Patricia Arquette

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 Witch woman will win? … best supporting actress hopefuls (clockwise from top left) Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Patricia Arquette and Keira Knightley. Photograph: Rex Features

Guy Lodge

Believe it or not — and it brings me no great joy to state this — the Academy awards are essentially a six-month industry in Hollywood: campaign strategies are formally initiated at the Telluride and Toronto festivals, even the prickliest actors are made curiously available for interviews and entire rainforests are slain in the name of glossy For Your Consideration brochures.

87th ACADEMY AWARDS 2015 Best Actor

Best Actor

Steve Carell, Foxcatcher

Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Michael Keaton, Birdman

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game

David Oyelowo, Selma

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

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BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

American Sniper

Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers

Boyhood

Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, Producers

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers

Oscar-Nominated ‘American Sniper’ Wins Top Box Office Position

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“American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s war-drama that’s nominated for six Oscars, was the top-grossing movie in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend, collecting $90.2 million in ticket sales to set a record for January.

“The Wedding Ringer” came in second with weekend sales of $21 million for Sony Pictures (6758)’ Screen Gems, industry researcher Rentrak Corp. said Sunday in a statement. Weinstein Co.’s “Paddington” collected $19.3 million.

Oscars 2015: all the nominees and find out how to see all the films before the big day

Here’s a list of all the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards announced Thursday morning, along with trailers for each film and how to see the film in theaters, online or on DVD. Tune in the live ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. on ABC to find out who takes home the Oscar. We will update this list as more screenings and releases are announced.

American Sniper Review Roundup: Did Critics Like the Oscar-Nominated War Film, Starring Bradley Cooper?

Bradley Cooper plays an Iraq war veteran and wounded warrior in the Oscar-nominated biographical film American Sniper, which marks one of his grittiest roles.

The R-rated movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, hit select theaters on Christmas Day and gets a wider release in the United States on Friday, Jan. 16. It is based on Navy SEAL and Texas man Chris Kyle's 2012 memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.

Pennsylvania-born Cooper, 40, puts on a southern accent and gained about 40 pounds to plays the main character, one of the U.S. military's best snipers, deemed "The Legend," who fights during multiple deployments in Iraq. He has difficulty adjusting to life back home in the United States, following physical injuries and war traumas. Sienna Miller plays his wife, Taya.

The movie also stars Glee alum and Frozen star Jonathan Groff, Battle: Los Angeles actor Cory Hardrict, Veronica Mars alum Kyle Gallner, Parenthood cast member Sam Jaeger andNashville star Eric Close.

On Thursday, American Sniper received six Oscar nominations ahead of the 2014 ceremony on Feb. 22, including one for Best Picture, and individual nods for Eastwood, who already has four Oscars, and Cooper, who was previously nominated for his roles in the 2012 movie Silver Linings Playbook and the 2013 film American Hustle.

NEWS: 2015 Oscars: Full list of nominations

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Best Oscar Predictions 2015 UPDATE Movies News

Going into the season, only a handful of pre-fall movies had Oscar potential; critics and guild groups kept them in the conversation over the long haul. They include Wes Anderson's well-wrought hit "Grand Budapest Hotel"(Fox Searchlight), which gains points for period but loses some for comedy--and won the Best Comedy Golden Globe.