Aseem Chhabra:
Raja Sen:
Sukanya Verma:
Best Actor
Steve Carell
Steve Carell has been shoehorned into the Best Actor race for his work as John DuPont in Foxcatcher. More...
Bradley Cooper
It's almost frightening how natural Bradley Cooper is in American Sniper, playing a hopped-up jingoistic sniper with hardcore video-game gusto. More...
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is terrific as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. More...
Eddie Redmayne
Young talent Eddie Redmayne, nominated for his turn as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything, is very good. More...
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton delivers a grand performance in Birdman, playing a washed up actor best known for once playing a box office conquering superhero. More...
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard, 39, is arguably France's best-acclaimed actress and has been nominated for Two Days, One Night. More...
Felicity Jones
English actress Felicity Jones has earned an Oscar-nod for her work in The Theory Of Everything. More...
Rosamund Pike
English actress Rosamund Pike has been nominated for her chilling performance in David Fincher's Gone Girl. More...
Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon has been nominated for Wild, where she plays free-roaming writer Cheryl Strayed, and she may well get her second Oscar. More...
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore is the odds-on favourite with Still Alice, a film where, as an early-onset Alzheimer's patient, she gives us something remarkable and poetically sensitive. More...
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall
As Joseph Palmer, Robert Duvall plays a self-righteous judge who finds he needs the help of his son, a ruthless defense attorney.
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke plays a divorced father whose free-spirited lifestyle conflicts with his responsibility to his children.
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo portrays David Schultz, an Olympic wrestling champion and a devoted husband and father.
Edward Norton
Edward Norton plays Mike, an egotistical movie star who is cast in a Broadway play opposite a faded actor desperate for a comeback
JK Simmons
As Fletcher, J.K. Simmons plays a music teacher who motivates his students through fear and humiliation.
Best Supporting Actress
Keira Knightley
As Joan Clarke, Keira Knightley plays a young woman with a talent for ciphers who finds herself part of a top secret group of code breakers during the Second World War.
Emma Stone
Emma Stone portrays Sam, the sarcastic daughter of a movie star who mocks him for his efforts to be taken seriously as an actor.
Laura Dern
Laura Dern plays Bobbi, a single mother whose love for life becomes an inspiration for her troubled daughter.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep plays the Witch, a powerful sorceress who has placed a curse on a baker's family, yet cares tenderly for the child she once stole and keeps locked in a tower.
Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette portrays a divorced mother struggling to make a life for herself and her two children.
Best Director
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood, is a film written and shot over 12 years, giving us an incredibly intimate look at characters growing up -- and growing apart. More...
Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher is about two wrestlers and a nosy millionaire who was obsessed with the sport. More...
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson is up this year for The Grand Budapest Hotel, a fantastic enchantment about old dreams and old nightmares. More...
Morten Tyldum
The Imitation Game -- about the hard, unlikely life of English mathematician Alan Turing -- happens to be Morten Tyldum's English-language debut, and has won him a nomination already. More...
Best Movie
American Sniper
American Sniper: Already skilled with a rifle before he joins the Navy SEALS and departs for Iraq, Chris Kyle becomes one of the most skilled snipers in US military history. But he must deal with the high levels of stress and the toll on his personal life.
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game: As World War II engulfs Europe, a group of English mathematicians are assembled at Bletchley Park to work in secret on cracking the code of a captured German Enigma encryption machine. With England's fate hanging in the balance, the group's leader, Alan Turing, must hide his homosexuality or risk arrest and persecution by the country he is fighting to save.
Birdman
Birdman: Best known to the public as Birdman, the superhero he once played in a series of films, Riggan Thomson hopes to reestablish himself as a serious actor by mounting his own dramatic production on Broadway.
Selma
Selma: The life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr is examined through the dramatic events surrounding the historic 1965 freedom marches from Selma to Montgomery.
Boyhood
Boyhood: Over the course of 12 years, a young boy named Mason experiences the joys and difficulties of childhood. He and his sister Samantha learn to navigate through a world in which the strengths and frailties of the adults around them have a profound impact on their lives.
The Theory of Everything
The Theory Of Everything: Stephen Hawking is a brilliant Cambridge graduate student when he learns that he has a progressive motor neuron disease and may die within two years. For Jane Wilde, Stephen's fellow student and future wife, the prognosis represents a challenge that her faith and Stephen's passionate determination can overcome.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel: As the owner of a once-luxurious Alpine hotel relates its history to a visiting writer, he describes his youth as a lobby boy at the Grand Budapest, where he was the protégé of the hotel's concierge, Monsieur Gustave.
Whiplash
Whiplash: Andrew is a 19-year-old music conservatory student who is determined to become a great jazz drummer. His talent and fierce passion draw the attention of the school's most intimidating teacher, Terence Fletcher.