The 87th Academy Award nominations have finally been announced! With just over a month to start making your predictions, we thought we would share the nominations, along with a printable ballot for you to download (for your inevitable Oscar party). Let us know in the comments below who you think will be taking home the coveted golden statues!

To download the printable Oscars ballot, click here. 

Best Picture
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”
“Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”
“Whiplash”

Best Director
Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Alejandro González Iñárritu, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Bennett Miller, “Foxcatcher”
Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game”

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”

Best Actor
Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Laura Dern, “Wild”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”
Damien Chazelle, “Whiplash”
Jason Hall, “American Sniper”
Anthony McCarten, “The Theory of Everything”
Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game”

Best Original Screenplay
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye, “Foxcatcher”
Dan Gilroy, “Nightcrawler”
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”

Best Foreign Language Film
“Leviathan”
“Ida”
“Tangerines”
“Timbuktu”
“Wild Tales”

Best Documentary Feature
“CITIZENFOUR”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“The Salt in the Earth”
“Virunga”

Best Animated Feature
“Big Hero 6″
“The Boxtrolls”
“How to Train Your Dragon 2″
“Song of the Sea”
“The Tale of The Princess Kaguya”

Best Film Editing
“American Sniper”
“Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Whiplash”

Best Original Song
“Everything is Awesome” from “The LEGO Movie” (written by Shawn Patterson)
“Glory” from “Selma” (written by Common and John Legend)
“Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights” (written by Diane Warren)
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” (written by Glen Campbell)
“Lost Stars” from “Begin Again” (written by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood)

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”
Johann Johannsson, “The Theory of Everything”
Gary Yershon, “Mr. Turner”
Hans Zimmer, “Interstellar”

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, “Unbroken”
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman”
Dick Pope, “Mr. Turner”
Robert Yeoman, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, “Ida”

Best Costume Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Inherent Vice”
“Into the Woods”
“Maleficent”
“Mr. Turner”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Foxcatcher”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”

Best Production Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Interstellar”
“Into the Woods”
“Mr. Turner”

Best Sound Editing
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
“Interstellar”
“Unbroken”

Best Sound Mixing
“American Sniper”
“Birdman”
“Interstellar”
“Unbroken”
“Whiplash”

Best Visual Effects
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
“Interstellar”
“X-Men: Days of Future Past”

Best Short Film, Live Action
“Aya”
“Boogaloo and Graham”
“Butter Lamp”
“Parvaneh”
“The Phone Call”

Best Short Film, Animated
“The Bigger Picture”
“The Dam Keeper”
“Feast”
“Me and My Moulton”
“A Single Life”

Best Documentary, Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1”
“Joanna”
“Our Curse”
“The Reaper”
“White Earth”

Best Performances and Speeches:

Jared Leto

This man always amazes us and last night was no exception. Still relatively new to the amount of attention he is receiving for his performance in ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ he walked up to accept his award with a calm, cool attitude. In Leto fashion, it was obvious that he took the time to craft a beautiful speech, using his time with a captive audience to thank his mother and inspire the dreamer in all of us.

Pink

Out of all the musical performances throughout the night we were most impressed with Pink’s rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow.’ Being one of, if not the most famous song from any motion picture, Pink had a lot to live up to. She surpassed all of our expectations with her incredible pipes. What we loved the most? It still sounded like Pink.

Surprising Wins:

Well, to be honest no surprises here; we knew that ‘Gravity’ was going to clean-up and whatever they didn’t win went to ’12 Years a Slave’ or ‘Dallas Buyers Club’. One thing that made us a little sad was that Leonardo DiCaprio once again, went home empty handed. He has been nominated 4 separate times and continues to be one of Hollywood’s most bankable actors. His performance in Wolf of Wall Street was reviewed as his best roll to date. What does the guy have to do? Maybe next time Leo, we are rooting for you.  Click here for a list of last night’s winners.

Best Dressed:

Overall, we were rather underwhelmed by the fashion at this years event. Risks taken by celebs were minimal and many of the gowns seemed safe and predictable. We would even go as far to say the guys out shined the ladies. None the less, here are our fav best dressed men and women:

Angelina Jole

Michael B Jordan

Charlize Theron

Jared Leto

That concludes our review of the 2014 Oscar’s. Next year, let’s pump up the fashion and give DiCaprio some love!

It took almost an hour for The Onion to delete the tweet but the backlash from the tweet was almost instantaneous with users voicing their opinions and condemning the tweet from all sides.

This morning CEO Steve Hannah took to the publication’s Facebook page posting an apology:

This glaring oversight in self-control shows that some people just don’t learn from the social media mistakes of others. A publication such as The Onion, seeing as it is in the satire business, has placed itself in a slippery position. It must always be conscious of the content it puts out, toeing the line between funny and outright offensive.

What makes the situation worse is that The Onion wasn’t the only outlet to single out Quvenzhane Wallis negatively. E! Correspondents referred to the Oscar nominee as ‘Little Q’ and ‘Annie’ (in reference to her being cast in the upcoming remake) which started a firestorm of tweets in the vein of:

And then there was Oscar host Seth MacFarlane who delivered the following during the broadcast:

“To give you an idea of how young she is, it’ll be 16 years before she’s too young for Clooney,”

For the youngest Oscar nominee in history, Quvenzhane Wallis has sure had quite a big storm of negativity surrounding her; none of which was invited or called for. Maybe this time the call for professionalism moving forward will be answered. Social media isn’t going anywhere, learn the proper etiquette and remember, once it is on the Internet, it is out there forever.

Article Sources:

http://thecontributor.com/onion-hot-water-calling-9-year-old-oscan-nominee-c-twitter
https://www.facebook.com/TheOnion/posts/10151500974969497
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/quvenzhane-wallis-called-the-c-word-by-the-onion-on-oscar-night-website-under-fire-2013252
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284169/Fury-The-Onion-brands-year-old-Oscar-nominee-Quvenzhan-Wallis-c–shocking-tweet-says-deserve-better.html

Sysomos took a moment to create a quick INFOGRAPHIC outlining some of the highlights from the entertainment industry’s biggest night, and here’s some of their findings:

• There were 403,862 total red carpet tweets
• Jennifer Lawrence was voted best dressed female
• Anne Hathaway was voted worst (we have to agree)
• #Oscars was the hottest hashtag with over 800,000 tweets
• Women tweeted over double the amount of Oscar content of men during the evening

Check out the full INFOGRAPHIC below: