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FUN FACTS ABOUT THE 87TH ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS
Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is the highest-grossing nominee at the box office with nearly $60 million. "The Imitation Game" is at $42 million and climbing. No other film has grossed $30 million to date.
Total gross of the eight nominated films to date: $203,078,365. Lower than the total gross of nominees "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", "The Lego Movie", "Maleficent", "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "Big Hero 6" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes".
Bennett Miller is the first director to be nominated since the expansion of the Best Picture category to not have his film up for the big prize. His only prior nomination or award through the entire awards season happened well before it began: back in May when he won Best Director for "Foxcatcher" at the Cannes Film Festival.
"Foxcatcher" was good enough to be nominated for its screenplay, direction and two performances but not Best Picture of the Year. Meanwhile, "Selma" received one single nomination for Original Song and is up for Best Picture.
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"The Lego Movie", one of the best-reviewed animated or live-action films of 2014, received a nomination for its song but not for Best Animated Feature
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Nine of the actors are first-time nominees. Marion Cotillard, Laura Dern, Ethan Hawke, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon received their second. Bradley Cooper and Edward Norton got their third. Julianne Moore upped her tally to five. Robert Duvall now has seven and Meryl Streep extends her record to 19 nominations.
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For the third time since 2000, not a single African-American is among the 20 acting nominees.
1 nomination - "Gone Girl", "The Lego Movie", "Nightcrawler"
0 nominations - "Calvary", "Edge of Tomorrow", "Life Itself", "Love is Strange", "Mommy", "A Most Violent Year", "Noah", "Snowpiercer", "Under the Skin"
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Diese "Fun Facts" sagen mir eigentlich nur, dass die Academy sowohl den Draht zum Mainstream-Publikum als auch den Draht zu den Kritikern verloren hat. Und dass sie Meryl Streep verdammt nochmal mehr lieb haben, als es anderen Schauspielerinnen gegenüber gerecht ist.