Oscars 2015 nominations: The 6 biggest surprises from American Sniper to The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie snub seems to be the internet's biggest grievance

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2015 Oscars this morning, which mostly followed suit with the Golden Globes and were in line with predictions, bar a few surprises...

1. An insane amount of love for American Sniper

Clint Eastwood film about how great being American and shooting people is got both Best Picture and Leading Actor nominations (Bradley Cooper).

This is maybe not that surprising though, given other modern 'Murica war films Zero Dark Thirty (five noms, one win) and The Hurt Locker (nine noms, six wins) were also arguably over-honoured at previous ceremonies.

2. Not even a nomination for The Lego Movie in Animated Feature.

Despite How To Train Your Dragon 2 earning one, and it being about the most-talked about and lauded animated film of the year.

It's director wasn't bothered though:

3. "Dick Poop"

Academy representative Cheryl Boone Isaacs had a shocker at the announcement, nominating "Dick Poop" instead of Dick Pope for Cinematography, pronouncing Argentina "Argentinia" and looking forward to honouring the "incredibly incredible" film industry on the night.

Oscars 2015 nominations: List in full

4. No lead actor/actress nominations for Boyhood

Meeting a 12 year production schedule is surely deserving of some kind of award.

5. Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice overlooked

Brave Thomas Pynchon adaptation got Writing and Costume Design nods, but no mentions in the main categories.

6. Eddie Redmayne, or "Eddie Redmaybe" as The Guardian accidentally re-christened him in their live blog, being nominated for Best Actor

This comes despite many people feeling he gave a great imitation of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, but not necessarily a great performance.

Honourable mention snubs...

Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler

Jennifer Aniston for Cake

Interstellar (wasn't great, but probably deserved American Sniper's spot)

Ralph Fiennes for Grand Budapest Hotel