The 87th Academy Awards race delivered one of the most controversial runs in Hollywood history. Between the Golden Globes and now, the world has expressed its fair share of cheers and jeers over the varying choices on offer. This year, being the whitest selection of nominees this century, illustrates the Academy’s 65-year-old white demographic is in full control. Snubs for Selma alums Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo hint at a still-strong underlying, and uncomfortable, backlash against minority cast and crew members. In addition, the fusion of American Sniper‘s success and Selma‘s snubbing further hinted at full-on nose-uppedness from the Academy voters.

The Hollywood Reporter’s ”Brutal Honesty’ articles – chronicling the voting processes for several anonymous voters – succinctly sum up the crowd’s overall opinions. With The Lego Movie and Jake Gyllenhaal unfairly forced to sit at home, hopefully next year will deliver a more tangible and unique selection of nominees. Everything, from John Legend and Common hit Glory to Richard Linklater’s seminal masterpiece Boyhood, is on the line tonight. Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and the aforementioned 12-years-a-boy smash are going head to head. Here’s hoping The Theory of Everything doesn’t receive too much praise.

In blue, I have put the nominees that I believe deserve to win. In red, however, are the ones that, most likely, will sweep up those heavy, gold statuettes in a few hours time. Good luck, everyone!

Best Picture American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz,Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster	Best Directing Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Richard Linklater – Boyhood Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Best Actor Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking	Best Actress Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr. Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher	Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara “Bobbi” Grey Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch
Best Original Screenplay Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) –Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo Boyhood – Richard Linklater Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy	Best Adapted Screenplay American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper byChris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten fromTravelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name
Best Animated Feature Film Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable andTravis Knight How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura	Best Foreign Language Film Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damián Szifrón
Best Documentary – Feature Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara	Best Documentary – Short Subject Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry Joanna – Aneta Kopacz Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello White Earth – J. Christian Jensen
Best Live Action Short Film Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas	Best Animated Short Film The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove A Single Life – Joris Oprins
Best Original Score The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat Interstellar – Hans Zimmer Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson	Best Original Song “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson “Glory” from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legendand Common “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric byDiane Warren “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond “Lost Stars” from Begin Again – Music and Lyric byGregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
Best Sound Editing American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burgeand Jason Canovas Interstellar – Richard King Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro	Best Sound Mixing American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Best Production Design The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen(Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration) Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design);Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)	Best Cinematography Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Unbroken – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou andDavid White	Best Costume Design The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran
Best Film Editing American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach Boyhood – Sandra Adair The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg Whiplash – Tom Cross	Best Visual Effects Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw,Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer