2015 Oscar Nominees for Best Picture

Directed by Clint Eastwood
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis
 Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Directed by Richard Linklater
Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith
The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.

Directed by Morten Tyldum
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
 Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
 A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.

Directed by Ava DuVernay
Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint
A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Directed by James Marsh
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Directed by Damien Chazelle
 Stars: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser
 A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Directed by Wes Anderson
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.