According to the website vocotive, Australia is ranked 3rd for the most nominations of the biggest movie and acting awards, the Acadamy Awards. Thanks to the legendary work of Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, Australian actors are the third most successful nation of Oscar winners after British and American actors. Since 1929, Australians have received 30 nominations.
The latest Oscar nominations have just come out, so lets take a look at some of the best picture nominations and trailers.
Whiplash
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.
American Sniper
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.
Birdman
A washed up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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.
The Imitation Game
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
Selma
A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
The Theory Of Everything
The relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Boyhood
The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.
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