2015 Oscars: Ranking the Nominees (That I Saw)

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see every single Oscar-nominated movie, but I did my best. Here, I rank all the ones I saw, including the live action shorts.

1. Whiplash - A
2. The Lego Movie - A
3. Boyhood - A
4. The Imitation Game - A
5. Feast - A
6. Gone Girl - A
7. Virunga - A
8. The Phone Call - A
9. Birdman - A-
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel - A-
11. Interstellar - A-
12. Guardians of the Galaxy - A-
13. Selma - A-
14. The Theory of Everything - A-
15. Still Alice - A-
16. Boogaloo and Graham - A-
17. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - A-
18. Nightcrawler - A-
19. Last Days in Vietnam - A-
20. American Sniper - B+
21. X-Men: Days of Future Past - B+
22. Big Hero 6 - B+
23. Into the Woods - B+
24. Two Days, One Night - B+
25. Ida - B+
26. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - B+
27. Begin Again - B+
28. Aya - B+
29. The Boxtrolls - B+
30. Citizenfour - B+
31. Parvaneh - B+
32. Finding Vivian Maier - B+
33. Mr. Turner - B+
34. Unbroken - B+
35. Wild - B
36. Maleficent - B
37. How to Train Your Dragon 2 - B
38. The Judge - B-
39. Foxcatcher - C+
40. Butter Lamp - C+
41. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - C
42. Inherent Vice - C-

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