Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced the live TV musical stagings of The Sound of Music and Peter Pan, again produce the awards ceremony. Two-time Tony winner Stephen Oremus (Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon) is music director for the evening that promises musical performances by Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson and Anna Kendrick, as well as Jack Black, Common, John Legend, Adam Levine with Maroon 5, Tim McGraw, Rita Ora and Tegan and Sara with The Lonely Island.
Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife songwriting duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won the Oscar last year for the hit single "Let It Go" from "Frozen," have written a special number that host Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will perform. It's titled "Moving Pictures."
Presenters include Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Viola Davis, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba, Ansel Elgort, Chris Evans, Kevin Hart, Terrence Howard, Josh Hutcherson, Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Johnson, Felicity Jones, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez, Jared Leto, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Sienna Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Murphy, Liam Neeson, Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Margot Robbie, Zoe Saldana, Octavia Spencer, Meryl Streep, Channing Tatum, Miles Teller, John Travolta, Kerry Washington, Naomi Watts, Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon.
The production team also includes director Hamish Hamilton, production designer Derek McLane, choreographer Rob Ashford, head writer Greg Berlanti, additional writers Michael Green, Seth Grahame-Smith and Andrew Kreisberg, costume designer Julie Weiss, talent producer Taryn Hurd, supervising producer Michael Seligman, co-producer Lee Lodge and lighting designer Robert Dickinson.
"Into the Woods," the film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, is nominated for Production Design, Costume Design (Colleen Atwood) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Meryl Streep as The Witch). "Birdman," the story of an actor struggling to make a comeback on stage, is nominated for Best Picture, Best Featured Actor, for Edward Norton, and Best Featured Actress, for Cabaret star Emma Stone. Michael Keaton is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. "Birdman" is nominated for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay and Directing.
Bradley Cooper, who just concluded his Broadway run in The Elephant Man on Broadway, is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in "American Sniper," along with Tony Award winner and "Les Miserables" star Eddie Redmayne (Red) for "The Theory of Everything," Steve Carell for "Foxcatcher" and Benedict Cumberbatch (Frankenstein, "Sherlock") for "The Imitation Game."
Mark Ruffalo, who starred in the HBO film "The Normal Heart," is nominated for Actor in a Supporting role for "Foxcatcher," and Keira Knightley, who will make her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin, received a Supporting Actress nomination for "The Imitation Game."
Playbill.com will be reporting the winners live.
The nominees follow:
BEST PICTURE
"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Selma"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash"
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Michael Keaton – "Birdman"
Eddie Redmayne – "The Theory of Everything"
Benedict Cumberbatch – "The Imitation Game"
Steve Carell – "Foxcatcher"
Bradley Cooper – "American Sniper"
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Julianne Moore – "Still Alice"
Felicity Jones – "The Theory of Everything"
Rosamund Pike – "Gone Girl"
Reese Witherspoon – "Wild"
Marion Cotillard – "Two Days, One Night"
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
J.K. Simmons – "Whiplash"
Ethan Hawke – "Boyhood"
Edward Norton – "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo – "Foxcatcher"
Robert Duvall – "The Judge"
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Patricia Arquette – "Boyhood"
Emma Stone – "Birdman"
Keira Knightley – "The Imitation Game"
Meryl Streep – "Into the Woods"
Laura Dern – "Wild"
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
"Big Hero 6"
"The Boxtrolls"
"How to Train Your Dragon 2"
"Song of the Sea"
"Princess Kaguya"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Birdman" – Emmanuel Lubezki
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" – Robert Yeoman
"Ida" – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
"Mr. Turner" – Dick Pope
"Unbroken" – Roger Deakins
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
"Grand Budapest Hotel" – Milena Canonero
"Inherent Vice" – Mark Bridges
"Into the Woods" – Colleen Atwood
"Maleficent" – Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive
"Mr. Turner" – Jacqueline Durran
BEST DIRECTOR
Richard Linklater – "Boyhood"
Alejandro G. Inarritu – "Birdman"
Morten Tyldum – "The Imitation Game"
Wes Anderson – "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Bennett Miller – "Foxcatcher"
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Citizenfour"
"Finding Vivian Maier"
"Last Days in Vietnam"
"Salt of the Earth"
"Virunga"
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"Crisis Hotline"
"Joanna"
"Our Curse"
"The Reaper"
"White Earth"
BEST FILM EDITING
"American Sniper" – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
"Boyhood" – Sandra Adair
"Grand Budapest Hotel" – Barney Pilling
"Imitation Game" – William Goldenberg
"Whiplash" – Tom Cross
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
"Ida"
"Leviathan"
"Wild Tales"
"Timbuktu"
"Tangerine"
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
"Foxcatcher" – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
"Guardians of the Galaxy" – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" – Alexandre Desplat
"Imitation Game" – Alexandre Desplat
"Intellerstellar" – Hans Zimmer
"Mr. Turner" – Gary Yershon
"Theory of Everything" – Jóhann Jóhannsson
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Everything is Awesome" – "The Lego Movie" (Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson)
"Glory" – "Selma" (Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn)
"Grateful" – "Beyond the Lights" (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren)
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" – "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me" (Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond)
"Lost Stars" – "Begin Again" (Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois)
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 ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"The Bigger Picture"
"The Dam Keeper"
"Feast"
"Me and My Moulton"
"A Single Life"
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"Aya"
"Boogaloo And Graham"
"Butter Lamp"
"Parvaneh"
"The Phone Call"
BEST SOUND EDITING
"American Sniper" – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
"Birdman" – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
"Interstellar" – Richard King
"Unbroken" – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro
BEST SOUND MIXING
"American Sniper" – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
"Birdman" – 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