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 | valign="top"| The Imitation Game – Graham Moore; American Sniper – Jason Hall; Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson; The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten; Whiplash – Damien Chazelle; |- | valign="top"| Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable, and Travis 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 | valign="top"| Ida (Poland) in Polish – Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Directed by Zaza Urushadze Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Directed by Damián Szifron |- | valign="top"| Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, and Dirk Wilutzky Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara | valign="top"| Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry Joanna – Aneta Kopacz Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki The Reaper – Gabriel Serra Arguello White Earth – J. Christian Jensen |- | valign="top"| The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney Butter Lamp – Hu Wei and Julien Féret Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger | valign="top"| Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove A Single Life – Joris Oprins |- | valign="top"| The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat Interstellar – Hans Zimmer Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson | valign="top"| "Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyrics by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyrics by