Oscar Nominations

Top 4
Birdman 
Boyhood
Calvary 
Locke. 
No top 10 this year.  No other films made it to this level.  The first 2 are getting all getting all kinds of attention and rightfully so, but Calvary and Locke ignored!  Outrageous!

Other very good films of particular note
A Most Violent Year
Third Person
Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me
Anita
Le Week End

Most astounding and unnominated acting performances
Brendan Gleeson in Calvary
Tom Hardy in Locke

Best scene
Emma Stone rakes her father, Michael Keaton, to pieces in Birdman, and he seems to feel better.
It's not him, this time, berating himself.

Best cast
Birdman
Calvary