For best picture, the nominees are Boyhood, Grand Budapest Hotel, American Sniper, Birdman, Selma, Whiplash, The Imitation Game, and The Theory of Everything.
When I read Ray Bradbury as a kid, I wrote like Ray Bradbury—everything green and wondrous and seen through a lens smeared with the grease of nostalgia.
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far.