The Daily Beast's 10 Oscar surprises

The Daily Beast has a rundown of what they consider to be the most surprising snubs and other surprises for this year's Oscar nominations, including more love than they expected for American Sniper and a lot less than they thought for Selma.

The list includes:

• The Lego Movie snubbed for Best Animated Feature
• Marion Cotillard's Best Actress nomination for Two Days, One Night
• Selma snubbed for Best Director (Ava DuVernay) and Best Actor (David Oyelowo
• African Americans mostly snubbed across the board
• Foxcatcher got nominations for Best Director (Bennett Miller), Best Actor (Steve Carell), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), and Original Screenplay ... without also getting a Best Picture nomination. (Only eight films got Best Picture consideration this year.)
• Gone Girl ignored for everything except Best Actress (Rosamund Pike)
• Life Itself, the documentary about legendary film critic Roger Ebert, snubbed for Best Documentary
• Six nominations for American Sniper, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Bradley Cooper)
• Jake Gyllenhaal snubbed for Nightcrawler
• Jennifer Aniston's lack of a nomination for Cake

Check out the full article for more about why they were surprised.