Since the Academy didn’t care to, we’ve rounded up the “female options.” In each male-dominated category, there were several.

by Ian Nichols

In 2009, when the Academy Awards turned 82, they made history. They bestowed the award for Best Director on Kathryn Bigelow for her masterful work on the Iraq War, adrenaline rush The Hurt Locker. She was only the fourth woman nominated for the coveted award. With this morning’s nominations announcement, you’ll have to crane your neck to see that the glass above our heads is only cracked.

Despite Angelina Jolie’s direction of the calculated, beautiful Unbroken, it walked away with only three nominations this morning. Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King biopic Selma, a calm yet powerful film, was named in the Best Picture and Best Original Song categories, but DuVernay failed to receive recognition for her inimitable direction. We have an unwarranted field of five men rounding out Best Director.

You don’t see any women nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original), Sound Mixing, Original Score, or, most sorely, Best Director. To put the Academy to shame, below you’ll find a list of the Oscars’ 2015 nominees and the glaring omissions of worthy female contenders of the awards’ top categories.

Best Picture

“American Sniper”

“Birdman”

“Boyhood”

“The Grand Budapest Hotel”

“The Imitation Game”

“Selma”

“The Theory of Everything”

“Whiplash”

Actor in a Leading Role

Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”

Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”

Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”

Michael Keaton, “Birdman”

Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”

Actress in a Leading Role

Marion Cotillard, “Two Days One Night”

Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”

Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”

Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”

Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”

The Female Option: The field was wider than most speculated. Some other contenders were Jennifer Aniston (Cake) or Amy Adams (Big Eyes).

Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert Duvall, “The Judge”

Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”

Edward Norton, “Birdman”

Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”

J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Actress in a Supporting Role

Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

Laura Dern, “Wild”

Emma Stone, “Birdman”

Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”

Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”

The Female Option: Again, it’s good to show that the field is wider than most people think. Other contenders could have been Renee Russo for Nightcrawler, Tilda Swinton for Snowpiercer, or Jessica Chastain for A Most Violent Year.

Directing

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”

Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”

Bennett Miller, “Foxcatcher”

Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game”

The Female Option: Both Ava DuVernay and Angelina Jolie for their work on Selma and Unbroken, respectively. Get rid of Miller for the boring, sad-man Foxcatcher, and Tyldum’s mediocre work on The Imitation Game.

Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman”

Robert D. Yeoman, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lynzewski, “Ida”

Dick Pope, “Mr. Turner”

Roger Deakins, “Unbroken”

The Female Option: You can surmise that the industry isn’t too kind to females in this male-centric profession. We hope this will change.

Film Editing

Joel Cox and Gary Roach, “American Sniper”

Sandra Adair, “Boyhood”

Barney Pilling, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

William Goldenberg, “The Imitation Game”

Tom Cross, “Whiplash”

The Female Option: Sandra Adair is set to win this category for editing a film that was shot over 12 years. She would be the first woman to win the award in 9 years.

Writing – Original Screenplay

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, “Birdman”

Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”

E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, “Foxcatcher”

Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Dan Gilroy, “Nightcrawler”

The Female Option: Horror film The Babadook’s Jennifer Kent wrote a terrifying, emotional screenplay about motherhood and depression. It’s nuanced while still being true to genre.

Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Jason Hall, “American Sniper”

Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game”

Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”

Anthony McCarten, “The Theory of Everything”

Damien Chazelle, “Whiplash”

The Female Option: What about Gillian Robespierre, Elisabeth Holm, & Karen Maine’s intelligent and hilarious Obvious Child? Not to mention Gillian Flynn’s chilling adaptation of Gone Girl.