Tentu, Golden Globe tidak akan memberikan pengaruh langsung pada Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ketika memilih para nominator dan pemenang Academy Awards mengingat Hollywood Foreign Press Association adalah organisasi luar yang bukan merupakan anggota Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Tetap saja, sedikit banyak dan secara tidak langsung, film-film pilihan Hollywood Foreign Press Association dalam jajaran nominasi maupun pemenang penghargaan Golden Globe akan mendapat ekspos lebih untuk mampu dikenali para pemilih yang berada pada tubuh organisasi Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Dengan catatan tersebut, kemenangan film arahan Richard Linklater, Boyhood, di ajang The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards jelas memberikan keunggulan tersendiri dalam persaingannya melawan film-film popular lain seperti Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Selma maupun The Imitation Game. Selain memenangkan kategori Best Director untuk Linklater, Boyhood juga berhasil membawa pulang penghargaan di kategori Best Supporting Actress untuk Patricia Arquette serta kategori paling prestisius, Best Motion Picture – Drama. The Grand Budapest Hotel arahan Wes Anderson sendiri berhasil memenangkan kategori Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy dan Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) berhasil memenangkan kategori Best Screenplay untuk para penulis naskahnya, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo dan Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. serta Best Actor – Musical or Comedy untuk Michael Keaton.

Di kategori akting, nama-nama seperti Arquette, Keaton, Julianne Moore (Still Alice) dan J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) semakin memantapkan posisi keunggulan mereka dalam usaha untuk memenangkan Academy Awards mendatang. Amy Adams juga berhasil muncuk sebagai pemenang di kategori Best Actress – Musical or Comedy untuk film arahan Tim Burton, Big Eyes, dan Eddie Redmayne memenangkan Best Actor – Drama untuk penampilannya sebagai ilmuwan Stephen Hawking dalam film The Theory of Everything.

Berikut daftar lengkap nominasi The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards untuk kategori film:

Best Motion Picture – Drama

• Boyhood
  • Foxcatcher
  • The Imitation Game
  • Selma
  • The Theory of Everything

Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Birdman
  • Into the Woods
  • Pride
  • St. Vincent

Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama

• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking
  • Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
  • Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
  • Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis “Lou” Bloom
  • David Oyelowo – Selma as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Best Actress In A Motion Picture – Drama

• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
  • Jennifer Aniston – Cake as Claire Simmons
  • Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking
  • Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
  • Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

• Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson
  • Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Monsieur Gustave H.
  • Bill Murray – St. Vincent as Vincent MacKenna
  • Joaquin Phoenix – Inherent Vice as Larry “Doc” Sportello
  • Christoph Waltz – Big Eyes as Walter Keane

Best Actress In A Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy 

• Amy Adams – Big Eyes as Margaret Keane
  • Emily Blunt – Into the Woods as The Baker’s Wife
  • Helen Mirren – The Hundred-Foot Journey as Madame Mallory
  • Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars as Havana Segrand
  • Quvenzhané Wallis – Annie as Annie Bennett

Best Supporting Actor In A Motion Picture

• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher
  • Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
  • Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
  • Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner
  • Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz

Best Supporting Actress In A Motion Picture

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
  • Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year as Anna Morales
  • Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
  • Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson
  • Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Director – Motion Picture

• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
  • Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Ava DuVernay – Selma
  • David Fincher – Gone Girl
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

• Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything
  • Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Gone Girl
  • Antonio Sánchez – Birdman
  • Hans Zimmer – Interstellar

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

• “Glory” (John Legend and Common) – Selma
  • “Big Eyes” (Lana Del Rey) – Big Eyes
  • “Mercy Is” (Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye) – Noah
  • “Opportunity” (Greg Kurstin, Sia Furler, Will Gluck) – Annie
  • “Yellow Flicker Beat” (Lorde) – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Best Animated Feature Film

• How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • The Lego Movie
  • Big Hero 6
  • The Book of Life
  • The Boxtrolls

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

• Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo,
  Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. – Birdman
  • Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
  • Richard Linklater – Boyhood
  • Graham Moore – The Imitation Game

Best Foreign Language Film

• Leviathan (Russia)
  • Force Majeure (Sweden)
  • Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Israel)
  • Ida (Poland/Denmark)
  • Tangerines (Estonia)