On Tuesday morning, Oscar nominations were announced. As usual, there were surprises aplenty. There were some good nominations, but most of them left anyone watching the Oscar race stunned. Here are what we think are the good, the bad and the ugly of the nominations.

GOOD

• Gary Oldman received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his subdued and brilliant work in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” It’s about time, Academy.

• Meryl Streep received her 17th nomination. Viola Davis received her second. And the Best Actress category is as unpredictable as ever.

• Kristin Wiig (Best Original Screenplay) and Melissa McCarthy (Best Actress in a Supporting Role), two of the funniest women on TV, are now Oscar nominees for their work in and on “Bridesmaids.”

• “A Separation,” a critically acclaimed Iranian picture, got a nomination for Best Original Screenplay, proving that at least the screenwriters are willing to take a chance on foreign material.

• “Cars 2” didn’t get nominated for Best Animated Feature. Hopefully this will teach Pixar never again to make another movie just for cash.

BAD

• Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Shailene Woodley were all snubbed.

• Jonah Hill earned his first Oscar nomination the same year Gary Oldman did. Hill’s work in “Moneyball” was good, but when young actors like Andrew Garfield and Michael Fassbender are nomination-less and the guy from “Superbad” isn’t…we live in an interesting world.

• “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” received three nominations. “Super 8” and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” each received zero. If you’re going to insist on recognizing blockbusters, Academy, at least recognize the good ones!

• The average age in the Best Director category is 61. All are white and male.

• “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “The Help” missed in Art Direction and Costume, continuing a long tradition of ignoring any period that happened within the last fifty years.

• The Visual Effects category somehow ignored “The Tree of Life,” which, regardless of your opinion on the actual film, had some pretty stunning visuals. And dinosaurs. How do you vote against dinosaurs?

UGLY

• Albert Brooks (“Drive”), the only person with a shot of making the Actor in a Supporting Role race interesting, was snubbed completely. He had won plenty of awards up to this point.

• “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” which was mauled by critics and ignored by awards shows and guilds, somehow ended up in the Best Picture lineup over “Bridesmaids,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Drive.” Not to mention the fact that everyone in Hollywood was convinced that there would be seven nominees, tops, in the fluid category, and we ended up with nine, with two movies (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” and “The Tree of Life”) coming back from the dead. How did it happen? We will never know.

• “Young Adult,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “Take Shelter,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and “Shame” all had zero nominations. “Drive” would be on this list if not for a Sound Editing nomination. The Academy seems to have completely given up on all complex material.

• There are only two Original Song contenders, as the strange rules for the category somehow prevented the other 37 eligible songs from even getting a nomination.