After the new Clint Eastwood movie "American Sniper" had been ignored by other award shows this season (including the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, neither of which nominated the movie), now Bradley Cooper's Oscar nominations achieve a total of three, in a very shocking move!

While some news outlets are saying that Bradley Cooper's Oscar nomination actually "robbed" a more deserving one from performances like David Oyelowo's in "Selma" or Ralph Fiennes' in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," it's clear that the movie world was definitely taken by surprise following the broad array of nominations the film got.

Now, as Bustle reports, the latest Bradley Cooper Oscar nomination has helped the "Hangover" actor make history: for the first time in thirteen years, an actor has received back to back nominations for three consecutive years. His first two nods, for "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle," saw the actor nominated under the direction of Academy sweetheart David O. Russell.

Before this third Bradley Cooper Oscar nomination, the last actor who had been nominated three times in a row had been Russell Crowe, for "The Insider," "Gladiator" (for which he won the Best Actor Academy Award) and "A Beautiful Mind."

As VH1 reports, Cooper's nomination came as a shock, specially considering the fact that "American Sniper" hadn't gotten nominated for any other awards over the past season. The movie, Eastwood's second 2014 film (after releasing the biographical Broadway adaptation "Jersey Boys"), is based on the autobiography of Chris Kyle, a former United States Navy SEAL and the man who was proclaimed the most lethal sniper in the military history of the United States, with 160 confirmed kills plus 255 probable ones.

Hollywood Take reports that the nomination was a major surprise last Thursday, when the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, presented the nominations along with "Star Trek" actor Chris Pine and directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, in the early hours of the Los Angeles morning.

The history-making Bradley Cooper Oscar nomination will see its completion on Sunday, February 22 - though many are putting their money on Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything."