So last night was the 87th Academy Awards celebration, and I’m happy to report that the big winner of the night was the exceptional Birdman, taking home trophies for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Cinematography. The biggest snub of the night went to Michael Keaton, who lost in the Best Actor category to The Theory of Everything‘s Eddie Redmayne for his performance as Stephen Hawking. Probably the only other big surprise of the evening was in the animated feature category where Big Hero 6 took home the Oscar instead of How to Train Your Dragon 2. Despite the rather lackluster script of the actual awards show, the winners this year, on the whole, were completely deserving , making it very hard to argue with anything here(other than the obvious missing acting and directing nominations to Selma). Check out the full list of winners below:
Best Picture: Birdman — Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
Best Director: Alejandro G. Inarritu — Birdman
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything
Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons — Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette — Boyhood
Best Foreign Language Film: Ida – Pawel Pawlikowski
Best Live Action Short Film: The Phone Call — Matt Kirkby and James Lucas
Best Documentary Short Subject: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 — Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Best Animated Short: Feast — Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Best Animated Movie: Big Hero Six — Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
Best Original Screenplay: Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
Achievement in Cinematography: Birdman — Emannuel Lubezki
Achievement in Costume Design: Milena Canonero — The Grand Budapest Hotel
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling: Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier — The Grand Budapest Hotel
Achievement in Sound Mixing: Whiplash — Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley
Achievement in Sound Editing: American Sniper — Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman
Achievement in Visual Effects: Interstellar — Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Paul Franklin
Achievement in Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel — Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock
Achievement in Film Editing: Whipalsh — Tom Cross
Best Documentary Feature: Citizen Four — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Best Original Song: Glory — John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
Best Original Score: The Grand Budapest Hotel — Alexandre Desplat
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