The big kahuna burger of movie awards shingles, the 87th Academy Awards took glamorous form at the Dolby Theater tonight. The pre-awards buzz had the quote-unquote big categories divided between Birdman and Boyhood. But in the end, it was Birdman all the way, taking Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Cinematography. Boyhood went home with only Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette.
The four awards for **Birdman **were matched, numerically speaking, by The Grand Budapest Hotel, followed by **Whiplash **with three.
In the Acting categories, everything proceeded as everyone had foreseen. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for his turn in The Theory Of Everything and, also as predicted, Julianne Moore won Best Actress for Still Alice. J.K. Simmons took home Best Supporting Actor for **Whiplash, **while Arquette gave a rabble-rousing (and Meryl Streep-rousing) call to feminism during her speech after Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood.
As expected, The Grand Budapest Hotel dominated in the design-y categories (Production Design, Costume, Make-up and Hair) but also took Best Score for Alexandre Desplat, who did not split his own vote despite being nominated twice.
Interstellar deservedly took Best Visual Effects for Double Negative's scientifically-significant work on black holes (the effects also looked pretty). Selma took Best Original Song for 'Glory', so Common and John Legend are now Oscar winners and brought virtually the entire auditorium to tears with their performance of the song onstage.
It was a night of flat presenting (sorry, NPH) but fiery, inspiring speeches, particularly from Arquette, Common and Legend, and Graham Moore, who won for Adapted Screenplay for The Imitation Game.
For more from the show, head over to our live moment-by-moment blog right here. The full list of nominees and winners is below.
Best Picture
Birdman
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory Of Everything
Whiplash
Best Director
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game
Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory Of Everything
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory Of Everything
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into The Woods
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
**Supporting Actor
JK Simmons, Whiplash**
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game
American Sniper
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Original Screenplay
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Song Of The Sea
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya
Foreign Language Film
Ida
Leviathan
Tangerines
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
Best Cinematography
Birdman, Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Robert Yeoman
Ida, Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner, Dick Pope
Unbroken, Roger Deakins
Visual Effects
Interstellar
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Guardians Of The Galaxy
X:Men: Days Of Future Past
Film Editing
Whiplash
American Sniper
Boyhood
Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into The Woods
Mr. Turner
Best Score
Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer, Interstellar
Gary Yershon, Mr. Turner
Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Theory Of Everything
Best Original Song
"Glory", Selma
"Everything Is Awesome", The Lego Movie
"Grateful", Beyond the Lights
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You", Glen Campbell…I'll Be Me
"Lost Stars", Begin Again
Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr. Turner
Best Documentary
CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga
Best Documentary Short
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Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper (La Parka)
White Earth
Best Makeup And Hair
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Animated Short
Feast
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life
Best Live-Action Short
The Phone Call
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
Parvaneh
Best Sound Editing
American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken
Best Sound Mixing
Whiplash
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken