The 2015 Oscars are in the books and it was Birdman taking home four awards including the coveted Best Picture along with a Best Director win for Alejandro González Iñárritu as well as an Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) win. But Birdman wasn’t the only film to take home four Oscars as The Grand Budapest Hotel had a small bit of domination in the below-the-line categories winning for Production Design, Costumes, Makeup & Hairstyling and Original Score (Alexandre Desplat).
The only other multiple award winner was Whiplash, which took home Best Supporting Actor (J.K. Simmons), Best Film Editing and Sound Mixing. Otherwise, it was singles across the board and while there were a few interesting wins below the line, the top awards went pretty much by the books.
Patricia Arquette took home Boyhood‘s only Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) won Best Actor over Michael Keaton and Julianne Moore (Still Alice) won Best Actress (aka Lifetime Achievement Award).
I’ll write a little more about the show itself in a separate post tomorrow morning, but suffice to say, I thought it was rather abysmal. In fact, I’d argue host Neil Patrick Harris managed to roast the Academy and Hollywood with what was meant to be jokes, but were actually just more like facts. And that running Oscar predictions joke should have ended as soon as you realized it was bombing to begin with.
Highlights include the “Everything is Awesome” performance, “Glory” performance, Graham Moore‘s speech and, well, what else? Jog my memory in the comments below, but before that, here’s the win count for the night followed by the winners and nominees in each category, with the winners highlighted in bold red text
Win Count
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (4 Oscars)
- Birdman (4 Oscars)
- Whiplash (3 Oscars)
- Ida (1 Oscar)
- Citizenfour (1 Oscar)
- Big Hero 6 (1 Oscar)
- American Sniper (1 Oscar)
- Selma (1 Oscar)
- Interstellar (1 Oscar)
- Boyhood (1 Oscar)
- Still Alice (1 Oscar)
- The Theory of Everything (1 Oscar)
- The Imitation Game (1 Oscar)
Best Picture
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Selma
- The Theory of Everything
- Whiplash
Best Director
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
- Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
- Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
- Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Best Actor
- Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
- Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
- Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman)
- Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress
- Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
- Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
- Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
- Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
- Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Best Supporting Actor
- Robert Duvall (The Judge)
- Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
- Edward Norton (Birdman)
- Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
- J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Best Supporting Actress
- Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
- Laura Dern (Wild)
- Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
- Emma Stone (Birdman)
- Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)
Adapted Screenplay
- Jason Dean Hall (American Sniper)
- Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
- Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything)
- Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Original Screenplay
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo (Birdman)
- Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
- E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher)
- Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
Animated Feature Film
- Big Hero 6
- The BoxTrolls
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Song of the Sea
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Documentary (feature)
- CitizenFour
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Last Days in Vietnam
- The Salt of the Earth
- Virunga
Film Editing
- Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach (American Sniper)
- Sandra Adair (Boyhood)
- Barney Pilling (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- William Goldenberg (The Imitation Game)
- Tom Cross (Whiplash)
Cinematography
- Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)
- Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal (Ida)
- Dick Pope (Mr. Turner)
- Roger Deakins (Unbroken)
Original Score
- Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
- Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
- Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything)
- Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner)
Original Song
- “Lost Stars” from Begin Again
- “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
- “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie
- “Glory” from Selma
- “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights
Sound Mixing
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- Interstellar
- Unbroken
- Whiplash
Sound Editing
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Interstellar
- Unbroken
Visual Effects
- Captain America: The winter Soldier
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Interstellar
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Costume Design
- Milena Canonero (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Mark Bridges (Inherent Vice)
- Colleen Atwood (Into the Woods)
- Anna B. Sheppard (Maleficent)
- Jacqueline Durran (Mr. Turner)
Production Design
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Interstellar
- Into the Woods
- Mr. Turner
Makeup & Hairstyling
- Foxcatcher
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Guardians of the Galaxy
Foreign Language Film
- Tangerines
- Ida
- Leviathan
- Timbuktu
- Wild Tales
Animated Short Film
- The Bigger Picture
- The Dam Keper
- Feast
- Me and My Moulton
- A Single Life
Live Action Short Film
- Aya
- Boogaloo and Graham
- Butterfly Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
- Parvaneh
- The Phone Call
Documentary Short Subject
- Crisis Veterans Hotline: Press 1
- Joanna
- Our Curse
- The Reaper (La Parka)
- White Earth
