87th Academy Awards (2015)

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films of 2014 and took place on March 2, 2014 February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time. Films that won multiple awards included "Birdman", "Whiplash" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
- WINNER

Best Picture

Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W Skotchdopole
American Sniper - Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, Peter Morgan
Boyhood - Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland
The Imitation Game - Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M Rales, Jeremy Dawson
Selma - Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten
Whiplash - Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster

Best Director

Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu
Boyhood - Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher - Bennett Miller
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson
The Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum

Best Original Screenplay

The Imitation Game - Graham Moore
American Sniper - Jason Hall
Inherent Vice - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Theory of Everything - Anthony McCarten
Whiplash - Damien Chazelle

Best Actor in a Leading Role

The Theory of Everything - Eddie Redmayne
Foxcatcher - Steve Carell
The Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch
American Sniper - Bradley Cooper
Birdman - Michael Keaton

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Still Alice - Julianne Moore
Two Days, One Night - Marion Cotillard
The Theory of Everything - Felicity Jones
Gone Girl - Rosamund Pike
Wild - Reese Witherspoon

Best Supporting Actor

Whiplash - J K Simmons
The Judge - Robert Duvall
Boyhood - Ethan Hawke
Birdman - Edward Norton
Foxcatcher - Mark Ruffalo

Best Supporting Actress

Boyhood - Patricia Arquette
Wild - Laura Dern
The Imitation Game - Keira Knightley
Birdman - Emma Stone
Into the Woods - Meryl Streep

Best Cinematography

Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert D Yeoman
Mr Turner - Dick Pope
Unbroken - Roger Deakins
Ida - Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski

Best Original Song

Selma - Common, John Legend for "Glory"
Begin Again - Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois for "Lost Stars"
The Lego Movie - Shawn Patterson for "Everything is Awesome"
Beyond the Lights - Diane Warren for "Grateful"
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me - Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond for "I'm Not Gonna Miss You"

Best Original Score

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game - Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar - Hans Zimmer
T§he Theory of Everything - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Mr Turner - Gary Yershon

Best Sound Editing

American Sniper - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Birdman - Aaron Glascock, Martín Hernández
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Brent Burge, Jason Canovas
Interstellar - Richard King
Unbroken - Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Visual Effects

Interstellar - Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R Fisher
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill, Daniel Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy - Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

Best Costume Design

Whiplash - Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley
American Sniper - John T Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
Birdman - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Thomas Varga
Interstellar - Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten
Unbroken - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, David Lee

Best Animated Feature

Big Hero 6 - Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls - Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable, Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea - Tomm Moore, Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Isao Takahata, Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Animated Short Film

Feast - Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
The Bigger Picture - Daisy Jacobs, Chris Hees
The Dam Keeper - Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi
Me and My Moulton - Torill Kove
A Single Life - Joris Oprins

Best Documentary Feature

Citizenfour - Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier - John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam - Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
Virunga - Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary Short Subject

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Heinz Perry
Joanna - Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse - Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
The Reaper - Gabriel Serra
White Earth - Christian Jensen

Best Foreign Language Film

Ida - Pawel Pawlikowski
Tangerines - Zaza Urushadze
Leviathan - Andrey Zvyagintsev
Wild Tales - Damián Szifrón
Timbuktu - Abderrahmane Sissako

Academy Honorary Award

Hayao Miyazaki
Maureen O'Hara
Jean-Claude Carrière

Gordon E Sawyer Award

David W Gray

Best Live Action Short Film

The Phone Call - Mat Kirkby, James Lucas
Aya - Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham - Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp - Wei Hu, Julien Féret
Parvaneh - Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Eichenberger

Best Film Editing

Whiplash - Tom Cross
Boyhood - Sandra Adair
The Imitation Game - William Goldenberg
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling
American Sniper - Joel Cox, Gary Roach

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Harry Belafonte

Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar - Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Into the Woods - Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock
Mr Turner - Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Foxcatcher - Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard
Guardians of the Galaxy - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

Award of Commendation

Steven Tiffen, Jeff Cohen, Michael Fecik for "For pioneering work in developing dye-based filters that reduce IR contamination when neutral density filters are used with digital cameras"

Academy Award of Merit

Larry Hornbeck for "For inventing digital micro-mirror technology for use in DLP Cinema projection"
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