The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honoured the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Oscar Awards in 24 categories. Actor Neil Patrick Harris(famous for "How I met your Mother TV Serial") hosted the ceremony for the first time.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel won the most awards.Birdman 's awards included the Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture for Alejandro González Iñárritu, while The Grand Budapest Hotel 's awards included Best Original Score for Alexandre Desplat. Whiplash, the only other film to win multiple awards, won three including the Best Supporting Actor for J. K. Simmons. Other winners included The Theory of Everything, Still Alice, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, Big Hero 6, Ida, Citizenfour, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, The Phone Call, Feast, Selma,American Sniper, and Interstellar.
Best Picture
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Best Directing
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| Winner | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole | Alejandro G.
Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| Nominations | American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar,Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan | Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland | Richard Linklater – Boyhood | |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson | Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher | |
| The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman | Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game | |
| Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, andJeremy Kleiner | ||
| The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten | ||
| Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster | ||
Best Actor
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Best Actress
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| Winner | Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking |
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland |
| Nominations | Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont | Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya |
| Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle | Felicity
Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking |
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| Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing | Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne | |
| Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman | Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed | |
Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress
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| Winner | J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher | Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans |
| Nominations | Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer | Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey |
| Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr. | Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke | |
| Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner | Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)as Sam Thomson | |
| Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz | Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch | |
Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
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| Winner | Birdman or (The Unexpected
Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G.
Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. andArmando Bo |
The Imitation
Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges |
| Nominations | Boyhood – Richard Linklater | American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris
Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice |
| Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman | Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice byThomas Pynchon |
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| The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness | The Theory of
Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking |
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| Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy | Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name | |
Best Animated Feature Film |
Best Foreign Language Film |
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| Winner | Big Hero 6 – Don
Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli |
Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski |
| Nominations | The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight | Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold | Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze | |
| Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young | Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako | |
| The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura | Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damián Szifrón | |
Best Documentary – Feature |
Best Documentary – Short Subject |
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| Winner | Citizenfour – Laura
Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky |
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry |
| Nominations | Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel | Joanna – Aneta Kopacz |
| Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester | Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki |
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| The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier | The Reaper – Gabriel Serra Arguello | |
| Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara | White Earth – J. Christian Jensen | |
Best Live Action Short Film |
Best Animated Short Film |
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| Winner | The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas | Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed |
| Nominations | Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis | The Bigger
Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees |
| Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney | The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi |
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| Butter Lamp – Hu Wei and Julien Féret | Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove | |
| Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger | A Single Life – Joris Oprins | |
Best Original Score |
Best Original Song |
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| Winner | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat | "Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend andCommon |
| Nominations | The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat | "Everything
Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson |
| Interstellar – Hans Zimmer | "Grateful"
from Beyond the Lights –
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren |
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| Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon | "I'm Not
Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond |
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| The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson | "Lost
Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois |
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Best Sound Editing |
Best Sound Mixing |
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| Winner | American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman |
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley |
| Nominations | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock | American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin |
| The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge andJason Canovas | Birdman or (The
Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor,Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga |
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| Interstellar – Richard King | Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg
Landaker and Mark Weingarten |
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| Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro | Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A.
Montaño and David Lee |
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Best Production Design |
Best Cinematography
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| Winner | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production
Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) |
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki |
| Nominations | The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration) | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman |
| Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) | Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski | |
| Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) | Mr. Turner – Dick Pope | |
| Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration) | Unbroken – Roger Deakins | |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
Best Costume Design |
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| Winner | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier |
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero |
| Nominations | Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard | Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges |
| Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White | Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood | |
| Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard | ||
| Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran | ||
Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
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| Winner | Whiplash – Tom Cross | Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter andScott Fisher |
| Nominations | American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach | Captain
America: The Winter Soldier – Dan
DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick |
| Boyhood – Sandra Adair | Dawn of the
Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist |
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| The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling | Guardians of
the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi,Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould |
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| The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg | X-Men: Days of
Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer |
