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The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored 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 Oscars in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time.
Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel won the most awards, tying with four each. Birdman won the Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Alejandro González Iñárritu, while The Grand Budapest Hotel won Best Original Score for Alexandre Desplat. Other winners included Whiplash winning three awards including Best Supporting Actor for J. K. Simmons, and 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 all with one each.
Best Picture
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
Best Directing
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking
Best Actress
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
Best Supporting Actor
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
Best Original Screenplay
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo, Jr.
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Best Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
Best Foreign Language Film
Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski
Best Documentary – Feature
Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Best Documentary – Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Best Live Action Short Film
The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
Best Animated Short Film
Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
Best Original Song
“Glory” from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
Best Sound Editing
American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Best Sound Mixing
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Best Cinematography
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Best Film Editing
Whiplash – Tom Cross
Best Visual Effects
Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
Honorary Academy Awards
The Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 8, 2014, during which the following awards were presented:
Academy Honorary Awards
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Maureen O’Hara
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
- Harry Belafonte
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