Black comedy-drama Birdman has scooped the big prize of the night at this year's Oscars. The film won Best Picture as well as Best Director for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
After being nominated for nine Academy Awards, Birdman went home with four golden statuettes on Sunday night, among which were prizes for Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
In his acceptance speech for the Best Director award, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu paid tribute to his fellow nominees.
"For someone to win, someone has to lose - but true art, true individual expression cannot be compared. Our work, as always, will be judged by time," he said.
Following in the footsteps of Alfonso Cuaron, Gonzalez Inarritu is now the second Mexican director to have won both the Academy Awary and the Directors Guild of America award for Best Director.
On par with Birdman for the number of awards at this year's Oscars was Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. The British-German co-production, which was largely filmed in the eastern German town of Görlitz, scooped awards for Costume Design, Hair and Makeup, Production Design and Original Score.
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne dedicated his award to ALS sufferers
Hotly-tipped American drama, Boyhood which won Best Drama and Best Director at the Golden Globes last month as well as Best Film at the BAFTAs, came close to going home empty-handed until Patricia Arquette collected an award for Best Supporting Actress. Taking home Best Supporting Actor was JK Simmons for his performance in Whiplash.
British actor, Eddie Redmayne added to his collection of awards for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything after winning the prize for Best Actor.
"This Oscar belongs to all those people around the world battling ALS," Redmayne said in his acceptance speech.
"It belongs to one exceptional family - Stephen, Jane and the Hawking children - and I will be its custodian and I will look after him; I'll polish him and wait on him hand and foot."
The 33-year-old also paid tribute to his "partner in crime" and Theory of Everything co-star Felicity Jones, as well as his "ferocious and kind director" James Marsh.
After previously being nominated four times for an academy award, American actress Julianne Moore finally took home the Best Actress award for her performance as Dr. Alice Howland, a woman with Alzheimer's, in the film adaptation of Lisa Genova's 2007 bestselling novel, "Still Alice."
In a nod to her fellow female nominees, which included Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard, Felicity Jones and Rosamund Pike, Moore said there was "no such thing as best actress."
There was disappointment on the night for Russia, however, whose film Leviathan lost out in the foreign language category to Poland's Ida. The 2013 drama tells the story of a young woman on the verge of taking her vows to become a Catholic nun after being orphaned as a child during the German occupation.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of The Sound of Music, Lady Gaga also performed a medley of favorites from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic on Sunday evening. The adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical won five Oscars in 1966, including Best Picture.
Oscar Winners
Best Picture- Birdman
Best Actress- Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Best Actor - Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything
Best Director- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Birdman
Adapted Screenplay- Graham Moore for The Imitation Game
Original Screenplay - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo for Birdman
Best Original Score - Alexandre Desplat for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Original Song - Glory from Selma
Best Documentary Feature - Citizenfour
Achievement in film editing - Tom Crash for Whiplash
Best Production Design - Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Animated Feature Film - Big Hero 6
Best Animated Short Film - Feast
Achievement in Visual Effects - Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott R Fisher for Interstellar
Best supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Achievement in Sound Editing - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman for American Sniper
Achievement in Soundmixing - Craig Mann, ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley for Whiplash
Best Documentary Short Subject - Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Best live-action Short Film - The Phone Call
Best Foreign Language Film - Ida
Acheivement in Makeup and Hairstyling - Milena Canonero for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Supporting Actor - JK Simmons for Whiplash
source:DW
"For someone to win, someone has to lose - but true art, true individual expression cannot be compared. Our work, as always, will be judged by time," he said.
Following in the footsteps of Alfonso Cuaron, Gonzalez Inarritu is now the second Mexican director to have won both the Academy Awary and the Directors Guild of America award for Best Director.
On par with Birdman for the number of awards at this year's Oscars was Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. The British-German co-production, which was largely filmed in the eastern German town of Görlitz, scooped awards for Costume Design, Hair and Makeup, Production Design and Original Score.
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne dedicated his award to ALS sufferersBritish actor, Eddie Redmayne added to his collection of awards for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything after winning the prize for Best Actor.
"This Oscar belongs to all those people around the world battling ALS," Redmayne said in his acceptance speech."It belongs to one exceptional family - Stephen, Jane and the Hawking children - and I will be its custodian and I will look after him; I'll polish him and wait on him hand and foot."
The 33-year-old also paid tribute to his "partner in crime" and Theory of Everything co-star Felicity Jones, as well as his "ferocious and kind director" James Marsh.
After previously being nominated four times for an academy award, American actress Julianne Moore finally took home the Best Actress award for her performance as Dr. Alice Howland, a woman with Alzheimer's, in the film adaptation of Lisa Genova's 2007 bestselling novel, "Still Alice."
In a nod to her fellow female nominees, which included Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard, Felicity Jones and Rosamund Pike, Moore said there was "no such thing as best actress."
Fourth time lucky: Julianne Moore collects the Best Actress award
"I'm thrilled we were able to shine a light on Alzheimer's disease. So many people with this disease feel isolated and marginalised and one of the wonderful things about movies is things are able to be seen. Hopefully this movie will be seen and it will help find a cure," the 54-year-old said.There was disappointment on the night for Russia, however, whose film Leviathan lost out in the foreign language category to Poland's Ida. The 2013 drama tells the story of a young woman on the verge of taking her vows to become a Catholic nun after being orphaned as a child during the German occupation.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of The Sound of Music, Lady Gaga also performed a medley of favorites from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic on Sunday evening. The adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical won five Oscars in 1966, including Best Picture.
Oscar Winners
Best Picture- Birdman
Best Actress- Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Best Actor - Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything
Best Director- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Birdman
Adapted Screenplay- Graham Moore for The Imitation Game
Original Screenplay - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo for Birdman
Best Original Score - Alexandre Desplat for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Original Song - Glory from Selma
Best Documentary Feature - Citizenfour
Achievement in film editing - Tom Crash for Whiplash
Best Production Design - Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Animated Feature Film - Big Hero 6
Best Animated Short Film - Feast
Achievement in Visual Effects - Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott R Fisher for Interstellar
Best supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Achievement in Sound Editing - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman for American Sniper
Achievement in Soundmixing - Craig Mann, ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley for Whiplash
Best Documentary Short Subject - Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Best live-action Short Film - The Phone Call
Best Foreign Language Film - Ida
Acheivement in Makeup and Hairstyling - Milena Canonero for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Supporting Actor - JK Simmons for Whiplash
source:DW
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