Birdman, Inarritu, Moore and Redmayne prevail at 87th Academy Awards

The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been handed out. JK Simmons took home the first big win of the night for Best Supporting Actor. Patricia Arquette earned a standing ovation from the crowd for her speech on equality. “To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s time to have wage equality once and for all. And equal rights for women in the United States of America.” She said as Meryl Streep and the crowd rose to their feet, applauding her. See her speech in full here:

http://youtu.be/42moH4LobBQ

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu took home the oscar for Best Director. Birdman took home Best Picture. Julianne Moore won her first Oscar for her role in Still Alice and Eddie Redmayne took home Best Actor for The Theory of Everything.
The Grand Budapest Hotel nabbed Oscars for Best Original Score, Makeup and Hairstyling, Costume Design, and Production Design. Selma won in the Best Original Song category for Glory. Singers, Common and John Legend gave speeches about equality and incarceration in America.
Big Hero 6 took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, giving Disney a win for the second year in a row. Frozen won last year.

The Full List of Winners is below:

Best Picture:

Birdman
Best Director:

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Birdman

Best Actor:

Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything 

Best Actress:

Julianne Moore – Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor:

JK Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress:

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

Best Animated Feature:

Big Hero 6

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Graham Moore – The Imitation Game

Best Original Screenplay:

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo – Birdman

Best Cinematography:

Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman

Best Costume:

Milena  Canonero- The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Documentary Feature:

CitizenFour

Best Documentary Short Subject:

Ellen Goosenberg Kent & Dana Perry – Crisis Hotline 1 

Best Film Editing:

Tom Cross – Whiplash 

Best Foreign Language Film:

IDA 

Best Make Up and Hairstyling

Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier- The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Original Score:

Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel 

Best Original Song:

Glory – Selma 

Best Production Design:

Adam Stockhausen (production design) and Anna Pinnock (set decoration) – The Grand Budapest Hotel 

Best Animated Short Film:

FEAST

Best Live Action Short Film:

Matt Kirkby & James Lucas – The Phone Call

Best Sound Editing:

 Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman – American Sniper 

Best Sound Mixing:

 Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley – Whiplash 

Best Visual Effects:

 Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher – Interstellar 

Until next year. We’ll leave you with this reaction from Meryl Streep.