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.
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The hordes of non-regulars who idolize and only care about Oscar must be gone by now. For a while I’ve been over addressing them. Rarely they stick for the off-season fun. But freaking Box-Office is being used as an argument against BOYHOOD?
Have you not heard of THE RIGHT STUFF? Budget: $27 million; Box Office: $21 million? Does anybody care?
Have you not heard of BLADE RUNNER? Budget $28 million; Box Office: $33 million? Does anybody care?
Have you not heard of AVATAR? Does anybody care it made so much money? Nope. On a TV, it’s an unwatchable piece of shit.
Box office is a cute anecdote for “experts”, but utterly insignificant when at future resonance. Nearly every person I know and, to a certain degree, respect have by now seen THE HURT LOCKER, and most are, if not entirely moved, at least impressed by the film, and especially by Jeremy Renner who, like Patricia Arquette in BOYHOOD or let’s say Edward Norton in THE 25TH HOUR (bo: $23 million), gave one of the key American silver-screen performances of the 21st century. I do believe BOYHOOD is landmark for numerous reasons that have little to do with whether it succeeded of failed to connect with the flavor-of-the-week crowd and which have been extensively discussed by people smarter than me. It’s not my fault BIRDMAN lunatics are too lazy to seek out all the great writing the piece has inspired to get a clue about the inextricability of the “twelve years” from all its superior cinematic units, but also about the eminent execution across the board and rich thematic insinuations.
Now, onto the new year, please!