Oscars 2015: BIRDMAN Wins Best Picture and Best Director

The 87th Academy Awards have ended. Neil Patrick Harris was arguably the worst part of the awards show, mostly because of a batch of bad jokes that made him clearly uncomfortable and somewhat unlikeable as the host. I honestly expected a bit more energy in his routine, but it all felt incredibly flat after a relatively short and dull opening musical moment.

The awards themselves were offered to the usual suspects. "Birdman" picked up 4 Oscars, including Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay, and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" also took home four awards for the more technical categories like Costumes, Art Direction and Score. Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Patricia Arquette and J.K. Simmons nabbed Oscars for their amazing performances, while "Selma", "Interstellar", "American Sniper" and "The Imitation Game" each took home one award. In the animated feature category Disney won for a second consecutive year with "Big Hero 6" and Poland's "Ida" won Best Foreign Language Film.

Read the complete list of 2015 Oscar winners after the jump.

Best Picture
Birdman — Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole

Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu — Birdman

Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
Julianne Moore — Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons — Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette — Boyhood

Achievement in Costume Design
Milena Canonero — The Grand Budapest Hotel

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier — The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Foreign Language Film
Ida – Pawel Pawlikowski

Best Live Action Short Film
The Phone Call — Matt Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Documentary Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 — Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry

Original Screenplay
Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Whiplash — Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley

Achievement in Sound Editing
American Sniper — Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman

Achievement in Visual Effects
Interstellar — Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Paul Franklin

Best Animated Short
Feast — Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

Best Animated Movie
Big Hero Six — Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli

Achievement in Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock

Achievement in Cinematography
Birdman — Emannuel Lubezki

Achievement in Film Editing
Whipalsh — Tom Cross

Best Documentary Feature
Citizen Four — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky

Best Original Song
Glory — John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn

Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Alexandre Desplat

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore

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