Monday, February 23, 2015

The 87th Academy Awards

Before we go to the results, here are some of the most memorable moments from this year's Academy Awards Night.

TOP 15 FAVORITE MOMENTS:
1. The Magical and Inspiring Opening Number (plus Jack Black)
2. Eddie Redmayne's win and acceptance speech.
3. NPH's Birdman Impression
4. Tribute to the late greats (shed a tear for Robin Williams)
5. Common's Acceptance Speech
6. Adeel Dazeem and John Travolta
7. Graham Moore's Acceptance Speech
8. Emma Stone Winning a Lego trophy
9. Patricia Arquette's Acceptance Speech
10. Everything is Awesome
11. Lady Gaga being not so gaga
12-15. Every Grand Budapest Hotel win

Top 5 BOO!/WTF?!/LOL in a Bad Way Moments:
1.  Racist Sean Penn (It's obvious that Birdman will win when his name was called. Could've been Mel Gibson but Penn is okay.)
2. The Eddie Murphy Joke by NPH
3. Terrence Howard's intimate moment
4. J. Lo's dress
5. Big Hero Six winning over Princess Kaguya (at least it's not How To Train Your Dragon 2)

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO….

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
COSTUME DESIGN: The Grand Budapest Hotel
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: The Grand Budapest Hotel
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Ida (Poland)

LIVE ACTION SHORT: The Phone Call
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Crisis Hotline – Veterance Press 1
SOUND MIXING: Whiplash
SOUND EDITING: American Sniper
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
VISUAL EFFECTS: Interstellar
ANIMATED SHORT: Feast
ANIMATED FEATURE: Big Hero 6
PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Grand Budapest Hotel
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
FILM EDITING: Whiplash

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: CitizenFour
ORIGINAL SONG: Glory (Selma)
ORIGINAL SCORE: The Grand Budapest Hotel
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: The Imitation Game

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

BEST PICTURE: BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE)
(Edited from the posters made by British Academy of Film and Television Arts)