The 87th Academy Awards ceremony was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The ceremony honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The awards ceremony began at 5:30 p.m. PST.
BEST PICTURE
American Sniper
Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan
Winner
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood
Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
The Imitation Game
Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman
Selma
Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten
Whiplash
Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster
BEST DIRECTING
Winner
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher
Bennett Miller
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson
The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum
BEST ACTOR in a Leading Role
Steve Carell
Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper
American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Winner
Eddie Redmayne
The Theory of Everything
BEST ACTRESS in a Leading Role
Marion Cotillard
Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones
The Theory of Everything
Winner
Julianne Moore
Still Alice
Rosamund Pike
Gone Girl
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Reese Witherspoon
Wild
BEST ACTOR in a Supporting Role
Robert Duvall
The Judge
Ethan Hawke
Boyhood
Edward Norton
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Mark Ruffalo
Foxcatcher
Winner
J.K. Simmons
Whiplash
BEST ACTRESS in a Supporting Role
Winner
Patricia Arquette
Boyhood
Laura Dern
Wild
Keira Knightley
The Imitation Game
Emma Stone
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Meryl Streep
Into the Woods
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Winner
Big Hero 6
Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls
Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea
Tomm Moore and Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Robert Yeoman
Ida
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner
Dick Pope
Unbroken
Roger Deakins
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Winner
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice
Mark Bridges
Into the Woods
Colleen Atwood
Maleficent
Anna B. Sheppard
Mr. Turner
Jacqueline Durran
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner
CitizenFour
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam
Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth
Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier
Virunga
Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Winner
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Joanna
Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse
Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
The Reaper (La Parka)
Gabriel Serra Arguello
White Earth
J. Christian Jensen
BEST FILM EDITING
American Sniper
Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
Boyhood
Sandra Adair
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Barney Pilling
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The Imitation Game
William Goldenberg
Winner
Whiplash
Tom Cross
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner
Ida Poland; Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan
Russia; Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tangerines
Estonia; Directed by Zaza Urushadze
Timbuktu
Mauritania; Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales
Argentina; Directed by Damián Szifron
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Foxcatcher
Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
Winner
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White
BEST MUSIC Original Score
Winner
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game
Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar
Hans Zimmer
Mr. Turner
Gary Yershon
The Theory of Everything
Jóhann Jóhannsson
BEST MUSIC Original Song
“Everything Is Awesome” from THE LEGO MOVIE
Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
Winner
“Glory” from SELMA
Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
“Grateful” from BEYOND THE LIGHTS
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from GLEN CAMPBELL…I’LL BE ME
Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from BEGIN AGAIN
Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
The Imitation Game
Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
Interstellar
Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
Into the Woods
Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Mr. Turner
Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)
BEST SHORT FILM
Animated
The Bigger Picture
Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
The Dam Keeper
Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
Winner
Feast
Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton
Torill Kove
A Single Life
Joris Oprins
BEST SHORT FILM Live Action
Aya
Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham
Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
Hu Wei and Julien Féret
Parvaneh
Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
Winner
The Phone Call
Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
BEST SOUND EDITING
Winner
American Sniper
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
Interstellar
Richard King
Unbroken
Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro
BEST SOUND MIXING
American Sniper
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
Interstellar
Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
Unbroken
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
Winner
Whiplash
Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy
Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
Winner
Interstellar
Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer
BEST WRITING Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper
Written by Jason Hall
The Imitation Game
Written by Graham Moore
Inherent Vice
Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Theory of Everything
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Whiplash
Written by Damien Chazelle
BEST WRITING Original Screenplay
Winner
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
Boyhood
Written by Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher
Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler
Written by Dan Gilroy
