Best Film:

Birdman

“Maybe next year there’ll be some immigration rules to the Academy – two Mexicans in a row is suspicious,” director Alejandro G Inarritu quipped as he collected the Best Picture prize, referencing Alfonso Cuaron’s best director win last year.

Best Actor:

Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) 

“I don’t think I’m capable of articulating how I feel – I am fully aware I am a lucky, lucky man.

“This Oscar belongs to all those people around the world battling ALS,” he said. “It belongs to one exceptional family – Stephen, Jane and the Hawking children – and I will be its custodian and I will look after him; I’ll polish him and wait on him hand and foot.”

Best Actress:

Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

Julianne Moore said: “I read somewhere that winning an Oscar can lead to you living five years longer – if that’s true, I’d like to thank the Academy as my husband is younger than me!”

Supporting actor:

JK Simmons (Whiplash)

“Call your mom, call your dad. If you’re lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call ’em. Don’t text, don’t email, call them on the phone. Tell them you love them. Thank them and listen to them for as long as they wanna talk to you,” he advised as he accepted the Oscar.

“I am grateful every day for the most remarkable person I know, my wife,” Simmons said. “I am grateful for you love, your kindness, your wisdom, your sacrifice, your patience.”

Supporting actress:

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

She said: “We have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It is our time to have wage equality once and for all — and equal rights for women in the United States of America.”

Meryl Streep and JLo agreed –

Best Director:

Alejandro G Inarritu (Birdman)

“For someone to win, someone has to lose – but true art, true individual expression cannot be compared. Our work, as always will be judged by time.”

Original screenplay:

Birdman

“Three years ago, I invited them to follow me in a crazy idea – and because they are crazy, they did it,” said Alejandro G Inarritu. He also pays his dues to Michael Keaton, who “made this film fly”.

Adapted screenplay:

The Imitation Game

“Alan Turing never got to stand on a stage like this and look at these faces and I do – and that’s the most unfair thing I’ve ever heard.” said writer Graham Moore. “So I want to use this moment to say this – when I was 16 I tried to kill himself because I felt like I didn’t belong. Now I’m standing here, so I would like this moment to be for that person who feels weird or different. Stay weird and different and when you’re up here, pass it along.”

“When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself. I felt weird and different and felt like I didn’t belong. Now I’m standing here this is for any kid out there who doesn’t feel like they belong, because you do,” he said. “Stay weird, stay different.”

Original song:

Glory (Selma)

Original score:

Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Costume design:

Milena Canonero (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Makeup and hairstyling:

Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Foreign fillm:

Ida directed by Pawel Pawlikowski

In his acceptance speech, Pawel Pawlikowski acknowledged his Polish pals, his film crew, his late wife, his deceased parents and his children “who are hopefully watching, who are still alive!”

Live action short film:

Mat Kirkby and James Lucas (The Phone Call)

Documentary (short):

Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry (Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1)

“I lost my son. He was 15 when he killed himself and since that happened, what I said I think I said something like, we need to talk about suicide out loud to try to work against the stigma and silence around suicide because the best prevention for suicide is awareness and discussion and not trying sweep it under the rug,” said Dana Perry.

Sound mixing:

Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley (Whiplash)

Sound editing:

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman (American Sniper)

Visual effects:

Interstellar

Animated short film:

Animated feature film:

Big Hero 6

Production design:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Cinematography:

Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)

Film editing:

Tom Cross (Whiplash)

Documentary feature:

CitizenFour

One of the most touching moments was Lady Gaga’s pitch-perfect “Sound of Music” medley showing that she can sing!

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