The 2015 Academy Award Winners!

The winners of my "favorite categories" at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony from last night are...!


Best Picture

• American Sniper
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Selma
• The Theory of Everything
• Whiplash

Best Director

• 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

• Foxcatcher (Steve Carrell)
• American Sniper (Bradley Cooper)
• The Imitation Game (Benedict Cumberbatch)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Michael Keaton)
• The Theory of Everything (Eddie Redmayne)

Best Actress

• Two Days, One Night (Marion Cotillard)
• The Theory of Everything (Felicity Jones)
• Still Alice (Julianne Moore)
• Gone Girl (Rosamund Pike)
• Wild (Reese Witherspoon)

Best Supporting Actor

• The Judge (Robert Duvall)
• Boyhood (Ethan Hawke)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Edward Norton)
• Foxcatcher (Mark Ruffalo)
• Whiplash (J.K. Simmons)

Best Supporting Actress

• Boyhood (Patricia Arquette)
• Wild (Laura Dern)
• The Imitation Game (Keira Knightley)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Emma Stone)
• Into the Woods (Meryl Streep)

Best Original Screenplay

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• Foxcatcher
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Nightcrawler

Best Adapted Screenplay

• American Sniper
• The Imitation Game
• Inherent Vice
• The Theory of Everything
• Whiplash

Best Animated Feature

• Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams)
• The Boxtrolls (Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable)
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois)
• Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)

Best Production Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Interstellar
• Into the Woods
• Mr. Turner

Best Costume Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Inherent Vice
• Into the Woods
• Maleficent
• Mr. Turner

Best Cinematography

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Ida
• Mr. Turner
• Unbroken

Best Film Editing

• American Sniper
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game
• Whiplash

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Foxcatcher
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Original Score

• 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 Original Song

• The LEGO Movie ("Everything Is Awesome")
• Selma ("Glory")
• Beyond the Lights ("Grateful")
• Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me ("I'm Not Gonna Miss You")
• Begin Again ("Lost Stars")

Best Visual Effects

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Interstellar
• X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Sound Mixing

• American Sniper
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Interstellar
• Unbroken
• Whiplash

Best Sound Editing

• American Sniper
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Interstellar
• Unbroken