How lousy was this year’s Oscars? Well, check out our Academy Awards live account of the miserable experience. If you were smart, you skipped the whole thing and just waited for this post. Here it is–and just consider it a list of the people who actually enjoyed the 87th Annual Academy Awards. [photo: Kevin Winter/Getty]
Also, you’ll notice that we listed Patricia Arquette above J.K. Simmons, because we didn’t want to piss her off…
BEST MOTION PICTURE
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Julianne Moore: Still Alice
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Eddie Redmayne: The Theory of Everything
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Patricia Arquette: Boyhood
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
J.K. Simmons: Whiplash
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro G. Iñárritu: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Big Hero 6–Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Ida
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Imitation Game–Graham Moore
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)–Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
CitizenFour–Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Glory” from Selma–Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE)
The Grand Budapest Hotel–Alexandre Desplat
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
Whiplash–Tom Cross
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel–Milena Canonero
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
The Grand Budapest Hotel–Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel–Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)–Emmanuel Lubezki
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Whiplash–Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
American Sniper–Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
Interstellar–Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The Phone Call–Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Feast–Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1–Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
