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All of the 2015 Oscar winners

Birdman won Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards
Birdman won Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards
Birdman won Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards
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The 87th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2014, handed out 24 golden statuettes, for everything from best screenwriting to the best picture of the year.

The big winners of the night were Birdman, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, and Grand Budapest Hotel, which also won four awards, including Best Costume Design. Whiplash won three Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor. Every film nominated for Best Picture won at least one award.

There weren’t many upsets in the night, with Birdman winning Best Picture and Grand Budapest Hotel winning many of the visual awards. Eddie Redmayne did hold on to the Best Actor award he won at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards, keeping away Birdman’s Michael Keaton.

Here’s a list of all of the Academy Award winners.

Best Picture

Birdman

Best Director

Alejandro González Iñárittu, Birdman

Actress in a Leading Role

Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)

Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Actor in a Leading Role

Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Actress in a Supporting Role

Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Actor in a Supporting Role

Whiplash

Miles Teller (at drums) and J.K. Simmons star in the mesmerizing Whiplash. (Sony Pictures Classics)

J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Imitation Game, written by Graham Moore

Best Original Screenplay

Birdman
Fox Searchlight

Birdman took home Best Original Screenplay too. (Fox Searchlight)

Birdman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo

Animated Feature Film

Big Hero 6

Best Documentary Feature

Citizenfour

Foreign Language Film

Ida (Poland)

Ida (Music Box Films)

Ida (Poland)

Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman

Film Editing

Tom Cross, Whiplash

Production Design

Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration), The Grand Budapest Hotel

Costume Design

Grand Budapest Hotel

Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, and Tony Revolori in The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight)

Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Makeup and Hairstyling

Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Original Score

Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Original Song

“Glory,” Selma, Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn

Sound Mixing

Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley, Whiplash

Sound Editing

American Sniper
Warner Bros. Pictures

Bradley Cooper (right) stars as Chris Kyle in American Sniper. (Warner Bros.)

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, American Sniper

Visual Effects

Interstellar

Matthew McConaughey plays a man who travels to another galaxy to save the human race in Interstellar. (Paramount)

Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher, Interstellar

Best Documentary Short Subject

Crisis Hotline

Live Action Short Film

The Phone Call

Animated Short Film

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