87th Academy Awards Winners

While Ireland's The Song of the Sea lost to Big Hero 6 in the Best Animated Feature category and Boogaloo and Graham fell to The Phone Call in Best Short Film, we at Hot Press won't be writing about the 87th Academy Awards with any bitterness. Truly, we won't! There was plenty to enjoy at last night's ceremony for those of us who stayed up until the staggeringly late conclusion at 5:15 a.m.

In a Best Picture race that may as well have only had two contestants, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Birdman was the ultimate victor, claiming the top prize and Best Director for Iñárritu. The acclaimed film also went home with prizes for Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay. Boyhood claimed one award out of its six nominations for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette.

Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel was another big winner with trophies for Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score and Production Design. Just behind Birdman and Budapest was Whiplash, which took a Best Supporting Actor prize for J.K. Simmons along with Best Sound Mixing and Best Editing.

Check out our abridged list of the big winners below!

Best Picture

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

Best Director

Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman*
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

Best Actor

Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything*
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Bradley Cooper - American Sniper
Steve Carrell - Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

J.K. Simmons - Whiplash*
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Robert Duvall - The Judge

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette - Boyhood*
Emma Stone - Birdman
Laura Dern - Wild
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Meryl Streep - Into the Woods

Best Animated Feature

Big Hero 6*
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Best Documentary Feature

CitizenFour*
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Screenplay

Birdman*
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

See the full list of winners here!