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87th Academy Awards
87th Academy Awards
Date	February 22, 2015
Site	Dolby Theatre; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Neil Patrick Harris
Produced by	Neil Meron; Craig Zadan
Directed by	Hamish Hamilton
Highlights
Most nominations	Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel (9)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
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The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), is scheduled to take place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.^[3] The Academy gave Academy Honorary Awards to Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O’Hara and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Harry Belafonte in November 2014.^[4]^[5]

Actor Neil Patrick Harris is scheduled to host the ceremony for the first time.^[6]

Nominees

The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15, 2015, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, and actor Chris Pine.^[7]^[8] Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel tied for the most nominations with nine each.^[9]

Awards

Best Picture

American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan
Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales and Jeremy Dawson
The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman
Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten
Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster

Best Director

Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actor

Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John du Pont
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay

Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

Best Animated Feature Film

Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Language Film

Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski
Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian – Zaza Urushadze
Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature

Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky
Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary – Short Subject

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film

Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film

The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
A Single Life – Joris Oprins

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

"Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
"Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
"Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
"Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Sound Editing

American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Birdman – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
Interstellar – Richard King
Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing

American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Birdman – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography

Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
Unbroken – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Best Costume Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive
Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
Boyhood – Sandra Adair
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects

Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 8, 2014, during which the following awards were presented.^[10]^[11]^[12]

Academy Honorary Awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Harry Belafonte

Films with multiple nominations

The following 17 films received multiple nominations:^[9]

Nominations	Film
9	Birdman
9	The Grand Budapest Hotel
8	The Imitation Game
6	American Sniper
6	Boyhood
5	Foxcatcher
	Interstellar
	The Theory of Everything
	Whiplash
4	Mr. Turner
3	Into the Woods
3	Unbroken
2	Guardians of the Galaxy
	Ida
	Inherent Vice
	Selma
	Wild

Ceremony information

Schedule

Date^[13]	Event
Saturday, November 8, 2014	The Governors Awards
Wednesday, December 3, 2014	Screen credits and music submissions due
Monday, December 29, 2014	Nominations voting begins 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST)
Thursday, January 8, 2015	Nominations voting ends 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST)
Thursday, January 15, 2015	Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PST (8:30 a.m. EST)
Monday, February 2, 2015	Nominees luncheon
Friday, February 6, 2015	Final voting begins 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST)
Saturday, February 7, 2015	Scientific and Technical Awards
Tuesday, February 17, 2015	Final voting ends 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST)
Sunday, February 22, 2015	Ceremony begins 4:00 p.m. PST (7:00 p.m. EST)

Criticism

There has been criticism of the predominantly white Oscar nominees and in other fields of nominees alike. For the third time since 1995, the 20 Academy Award acting nominations were only for white actors and actresses. The first was in 1998 and second was in 2011.^[14] David Sims of The Atlantic states "the surprising coolness towards Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma—nominated for Best Picture but missing in the Director, Actor, and Original Screenplay categories—with the fact that all 20 acting nominees this year are white, the first time such a thing has happened since the Oscars honoring the films of 1995."^[15] The Guardian columnist Bidisha also notes the overwhelmingly white nominee list while also discussing the fact that "every nominated best director, screenwriter, screenplay adapter and original score composer is a white man,"^[16] additionally suggesting that there is an inherent lack of female representation in the Oscars this year beyond the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories. Selma was directed by Ava DuVernay, herself an African-American female.

The only other nomination for Selma was for Best Original Song, making it the first Best Picture nominee to have only one other nomination since Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), and the first film since War Horse (2011) without a single nomination in direction, acting or screenplay. Conversely, with screenwriters E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, and actors Steve Carrell and Mark Ruffalo all receiving nominations, Bennett Miller became the first Best Director nominee without his film Foxcatcher earning a Best Picture nomination since the category expanded to more than five nominees in 2009.

There was also some negative reaction from critics due to The Lego Movie not receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, despite strong critical acclaim and nominations in the respective category of other major award ceremonies.^[17] Similar reaction also came from singer Lorde not being nominated for Best Original Song for "Yellow Flicker Beat" from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1^[18], as well from singer Lana Del Rey not being nominated in the same category for "Big Eyes" from Big Eyes^[19]. There was also criticism from filmmaker James Gunn regarding the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal was not nominated for his performance in Nightcrawler^[20] while Dan Gilroy has received a nomination.

References

^ "Craig Zadan And Neil Meron Return To Produce The 2015 Oscars®". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 9, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Oscars 2015 production team". Deadline. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ "The Academy Selects 2014 and 2015 Show Dates". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
^ "Harry Belafonte handed honorary Oscar". BBC News. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
^ "Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara to get Honorary Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
^ Gray, Tim (October 15, 2014). "Neil Patrick Harris to Host the Oscars". Variety. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
^ "Oscars: Why Academy Decided To Announce All 24 Category Nominees". Deadline. January 9, 2015.
^ "Oscar nominations 2015: live". Guardian. January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead Oscars race". BBC News. January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
^ "Academy Unveils 2014 Governors Awards Recipients". Variety. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
^ "Honorary Oscars presented to Harry Belafonte, Maureen O'Hara, Hayao Miyazaki". CBS News. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
^ "Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki, Maureen O'Hara to get honorary Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
^ "Academy Announces Key Dates for the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ Tatiana Siegel (January 15, 2014). "Oscars: Acting Nominees All White". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 17, 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ David Sims (January 15, 2015). "The Oscars Haven't Been This White in 19 Years". The Atlantic.
^ Bidisha. "The Oscars celebrates white men. What about the rest of us?". the Guardian.
^ "Peter Travers Blasts 'Selma,' 'Lego Movie' Oscars 2015 Snubs - Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone.
^ "Lorde". Billboard.
^ "Lana Del Rey Snubbed Again for Oscars' Best Original Song". Time Magazine.
^ Natalie Stone. "Oscars: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Director Slams 'Lego Movie,' Jake Gyllenhaal Snubs". The Hollywood Reporter.

External links

Official websites

Other resources

87th Academy Awards at IMDb

[1] "Craig Zadan And Neil Meron Return To Produce The 2015 Oscars®". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 9, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[2] "Oscars 2015 production team". Deadline. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[3] "The Academy Selects 2014 and 2015 Show Dates". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 6, 2014.

[4] "Harry Belafonte handed honorary Oscar". BBC News. Retrieved November 9, 2014.

[5] "Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara to get Honorary Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

[6] Gray, Tim (October 15, 2014). "Neil Patrick Harris to Host the Oscars". Variety. Retrieved October 15, 2014.

[7] "Oscars: Why Academy Decided To Announce All 24 Category Nominees". Deadline. January 9, 2015.

[8] "Oscar nominations 2015: live". Guardian. January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[Oscars_2015-9] "Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead Oscars race". BBC News. January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.

[10] "Academy Unveils 2014 Governors Awards Recipients". Variety. Retrieved September 1, 2014.

[11] "Honorary Oscars presented to Harry Belafonte, Maureen O'Hara, Hayao Miyazaki". CBS News. Retrieved November 9, 2014.

[12] "Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki, Maureen O'Hara to get honorary Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

[dates-13] "Academy Announces Key Dates for the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[THR-14] Tatiana Siegel (January 15, 2014). "Oscars: Acting Nominees All White". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 17, 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[15] David Sims (January 15, 2015). "The Oscars Haven't Been This White in 19 Years". The Atlantic.

[16] Bidisha. "The Oscars celebrates white men. What about the rest of us?". the Guardian.

[17] "Peter Travers Blasts 'Selma,' 'Lego Movie' Oscars 2015 Snubs - Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone.

[18] "Lorde". Billboard.

[19] "Lana Del Rey Snubbed Again for Oscars' Best Original Song". Time Magazine.

[20] Natalie Stone. "Oscars: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Director Slams 'Lego Movie,' Jake Gyllenhaal Snubs". The Hollywood Reporter.

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