Oscar Winners 2015
Oscar award is one of the most prestigious awards in the entertainment industry around the world. The Oscar Awards or Academy Awards are given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The first Oscar awards were given on 16th May 1929. Winners are chosen from 24 different categories in the entertainment industry. The design for the award statuette is credited to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) art director Cedric Gibbons. This year the 87th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films of 2014 and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in Los Angeles.
| Category | Winners |
|---|---|
| BEST PICTURE | Birdman |
| BEST ACTOR | Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) |
| BEST ACTRESS | Julianne Moore (Still Alice) |
| BEST DIRECTOR | Alejandro G Inarritu (Birdman) |
| BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR | JK Simmons (Whiplash) |
| BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS | Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) |
| BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM | Birdman, Emmanuel Lubezki |
| BEST COSTUME DESIGN | The Grand Budapest Hotel, Milena Canonero |
| BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | CitizenFour, Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky |
| BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT | Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry |
| BEST FILM EDITING | Whiplash, Tom Cross |
| BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM | Ida, Poland |
| BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING | The Grand Budapest Hotel, Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier |
| BEST ORIGINAL SCORE | The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alexandre Desplat |
| BEST ORIGINAL SONG | Glory, Selma |
| BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN | The Grand Budapest Hotel, Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock |
| BEST SHORT FILM ANIMATED | Feast, Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed |
| BEST SHORT FILM LIVE ACTION | The Phone Call, Mat Kirkby and James Lucas |
| BEST SOUND EDITING | American Sniper, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman |
| BEST SOUND MIXING | Whiplash, Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley |
| BEST VISUAL EFFECTS | Interstellar, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher |
| BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | The Imitation Game, Graham Moore |
| BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY | Birdman, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo |
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