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Welcome to our live coverage of the Oscars 2015! Hollywood's awards season culminated today with the Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. Birdman swept the 2015 Oscars winning top honours including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel tied with four wins each. The Grand Budapest Hotel wins came mostly in the technical categories winning Best Make-Up, Best Production Design, Best Costume and Best Original Score. They were closely followed by Whiplash with bagged three award with expected wins in Best supporting actor for JK Simmons, Best sound mixing and Best editing.
As favourites throughout the awards season Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore scooped Best actor and actress respectively. Boyhood's solitary win came from Patricia Arquette's assured win in the best supporting actress category. Boyhood, Richard Linklater's coming-of-age tale about childhood, which took 12 years to complete was expected to have a tough battle with Birdman in the Best Film category.
After snubs in the Best Director and Best Actor category, Selma won Best Original Song to a standing ovation. American Sniper managed to convert only one of its six nomination with win for Best sound editing.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satire Birdman and Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel had lead the nominations this year with nine nods each.
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It seems like it was not a race at all! Birdman wins best film, sweeping top honours this year
Is this another race between Boyhood and Birdman?
It's time for Harris' predictions. "During Patricia Arquette's speech Meryl Streep will realise she is underpaid." Ha! Also, kudos for bringing attention to Travolta's weird face touching.
There it is. A much deserved and long overdue win for Moore. Here is our review of the nominees for best actress.
Julianne Moore has been crying through several acceptance speeches throughout the ceremony. Someone give her an Oscar!
Eddie Redmayne takes it home! Redmayne's turn as Stephen Hawking has been favourite to win with several wins already, and yet what an upset at the same time. Read our review of the best actor nominees this year.
This is race that everybody has been wary of predicting. The category has been a two horse race between the up and coming Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and veteran Michael Keaton (Birdman). But American Sniper's Bradley Cooper is the surprise underdog in this race who could quietly to sneak up and cause an upset.
And he does. Iñárritu is coming fresh of wins at Director's Guild, Producer's Guild and the Screen Actor's Guild. Birdman waited to win the big ones.
Iñárritu thanks his close friend and cinematographer Lubezki who was earlier up on stage for best cinematography.
Ben Affleck is here to present for Best Director. Alejandro González Iñárritu is tipped to win this one.
The Imitation Game gets its first win of the night. "Thank you so much to the Academy and thank you to Oprah!" Graham Moore's heartwarming speech reaches out to all those who feel they don't fit in.
OPRAAAAAH is here to present for Best Adapted Screenplay.
It's Birdman! First Oscar win for Iñárritu. We're still reeling from Wes Anderson's loss.
And the Oscar for Original Screenplay goes to... pic.twitter.com/NXLBaoKtfv
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 23, 2015
Eddie Murphys is here to present for Best Original Screenplay. The Grand Budapest Hotel won the Writers Guild Award for this one.
And Desplat it is! Fourth win for The Grand Budapest Hotel. The film seems to edging closer towards having the most wins this year.
Who do you think should win for best score? We're rooting for Alexandre Desplat's lovely score for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Lady Gaga pays tribute to Julie Andrews with a stirring performance of songs from Sound of Music.
John Legend and Common win for "Glory" from Selma. "When people are marching to our song, we want to say we are with you, we see you and march one"— a moving speech from the winners.
Idina Menzel and John Travolta. Naturally there will be a gag on Travolta's faux pas from last year. Travolta veering into creepy territoy here.
Well, if this isn't ironic. A standing ovation for the biggest snub this year, Selma.
Octavia Spencer has taken her eyes of Harris' Oscar predictions to introduce John Legend and Common for their performance of "Glory" from Selma. The song has been nominated for Best Original Song.
Here is why we thought the song should win this category.
Favourite to win Citizenfour takes this one for telling the story of how Edward Snowden exposed the wiretapping practices of the NSA and other intelligence agencies.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Congratulations to @citizenfour for winning the #Oscars2015 #documentation /as pic.twitter.com/Fia8awMVDD
— Piratenpartei (@Piratenpartei) February 23, 2015
Jennifer Aniston and David Oyelwo present for Best Documentary Feature. Aniston does not look pleased to be here.
With this win Whiplash and The Grand Budapest Hotel are leading with three wins each. One win each for Birdman and Boyhood. The last two are gearing up for the big awards!
Whiplash it is! Watch the film to see how slick editing is crucial to building all the tension that film hinges on.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Naomi Watts present for Best Editing. This one should go to Whiplash.
Meryl Streep pays tribute the those who passed this year. Mickey Rooney, James Garner, Maya Angelou, Anita Ekberg, Richard Attenborough, Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alain Resnais and Mike Nichols among those remembered.
Well said, Meryl. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/5iw4fXa9PY
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 23, 2015
Emmanuel Lubezki wins Best Cinematography for second year in a row for his work in Birdman. The seamless camerwork in the film has been an integral part of Iñárritu's storytelling in Birdman. Lubezki won last year for his work Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity.
Best Production Design for The Grand Budapest Hotel. Well deserved win! Have you seen the exquisite sets of this Wes Anderson's fictional country 'Republic of Zubrowka'?
We got this one wrong. Disney's Big Hero 6 wins!
#BigHero6 just won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature! Congratulations to the entire team! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/B26HFQHh8o
— Disney Animation ●—● (@DisneyAnimation) February 23, 2015
Read our review of the nominees in this category.
Harris taunts The Lego Movie crew as Zoe Saldana and Dwayne Johnson step up to present the award for Best Animated Feature Film.
Disney's Feast wins award for Best Animated Short.
And the Oscar for Animated Short Film goes to... pic.twitter.com/5LSU1LC5wD
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 23, 2015
#Feast just won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film! Congrats to the entire team! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/Sfc43NEZCs
— Disney Animation ●—● (@DisneyAnimation) February 23, 2015
Ansel Elgort and Chloë Grace Moretz present the award for Best Visual Effects. Predictably Chistopher Nolan's space opera Interstellar wins this award.
The Oscar for Visual Effects goes to... pic.twitter.com/9atAERZQVg
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 23, 2015
Rita Ora performs — "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights. Diane Warren has been nominated for this song in the category for Best Original Song.
Eddie Redmayne and Rober Duvall are now charged with the task of waking Octavia Spencer up to keep an eye on Harris' predictions. This heightened surveillance better lead to something good.
Patricia Arquette wins best supporting actress for Boyhood, continuing her reign of the awards season for the critically acclaimed role as Olivia. Arquette petitions for equal wages for women in her acceptance to rousing applause. 'It's our time.'
Read our review of the performances in the best supporting actress category
First award of the night for Clint Eastwood's American Sniper.
Sundance favourite Whiplash wins for second award of the night for sound mixing.
And the Oscar for Sound Mixing goes to... pic.twitter.com/j7yTmYBdBu
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 23, 2015
Tim McGraw performs Glenn Campbell and Julian Raymond — "I Am Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll be me.
Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry wins Best Documentary for Crisis Hotline Veteran Press 1.
Kerry Washingtong and 'the most ell adjusted child actor in the room' Jason Bateman present for Best Live Action Short. The Oscar goes to Mat Kirby and James Lucas for The Phone Call.
The orchestra this year seems to be getting talked over the acceptance speeches. Persistence finally starts to pay off!
Tegan and Sara and the Lonely Island perform "Everything is Awesome" for The Lego Movie.
Steve Carell, Oprah Winfrey and Channing Tatum get Lego Oscars. We're willing to bet they're better than the real deal.
Nicole Kidman as Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Chiwetel Ejiofor present for Best Foriegn Language film. Polisha film Ida wins the award. This is Poland's tenth nomination. A determined Pawel Pawlikowski, director of the film, will not let the orchestra play him off stage!
Oscar nominees Reese Witherspoon presents award for the Make-up and Hairstyling to Francis Hannon and Mark Coulier. The Grand Budapest Hotel takes this one too! The film has been favourite to win the technical catergories.
Chris Pine and Jennifer Lopez on stage to present the award for best costume. And the Oscar goes to Milena Canonero The Grand Budapest Hotel! Nominated 9 times, this is their first win of the night.
Maroon 5's Adam Levine performs "Lost Stars" from Begin Again.
Neil Patrick Harris makes the obligatory Harvey Weinstein joke. But seriously, how many did he make disappear for The Imitation Game's Oscar campaign?
Harris has his own set of predictions for this year's Oscars and has them under lock and key, under Octavia Spencer's eye.
As expected, JK Simmons wins best supporting actor for Whiplash. Simmons has made a clean sweep this awards season.
Simmons thanks his wife for 'above average children' and tells everyone to call their mothers.
First award of the night- Best supporting actor presented last year's winner Lupita Nyong'o
Read our overview of the performances in the best supporting actor category
Neil Patrick Harris gets on stage and goes straight for the jugular, calling out the awards for being at their 'whitest' this year.
NPH immediately breaks into song. Now this is what we have been looking forward to!
