The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time.
In related events, the Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 8, 2014. On February 7, 2015, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Margot Robbie and Miles Teller.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included The Grand Budapest Hotel with four awards, Whiplash with three, and American Sniper, Big Hero 6, Boyhood, Citizenfour, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Feast, Ida, The Imitation Game, Interstellar, The Phone Call, Selma, Still Alice, and The Theory of Everything with one. The telecast garnered more than 37 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PST (13:30 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor Chris Pine. For the first time, nominations for all 24 competitive categories were announced. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel tied for the most nominations with nine each.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. Birdman was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since Ordinary People (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming Gravity. At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on Gravity the year before, Emmanuel Lubezki became the fourth person to win two consecutive Best Cinematography awards. John Toll was the last one who accomplished this feat for his work on 1994's Legends of the Fall and 1995's Braveheart.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole, producers American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan, producers Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, producers The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, producers The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman, producers Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner, producers The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten, producers Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster, producers | valign="top"|
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Richard Linklater – Boyhood Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game |- | valign="top"|
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking 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 or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson | valign="top"|
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Alice Howland Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed |- | valign="top"|
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr. Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz | valign="top"|
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans Laura Dern – Wild as Bobbi Grey Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch |- | valign="top"|
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo Boyhood – Richard Linklater Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman The Grand Budapest Hotel – Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy | valign="top"|
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore; American Sniper – Jason Hall; Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson; The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten; Whiplash – Damien Chazelle; |- | valign="top"|
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 | valign="top"|
Ida (Poland) in Polish – Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Directed by Zaza Urushadze Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Directed by Damián Szifron |- | valign="top"|
Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, and Dirk Wilutzky Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara | valign="top"|
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry Joanna – Aneta Kopacz Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki The Reaper – Gabriel Serra Arguello White Earth – J. Christian Jensen |- | valign="top"|
The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney Butter Lamp – Hu Wei and Julien Féret Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger | valign="top"|
Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove A Single Life – Joris Oprins |- | valign="top"|
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat Interstellar – Hans Zimmer Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson | valign="top"|
"Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyrics by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyrics by Shawn Patterson "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyrics by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyrics by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois |- | valign="top"|
American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 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 | valign="top"|
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, and Thomas Curley American Sniper – John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, and Walt Martin (posthumous nomination) Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – 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 |- | valign="top"|
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock The Imitation Game – Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald Interstellar – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis Into the Woods – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock Mr. Turner – Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts | valign="top"|
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Unbroken – Roger Deakins |- | valign="top"|
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White | valign="top"|
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran |- | valign="top"|
Whiplash – Tom Cross American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach Boyhood – Sandra Adair The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg | valign="top"|
Interstellar'' – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott Fisher 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 – Stéphane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, and Paul Corbould X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, and Cameron Waldbauer
Governors Awards The Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 8, 2014, during which the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards To Jean-Claude Carrière, whose elegantly crafted screenplays elevate the art of screenwriting to the level of literature. To Hayao Miyazaki, a master storyteller whose animated artistry has inspired filmmakers and audiences around the world. Maureen O'Hara, one of Hollywood's brightest stars, whose inspiring performances glowed with passion, warmth and strength.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Harry Belafonte For a lifetime of demonstrating how art is ennobled by ceaseless courage and conscience.
Films with multiple nominations and awards
The following 17 films received multiple nominations:
+ Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 9 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) The Grand Budapest Hotel8 The Imitation Game6 American SniperBoyhood5 Foxcatcher Interstellar The Theory of Everything Whiplash4 Mr. Turner3 Into the Woods Unbroken2 Guardians of the Galaxy Ida Inherent Vice Selma Wild
The following three films received multiple awards:
+ Films that received multiple awards Awards Film 4 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) The Grand Budapest Hotel 3 Whiplash
Presenters and performers
The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters