The 87th Oscars on Sunday marked the second consecutive big Academy Awards for Fox Searchlight, which on the strength of its second Best Picture winner in a row (Birdman, after 12 Years A Slave in 2014) and its Wes Anderson pic The Grand Budapest Hotel ran away with top studio honors with eight wins overall out of a leading 18 nominations going in.
Only five studios had more than two trophies last night, with Sony Pictures Classics second overall with four nods, followed by Disney and the Weinstein Company with two apiece. Here is the full annotated winners list:
Fox Searchlight – 8
Birdman
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel
ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN: Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE): Alexandre Desplat
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN: Milena Canonero
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
Sony Pictures Classics – 4
Still Alice
BEST ACTRESS – Julianne Moore
Whiplash
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: J.K. Simmons
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING: Tom Cross
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING: Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Disney – 2
Big Hero 6
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR: Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
Feast
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Paramount – 2
Interstellar
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS: Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
Selma
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SONG): Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
Weinstein Company – 2
CitizenFour
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
The Imitation Game
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Graham Moore
Focus Features – 1
The Theory Of Everything
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Eddie Redmayne
IFC Films – 1
Boyhood
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Patricia Arquette
Music Box – 1
Ida (Poland)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Warner Bros – 1
American Sniper
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING: Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Note: Short Subject companies not included
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