87th Academy Awards

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 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]

Schedule

Date^[8]	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)

Awards

Best Picture	Best Director
American Sniper - Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan and James W. Skotchdopole Boyhood - Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring and John Sloss The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales and Scott Rudin The Imitation Game - Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman Selma - Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christian Colson and Oprah Winfrey The Theory of Everything - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten Whiplash - Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, Michel Litvak and David Lancaster	Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman Richard Linklater – Boyhood Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Best Actor	Best Actress
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	Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Alice Howland Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Robert Duvall – The Judge as 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	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	Best Adapted Screenplay
Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr & Armando Bo Boyhood – Richard Linklater Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy	American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & 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
Best Animated Feature Film	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language 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 Documentary – Feature	Best Documentary – Short Subject

Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film

Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game Hans Zimmer – Interstellar Gary Yershon – Mr. Turner Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything	"Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Shawn Patterson "Glory" from Selma – John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Diane Warren "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing

Best Production Design	Best Cinematography
	Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman Ida – Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Unbroken – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Best Costume Design

Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
	Interstellar – 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 Captain America: Winter Soldier – 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.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Academy Honorary Awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Harry Belafonte

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following 17 films received multiple nominations:^{[citation needed]}

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

The following films received multiple awards:

Awards	Film

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.
^ "Academy Announces Key Dates for the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ "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.

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.

[dates-8] "Academy Announces Key Dates for the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

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

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

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

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