Extra, Extra!: Birdman Wins Best Picture (Plus Tonight's Other Academy Award Winners)

In which I report on the latest in entertainment news.

Well Oscar Night has come and gone and we're left with a new crop of "best" movies from on of the truly standout years for movies.  As far as predictions go, correctly naming 14 out of 24 winners isn't half bad (in fact, it's bit bit better than half good).  The acting and animation categories definitely tripped me up this year (although they were hardly the only ones that did).

Best Picture:  Boyhood  Birdman
Best Director: Birdman
Best Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel  Birdman
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Imitation Game

Best Actor: Birdman  The Theory of Everything
Best Actress: Gone Girl  Still Alice
Best Supporting Actor: Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress: Boyhood

Best Original Score: Mr. Turner  The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Original Song:  Selma
Best Sound Editing: Birdman  American Sniper
Best Sound Mixing: Whiplash

Best Animated Feature Film: How to Train Your Dragon 2  Big Hero 6
Best Animated Short Film: The Dam Keeper  Feast
Best Documentary Feature: CitizenFour
Best Documenary Short Subject: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

Best Foreign Language Film: Leviathan  Ida
Best Live Action Short Film: The Phone Call
Best Film Editing: Boyhood  Whiplash
Best Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Costume Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Cinematography: Birdman
Best Visual Effects: Interstellar

So yes, in the end, Becky beat me by a single prediction: 15 to 14.  God knows that I won't hear the end of that for a long time (although it's admittedly half as long as I'd let her live it down if the situations were reversed).

Later this week I will be sure to address some of the surprises and fallout from this year's ceremony (back-to-back Mexican Best Director wins, Wes Anderson's screenplay loss and whatever happened to the lead performance front runners).  There are a few more surprises that I have up my sleeve for the immediate future, so stay tuned to see what happens around my neck of the woods after Award Season ends.

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