87th Academy Awards

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best lms of 2014 and took place on
February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,
Los Angeles beginning at 08:30 EST.[9] During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to
as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in
the United States by ABC, was produced by Neil Meron
and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the rst
time.[10]

Actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone

Isaacs (left) and directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso
Cuarn (right) at the 87th Oscars Nominations Announcement

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.[11] On February 7, 2015, in a ceremony at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy
Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by
hosts Margot Robbie and Miles Teller.[12]

The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15, 2015, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38
UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills,
California, by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the
Academy, directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarn,
and actor Chris Pine.[18][19] Birdman or (The Unexpected
Hotel tied
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest
[20]
for
the
most
nominations
with
nine
each.
[13]
The Grand Budapest Hotel won the most awards,
tieing with four each.[14] Birdman 's awards included the The winners were announced during the awards cereBest Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay mony on February 22, 2015.[21] All of the lms comfor Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, while The Grand Bu- peting for Best Picture received at least one award in andapest Hotel 's awards included Best Original Score for other category, making it the rst time this has occurred
Alexandre Desplat.[15] Whiplash, the only other lm to since the Academy expanded the category to more than
win multiple awards, won three including the Best Sup- ve nominees in 2009. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu beporting Actor for J. K. Simmons.[16] The other winners came the second consecutive Mexican winner for Best
were The Theory of Everything, Still Alice, Boyhood, The Director, with the statue having been awarded the previImitation Game, Big Hero 6, Ida, Citizenfour, Crisis Hot- ous year to Alfonso Cuarn for Gravity.[22] Irritu was
line: Veterans Press 1, The Phone Call, Feast, Selma, the most awarded individual of the ceremony, winning
American Sniper, and Interstellar. The telecast garnered each of his three nominations. Emmanuel Lubezki benearly 37.2 million viewers in the United States, mak- came the 4th consecutive recipient of Best Cinematoging it the least watched Oscar ceremony since the 81st raphy award after winning for Birdman as he also won
Academy Awards in 2009.[17]
for Gravity last year,[23][24] and second Mexican winner
of ceremony.[25] Ida became the rst Oscar winner for
Poland in the Best Foreign Language Film category, with
an overall ten nominations since 1963.[26]

Winners and nominees

1.1 Awards
Winners are listed rst and highlighted in boldface.[21]

1.2 Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 8, 2014, during which the following
awards were presented:[11][27][28]
1

WINNERS AND NOMINEES

Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Best Director winner

Julianne Moore, Best Actress winner

Eddie Redmayne, Best Actor winner

J. K. Simmons, Best Supporting Actor winner

1.2.1

Academy Honorary Awards

Jean-Claude Carrire

1.2.2 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Hayao Miyazaki
Maureen O'Hara

Harry Belafonte

2.1

Presenters

Patricia Arquette, Best Supporting Actress winner

Common, Best Original Song co-winner

2.1 Presenters
2.2 Performers

3 Ceremony information
From the last years ceremony ratings boost up and from
mixed to positive response, Academy hired Neil Meron
and Craig Zadan as producers for the third consecutive
year, President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced on April
21, 2014 We couldn't be more thrilled to have Craig and
Neil back to produce the Oscars again in 2015.[46]
Alexandre Desplat, Best Original Score winner

3.1 Box oce performance of nominated

lms
1.3

Films with multiple nominations and

For the rst time since 2007,[47] none of the Best Picture
awards

nominee had grossed over $100 million before the nominations were announced. The combined gross of the eight
Best Picture nominees at the American and Canadian box
2 Presenters and performers
oces was $205 million, with an average of $26 million
per lm.[48] Birdman became the second lowest-grossing
The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture after
presented awards or performed musical numbers.[29]
The Hurt Locker in the last four decades.[49]

3 CEREMONY INFORMATION
as compared to last year nominees, where four lms were
nominated for Best Picture among from the top 50 lms
by earning.[50] When the nominations were announced
on January 15, 2015, The Grand Budapest Hotel was the
highest-grossing lm among the Best Picture nominees
with $59.1 million in domestic box oce receipts.[51] The
Imitation Game was the second-highest-grossing lm with
$42.7 million; this was followed by Birdman ($26.6 million), The Theory of Everything ($26.2 million), Boyhood
($24.3 million), Selma ($16.5 million), Whiplash ($6.2
million) and nally American Sniper ($3.3 million).[48]
American Sniper just had the wide release a day after the
nominations announcement, but after nominations American Sniper was the highest grossing lm among the Best
Picture nominees, at domestic oce sales.
Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 19 nominations went to 11 lms on the list. Only Big Hero 6 (9th),
Gone Girl (17th), Into the Woods (27th) were nominated
for Best Animated Feature, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress award respectively.[51] The other top 50
box oce hits that earned nominations were Guardians
of the Galaxy (1st), Captain America: The Winter Soldier
(3rd), The Lego Movie (4th), Malecent (6th), The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (7th), X-Men: Days of
Future Past (8th), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (10th)
and Interstellar (15th) .[51]

John Legend, Best Original Song co-winner

3.2 Nomination criticism

There has been criticism of the predominantly white Oscar nominees and in other elds of nominees alike. For
the third time since 1995, the 20 Academy Award acting nominations were only for white actors and actresses.
The rst was in 1998 and second was in 2011.[52] David
Sims of The Atlantic states the surprising coolness towards Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selmanominated
for Best Picture but missing in the Directing, Actor, and
Original Screenplay categorieswith the fact that all 20
acting nominees this year are white, the rst time such a
thing has happened since the Oscars honoring the lms
of 1995.[53] The late David Carr of The New York Times
had noted that these nominations were in contrast to the
previous years awards, where 12 Years a Slave won Best
Picture and Best Supporting Actress.[54] The Guardian
columnist Bidisha also notes the overwhelmingly white
nominee list while also discussing the fact that every
nominated best director, screenwriter, screenplay adapter
and original score composer is a white man,[55] additionally suggesting that there is an inherent lack of female
representation in the Oscars this year beyond the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories. Selma was
directed by Ava DuVernay, herself an African-American
female. However, nominees Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu,
Neil Patrick Harris hosted the 87th Academy Awards.
Nicols Giacobone, Armando Bo, Emmanuel Lubezki,
and Martin Hernndez, all nominated for Birdman, are
None of the eight Best Picture nominees was among the all Latino.
top ten or fty release in box oce during nominations, In response to criticism about lack of diversity, Cheryl

3.4

Critical reviews

Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy, stated that

in the last two years, weve made greater strides than
we ever have in the past toward becoming a more diverse and inclusive organization through admitting new
members and more inclusive classes of members. And,
personally, I would love to see and look forward to see
a greater cultural diversity among all our nominees in
all of our categories.[56] She refrained from commenting on whether the Academy was embarrassed about the
lack of diversity, but stated that she was proud of all the
nominees.[57]

3.3

Birdmans disqualication from Best

Original Score

On December 12, 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture

Arts and Sciences released their longlist for the Academy
Award for Best Original Score, from which Birdman was
absent. Snchez had received a note from the award committee the previous day explaining the decision, quoting
rule fteen of the 87th Academy Award Rules and writing they felt the fact that the lm also contains over a
half an hour of non-original (mostly classical) music cues
that are featured very prominently in numerous pivotal
moments in the lm made it dicult for the committee
to accept your submission. Snchez decided to launch an
appeal, and along with Gonzlez Irritu and the executive vice-president of Fox Music, sent letters to the chair
of the Academys music branch executive committee,
Charles Fox, asking that the committee reconsider their
decision.[58] One of the points they raised was that the
committee had incorrectly calculated the ratio of classical to original music, which after being claried Snchez
thought he was on really solid ground.[59] A response
from Fox on December 19 however, explained that a special meeting of the music committee was held, and although its members had great respect for the score and
considered it superb, thought that the classical music
was also used as scoring, equally contributes to the effectiveness of the lm, and that the musical identity of
the lm was created by both the drums and classical music. Ultimately, they did not overturn their decision.[58]
Snchez said that he and Gonzlez Irritu were not satised with the explanation, and that to not be able to
even participate, to not be on the list, thats whats so
disappointing.[59]

5
to be more lively and bracing than any of Harris skits.[61]
Columnist Alan Sepinwall of HitFix commented, It ran
on and on and on and on so much that when host Neil
Patrick Harris nally got around to paying o a running gag about his Oscar predictions being locked in a
box on stage left, he had to stop to explain the bit to
us all over again. He said that Neil jokes were snarkier
and o-key, either the production consumed Harris, the
writing failed him, or he picked a very strange night to
go o-brand.[62] Boston.com's Charlotte Wilder wrote,
The veteran awards show host delivered a tone-deaf, disrespectful performance. Further saying, He bombed.
Which is surprising, given the personal brand hes built
as the guy who hosts award shows. But Harriss biggest
failureapparent throughout the eveningwas that he
didnt honor the basic rule of improvisation.[63] Brian
Moylan of The Guardian said The song-and-dance man
failed to hit the mark with gags that fell at and awkward
interactions with the audience. Basically, he choked.
He commented that, the problem with Harriss performance can be summed up in his gag about his Oscar predictions.[64] Los Angeles Times's Mary McNamara commented, Even the preternaturally prepped and
prolic Neil Patrick Harris seemed aected, reduced at
times to a small gure on a big stage making good job
remarks to performers and attempting to carry a longrunning joke about a box.[65]

On IMDb, ceremony also receives lower user ratings of

6.8 out of 10 from 1,306 users. Other media outlets received the broadcast slightly positive. James Poniewozik
of TIME felt that the Oscars was neither brilliant or a
disaster and that like many Hollywood productions, it
was just a long thing that felt put together by committee.
There were moving moments and tedious momentsbut
there were also just tons and tons of moments.[66] David
Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter writes that Harris
was, "'shrewd' to address the #OscarsSoWhite controversy in his rst joke of the night. However in favor he
said, Harris mastered the challenge of commanding the
room, chumming up to folks in the front rows throughout the show, while speaking directly to movie-lovers at
home.[67] Chloe Melas of Hollywood Life lauded Patrick
performance writing that, Neil is no stranger to hosting
a big awards show, he hosted the Emmy Awards in 2009,
2013, and the Tony Awards four times, so needless to say,
hes a seasoned pro. She also praised that, he did a really
good job. Neil wasnt too mean, he said some really funny
things and his opening number was fabulous!".[68] USA
Today's Robert Bianco writes in favor of Neil and criticized ceremony by calling it at Oscars and said Yet
3.4 Critical reviews
for all Harris skill and charm, the show too often pushed
The show received a mixed reception from media him past his abilities. For the most part, the shows main
publications.[60] Some media outlets were more critical accomplishment was avoiding embarrassing low points.
[69]
of the show. Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times
says, Oscar nights almost always drag on too long, but
this one was a slog almost from the very beginning. She
went on to say that Harris hosting was 'bland' and that
The political speeches were somber, but they turned out

3.5

Rating and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average 37.3

million people over its length, which was a 14% decrease from the previous years ceremony.[70][71][72] An
estimated drop of 6 million viewers occurred with time
zone adjustment for the period of 8:30 p.m. to 11:46
p.m. ET from ABC.[70] The show also earned a lower
Nielsen ratings with 25.0% of households watching over
a 38 share.[73][74] In addition, the program scored a lower
18-49 demo rating with a 11 rating over a 29 share among
viewers in that demographic.[75] It was the least watched
Oscar ceremony since the 81st Academy Awards in 2009
which was watched by approximately 36.3 million viewers.

In Memoriam

The annual In Memoriam segment was presented by actress Meryl Streep.[76] The montage featured an excerpt
of the Love Theme from Sophies Choice by Marvin
Hamlisch.[77]
At the conclusion of the tribute, singer Jennifer Hudson
performed the song "I Can't Let Go",[78] from season 2
of the television series Smash.[79]

Virna Lisi
Louis Jourdan
Gordon Willis
Richard Attenborough
Oswald Morris
Tom Rolf
L. M. Kit Carson
Ruby Dee
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Martha Hyer
Andrew V. McLaglen
Jimmy T. Murakami
Robin Williams
William Greaves
Joseph Viskocil
Rod Taylor
Stewart Stern

Mickey Rooney

Luise Rainer

Paul Mazursky

Dick Smith

Georey Holder

Lauren Bacall

Nadia Bronson

Walt Martin

James Garner
Elizabeth Pea
Alan Hirscheld
Edward Herrmann
Maya Angelou
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
George L. Little
James Rebhorn
Menahem Golan
James Shigeta
Anita Ekberg
Paul Apted
H. R. Giger
Sanford E. Reisenbach
Malik Bendjelloul

IN MEMORIAM

Charles Champlin
Pennie Dupont
Herb Jeries
Misty Upham
Eli Wallach
Gabriel Garca Mrquez
Frank Yablans
Alain Resnais
Bob Hoskins
Mike Nichols
The In Memoriam segment drew criticism for failing to
recognize the passing of Joan Rivers, who died in 2014.
Rivers is largely credited with popularizing the red-carpet
pre-show, and became a xture of Hollywoods award
season.[80] However she was in the online version of the
In Memoriam tribute on the Oscars ocial website along
with the other famous people that didn't made it to the
televised version.[81]

See also
21st Screen Actors Guild Awards
35th Golden Raspberry Awards
57th Annual Grammy Awards
67th Primetime Emmy Awards
68th British Academy Film Awards
69th Tony Awards
72nd Golden Globe Awards
List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for
Best Foreign Language Film

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