And the Oscar goes to... Birdman

After a night of fabulous speeches and stirring music performances, the awards season has finally come to a close. Neil Patrick Harris was surprisingly lame, but everything else was so thrilling that for me, it didn't fully register how hard he was flopping. Perhaps it was the quality of the winners too, as I was so happy to see so many deserving artists get some love. On top of them all was my #1 film of the year Birdman, winning Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Cinematography. Congrats! If you follow me on twitter, you'll know that I did fairly well on my predictions too, guessing 19 out of 24. So all in all, it was a very pleasant night for me. I'm looking forward to doing this all over again next year. Here are your Oscar winners for 2014:

Best Picture
Birdman

Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu , Birdman

Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman

Best Animated Feature
Big Hero 6

Best Foreign Language Film
Ida

Best Documentary Feature
Citizenfour

Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Original Song
"Glory", Selma

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Cinematography
Birdman

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Visual Effects
Interstellar

Best Editing
Whiplash

Best Sound Editing
American Sniper

Best Sound Mixing
Whiplash

Best Documentary Short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

Best Animated Short
Feast

Best Live Action Short
The Phone Call

Final scoreboard:
Birdman - 4
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 4
Whiplash - 3
And 13 other films won 1 award.


Oh, one last thing. This was my favorite tweet of the night (in response to that AWESOME performance of "Glory"):

Hey, Paramount, that Standing O was directed at your awful oscar campaign department. Bye.

— Sam Coff (@SamRS72) February 23, 2015