How Much Did Birdman the Horse Earn in His Career
Birdman, a dark satire of show business and fame directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, has won the Academy Award for best picture and best director.
It joined The Grand Budapest Hotel and Whiplash as the big winners, with Birdman also taking out the Oscars for cinematography and original screenplay.
The film about a washed-up former superhero actor, played by Michael Keaton, and his struggle to make a comeback stood out among eight nominees to receive the film industry's highest honour.
Inarritu won the best director Oscar, beating Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher), Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and Richard Linklater (Boyhood).
The second Mexican in a row to take the best director Oscar after Alfonso Cuaron won last year for Gravity, Inarritu dedicated his award to his fellow countrymen.
Talking about Mexican immigrants in the United States, he said: "I just pray that they can be treated with the same dignity and respect as the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation."
Eddie Redmayne won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal as physicist Stephen Hawking in the biographical movie The Theory of Everything.
It was the first Oscar for the 33-year-old British actor, whose performance as Hawking has also earned him Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA trophies.
"This Oscar — wow! This Oscar ... this belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS," Redmayne said, speaking of the condition also known as motor neurone disease, which Hawking was diagnosed with at 21.
"It belongs to one exceptional family — Stephen, Jane and the Hawking children — and I will be its custodian."
Julianne Moore, 54, took out the best actress Oscar for her role as a university professor with Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.
Moore paid tribute to her fellow nominees, Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), and Reese Witherspoon (Wild).
"There is no such thing as best actress — as is evidenced by the performances of my fellow nominees," she said.
"I've been honoured to be among you every step of the way.
"I'm grateful for this and grateful for the opportunity to stand up here and thank people that I love."
The win is the veteran actress's first Academy Award after being nominated four times previously.
Patricia Arquette, JK Simmons win for supporting roles
Patricia Arquette won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as a single mother in the coming-of-age drama Boyhood.
The American actress beat Laura Dern (Wild), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Emma Stone (Birdman) and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods) to clinch her first Academy Award.
Arquette has swept the movie awards season for her performance in director Richard Linklater's Boyhood, a film which was made over 12 years with the same cast.
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After thanking her family and co-stars, the 46-year-old made an impassioned plea for gender equality.
"To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's rights," Arquette said.
"It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America."
Streep stood up and pointed to Arquette, applauding her message.
Arquette, who hails from an acting family that includes brother David Arquette and sister Rosanna, has appeared in more than 40 movies in a career spanning three decades.
JK Simmons won the first award of the night, taking out the best supporting actor prize for his role as a bullying jazz teacher in Whiplash, which was also nominated for best picture.
Disney Animation's Big Hero 6, a comic book-inspired tale of a teen science genius who befriends a huggable robot, won the Oscar for best animated feature film.
The two Australians nominated for this year's Academy Awards both missed out, with X-Men: Days of Future Past's Tim Crosbie losing the visual effects trophy to the Interstellar team and David Lee's sound mixing work on Unbroken overlooked in favour of Whiplash.
In a series of technical categories, The Grand Budapest Hotel took honours for best costume design and best makeup and hairstyling.
American Sniper, which some predicted could be a dark horse for best picture, won the best sound editing prize.
Black-and-white Polish drama Ida picked up best foreign language film, an austere tale that lays bare the difficult legacy of the Nazi occupation of Poland and post-war Stalinist rule.
"We made a film about... the need for silence and withdrawal from the world and contemplation, and here we are. At the epicentre of noise and world attention. Fantastic, you know," director Pawel Pawlikowski told the audience.
"Life is full of surprises."
First-time host Neil Patrick Harris launched the three-and-a-half-hour ceremony with a song and dance routine about the movie industry itself - including a joke about the lack of any non-white actors in the four acting categories.
"Tonight we honour Hollywood's best and whitest... sorry, brightest," he said, earning laughs from the audience at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
A star-studded cast of presenters handed out the prizes, including Australians Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett as well as Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johansson, Liam Neeson, Oprah Winfrey and Streep.
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How Much Did Birdman the Horse Earn in His Career
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