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Actress Julianne Moore attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center.Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images
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Winners list
Picture: "Birdman''
Actress: Julianne Moore for "Still Alice"
Actor: Eddie Redmayne for his portryal of Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything.”
Director: Alejandro Inarritu for “Birdman.”
Supporting actor: J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash''
Supporting actress: Patricia Arquette for "Boyhood''
Foreign language film: “Ida.”
Adapted screenplay: Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game.”
Original screenplay: Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo, “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”
Animated feature film: “Big Hero 6.”
Production design: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
Cinematography: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”
Sound mixing: “Whiplash.”
Sound editing: “American Sniper.”
Original score: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
Original song: “Glory” from “Selma.”
Costume design: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
Documentary feature: “CitizenFour.”
Documentary (short subject): “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1.”
Film editing: “Whiplash.”
Makeup and hairstyling: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
Animated short film: “Feast.”
Live action short film: “The Phone Call.”
Visual effects: “Interstellar.”
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LOS ANGELES — “Birdman” has won the Academy Award for best picture.
The film, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who also won best director, stars Michael Keaton as an aging superhero movie star suffering an identity crisis — and seeking redemption by mounting a serious Broadway play. It’s been hailed for its ensemble cast and its virtuosic camera work, which gives the sensation that the whole movie is shot in one continuous take.
The other nominees were: “American Sniper”; “Boyhood”; “The Grand Budapest Hotel”; “The Imitation Game”; “Selma”; “The Theory of Everything”; and “Whiplash”.
Birdman also won for best original screenplay and best cinematography.
“Maybe next year the government will inflict immigration restrictions, ” said Innaritu, recalling last year’s best director winner, Alfonso Cuaron. “Two Mexicans in a row. That’s suspicious, I guess.”
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Julianne Moore won her first Oscar as best actress for “Still Alice, ” and she shined a light on Alzheimer’s disease in her acceptance speech Sunday night.
The 54-year-old actress added an Academy Award to the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies she won earlier for her role as a college linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
“I’m so happy, I’m thrilled that we were able to shine a light on Alzheimer’s disease, ” Moore said. “So many people who have this disease feel marginalized. People who have Alzheimer’s disease deserve to be seen so we can find a cure.”
Moore did four months of research for her role, talking to women with the disease and doctors, and she visited a long-term care facility.
She has been nominated four previous times; this year, she was the front-runner throughout awards season.
Moore was sent on her way to the stage by husband-director Bart Freundlich, who is 45.
“I read an article that said that winning an Oscar could lead to living five years longer, ” she said. “If that’s true, I’d really like to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.”
Moore won over Marion Cotillard of “Two Days, One Night”; Felicity Jones from “The Theory of Everything”; Rosamund Pike of “Gone Girl”; and Reese Witherspoon of “Wild.”
Eddie Redmayne has won the Academy Award for best actor for “The Theory of Everything.”
Redmayne plays the real-life role of physicist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. The actor has been praised for his skillful depiction of Hawking’s gradual physical decline.
