87th Academy Awards
Date	February 22, 2015
Site	Dolby Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Neil Patrick Harris
Produced by	Neil Meron Craig Zadan^[1]
Directed by	Hamish Hamilton^[2]
Highlights
Most nominations	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (9)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
← 86th Academy Awards

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), is scheduled to take place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.^[3] The Academy gave Academy Honorary Awards to Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O’Hara and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Harry Belafonte in November 2014.^[4]^[5]

Actor Neil Patrick Harris is scheduled to host the ceremony for the first time.^[6]

Nominees

The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15, 2015, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, and actor Chris Pine. It was first time all 24 categories were announced during the event.^[7]^[8]

Schedule

Date^[9]	Event
Saturday, November 8, 2014	The Governors Awards
Wednesday, December 3, 2014	Screen credits and music submissions due
Monday, December 29, 2014	Nominations voting begins 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST)
Thursday, January 8, 2015	Nominations voting ends 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST)
Thursday, January 15, 2015	Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PST (8:30 a.m. EST)
Monday, February 2, 2015	Nominees luncheon
Friday, February 6, 2015	Final voting begins 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST)
Saturday, February 7, 2015	Scientific and Technical Awards
Tuesday, February 17, 2015	Final voting ends 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST)
Sunday, February 22, 2015	Ceremony begins 4:00 p.m. PST (7:00 p.m. EST)

Nominations

Best Picture	Best Director
American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales and Scott Rudin The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman Selma – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christian Colson and Oprah Winfrey The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster	Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Richard Linklater – Boyhood Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
Best Actor	Best Actress
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John du Pont Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking	Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Alice Howland Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliot-Dunne Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Robert Duvall – The Judge as Joseph Palmer Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr. Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Michael Shiner Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher	Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans Laura Dern – Wild as Bobbi Grey Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Samantha Thomson Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo Boyhood – Richard Linklater Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy	American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name
Best Animated Feature Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura	Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian – Zaza Urushadze Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damián Szifrón
Best Documentary – Feature	Best Documentary – Short Subject
Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado, David Rosier, Julia de Abreu, Fakhrya Fakhry, Andrea Gambetta and Christine Ponelle Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara and Jon Drever	Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry Joanna – Aneta Kopacz Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello White Earth – J. Christian Jensen
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis Boogaloo and Graham – Aneta Kopacz Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak) – Tomasz Śliwiński]] and Maciej Ślesicki Parvaneh – Gabriel Serra Arguello The Phone Cell – J. Christian Jensen	The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi Feast – Patrick Reed and Kristina Reed Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove A Single Life – Joris Oprins
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat Interstellar – Hans Zimmer Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson	"Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Shawn Patterson "Glory" from Selma – John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Diane Warren "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas Interstellar – Richard King Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro	American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Best Production Design	Best Cinematography
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration) Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman Ida – Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski Mr. Turner – Dick Pope Unbroken – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Best Costume Design
Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White	The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach Boyhood – Sandra Adair The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg Whiplash – Tom Cross	Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 8, 2014, during which the following awards were presented.^[10]^[11]^[12]

Academy Honorary Awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Harry Belafonte

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following 17 films received multiple nominations:^{[citation needed]}

Nominations	Film
9	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
9	The Grand Budapest Hotel
8	The Imitation Game
6	American Sniper
6	Boyhood
5	Foxcatcher
	Interstellar
	The Theory of Everything
	Whiplash
4	Mr. Turner
3	Into the Woods
3	Unbroken
2	Guardians of the Galaxy
	Ida
	Inherent Vice
	Selma
	Wild

The following films received multiple awards:

Awards	Film

References

^ "Craig Zadan And Neil Meron Return To Produce The 2015 Oscars®". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 9, 2014. ((cite web)): Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Oscars 2015 production team". Deadline. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ "The Academy Selects 2014 and 2015 Show Dates". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
^ "Harry Belafonte handed honorary Oscar". BBC News. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
^ "Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara to get Honorary Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
^ Gray, Tim (October 15, 2014). "Neil Patrick Harris to Host the Oscars". Variety. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
^ "Oscars: Why Academy Decided To Announce All 24 Category Nominees". Deadline. January 9, 2015.
^ "Oscar nominations 2015: live". Guardian. January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
^ "Academy Announces Key Dates for the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ "Academy Unveils 2014 Governors Awards Recipients". Variety. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
^ "Honorary Oscars presented to Harry Belafonte, Maureen O'Hara, Hayao Miyazaki". CBS News. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
^ "Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki, Maureen O'Hara to get honorary Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

External links

Official websites

Other resources

87th Academy Awards at IMDb

Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Awards of Merit

Proposed awards	Popular Film

Special awards

Governors Awards	Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Special Achievement Academy Award
Academy Scientific and Technical Awards	Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive) Scientific and Engineering Award Technical Achievement Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Student Awards	Student Academy Award

Former awards

Merit Awards	Assistant Director Dance Direction Sound Editing Story
Special Awards	Academy Juvenile Award

Ceremonies
(years of film release)

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