Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel take home most of the Oscars

By Sam Barsanti | February 23, 2015 | 5:20am

Aux Features Film

Ain’t Hollywood grand? Not the actual neighborhood or whatever, obviously, but the idea of Hollywood as shorthand for America’s film industry. It has glitz! It has glamour! It probably has a third thing! The best part of Hollywood, though, is that it’s not afraid to put everything aside and just celebrate itself for a few hours every year by forcing foreign directors and accomplished makeup artists to cut their speeches short. In other words, it’s time for the Academy Awards, and though some reports are still coming in, the glitz, glamour, and third thing were all just as abundant as they are every year. Also, everybody got to see the outline of Neil Patrick Harris’ penis.

As for the actual awards, The Grand Budapest Hotel cleaned up and took home all of the ones you’d expect a critically acclaimed Wes Anderson movie to win (Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup And Hairstyling, Original Score), John Legend and Common’s “Glory” won Best Original Song after a performance that brought David Oyelowo to tears, Eddie Redmayne and Patricia Arquette helped The Theory Of Everything and Boyhood avoid total shutouts by winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress (respectively), and Julianne Moore won for Still Alice. The Best Picture award went to Birdman, and it also grabbed the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay awards for Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Meanwhile, Best Supporting Actor winner J.K. Simmons repeatedly slapped Whiplash in the face for only getting the Editing and Sound Mixing awards.