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EDDIE REDMAYNE CROWNED BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, BIRDMAN WINS BEST DIRECTOR AND MORE IN OSCARS UPSET

It was a magical night in Tinseltown, during which the stars were aligned and the year’s great films and the people who made them happen were rewarded richly and rightly. Well, almost. The Clint Eastwood-directed “American Sniper” fell tonight under enemy fire. Are academy voters turning into tree-huggers on me? Where’s the love?

This year voters sent a strong anti-war message by leaving the perfect-score “Sniper” out of the limelight.

Maybe it’s just as well? The war depicted in “Sniper” is the indirect and long-winded reason why we’ll probably be seeing Jihadi John on the news again tonight or tomorrow night. The 2003 conflict, a lie fabricated by the insane clown posse running our country at the time, didn’t make us many friends. As it were, “Sniper” has already picked up the pieces by cleaning up at the B.O.

Here are the results of tonight’s wins:

Best Picture
Birdman
Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole

Best Actress
Julianne Moore
Still Alice

Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne
The Theory of Everything

Best Director
Birdman
Alejandro González Iñárritu

Best Foreign Language Film
Paweł Pawlikowski
Ida

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons
Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette
Boyhood

Best Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6
Chris Williams, Don Hall, Roy Conli

Best Original Song
Glory
John Legend, Common

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman
Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Birdman

Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game
Graham Moore

Best Original Music Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat

Best Visual Effects
Interstellar
Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, …

Best Makeup
Mark Coulier
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Makeup
Frances Hannon
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Sound Mixing
Craig Mann
Whiplash

Best Sound Mixing
Ben Wilkins
Whiplash

Best Sound Mixing
Thomas Curley
Whiplash

Best Costume Design
Milena Canonero
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Live Action Short Film
The Phone Call
Mat Kirkby, James Lucas

Best Film Editing
Tom Cross
Whiplash

Best Sound Editing
Bub Asman
American Sniper

Best Sound Editing
Alan Robert Murray
American Sniper

Best Animated Short Film
Feast
Kristina Reed, Patrick Osborne

Best Documentary Feature
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky

Best Production Design
Anna Pinnock
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Production Design
Adam Stockhausen
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Documentary Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Dana Heinz Perry, Ellen Goosenberg Kent