We’re still about an hour away from the 87th Annual Academy Awards, which means you’ve still got time to read through our Oscar preview for all of our predictions and proclamations on who will win, who should win and who got snubbed (cough cough…Selma?) before host Neil Patrick Harris kicks off the show.
It should be an interesting one this year—as Paste’s Michael Dunaway noted in our preview, it’s “a strange year for the mostly old, mostly white, mostly male, mostly very traditional Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The two leading Oscar contenders are art films. The film with the most nominations is a madcap romp through pre-WWII Eastern Europe, as seen through the lens of one of our most peculiar auteurs. There’s no conventional-feeling movie with a great shot at Best Picture.”
Whatever does wind up happening, we’ll be here beginning at 8:30 p.m. EST to post results and reactions to the show in real-time.
12:05 p.m.: Birdman wins Best Picture. “Who gave this sonofabitch his green card?” says Sean Penn, for some reason.
11:57 p.m.: Julianne Moore wins Best Actress for Still Alice.
11:51 p.m.: Eddie Redmayne wins Best Actor for The Theory of Everything.
11:43 p.m.: Alejandro G. Iñárritu wins Best Director for Birdman and announces “I am wearing the real Michael Keaton tighty-whities.”
11:35 p.m.: Best Adapted Screenplay goes to The Imitation Game.
11:30 p.m.: Birdman wins Best Original Screenplay.
11:23 p.m.: The Grand Budapest Hotel continues to rake ‘em in with Best Original Score.
11:06 p.m.: John Legend and Common take home Best Original Song for “Glory” from Selma.