Monday, February 23, 2015

Birdman beats Boyhood 4-1 – AD.nl

No Oscar for animated short Dutch A Single Life, but four awards for Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel. The highlight of the ceremony was a performance by Lady Gaga with a medley consisting of songs from the classic film The Sound of Music.

With four Oscars, the tragicomedy Birdman become the main winner of the award ceremony of the 87th Academy Awards ceremony. Production director Alejandro Iñárritu – about a former action hero who hopes for a serious career in the theater – received the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

,, We never had to give him a work permit, ” joked presenter Sean Penn when he announced that the Mexican filmmaker Iñárritu the main Oscar and won Best Film for Birdman.

Birdman defeated his main rival Boyhood 4-1. The film by Richard Linklater received only one Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The winner, Patricia Arquette, made an impassioned plea for equal pay for women in America, which makes her more gave a standing ovation from Meryl Streep.

Animation
Netherlands grip next to the only Oscar Chance. The short animated film A Single Life by the Utrecht trio Job, Joris and Marieke lost to the Disney production Feast. The Oscar for Long Animated Film went to the Disney Studio: Big Hero 6.

Non-English film
Up Best non-English film was named the Polish entry Ida. The film, already awarded the European Oscar, is about a nun who discovers that she is of Jewish descent and suddenly confronted with anti-Semitism.

Highlights
over 3 ¿hour television broadcast of the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles had only a handful of highlights. The most impressive part of the show was Lady Gaga. She gave a rousing and flawless performance with a medley dedicated to the classic film The Sound of Music that was made 50 years ago. After her performance Lady Gaga was embraced by Julie Andrews, who sang the most important songs in the original film. It resulted in both divas a standing ovation from the audience.

Emotional moments
Emotional moments were there too. Painful was the acceptance speech of the winner of the short documentary Crisis Line, director Dana Perry. When they talked about the suicide of her son Evan, she was drowned out by the music while they just made a plea to talk more publicly about suicide.

Best Edited Screenplay
The winner of the Best Screenplay Processed, Graham Moore (The Imitation Game), confessed that he had considered suicide at age 16 “because he was different. ” With this remark, he was referring to Alan Turing, the computer expert from The Imitation Game who committed suicide in 1954 after he was convicted by his homosexuality by the English government.

Light Neil Patrick Harris
Host Neil Patrick Harris, who previously presented the gala of the Emmys (music) and Tony’s (drama), especially play was bad jokes . He even appeared in underpants on the stage as homage to Birdman. After winning the Best Documentary, Citizen Four, about hiding whistleblower Edward Snowden, he joked:. ,, Too bad he could not be there at ” He allowed himself a bad joke about the number of 160 deaths that the sniper from the nominated film American Sniper in Iraq on his name.

Bright acceptance speech
Fel was the acknowledgments of the composers of Glory, the winning song from Selma, the film about the protest marches of Martin Luther King with two nominations rather was rewarded scanty. One of them, John Legend, closed his speech by saying that “there is now in the United States more black men in prison than there were slaves in 1850. ‘



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