2014 OSCAR WINNERS!!

The winners of the 2014 Academy Awards, and how I did on my predictions.

Best Picture
BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE (alternate)

Best Director
ALEJANDRO G. INARRITU - "BIRDMAN" (alternate)

Best Actor
EDDIE REDMAYNE - "THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING" (correct)

Best Actress
JULIANNE MOORE - "STILL ALICE" (correct)

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. SIMMONS - "WHIPLASH" (correct)

Best Supporting Actress
PATRICIA ARQUETTE - "BOYHOOD" (correct)

Best Original Screenplay
BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (alternate)

Best Adapted Screenplay
THE IMITATION GAME (correct)

Best Animated Feature
BIG HERO 6 (alternate)

Best Cinematography
BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (correct)

Best Film Editing
WHIPLASH (missed)

Best Production Design
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (correct)

Best Costume Design
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (correct)

Best Sound Mixing
WHIPLASH (correct)

Best Sound Editing
AMERICAN SNIPER (correct)

Best Visual Effects
INTERSTELLAR (correct)

Best Makeup
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (correct)

Best Original Score
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (alternate)

Best Original Song
"GLORY" - SELMA (correct)

Best Foreign Language Film
IDA (correct)

Best Documentary Feature
CITIZENFOUR (correct)

Best Documentary Short Subject
CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1 (correct)

Best Live Action Short Film
THE PHONE CALL (correct)

Best Animated Short Film
FEAST (correct)

Also, a few fun facts about this years awards:

• For the first time since the Academy changed the Best Picture race from the customary 5 films, first to 10, now to an undetermined number, ALL FILMS (this year 8) nominated for Best Picture took home at least 1 award.
• For the first time in almost 35 years (1980's Ordinary People), a film won Best Picture (Birdman) without being nominated in the Best Film Editing category.
• With the win this year for Big Hero 6, Disney/Pixar has now taken 7 out of the last 8 wins in the Animated Feature category. The only exception is Rango in 2011. Dreamworks has not won the category since the first year the category was created, for Shrek back in 2001. [***They did produce and distribute Wallace & Gromit, which won in 05, but Aardman Studios were the filmmakers.]