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2015 Oscar Winners: The 87th Annual Academy Awards Results and Live Blog
The day is upon us. Oscar Sunday. The finale of the movie season. Our Super Bowl. The day where the best of the previous year’s films are crowned and the collective consciousness switches from looking backwards to forwards. For the 87th time, it’s time for the Academy Awards.

Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 87th Annual Academy Awards live from Hollywood California where the best films of 2014 battle for Oscar gold. Films like Boyhood, Birdman, American Sniper, The Theory of Everything, The Imitation Game, Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Selma will all try to become Oscar winners.

Below, you’ll find all of the 2015 Oscar winners. They be updated in real time, along with commentary from the show itself. Here are our predictions. Were we right? Did your favorite film win? Were there any upsets? Find out below.

Here are all the winner’s that have happened so far. We’ll update this list as the winner’s are announced.

2015 Oscar Winners
- Best Picture
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Directing
- Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
- Best Supporting Actor – J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
- Animated Feature Film – Big Hero 6
- Documentary Feature – Citizenfour
- Foreign Language Film – Ida (Poland)
- Adapted Screenplay
- Original Screenplay
- Original Score
- Original Song
- Film Editing – Whiplash
- Production Design – The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Sound Editing – American Sniper
- Sound Mixing – Whiplash
- Visual Effects – Interstellar
- Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Costume Design – Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Makeup and Hairstyling – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier, The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Animated Short Film – Feast
- Live Action Short Film – The Phone Call
- Documentary Short Subject – Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
And here are the nominees. We’ll bold each one and bump it to the top as they’re announced.

2015 Academy Awards Live Blog

Documentary Feature
Citizenfour – Winner
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga
Commentary: I still can’t believe that Citizenfour even exists. It’s so incredible. A totally worthy and amazing winner.

Film Editing
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash – Winner
Commentary: Great tension, great pacing, great victory for Whiplash.

Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Winner
Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida
Dick Pope, Mr. Turner
Roger Deakins, Unbroken
Commentary: When you make a movie that’s basically in one full shot, you’re going to win best Cinematography. That’s just how it is. And it’s totally warranted. Also, this is Lubezki’s second Oscar in a row.

Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Winner
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Commentary: The Grand Budapest Hotel wins another, in a sure fire sign it’s taking most of the tech awards. The production design in the movie is absolutely magnificent so it’s 100% well deserved.

Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6 – Winner
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Commentary: This was probably a closely contested race but Disney, again, takes it home. If The Lego Movie couldn’t win, I’m glad Big Hero won. It’s original, it’s commercial, it’s really good. Also, Neil Patrick Harris said, “If you’re at the Oscar party with the people who made The Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.”

Animated Short Film
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast – Winner
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life
Commentary: Disney takes it home! So exciting! Congrats to Peter’s dog, Pixel!

Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar – Winner
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Commentary: The big superhero award, more or less, and it loses…to Interstellar. I guess it makes sense, the movie was beautiful.

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood – Winner
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Commentary: Another worthy yet expected win. Arquette took her time to argue for equal pay for women in America, which is pretty awesome.

Sound Editing
American Sniper – Winner
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken
Commentary: Say what you want about American Sniper, the sound was good.

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash – Winner
Commentary: This has to be considered an upset, yes? Either way, who cares? I’m so happy that Whiplash got another Oscar.

9:42 p.m. – Neil Patrick Harris just Birdmaned, in his tighty-whities, in front of a billion people. This guy is doing a great job.

Documentary Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper (La Parka)
White Earth

Live Action Short Film
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
Parvaneh
The Phone Call – Winner
Commentary: I haven’t seen any of these but out of all the short films that are out there and eligible, one has to be pretty special to win.

9:18 p.m. Tegan, Sara and Lonely Island just performed Everything is Awesome from The Lego Movie with a cameo from Will Arnett as Batman. So hilarious.

Foreign Language Film
Ida (Poland) – Winner
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Wild Tales (Argentina)
Commentary: Ida is available to stream on Netflix – right now – go for it.

Makeup and Hairstyling
Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard, Foxcatcher
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier, The Grand Budapest Hotel – Winner
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White, Guardians of the Galaxy

Costume Design
Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel – Winner
Mark Bridges, Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood, Into the Woods
Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive, Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran, Mr. Turner
Commentary: Guys and gals – a Wes Anderson movie is now a double Oscar nominee…and counting!

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash – Winner
Commentary: Simmons had won every single award leading into this so this isn’t a surprise. Very well deserved though.

5:30 p.m. The show has finally began. Neil Patrick Harris is doing an huge musical number complete with Star Wars, The Avengers and Jaws. Anna Kendrick and Jack Black had the assist.

SHOW START, Read up

Original Song
“Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie
“Glory” from Selma
“Grateful” from Beyond the Lights
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me
“Lost Stars” from Begin Again

Best Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Directing
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer, Interstellar
Gary Yershon, Mr. Turner
Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Theory of Everything

Adapted Screenplay
Jason Hall, American Sniper
Graham Moore, The Imitation Game
Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
Anthony McCarten, The Theory of Everything
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash

Original Screenplay
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler

Best Picture
American Sniper
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

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February 22, 2015
Watch: ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Oscar Commercial Teases Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’

Marvel Studios’ big screen adaptation of Inhumans wont hit theaters for almost four years (November 2nd 2018) but Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD television series is gearing up to return to ABC with a Inhuman story arc on Tuesday, March 3rd 2015. During the Academy Awards pre-show, ABC aired the first promo for the mid season return which features the first audible mention of “Inhuman” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Watch the great Agents of SHIELD Inhumans commercial after the jump.

Agents of SHIELD Inhumans Commercial

If you’ve been following the series, you know its really gotten good sich the not-so-great first season. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD’s midseason finale revealed Chloe Bennet‘s character Skye’s true identity as (spoiler alert) Daisy Johnson, AKA Quake, and the show fully revealed the existence of the Inhumans – a group that Skye is part of that is sure to have larger ramifications on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This new promo shows Skye dealing with her Inhuman abilities.

What did you think of the Agents of SHIELD Inhumans commercial?

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February 22, 2015
'Birdman' & Linklater Win Top Prizes at the 30th Indie Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards are an annual award given in the name of independent film, featuring plenty of those little indies which deserve the honor and recognition that they usually don’t receive… Now celebrating their 30th year. There’s quite a few repeats here that will end up winning at the Oscars, but so be it. The 2015 winners of the Spirit Awards were announced Saturday before the Oscars at a ceremony out in Santa Monica. The big winner this year was Birdman, awarded Best Feature, with everything else spread between a variety of winners including Richard Linklater, Nightcrawler, J.K. Simmons, Julianne Moore. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a solid set of winners this year. Read on for the list of Indie Spirit results. ›››

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February 22, 2015
Rumor: Spielberg Wants to Direct Chris Pratt in New 'Indiana Jones'

Here we go… The big rumor on Oscar weekend, with all of Hollywood in town, is that Steven Spielberg is apparently quite interested in directing the new Indiana Jones movie. If you recall, in January we posted another rumor that Chris Pratt – star of Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy – is Disney’s top pick to star as the new version of Indiana Jones. Ever since Disney got their hands on Lucasfilm a few years ago, they’ve been figuring out how to bring more franchises back. Aside from Star Wars it sounds like Indy is next, and word from Deadline around Hollywood is that “assuming a script comes in to his satisfaction, Spielberg hopes to direct that film.” That film being the new Indiana Jones perhaps starring Chris Pratt. ›››

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February 22, 2015
Two New Posters for 'Cut Bank' Crime Thriller with Liam Hemsworth

Good folks. Bad deeds. I have to give credit where credit is due. A24 has whipped up some solid posters for the crime thriller Cut Bank (see the trailer), co-starring Teresa Palmer and Liam Hemsworth as some small town people who get mixed up with “good folks” and “bad deeds”. Whenever a studio actually releases artistic posters it’s worth pointing out because it’s still a unique decision, and I still like seeing these. The eye-glasses poster below is an obvious riff on the classic Straw Dogs poster but I quite like the way it looks, along with the bloody mailbox. These make me more interested in the film than any floating heads design. ›››

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February 22, 2015
Battlefield Hardline Xbox One Is "Extremely Rare"

Sadly, so far all we have is this tiny picture of it, but a new, custom Battlefield Hardline-themed Xbox One has appeared on Microsoft’s website (via NeoGAF).

It looks like the “extremely rare” Xbox One will be available only through a sweepstakes in Microsoft’s Bing Rewards program. To enter, you’ll have to create an account if you don’t already have one, and spend points you earn by using Microsoft’s search engine to enter a chance to win.

The custom Xbox One comes with a copy of Battlefield Hardline, a 12-month EA Access subscription, and without a Kinect.

This sweepstakes ends on February 26 at 9:00 AM ET and winners will be announced on March 17. You can find out more about the sweepstakes and its official rules here.

Battlefield Hardline’s release date is March 17 in the US and March 20 in the UK on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC. For more on the game, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage.

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February 22, 2015
Ex-Battlefield Director Says AAA Development Stifles Creativity

Ex-Battlefield 3 lead designer David Goldfarb has said that the development process for big-budget games restricts creativity.

“I think the risk/reward for the companies that can spend the marketing money and that have big successful franchises, for them it’s still worth laying out that investment,” Goldfarb told Gameindustry.biz in an interview. “But for people who don’t have that kind of capital, you’re not really in a practical success loop. AAA is the equivalent of the One Percent right now. It comes with all these caveats. You can’t make the crazy stuff really.”

This isn’t the first time Goldfarb shared this opinion about AAA game development. Last summer, after leaving his position at Payday developer Overkill Software, Goldfarb said that he’s “abandoning AAA,” for the same reason.

Other notable developers have also criticized AAA development lately. Last year, creative director of Just Cause 3 developer Avalanche Studios said that AAA development is unhealthy and unprofitable. Even Metal Gear Solid developer Hideo Kojima shared Goldfarb’s sentiment last year, saying that it’s hard to maintain creative freedom when working on such a large scale.

“I do think there’s a spot between the $100-$200 million dollar AAA games and the $1 million indie games that is not being adequately explored,” Goldfarb said. “To me that’s a really rich field to plow and you can do awesome stuff there.”

Earlier this week, Goldfarb announced a new, Stockholm-based, four-person studio called The Outsiders. The company’s first project is an untitled role-playing game that is aiming to launch for PC and possibly other systems later.

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February 22, 2015
Killer Instinct Teases Its Next Ghostly Fighter

Microsoft has released a new Killer Instinct trailer showing off Aganos, the sixth character joining Season 2 of the fighting game. As usual, the trailer ended with a tease for the next fighter that will join the game, who Microsoft is tentatively calling “Ghost Girl.”

The mysterious character wields a curved sword, is dressed in a kimono, and looks a lot like an “onryo,” a type of ghost from Japanese folklore that you might recognize from the original versions of horror movies The Ring or The Grudge. Over at the official Killer Instinct forums, Microsoft said that the character died 465 years ago, and that she’s a new addition to the lore, not a returning character.

The most recent update from Microsoft also details changes to the game’s leveling system, hints at future characters, and reveals new costumes.

Killer Instinct shipped on the same day as the Xbox One launch, with Jago available to play for free. Players could unlock other characters and items by paying a fee.

Killer Instinct developer Double Helix was acquired by Amazon last year, casting doubt on continued support for the Xbox One fighter. Microsoft claimed the game would not be affected and said that the franchise, which it owns and is now being developed by Iron Galaxy, would continue on.

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February 22, 2015
Blizzard Exploring Diablo 3 Microtransactions, But Not in the West (Yet)
Blizzard recently previewed what we can expect to see in the next patch for Diablo III. With that update nearing release on public testing servers, the company is now getting out ahead of some discoveries players could make–namely, the addition of microtransactions for non-American and European regions.

Knowing that data mining invariably reveals features that are being worked on, Blizzard has published a list on its forums with some new features that are buried in the patch’s files. However, it makes it clear these new feature “will not apply to all regions,” meaning that microtransactions are something that are only intended for players in other markets.

The list of features that “will not apply” to the Americas or Europe:
- A new currency called “Platinum”
- Timed experience boosts
- New cosmetic items including wings, non-combat pets, and character portraits
- References to stash space and character slot expansions
- A new UI interface that references the above information
Thankfully, based on what Blizzard offers there, it doesn’t sound as if microtransactions would be tied to item drops in any way. Were they to be added, experience boosts, cosmetic changes, and additional stash space sound like relatively inoffensive ways of working in microtransactions, particularly to someone like me who can’t help but hoard items.

If the thought of microtransactions in the game does worry you–and considering how the auction house was handled prior to its shutdown, no one could blame you–there’s little reason to fret, at least right now. “We recognize that many players have expressed an interest in microtransactions being added to Diablo III,” Blizzard says. “While we may explore this model in some regions, we have no immediate plans to implement such purchases anytime soon for the Americas region.” A matching statement on the European forum says the same for that region.

As for what you can count on seeing in the upcoming 2.2.0 patch in the Americas and Europe, check out our full rundown.

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February 22, 2015
Star Citizen's Incredibly Deep Mining System Explained

The upcoming space simulator Star Citizen, has explained how its mining occupation will work in the game, and it sounds incredibly involved.

“Mining presents players with a variety of challenges requiring skill and intelligence, whereas mindless repetition of a task and idle drudgery are explicitly avoided,” Tony Zurovec, Director of Star Citizen’s Persistent Universe said. “There are no aspects of mining that allow a player to simply press a button and wait without concern for a result, or that require players to perform an action repeatedly without some element of thought and/or dexterity coming into play.”

The most valuable materials in the game will often reside in dense asteroid fields, so pilots will have to avoid compressed pockets of gas, volatile materials, and seismic vibrations. Combat isn’t inherent to mining endeavors, but if you’re carrying valuable cargo, you could be an easy target for other players who want to steal your stuff.

You can work as a freelance miner, finding and selling materials as you please to best take advantage of the market, or on contract, agreeing to retrieve certain materials for a set fee.

The mining operations itself is also divided into multiple roles, which either other players or hired NPCs can fill. There’s the self explanatory position of the pilot, the scan operator in charge of launching probes that find materials, a beam operator in charge of extracting the materials, and a cargo operator who crushes the materials and stores them. Ships that have their own refineries will also need a refinery operator.

You can read more about Star Citizen’s mining occupation in much greater details on the game’s website.

Star Citizen and Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts already raised close to $73 million in crowdfunding, making it the most-crowdfunded project of any kind in history. Roberts recently said that the game still has a lot of room left to grow.

For more on Star Citizen and Roberts himself, check out part one and part two of GameSpot’s interview with the legendary designer.

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February 22, 2015