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Oscar Awards 2015


The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time.

Which movie won the Best Picture Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015 ?

[A] American Sniper
[B] Boyhood
[C] Birdman
[D] The Imitation Game



Movie Description Details
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Produced by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bó
StaringMichael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts
LanguageEnglish
Budget$16.5 million
Who won the Best Director Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015 ?

[A] Wes Anderson
[B] Richard Linklater
[C] Bennett Miller
[D] Alejandro González



Best Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu
(Born August 15, 1963) Alejandro G. Iñárritu is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, film producer, and composer.
González Iñárritu is the second Mexican director to win both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America award for Best Director, after Alfonso Cuarón in 2014. He is also the first Mexican director to win the Prix de la mise en scene or Best Director Award at Cannes (2006)
Who won the Best Actor Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015 ?

[A] Eddie Redmayne
[B] Steve Carell
[C] Bradley Cooper
[D] Benedict Cumberbatch



Best Actor - Eddie Redmayne
(Born 6 January 1982) is an English actor, singer and model. He started his professional career as an actor in both theatre and television roles in the early 2000s and then made his film debut, Like Minds, in 2006.
Who won the Best Actress Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015 ?

[A] Marion Cotillard
[B] Julianne Moore
[C] Reese Witherspoon
[D] Rosamund Pike



Best Actress - Julianne Moore
(Julie Anne Smith, Born ; December 3, 1960) is an American-British actress and children's author. Prolific in cinema since the early 1990s, Moore is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women. Her career has involved both art house and Hollywood films
Who won the Best Supporting Actor Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015 ?

[A] Robert Duvall
[B] Ethan Hawke
[C] J. K. Simmons
[D] Edward Norton



Best Supporting Actor - J. K. Simmons
(Born January 9, 1955) is an American actor of film, television and stage. He is known for his roles as Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series Law & Order (and other Law & Order franchise series), neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger on the HBO prison drama series Oz, Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on the TNT series The Closer, J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, and the voices of Cave Johnson in the 2011 puzzle game Portal 2 and Tenzin in The Legend of Korra. Simmons is also known for appearing in a series of television commercials for Farmers Insurance.
Who won the Best Supporting Actress Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015?

[A] Laura Dern
[B] Patricia Arquette
[C] Keira Knightley
[D] Emma Stone



Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette
(born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her film debut in Chuck Russell's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and following roles included Tony Scott's True Romance (1993), Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994), David O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster (1996), David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997), Stephen Frears's The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Rupert Wainwright's Stigmata (1999), and the Disney film Holes (2003).
Which Movie won the Best Animated Feature Film Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015?

[A] The Boxtrolls
[B] How to Train Your Dragon 2
[C] Song of the Sea
[D] Big Hero 6



Best Animated Feature Film - Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated superhero action comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 54th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, and is inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.[6] Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, the film tells the story of a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada who forms a superhero team to combat a masked villain.
Which Movie won the Best Foreign Language Film Award in 87th Oscar awards 2015?

[A] Ida (Poland) in Polish
[B] Leviathan (Russia) in Russian
[C] Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian
[D] Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish



Best Foreign Language Film - Ida (Poland) in Polish
Ida is a 2013 Polish drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Set in Poland in 1962, it is about a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II, the film has also been said to "contain a cosmos of guilt, violence and pain", even if certain historical events remain unsaid: "none of this is stated, but all of it is built, so to speak, into the atmosphere: the country feels dead, the population sparse".

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