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The top winners at the Oscars are Eddie Redmayne (Best Actor in The Theory of Everything), Julianne Moore (Best Actress in Still Alice) and Birdman (Best Picture, Best original screenplay, Best cinematography and Best director).
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The Oscar Winners

Best picture
Winner: Birdman
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best director
Winner: Alejandro G Inarritu, Birdman
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

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

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

Best supporting actor
Winner: JK Simmons, Whiplash
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher

Best supporting actress
Winner: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Best adapted screenplay
Winner: The Imitation Game
American Sniper
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best original screenplay
Winner: Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Best animated feature
Winner: Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best animated short
Winner: Feast
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best cinematography
Winner: Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr Turner
Unbroken

Best costume design
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr Turner

Best documentary feature
Winner: CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best documentary short
Winner: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best film editing
Winner: Whiplash
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game

Best foreign language film
Winner: Ida (Poland)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Wild Tales (Argentina)

Best live action short
Winner: The Phone Call
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
Parvaneh

Best make-up & hairstyling
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best original score
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best production design
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr Turner

Best song
Winner: Glory, Selma
Everything is Awesome, The Lego Movie
Grateful, Beyond the Lights
I’m Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me
Lost Stars, Begin Again

Best sound editing
Winner: American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best sound mixing
Winner: Whiplash
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best visual effects
Winner: Interstellar
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men: Days of Future Past

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Armed conflict and attacks

• War in Donbass
  • Pro-Russian rebels start a two-week process of removing heavy weapons from the front lines in eastern Ukraine in accordance with the ceasefire agreement. (Reuters via Haaretz)
  • An explosion at a pro-Ukraine march kills three and injures more than 10 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (AFP via Yahoo News UK)
• Jeh Johnson, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, warns Americans to take a threat by Somalia based al-Shabab to attack shopping malls in the US, United Kingdom and Canada seriously. (BBC)
• Second Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
  • Islamic State militants claim responsibility for bombing the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Tripoli and a rocket attack on Al Abraq International Airport. (Reuters via Islamic State)

Arts and culture

• 87th Academy Awards
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu becomes the second Mexican director to win Academy Award for Best Director forBirdman. Birdman then wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. (The Globe and Mail) (The Telegraph)
  • British actor Eddie Redmayne wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. (The Guardian)
  • American actress Julianne Moore wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Still Alice. (Hollywood Reporter)

Disasters and accidents

• A rescue operation is underway in Bangladesh as a ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler. The death toll has reached 41. (AP), (Reuters), (CNN), (AAP via SBS)
• All 486 trapped by an underground fire at the Harmony Gold Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville, South Africa have been rescued. (News24), (Globe and Mail)

Law and crime

• Six current and former Gold Coast Titans players have been charged with supplying cocaine including Greg Bird, Dave Taylor, Beau Falloon, Jamie Dowling and Kalifa Faifai Loa with all players stood down for the coming Australian National Rugby League season. (Gold Coast Bulletin), (AAP via Sportsfan)
• Thai police arrest at least three people for holding an unauthorised demonstration. (Channel News Asia)
• Former President of the Maldives and current Opposition Leader Mohamed Nasheed is arrested.(V News)

Politics

• Two former British foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind become embroiled in a “cash for access” scandal. They deny any wrongdoing and refer themselves to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Hudson.(The Telegraph), (BBC)
• Hungary‘s ruling Fidesz Party loses its two-thirds supermajority in the National Assembly after a left-wing independent candidate wins a by-election in a district based on the city of Veszprem. (AP via Star Tribune)

Sports

• In motorsport, Joey Logano wins the 57th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, the first race of the2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Polesitter, 3-time Daytona 500 winner, and 4-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon finishes 33rd after a last-lap crash in what is planned to be his final Daytona 500 start. (AP via ESPN)

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