Oscars: Redmayne And Birdman Come Up Trumps

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Birdman has scooped best film at the Oscars, with British star Eddie Redmayne winning best actor for The Theory Of Everything.

Mexican director Alejandro G. Inarritu also won best director for Birdman, which featured a career-resurrecting performance by Michael Keaton.

It also won for cinematography and original screenplay.

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Redmayne's memorable portrayal of Hawking saw off competition from fellow Brit Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper, Michael Keaton and Steve Carell.

Accepting his award Redmayne said he was a "lucky, lucky man".

"This belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS," said the 33-year-old actor.

"It belongs to one exceptional family; Stephen, Jane, Jonathan and the Hawking children."

Handling his iconic statuette, he added: "I promise you I will look after him, I will polish him, I will answer his beck and call and wait on him hand and foot."

Julianne Moore took the best actress prize for Still Alice, where she plays a woman with Alzheimer's disease. Britons Rosamund Pike and Felicity Jones had also been in the running.

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Nominee for best actress Marion Cotillard arrives on the red carpet for the 87th Oscars ceremony

Best supporting winner Patricia Arquette

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Moore said she was "thrilled" to be able to shine a light on the disease.

"People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen so we can find a cure," she told Hollywood's elite.

JK Simmons and Patricia Arquette earlier won the night's first acting accolades for their supporting roles.

Simmons had been widely fancied to win for playing a fiercely intimidating jazz teacher in Whiplash.

Arquette was honoured for playing the mother in coming-of-age drama Boyhood, filmed over 12 years with the same cast.

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Julianne Moore was thrilled with her win for Still Alice

Moore received the prize from Matthew McConaughey

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Many critics had also tipped it for best film, but Birdman's late awards season momentum appeared to carry it through.

Ralph Fiennes' movie The Grand Budapest Hotel also had a good night, tieing with Birdman on four gongs.

It came up trumps for costume design; make-up and hairstyling; production design; and best original score. The movie started the night with nine nominations, matched by Birdman.

British talent was also recognised for The Phone Call, which picked up best live action short film.

The short, starring Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent, features a crisis line worker who gets a life-changing phone call from a mysterious man.

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A rendition of Everything Is Awesome from The Lego Movie provided a surreal musical interlude to break up all the speeches

Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island performed the annoyingly-catchy theme tune from The Lego Movie

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Best foreign film was won by Polish-British filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski for Ida.

In the technical categories there was success for American Sniper (sound editing); Whiplash (sound mixing); and space epic Interstellar (visual effects).

Lady Gaga's 50th anniversary Sound Of Music tribute provided one of the night's musical interludes, as did best song nominee Rita Ora.

But it was Martin Luther King film Selma that won best original song for Glory.

The tears of its British star, David Oyelowo, appeared on screens across the world as he broke down during a rousing ensemble performance.

But a bum-note appeared to come from Oscars host and song-and-dance man Neil Patrick Harris.

His moment in the spotlight drew criticism from social media users, with many on Twitter calling him "boring" and criticising his jokes.

Harris kicked off the show with a quip the night would honour the "best and whitest" - alluding to criticism over the lack of black nominees. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite soon began picking up steam.

The How I Met Your Mother star then launched into a song featuring Jack Black and dancing Stormtroopers.

Lego Movie song Everything Is Awesome also entertained the acting glitterati.

A motley crew of characters pounded out the catchy tune as Oprah Winfrey posed with a yellow Lego statuette.

The film, the most successful in the UK in 2014, was controversially snubbed in the animated film category - won on the night by Disney's Big Hero 6.

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