The 87th Academy Awards

The last big entertainment event in February is 87th Academy Awards. It was on February 22nd, last Sunday at Dolby theatre. Academy Awards is the biggest awards for movies and has long history. In this year, the Oscars was presided over by one and only Neil Patrick Harris. In the opening of the Oscars, he sang a song and threw back to the history of movies with pictures. Anna Kendrick also joined him with the costume of Cinderella which she played in the movie “Into the Woods”. In addition, Jack Black joined them from the audience. Neil Patrick Harris successfully made the audience surprised and have fun.

The movie “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” won Best Picture, Cinematography, Writing, and Directing. The film director Alejandro G. Iñárritu had never won any Oscars before, so this means he got 3 Oscars at one time. There is another film that won from 4 categories like Birdman. It’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. This film won Costume Design, Music, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Production Design. The most surprising thing from the Oscars was probably that Eddie Redmayne from the movie “The Theory of Everything” won Best Actor. Most of people thought Michael Keaton from the movie “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” would win this, and Michael Keaton self thought he would win too. We can see that he was prepared to give speech with the transcript. Patricia Arquette won Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. On the stage, she gave the audience speech about women rights. Meryl Streep agreed with what she said and applauded. 

The Academy Awards is also about music that is related to the movies. Lady Gaga sang songs from a movie “The Sound of Music”. “It was “new” Lady Gaga.” Ali Alshagrawi, a student at Avila University said. “I had never seen Lady Gaga singing like this before. I have seen her wearing colorful cloths and crazy performances. But this time she seemed very classy and I really liked and enjoyed it,” he said. John Legend and Common also sang “Glory” which is featured on the soundtrack for the movie "Selma". They also won an Oscar for Music –Original song- with “Glory”. On the stage, they remarked about slavery, incarceration are true.

In conclusion, the academy awards was successful. And people well enjoyed watching Oscars. People who won the Oscars deserve them. College students watch movies a lot in their spare time, so the Academy Awards was related to college students more than other entertainment events.