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Arguably the most talked-about award of the night will be the Best Animated Feature trophy; it went to The Lego Movie, the high-grossing and critically-acclaimed film that yesterday would have been considered a frontrunner for the Academy Award. It wasn’t nominated, though — a bone of contention that even Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn picked on earlier today on Facebook.
“The LEGO Movie was flat out snubbed,” Gunn wrote. “It was one of the best films of the year, not to mention one of the best animated films. It deserved to be nominated for Best Animated Film. Considering the average Academy voter is 63, perhaps the Tinkertoy Movie or the Erector Set Film would have fared better. Honestly, I don’t think there can be any reason it wasn’t nominated other than Academy members assumed it was a silly movie (like I did when I first heard of the movie, before seeing it) and didn’t watch the screener.”
Gunn himself took home a trophy for Best Action Movie, and Guardians won another for Best Hair and Makeup — a category for which it’s nominated at the Oscars. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes won Best Visual Effects, the other category for which Guardians is nominated at the Academy Awards, along with its Marvel Studios stablemate Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The Hair & Makeup award was presented before the telecast, but Best Action Movie was handed over by Adam Scott, who appears with Guardians star Chris Pratt on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.
“This tells you how much Marvel expects to win awards, is that I found out about this ceremony about a half an hour ago,” said Gunn. “And I was in traffic on Laurel Canyon and they told me, ‘You’ve got to go to this; you might win this award.’”
Awards season darling Birdman won for Actor in a Comedy (for Michael Keaton), Best Acting Ensemble, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
Presumably, the wins by Keaton, Guardians, Apes and Birdman in general set them up as favorites in those categories headed into Oscar season.
You can see the full list of winners below.
BEST ACTRESS
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
BEST DIRECTOR
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
BEST COMEDY
The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jenny Slate, Obvious Child
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Michael Keaton, Birdman
BEST SONG
“Glory,” Common/John Legend, Selma
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Lego Movie
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt, Edge of Tomorrow
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Birdman
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYGone Girl
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman
BEST SCI FI/HORROR MOVIEInterstellar
BEST CINEMATOGRAPYBirdman, Emmanuel Lubezki
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
BEST EDITING
Birdman, Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
BEST ART DIRECTION
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Adam Stockhausen/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
BEST COSTUME DESIGNThe Grand Budapest Hotel, Milena Canonero
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
Guardians of the Galaxy
