Oscar Movies and Studios by the Numbers: Every Best Picture Nominee Wins an Award in a Historic First

Only three films won multiple awards; Fox Searchlight’s “Birdman,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” lead

The 87th Academy Awards were a big night for “Birdman,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Whiplash,” which took home four, four and three trophies, respectively. None of the remaining nominated films netted more than one win, though a sizable group of movies are not going home empty handed.

“Birdman” scored Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” matched the Michael Keaton movie in total statuettes, though perhaps not in prestige, collecting awards for costume design, makeup and hairstyling, original score and production design.

“Whiplash” took the first trophy of the night, with J.K. Simmons winning Best Supporting Actor right off the bat. The movie also collected wins for film editing and sound mixing.

After that, 13 other movies split the remaining gold.

Here are all of the Oscar nominated films, their trophy count and winning categories:

“Birdman” (4)
Best Picture
Best Director, Alejandro González Iñárritu
Best Original Screenplay, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo
Best Cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” (4)
Best Costume Design, Milena Canonero
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Original Score, Alexandre Desplat
Best Production Design, Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock

“Whiplash” (3)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, J.K. Simmons
Best Film Editing, Tom Cross
Best Sound Mixing

“The Imitation Game” (1)
Best Adapted Screenplay, Graham Moore

“American Sniper” (1)
Best Sound Editing

“Boyhood” (1)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Patricia Arquette

“Interstellar” (1)
Best Visual Effects

“The Theory of Everything” (1)
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Eddie Redmayne

“Citizenfour” (1)
Best Documentary Feature

“Still Alice” (1)
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Julianne Moore

“Selma” (1)
Best Original Song, “Glory”

“Ida” (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

“Big Hero 6” (1)
Best Animated Feature Film

“Feast” (1)
Best Animated Short

“The Phone Call” (1)
Best Live Action Short

“Crisis Hotline” (1)
Best Short Documentary

Wins by Studio
Fox Searchlight – 8
Sony Classics – 4
Disney – 2
Paramount – 2
TWC – 2 (“Imitation Game” and “Citizenfour,” which was Radius-TWC)
WB – 1
Focus – 1
IFC – 1
Music Box Films – 1
Live action short and documentary short didn’t have distributors

Jeff Sneider contributed to this report.

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