Boyhood and Birdman are both gimmick movies but I feel Boyhood deserves Best Picture more. My faves this year are Boyhood, Wild, and Whiplash. Don't really get what's so good about American Sniper?
They got it all right with the acting categories although I wouldn't say Julianne Moore was so ahead of Best Actress competition. Rosamund Pike was so good in Gone Girl (that bitch!) and I personally love Reese Witherspoon's performance in Wild. Eddie Redmayne deserves Best Actor so does JK Simmons (damn was he good in Whiplash!) and Patricia Arquette (the final scene alone).
Lego was snubbed big time so I was ecstatic when How To Save Your Dragon 2 didn't win as many had expected it to. Big Hero 6 was the best animated feature film after Lego this year.
As for the awards show, NPH has his moments but overall he fell short. The only redeeming factor from the show was how great the speeches were: call your parents thing from Simmons, stay weird and different, Edde Redmayne going all adorbs, etc. They also got it right on Gaga doing Sound Of Music tribute. Had it been any other pop girl, there would've been too much run, riff, or adlibs . And then there's John fucking Travolta