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Birdman from the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, won an Oscar in 2015.

Birdman is the story of a man terrified by the looming thought of a professional failure. The protagonist is in fact a film actor in decline who tries to rise from the ashes by starring on Broadway in a play by Carver and is basically also a satire of Hollywood and film special effects, as stated by the director himself.

Lorenzo Soria writes: “And in the end he won Birdman after Argo and after The Artist for the third time in four years the members of the jury of the Academy chose to reward a film about themselves, a movie on the culture of celebrity and with whom they can look in the mirror. ”

The Oscar for Best Actor went to Eddie Redmayne, who in The Theory of Everything played the part of British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Best actress  proved rather to be Julianne Moore, suffering from Alzheimer’s in Still Alice . Two actors who were able to give the best part of themselves in interpreting characters affected by disease.

The Grand Budapest Hotel‘s Wes Anderson and was honored with four statuettes one of which went to the Italian costume designer Milena Canonero.

Best Supporting Actress was instead Patricia Arquette, unique prize for another film in the odor of Oscar, Boyhood, the film by Richard Linklater shot over 12 years, to tell the story of a difficult adolescence.

Best Foreign Film went to Ida from the Polish Pawel Pawlikoski, winner of the Festival of Turin.