Everything You Need To Know Before This Year’s Oscars

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans in bleachers above a Oscars red runner on Sunday cheered on even a many passing of starry moments, such as early arrivals Anna Kendrick, Oscar horde Neil Patrick Harris and “Boyhood” nominees Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke.

Kendrick, wearing a pink colored gown, flashed a devil’s pointer during fans in a suacy pierce not wholly astonishing of a “Pitch Perfect” actress.

“My heart melted, and we wanted to burst over a barricade, contend hi, and sing with her!” gushed UCLA tyro Emilio Huerta, 19, in a stands with his mom Ofelia Huerta, 44.

Harris waved to fans while strutting by in a clean-cut grey suit, with his father David Burtka, and Arquette blew kisses to a crowd. Hawke shortly followed, giving fans a thumb’s up.

Clear cosmetic tents safeguarded fans and a runner itself from swapping moments of inclement continue and splendid sun. Pink towels were handed out to soppy arrivals.

The 87th Academy Awards will be buzzing with something a Oscars haven’t always had in new years: genuine amour during who a night’s biggest winners will be.

With a co-leading 9 nominations, Alejandro Inarritu’s backstage comedy “Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” flies in with a strongest breeze during a back. It surfaced a acting, directing and producing guild awards, that are mostly clever predictors of what a Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will opinion for.

“Birdman” also won best underline during Saturday’s Independent Film Spirit Awards, serve boosting a momentum. At a pre-Oscars beachside bash, star Michael Keaton, who won best actor, admitted a film “bold cinema” and “a diversion changer,” a visualisation common by many in Hollywood who no doubt commend something in Keaton’s character’s out-of-control ego.

But a accession of “Birdman” is distant from assured. Many trust a landmark of Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making “Boyhood” will eventually infer overwhelming to academy members. Best executive also appears to be a toss-up between Inarritu and Linklater.

Three of a behaving winners — Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”), J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”) and Arquette (“Boyhood”) — are practical thatch going into Sunday’s show, though best actor will be a spike biter. It could be a immature British star Eddie Redmayne for his technically nuanced opening as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” or it could be Keaton’s career-topper in “Birdman,” as an actor perplexing to rush his superhero past.

But either torment will be adequate to lift viewers to a telecast on ABC stays to be seen. Harris will wish to continue a new ratings upswing for a Oscars, that final year drew 43 million viewers, creation it a most-watched party telecast in a decade.

This year’s stand of nominees, however, is particularly light on box-office smashes. Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” (six nominations including best picture) is a usually best-picture claimant to sum some-more than $100 million domestically. (A exile hit, it recently surpassed $300 million.)

Possibly worse for a Oscars is that a miss of farrago in a nominees this year (all 20 nominated actors are white) incited off many intensity viewers and led some to call for a protest of a broadcast. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are expected to aim for a telecast some-more thorough than a nominees.

Planned performers embody Lady Gaga, Jack Black, Jennifer Hudson and Anna Kendrick, as good as Oscar-nominated strange songs: Common and John Legend (“Glory” from “Selma”), Maroon 5 (“Lost Stars” from “Begin Again”), Tim McGraw (“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from “Glen Campbell . I’ll Be Me”), Rita Ora (“Grateful” from “Beyond a Lights”) and Tegan and Sara with a Lonely Island (“Everything Is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie”).

Oprah Winfrey (a co-star in “Selma”) will be among a presenters, as will Eddie Murphy, Chris Pratt, Kevin Hart, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Channing Tatum and John Travolta.

Increasingly, ratings are driven by moments that hint amicable media frenzy, like when Travolta famously mispronounced a name of thespian Idina Menzel as “Adele Dazeem” during final year’s show. Sunday night, he gets a possibility for redemption.

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Reporter Solvej Schou contributed to this report.

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