PHOTOS: Behind the scenes at the Oscars
It was Birdman’s night at the Oscars. The dark comedy took four Academy Awards including best picture and best director honours on Hollywood's biggest night.
Stylist crime caper The Grand Budapest Hotel also won four Oscars, several in technical categories, while jazz drumming drama Whiplash scored three, including best supporting actor for veteran actor J.K. Simmons.
Best actor went to Britain's Eddie Redmayne as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, while veteran Julianne Moore took best actress as a professor suffering from early onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.
Click here for the full list of winners.
Meanwhile, host Neil Patrick Harris (of How I Met your Mother fame) had big shoes to fill this year after Ellen DeGeneres literally stole the show in 2014.
But he more than held his own, launching into the three-and-a-half hour show with a song and dance routine about the movie industry itself - including a joke about the lack of any non-white actors in the four acting categories.
"Tonight, we honour Hollywood's best and whitest ... sorry, brightest," he said, earning laughs from the star-studded audience at the Dolby Theatre.
The Academy's official Instagram account has this year again given us glimpses from behind the scenes at the Oscars. See some of our favourite candid snaps of the stars below.