Patricia Arquette (R), best supporting actress nominee for her role in "Boyhood" arrives at the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES TAGS:ENTERTAINMENT) (OSCARS-ARRIVALS) - RTR4QNHG
J.K. Simmons, best supporting actor nominee for his role in "Whiplash" and his wife Michelle Schumacher arrive at the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) (OSCARS-ARRIVALS) - RTR4QO4L
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The 87th Academy Awards got off to a slow start Sunday night, with just one major award presented in its first hour and 15 minutes.
That Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor, went to J.K Simmons for his role as a domineering music teacher in “Whiplash.”
It was the first Oscar nomination for Simmons, 60, a longtime character actor (and the guy on the Farmer's Insurance commercials). He also won the Golden Globe in January.
Simmons turned his acceptance speech into a big thank you to his wife and children, then exhorted the crowd: “Call your mom, everybody. Call your mom, call your dad. If you’re lucky enough to have a living parent or two on this planet, call them, don’t text or email, call them and tell them you love them.”
("Whiplash" later won two Oscars in technical categories.)
Later in the broadcast, Patricia Arquette spiced things up a bit when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Boyhood," a movie shot over a 12-year span.
Bleeped for a curse word early in her acceptance speech, Arquette thanked everyone from friends and family and cast to her favorite painter, before getting political. Arquette dedicated her win to "to every woman who gave birth," saying "it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America."
Neil Patrick Harris started the show with a tip of the cap to one of the controversies surrounding this year’s awards, which saw almost all of the major nominations go to white people.
“Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest, sorry I mean brightest,” he joked.
Joined by Anna Kendrick and Jack Black, Harris then broke into the night’s big opening number “Moving Pictures,” the kind of lavish song and dance number for which the perennial Tony’s host has become famous.
The night's first big laughs came over an hour in, when Harris came out onto the stage in his tightie whities, and nothing else, during a bit in which he was locked out of his dressing room.
A running gag involving Octavia Spencer keeping an eye the host’s Oscar Prediction Box did not fare as well, recalling the time former host David Letterman repeated a lame joke, “Uma, Oprah, Oprah, Uma,” over and over and over again.
The night had some other notable winners. With nine nominations, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” scored a few nice wins, nabbing three Oscars for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.
The Academy Awards had been criticized for omitting “Lego Movie” from the list of nominees for Best Animated Film. “Big Hero 6” ended up taking home the award.
After “Citizen 4,” a film about Edward Snowden, won for Best Documentary Feature, Harris joked: “Unfortunately, Edward Snowden couldn’t be here for some treason.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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