On February 22 the 87th Academy Awards were held in Hollywood, celebrating the best in cinema for 2014. Each year the ceremony gives out awards for the year’s best movie, best performances by actors and actresses, best screenplays, and the best in technical categories like editing, sound, and design.

Of all of the films nominated, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) was the biggest winner. Birdman won the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as Oscars for Cinematography, Directing. and Original Screenplay. The only other movie to win four awards was Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which won for Makeup, Costume Design, Original Score, and Production Design. Indie picture Whiplash followed the two with three awards for best Sound Mixing, Film Editing, and Supporting Actor for J.K. Simmons. The other three acting Oscars went to Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Julianne Moore for playing a professor dealing with Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, and Patricia Arquette for playing a struggling single mother in Boyhood. Boyhood, which was shot over twelve years, only came away with one Oscar. Many thought that it would win either Best Picture or Best Director, however both went to Birdman.

Now, how we can we talk about the Oscars without mentioning its host? Well, this year we probably could because Neil Patrick Harris’s performance could be summed up by one syllable: “meh.” While the opening song was impressive, the entertainment value went downhill from there. None of his jokes really hit, and his Oscars prediction gag never really paid off. This probably attributed to this year’s Oscars being the least watched since 2009.