Film composer James Horner, best known for creating the original music scores to some of the biggest motion pictures of all time, died on Monday after a small aircraft he had been piloting crashed about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, CA. He was 61.

The 87th Annual Academy Awards was broadcast live on ABC on Sunday night, February 22, 2015, from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, with Neil Patrick Harris hosting. Birdman took the big win of Best Picture and went home with four of its nine nominations, while Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel tied with four wins of its own. Check out the list of all the winners from Oscars 2015.

Below are a several highlights from the Oscars 2015 ceremony, complete with video.

Neil Patrick Harris opened the 87th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night with that boyish smile, and a charming little joke about “Hollywood’s best and whitest, sorry brightest.”

Then he burst into song. So how was the “Moving Pictures” song?

One word – stormtroopers!

Ok, two words – dancing stormtroopers!

Harris did a great job. Watch the awesomeness from the 2015 Oscars in the video below.

The 87th Annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC tonight, Sunday, February 22, 2015, from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, starting at 8:30pm EST, and hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.

See below to find out who took home Oscars, as we will be updating this article throughout the night as the Winners are announced. For nominations, Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel tie the lead with 9 nods, with The Imitation Game close behind with 8; Boyhood and American Sniper each had 6 nominations. We’ll see if any of these films walk out tonight as big winners. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for The Theory Of Everything with Julianne Moore taking home Best Actress for Taking Alice, while Supporting Actor went to J.K. Simmons for Whiplash with Patricia Arquette winning Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood.

The Oscars are upon us. Below are my picks of who I believe should win the major awards and my prediction on who I believe will actually win the major awards. Some of the categories that I find most interesting are accompanied by a few words that serve as my argument for that particular pick.

The 87th Annual Academy Awards airs live Sunday, February 22nd, 2015, at 8:30pm ET on ABC, with the live Red Carpet arrivals starting at 7pm ET/4pm PT.