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Gallery: Cheers And Tears At The Oscars
Winners for Best Picture "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" Alejandro G. Inarritu (C), John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole and cast celebrate on stage
Actor Sean Penn arrives on stage to present the award for Best Picture
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Actress Julianne Moore accepts the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award for "Still Alice"
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Birdman has scooped best film at the Oscars, with British star Eddie Redmayne winning best actor for The Theory Of Everything.
Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu also won best director for the movie which featured a career-resurrecting performance by Michael Keaton.
It also won for cinematography and original screenplay.
Redmayne's memorable portrayal of Hawking beat off competition from fellow Brit Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper, Michael Keaton and Steve Carell.
Julianne Moore meanwhile took the best actress award for Still Alice, where she plays a woman with Alzheimer's disease.
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Gallery: Who Won What At The Oscars?
Julianne Moore was thrilled with her win for Still Alice
Eddie Redmayne was almost speechless after his win for best actor
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Accepting his award Redmayne said he was a "lucky, lucky man".
"This belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS," said the 33-year-old actor.
"It belongs to one exceptional family; Stephen, Jane, Jonathan and the Hawking children."
Handling his iconic statuette, he added: "I promise you I will look after him, I will polish him, I will answer his beck and call and wait on him hand and foot."
Earlier, JK Simmons and Patricia Arquette won the supporting acting awards.
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Gallery: Fashion Stakes High At Oscars In LA
White or silver seemed to be the favoured colours for the evening
Nominee for best actress Marion Cotillard arrives on the red carpet for the 87th Oscars ceremony
Simmons had been widely fancied to win best supporting actor for playing an intimidating jazz teacher in Whiplash.
He beat off competition from the likes of Robert Duvall and Edward Norton.
Arquette was honoured as supporting actress for playing the mother in coming-of-age drama Boyhood, filmed over 12 years with the same cast.
The Grand Budapest Hotel was tied with Birdman for its final Oscars tally, collecting four.
It came up trumps for costume design; make-up and hairstyling; production design and best original score.
The movie, starring Ralph Fiennes, was nominated for nine gongs - the same as Birdman.
British talent also began the night strongly as The Phone Call, starring Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent, picking up best live action short film.
In the technical categories there were gongs for American Sniper (sound editing); Whiplash (sound mixing); and space epic Interstellar (visual effects).
The show's musical performances included Lady Gaga's tribute to The Sound Of Music on its 50th anniversary, as well as best song nominee Rita Ora.
But it was Martin Luther King film Selma that won best original song for Glory.
The camera lingered on its British star, David Oyelowo, as he broke down in tears during a rousing ensemble rendition.
Oscars host Neil Patrick Harris appeared to fall flat on social media, with many users saying his performance and jokes had fallen flat.
Harris kicked off the show with a quip that that the night would honour the "brightest and whitest" - alluding to criticism over the lack of black nominees. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite soon began picking up steam on Twitter.
The How I Met Your Mother star then launched into a song alongside Anna Kendrick and Jack Black, which also featured dancing Stormtroopers.
Lego Movie song Everything Is Awesome also entertained the acting glitterati, a motley crew of characters pounding out the annoyingly-catchy tune as Oprah Winfrey received a yellow Lego statuette.
The film, the most successful in the UK in 2014, was controversially snubbed in the animated film category - won on the night by Disney's Big Hero 6.
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