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Critics' Choice Awards 2015: 'Birdman' Leads Full Winner List
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'Birdman' takes home seven trophies including Best Actor for Michael Keaton, while 'Boyhood' is awarded with Best Picture trophy and Best Director for Richard Linklater.

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The full winner list of Critics' Choice Movie Award which took place on Thursday, January 15 has been unveiled. Following the ceremony which was held in Los Angeles, it is revealed that "Birdman" and "Boyhood" were the biggest winners at the event. The former took home seven trophies, while the latter was honored with four trophies including Best Picture and Best Director.

"All these imperfections that we carry around is just life. Life doesn't give you perfect, but it does give you an opportunity to be kind to people. That is all that this film ('Boyhood') is about," said director Richard Linklater when accepting Best Picture award for the 12-year project.

"Birdman" star Michael Keaton was awarded with Best Actor as well as Best Actor in a Comedy trophies at the event. The actor who won against fellow Oscar contenders Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne among others in the Best Actor category thanked people who contributed to the success in his speech.

Best Actress award, meanwhile, went to Julianne Moore for her performance in Alzheimer's drama "Still Alice". Speaking onstage, she gave a shout-out to fellow nominees Reese Witherspoon, Rosamund Pike, Jennifer Aniston and Felicity Jones. "I am so inspired by you all and just honored to be in your company," she said.

"The Lego Movie" which was not included in Best Animated Picture at the 2015 Academy Awards was awarded with Best Animated Feature trophy on Thursday night. The movie's co-director/writer Phil Lord who took the trophy on behalf of the team commented on the Oscar snub backstage. "We made it in order to inspire families and kids and people and we've been really justly rewarded I think for that," he said, as quoted by THR. "We feel really lucky and the awards stuff is its own thing, and of course we're disappointed, but it's not the reason we made the movie. There's no way to not be pleased with the outcome of this film."

The 2015 Critics' Choice Awards was hosted by Michael Strahan who opened the show with a group of male strippers. He also dressed up as Maleficent with Angelina Jolie among the audience.

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