Michael Keaton Birdman

The ghostly and obnoxious Betelgeuse in 1988s Beetlejuice was one of Michael Keaton's early successes

NPH was 'forced' to navigate the passageways backstage at the Dolby Theatre in nothing but his underthings, 'ambushed' by autograph-seekers and photo-takers just as Michael Keaton is in Birdman

Director Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar win and cctress Patricia Arquette's feminist call to arms in her acceptance speech were the few unexpected events at the Oscars this year

Alejandro Inarritu became the second Mexican to win Best Director after Alfonso Cuaron won for Gravity last year

Gurinder Chadha, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Kunal Deshmukh and Ken Ghosh predict the winners in the four big categories - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor

Julianne Moore is almost universally expected to win best actress for Still Alice.Patricia Arquette is the favourite for best supporting actress

Geographically speaking, this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees star America, England and an imaginary country, in that order

Boyhood and Birdman are the frontrunners, and American Sniper is the dark horse

Birdman, the dark comedy-drama starring Michael Keaton, bagged the award for Contemporary Film while The Grand Budapest Hotel and Guardians of the Galaxy won in the Period Film and Fantasy Film categories

Michael Keaton was upset by Eddie Redmayne in the most outstanding actor category

The first black president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spoke out about the Oscar nominations and the widespread criticism that followed

Michael Keaton is reportedly being considered to star in The Founder as Ray Kroc

Few of Michael Keaton's peers stepped up to show their support when he won the award for Birdman

Boyhood, the second most nominated film with The Imitation Game, was the biggest winner

In the film Mr Keaton plays an aging movie actor trying to exercise his superhero past and jumpstart his fading career

The ghostly and obnoxious Betelgeuse in 1988s Beetlejuice was one of Michael Keaton's early successes

NPH was 'forced' to navigate the passageways backstage at the Dolby Theatre in nothing but his underthings, 'ambushed' by autograph-seekers and photo-takers just as Michael Keaton is in Birdman

Director Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar win and cctress Patricia Arquette's feminist call to arms in her acceptance speech were the few unexpected events at the Oscars this year

Alejandro Inarritu became the second Mexican to win Best Director after Alfonso Cuaron won for Gravity last year

Gurinder Chadha, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Kunal Deshmukh and Ken Ghosh predict the winners in the four big categories - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor

Julianne Moore is almost universally expected to win best actress for Still Alice.Patricia Arquette is the favourite for best supporting actress

Geographically speaking, this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees star America, England and an imaginary country, in that order

Boyhood and Birdman are the frontrunners, and American Sniper is the dark horse

Birdman, the dark comedy-drama starring Michael Keaton, bagged the award for Contemporary Film while The Grand Budapest Hotel and Guardians of the Galaxy won in the Period Film and Fantasy Film categories

Michael Keaton was upset by Eddie Redmayne in the most outstanding actor category

The first black president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spoke out about the Oscar nominations and the widespread criticism that followed

Michael Keaton is reportedly being considered to star in The Founder as Ray Kroc

Few of Michael Keaton's peers stepped up to show their support when he won the award for Birdman

Boyhood, the second most nominated film with The Imitation Game, was the biggest winner

In the film Mr Keaton plays an aging movie actor trying to exercise his superhero past and jumpstart his fading career