Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent

British sound mixer Ben Wilkins from Whiplash has been a big part of my Oscar diary since he was nominated. Two weeks ago he won a Bafta, now he has an Oscar.

Backstage I asked him how he felt. His honest reply: "I've run out of superlatives."

Fighting drowning music, Big Hero 6 film-maker Chris Williams recalled how as a "freckle-faced boy" he told his parents how he dreamt of working at Walt Disney: "They supported him, they believed in him, and from the bottom of his heart, he thanks them."

Best animated film - Big Hero 6

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Here's how people responded to Patricia Arquette's speech (and shout out for wage equality) while picking up best supporting actress for Boyhood:

• Charles Clymer tweets, external: "Dear @PattyArquette: Thank you for standing up and calling out sexism in this country. You are a champion and a hero."

• AmyPoehlerSmartGirls tweets: "We are screaming at the screen because @PattyArquette's speech was more incredible than we could have imagined."

• Samhita ‏tweets, external: "I don't know what was better: Patricia demanding equal wages for women or Meryl's reaction."

• Tips For Actors tweets:, external "Hey Patricia! If things are so bad for women then how come not one man was nominated for best supporting actress? Not one!"

Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles

I just spoke to Matt Kirkby and James Lucas about their win for live action short The Phone Call.

Matt had to sell his car and wait for Woody Allen to finish Blue Jasmine before he could have Sally Hawkins to star in the film. He told me he hopes winning this Oscar will be the spring board into making feature films.

He said everyone on The Phone Call had worked for free and now he hoped he could get production companies involved so people could get paid.

"We're both in Hollywood now with feature scripts under our arms," he said.

He also gave some advice to short film makers: "Be tenacious, be patient, keep going."

The British visual effects artists thanked "all the explorers of science who show us the universe in it's all terrifying beauty".

Best animated short film - Feast, Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

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Best visual effects - Interstellar, Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R Fisher.

Here's what people made of the first hour of this year's Oscars ceremony:

• GustavoArellano tweets, external: "Give us more Miyazaki and Belafonte, less stupid jokes!!!"

• Michelle Stark tweets, external: "Just to be clear: NPH is an eternal treasure working overtime. The writing is awful and not funny. Also, I do miss Ellen."

• HeyUGuys Movie News tweets, external: "Who had an hour and a quarter in the Neil Patrick Harris taking to the stage in his pants sweepstake?"

• Anuya J tweets:, external "Guys please. Amy and Tina should host everything. Please. We all know this."

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Time for another performance - representing the Brits, Rita Ora singing Grateful from Beyond the Lights.

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Winning her widely expected Oscar for best supporting actress in Boyhood, an impassioned Patricia Arquette said: "To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation. We have fought for everybody else's equal rights. It's our time to have wage equality once for all. And equal rights for women in the United States of America."

It delighted Meryl Streep, who rose in her chair and pointed at the stage shouting: "Yes! Yes!" from the audience.

Best supporting actress - Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

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The American Sniper sound editors thanked director Clint Eastwood: "It's an honour and a privilege to work you, you are the best."

Picking up the Oscar for best sound mixing the Whiplash team thanked director and writer Damien Chazelle: "You showed us the meaning of leadership under which a creative collaboration blossomed."

Best sound editing - American Sniper, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

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Best sound mixing - Whiplash, Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles

Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski said it was "thrilling" Ida was the first Polish winner in this category. He said backstage: "I hope this encourages the world to look at Polish films again and for Polish filmmakers to take risks."

In a spoof of Birdman and Whiplash, Neil Patrick Harris has done a skit where he is locked out of his dressing room and is forced to walk on stage in his Y-fronts, while accompanied by Whiplash star Miles Teller on the drums.

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Country singer Tim McGraw is next to perform a best original song nominee - I'm Not Gonna Miss You from documentary Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me.

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Mat Kirkby and James Lucas, the British film-makers behind short film The Phone Call, were delighted by their film's victory.

"Short films are made with tenacity and lots of favours," said Kirkby. He thanked actress Sally Hawkins - who starred in the film - for donating "her incredible talent and asking for nothing. This is for you."

The film sees Hawkins play a helpline call centre volunteer who counsels a mystery man.

Kirkby paid tribute to "volunteers in crisis centres who give their time for nothing - including our mums".

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