Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore scooped up the top awards at this year’s Academy Awards. (Reuters)

Eddie Redmayne won his first Oscar on Sunday for his break-out role as physicist Stephen Hawking in the biographical movie “The Theory of Everything,” while Julianne Moore won the best actress for her moving performance as a linguistics professor suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease in “Still Alice.”

British actor Redmayne, 33, took home the Academy Award for playing Hawking and the disabling complications of a motor neuron disease, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS, over the course of 30 years.

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Meanwhile, dark comedy “Birdman” won the best picture Oscar while its director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won the best director Oscar.

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