BREAKING: Eddie Redmayne wins Oscar for Best Actor

The Huffington Post Eddie Redmayne Wins Oscar For Best Actor Rick Rowell via Getty Images The back-and-forth Best Actor race has a winner: Eddie Redmayne, who won the Oscar on Sunday night for his role in "The Theory of Everything." Redmayne bested Steve Carell ("Foxcatcher"), Bradley Cooper ("American Sniper"), Benedict Cumberbatch ("The Imitation Game") and Michael Keaton ("Birdman") for the honor, but it was Keaton who posed the stiffest competition. The veteran actor had won Best Actor at the Critics' Choice Awards and the Golden Globes (in the Musical or Comedy), while Redmayne had triumphed at the Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA Awards, and took home Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama at the Globes. Read the whole story Follow HuffPost Entertainment on Facebook and Twitter Know something we don't? Email us at entertainment@huffingtonpost.com Unsubscribe | Forward | Manage your notification preferences 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003