The ceremony itself was an endless stream of technical mishaps with many absent winners, but was saved primarily by comedian Ron Pearson, who remained funny and calm throughout a roster of classy presenters such as Earth Wind and Fire’s Verdine White and New Radicals‘ Danielle Brisebois and two acapella groups, USC’s SoCal Vocals (the group opened the show with Pitch Perfect 2’s “Flashlight”) and the Clarement colleges’ The After School Specials (the group performed “‘Til It Happens to You”). Other film-related honorees included “See You Again” (best original song from a feature film), Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s chart-topping number from Furious 7 that was written by Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Cameron Thomaz and Puth “Dancing in the Dark” (best original song from an animated film), Rihanna’s big number from Home the scores of Beasts of No Nation (feature), The Peanuts Movie (animated), and Mad Max: Fury Road (sci-fi/fantasy) and 50 Shades of Grey’s music supervisors and soundtrack. Miriam Cutler’s score for the doc also was among the winners at Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre.

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