And the Oscar for best house goes to: Five great Hollywood trophy homes

All eyes are on Hollywood today.

Will Julianne Moore finally get her Oscar? What will she wear? Birdman or Boyhood?

In case you're wondering, our tips: Yes; Tom Ford (unfortunately, it turned out to be Chanel); Birdman.

To celebrate the 2015 Academy Awards, Property Observer nominates five outstanding Hollywood homes.

Stahl House

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Stahl House, aka Case Study House #22, is one of the most famous homes in the Hollywood Hills. Designed by Pierre Koenig and built in 1959 as part of the Case Study Houses program, the glass and steel modernist house has an "L" shape, and offers panoramic views of Los Angeles from its hillside perch.

The home has also been the set of many commercials and films (though none, to our knowledge, that have been nominated for an Academy Award).

Photograph: Julius Schulman

The Chemosphere

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The Chemosphere is not only a famous Hollywood home but a home made famous in Hollywood films.

Lautner's modern works are both a favourite of filmmakers, with Elrod House featuring in Diamonds are Forever, and the Schaffer residence appearing in A Single Man.

The Chemosphere is a one-storey octagon, set on a concrete pole. The feat of engineering and its distinctive look has seen the home often imitated in film - it was the direct inspiration for Sam Rockwell's pad in the Charlie's Angels film.

Hollyhock House

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Frank Lloyd Wright's first Los Angeles project was Hollyhock House in East Hollywood. The home, which Wright described as being of a "California Romanza" style, was built for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall.

Completed in 1921, the house is set around a central courtyard, with tilted walls at the exterior. The hollyhock itself is a motif used throughout the house.

3028 Paulcrest Drive, Hollywood Hills

Actress Mila Kunis sold her contemporary Mediterranean style home late last year for a reported US$3.995 million sum.

The house off Mullholland Drive has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a pool and an eight-seat movie theatre. It features vaulted ceilings with exposed timber beams throughout.

Moorcrest

The incredible former house of Charlie Chaplin is now owned by musician Joanna Newsom and her husband, Emmy winning comedian and actor Andy Samberg.

The Beachwood Canyon home was originally built as part of the Krotona Colony, the national headquarters of an esoteric philosophical group called the Theosophical Society.

The home has Moorish, Gothic, Mission-revivalist and Art Nouveau influences. It was designed in the early 20s by Marie Russak Hotchener.