Gravity won big tonight at the Oscars, as Alfonso Cuaróns space drama took home seven awards including best director — but it was 12 Years a Slave that won the highest honor of the evening. Going into the Oscars, the two films that seemed to be in the strongest position were Gravity and Steve McQueens drama, with ten and nine nominations each, respectively. But the Matthew McConaughey-starring Dallas Buyers Club was the film that got off to the quickest start, with Jared Leto taking home the statue for best supporting actor while the film also snagged best makeup. Gravity first made a statement in the technical categories, picking up awards for best visual effects, sound editing, and best sound mixing. The roll continued as Gravity won best cinematography for director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, and best editing for Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Baz Luhrmanns extravagant take on The Great Gatsby won the awards for costume design and production design). Cate Blanchetts performance in Blue Jasmine beat out Sandra Bullock for best actress, however, and Matthew McConaughey then won for best actor in Dallas Buyers Club. While it earned several nominations, the sci-fi love story Her won just a single Oscar: best original screenplay for writer–director Spike Jonze. 12 YEARS A SLAVE WON THREE AWARDS Cuarón earned best director for Gravity, a film whose bravura combination of live-action elements and digital wizardry took years to bring to the screen, but when it came time for the biggest award of them all it was Steve McQueens 12 Years a Slave that came away the winner. Despite its many nominations, the films only other wins were best supporting actress for Lupita Nyongo and best adapted screenplay. Host Ellen DeGeneres struck a tone of snarky fun, poking fun at the nominees but always keeping them in on the joke — in stark contrast to Seth MacFarlanes performance last year, which had more than its fair share of awkward moments. Even some of the shows extended bits, such as when DeGeneres walked through the audience hand-delivering slices of pizza to Harrison Ford and Jennifer Lawrence, were entertaining because the celebrities were all too happy to play along. The one awkward moment came when she stopped to take a selfie of herself during the broadcast, most likely just an opportunity to brandish a Samsung smartphone as part of the companys suffocating sponsorship deal with the Oscars. A follow-up bit played much better with the involvement of a group of nominees, however, and set a new Twitter retweet record in the process. Netflix ended up taking home an award — though not necessarily the one everybody was expecting. The company had picked up the documentary The Square last year, which looked poised to become its first Oscar win when nominations were announced. It lost to the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, but Netflix still came out a winner thanks to a last-minute acquisition: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, which Netflix bought just last week, won the best short documentary award. The full list of winners for the 86th Academy Awards are below: Best Picture 12 Years a Slave Directing Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón Actor in a Leading Role Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Actor in a Supporting Role Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club Actress in a Leading Role Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Actress in a Supporting Role Lupita Nyongo, 12 Years a Slave Animated Feature Film Frozen Cinematography Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki Costume Design The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin Documentary Feature 20 Feet from Stardom Documentary Short Subject The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life Film Editing Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Foreign Language Film The Great Beauty, Italy Makeup and Hairstyling Dallas Buyers Club, Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews Music (Original Score) Gravity, Steven Price Music (Original Song) Let It Go from Frozen Production Design The Great Gatsby, Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn Short Film (Animated) Mr. Hublot Short Film (Live Action) Helium Sound Editing Gravity, Glenn Freemantle Sound Mixing Gravity, Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro Visual Effects Gravity, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould Writing (Adapted Screenplay) 12 Years a Slave, Screenplay by John Ridley Writing (Original Screenplay) Her, Written by Spike Jonze Well .. thats most likely our prediction a few days ago https://facebook/TwoFox/posts/645463748824158 #Tags: #Gravity #12yearsaslave #Oscars #Oscarsupdate #oscarswinner #bestpicture #bestfilm2014 #oscars2014 #86Academyawards #Academy #awards #Ellen #tewwt #worldrecord #news #oscarnews #hollywood #Netflix #her #Selfies #ellenselfie #allstars
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:04:46 +0000
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