The 86th Academy Awards Winners Include “12 Years A Slave”, “Gravity”, “Frozen”, And More Michael Lee, March 2, 2014March 2, 2014 Here are your winners of the 86th Academy Awards. 12 Years A Slave won this year’s Best Picture award, with Lupita Nyong’o earning the award for Best Supporting Actress. Gravity took home seven awards including Best Director, Best Score, and Best Cinematography. Both Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, for their roles in Dallas Buyers Club. Cate Blanchett won for Best Supporting Actress. Frozen took home the awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Song. Check out the full list of winners after the jump, which also includes some of our live-blogging.Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall StreetBest Actor in a Leading Role Christian Bale, American Hustle Bruce Dern, Nebraska Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers ClubBest Actress in a Leading Role Amy Adams, American Hustle Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Meryl Streep, August: Osage CountyBest Director David O. Russell, American Hustle Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity Alexander Payne, Nebraska Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall StreetBest Original Screenplay American Hustle, written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell Blue Jasmine, written by Woody Allen Dallas Buyers Club, written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack Her, written by Spike Jonze Nebraska, written by Bob NelsonBest Adapted Screenplay Before Midnight, written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke Captain Phillips, screenplay by Billy Ray Philomena, screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope 12 Years a Slave, screenplay by John Ridley The Wolf of Wall Street, screenplay by Terence WinterBest Original Song “Alone Yet Not Alone,” Alone Yet Not Alone, music by Bruce Broughton and lyric by Dennis Spiegel “Happy,” Despicable Me 2, music and lyric by Pharrell Williams “Let It Go,” Frozen, music and lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez “The Moon Song,” Her, music by Karen O; lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze “Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen and lyric by Paul HewsonBest Original Score The Book Thief, John Williams Gravity, Steven Price Her, William Butler and Owen Pallett Philomena, Alexandre Desplat Saving Mr. Banks, Thomas NewmanBest Production Design American Hustle, Judy Becker (Production Design) and Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration) Gravity, Andy Nicholson (Production Design) and Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration) The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin (Production Design) and Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration) Her, K.K. Barrett (Production Design) and Gene Serdena (Set Decoration) 12 Years a Slave, Adam Stockhausen (Production Design) and Alice Baker (Set Decoration)Best Film Editing American Hustle, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten Captain Phillips, Christopher Rouse Dallas Buyers Club, John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger 12 Years a Slave, Joe WalkerBest Cinematography The Grandmaster, Philippe Le Sourd Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki Inside Llewyn Davis, Bruno Delbonnel Nebraska, Phedon Papamichael Prisoners, Roger A. DeakinsBest Actress in a Supporting Role Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave Julia Roberts, August: Osage County June Squibb, NebraskaBest Sound Editing All Is Lost, Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns Captain Phillips, Oliver Tarney Gravity, Glenn Freemantle The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Brent Burge Lone Survivor, Wylie StatemanBest Sound Mixing Captain Phillips, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro Gravity, Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson Inside Llewyn Davis, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland Lone Survivor, Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David BrownlowBest Foreign Language Film The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium) The Great Beauty (Italy) The Hunt (Denmark) The Missing Picture (Cambodia) Omar (Palestine)Best Documentary Feature The Act of Killing Cutie and the Boxer Dirty Wars The Square 20 Feet From StardomBest Documentary Short Subject CaveDigger, Jeffrey Karoff Facing Fear, Jason Cohen Karama Has No Walls, Sara Ishaq The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall, Edgar BarensBest Live-Action Short Film Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me), Esteban Crespo Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything), Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras Helium, Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill and Baldwin LiBest Visual Effects Gravity, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds Iron Man 3, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick The Lone Ranger, Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier Star Trek Into Darkness, Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt DaltonBest Animated Feature Film The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind RisesBest Animated Short Film Feral, Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden Get a Horse!, Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim Mr. Hublot, Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares Possessions, Shuhei Morita Room on the Broom, Max Lang and Jan LachauerBest Makeup and Hairstyling Dallas Buyers Club, Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Stephen Prouty The Lone Ranger, Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-CasnyBest Actor in a Supporting Role Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips Bradley Cooper, American Hustle Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers ClubBest Costume Design American Hustle, Michael Wilkinson The Grandmaster, William Chang Suk Ping The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin The Invisible Woman, Michael O’Connor 12 Years a Slave, Patricia Norris 9:00 That’s it everybody. Thank you for coming out for our first live blog. See you all next year.8:58 As expected the absolutely incredible and powerful 12 Years A Slave wins the award for Best Picture.8:51 Alright, alright, alright. Matthew McConaughey gives Dallas Buyers Club it’s third win by taking the award for Best Actor.8:47 Blanchett proves how social media savvy she is by saying Juila #suckit.8:44 No surprise here Care Blanchett wins the award for Best Actress. Tells everyone to sit down because they are too old to be standing up.8:38 Kevin – Cuarón is the first latin american director to win Best Director. 8:36 Academy Award winning director Alfonso Cuarón says Gravity was a transformative experience, otherwise it would have been a waste of time.8:27 Spike Jonze gives Her it’s first win tonight with Best Original Screenplay.8:25: John Ridley gives 12 Years A Slave it’s second Academy Award for best Adaptive Screenplay.8:17 Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez’ Let It Go wins for Best Song. This marks one of the few times that a person as won an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.8:15 Steven Price‘s win takes Gravity‘s Academy Award total to six.8:09 Practically the moment everyone has been waiting for, Idina Menzel singing Let It Go.8:07 Kevin – Goldie Hawn didn’t see any of these movies.8:06 Goldie Hawn introduces the final three best picture nominees: 12 Years A Slave, Philomena, and Captain Philips.8:04 Ellen is proud that that she broke Twitter, then jokingly mispronounces Goldie Hawn’s name7:54 To close the In Memoriam, Bette Midler walked out to sing Wind Beneath My Wings.7:54 Glenn Close gives a touching speech to those we lost last year in this year’s In Memoriam.7:46 Captain America himself, Chris Evans introduces the montage of the greatest cinematic heroes of our time, and not just superheroes, but also heroes like Sly Stallone’s Rocky, Daniel Radcliff’s Harry Potter, and Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen.7:45 Catherine Martin wins he fourth Academy Award for her Production Design work on The Great Gatsby.7:34 To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, Pink sang the iconic Somewhere Over The Rainbow.7:31 And just like that Gravity receives win number five. Earning the award for Best Film Editing.7:28 Gravity wins it’s fourth Academy Award. This time for best Cinematography.7:14 As expected Lupita Nygon’o wins the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in 12 Years A Slave. She delivers and inspiring accepting speech thanking director Steve McQueen, and fellow actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender.7:09 Gravity takes home the awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.7:07 The teleprompter issues continue as Charlize Theron could not tell which part was her’s.7:04 Teleprompter must have broke because Ellen introduced Kristen Bell as Kristen B. Ell6:51 Brad Pitt introduces U2 to sing their Oscar-nominated song Ordinary Love as heard in Mandela.6:51 Tyler Perry introduces the other supercut of this year’s Best Picture nominees: Her, Nebraska, and Gravity.6:49 The Best Foreign Language Film goes to The Great Beauty.6:41: Kevin Spacey sneaks in a House Of Cards plug before opening a montage cut of the Governor’s Ball.6:38 20 Feet From Stardom steals the Best Documentary Feature away from Michael’s pick, The Act of Killing.6:34 The Lady In Number 6 wins the award for Best Documentary Short. Kevin: The subject of this short film just passed away at 110.6:31 Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis hand out the award to Best Live-Action Short to Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson for Helium. 6:25 Oscar nominated Karen-O sings her Moon Song heard in Her.6:22 Gravity earns its first award for Best Visual Effects. Kevin: Not. Shocked. At All. Christopher: Some of the most amazing and realistic fx ever created.6:18 Sally Field walks into to present a video on extraordinary real-life heroes that touched us all.6:16 In an unsurprising twist, Frozen wins the academy award for Best Animated Feature.6:15 Mr. Hublot wins the award for best Animated short.6:03 Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford introduces a supercut of the three of the Best Picture Nominees: American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, and The Wolf Wall Street.6:02 Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews win for Best Makeup for their work on The Dallas Buyers Club.5:58 Catherine Martin wins the award for Best Costume Design for her work on The Great Gatsby. She says all Australian women stuff speeches and tissues in their bra.5:50 Pharrell walks in to sing his Oscar nominated song “Happy”5:47 Jim Carrey introduces a tribute to animated heroes.5:31 Christopher: Why is Ellen dressed as a Quaker? Michael: Since when did they change the size of the trophies?5:44 Michael: 14 minutes into the Academy Awards, and the show is already getting political. Not that there is anything wrong with that.5:44 The first award goes to Jared Leto for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.5:37 After falling before the show, Ellen says that we should give Jennifer Lawrence the award if she wins tonight.5:30 Ellen DeGeneres commenting on returning so quickly after a seven year absence, and how nothing has changed in terms of nominees. Events 86th Academy AwardsAcademy AwardsAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesOscars
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