Winner of the evening: Gravity
Photo: Warner Bros
‘And the Oscar goes to…‘ Five words that can make you a star, boost your career or simply make you even richer than you already are. Well, at least if they are followed by your name.
At yesterday’s 86th Academy Awards all eyes were on Hollywood or on the cleavage of some glamorous red carpet beauty.
Winner of the evening was definitely space drama Gravity that got seven awards out of ten nominations. Now we finally understand what PLACEBO meant when they sung ‘Gravity, no escaping gravity‘ in their 2001 single Special K (Okay, that was a cheesy pun). The other favourite, American Hustle (ten nominations as well), managed to get no Oscar at all. Well, that’s kind of an achievement as well.
At least Gravity did not win the award for the supreme discipline – the Oscar for Best Film went to 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen (not to be confused with ‘ The King of Cool’-Steve McQueen who died in 1980). The new discovery Lupita Nyong’o, who plays a young slave in this film, got the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and made the most moving speech. Watch it below.
What else is to say? Well, Leo, don’t be discouraged, we believe in you. But honestly, who needs a stupid golden boy when you can have as many Victoria’s Secret Angels as you want?
And Ellen DeGeneres, we thank you for hosting the Academy Awards with that sort of naturalness and caustic humour such a self-centred and sometimes plastic event needs. Don’t worry, if the folks didn’t laugh it was not because of you but because of the Botox.
And here they are, the winners of the most important categories:
BEST MOVIE
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
BEST 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 Club
BEST 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, Nebraska
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle, David O. Russell and Eric Singer
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
The Great Beauty, Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Missing Picture, Cambodia
Omar, Palestine
BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Feet From Stardom
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
BEST ORIGINAL SONG FOR A MOVIE
PHARRELL WILLIAMS – ‘Happy’, Despicable Me 2
IDINA MENZEL – ‘Let It Go’, Frozen
KAREN O – ‘The Moon Song,’ Her
U2 – “Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief, John Williams
Gravity, Steven Price
Her, William Butler and OWEN PALLETT
Philomena, Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks, Thomas Newman
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