The Oscars (2014)

Well in all honesty, other than predicting that Gravity will dominate most of the awards, 12 Years A Slave will win Best Picture, and my darling Cate Blanchett will win Best Actress ♥, I predicted everything else WRONG!

I am very surprised that Lupita Nyong’o won best supporting actress and Chewwy boy didn’t win Best Actor, but I am extremely happy for her. Her speech was absolutely beautiful ♥
Again congrats to Barkhad Abdi for his Oscar winning performance in Captain Phillips. I’m not hearing much noise about this man, he seems to keep getting over looked.

Well I suppose after years of people cutting Matthew McConaughey down over his questionable acting skills, the man has put every critic in their place. Ever since I watched him in The Lincoln Lawyer, I knew he was working his way up towards as Oscar.
Don’t worry Leo, your time is coming – just think about Martin Scorsese and how long he had to wait for his Best Director Academy Award with all of his amazing films before he finally won it in 2006 for The Departed. So hang in there son!

I’m very pleased that American Hustle was overlooked, I genuinely would have had a long rant if they had cleaned up. David O Russell can now go and eat some humble pie!

The Winners Are…

Best supporting actor

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
WINNER: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best costume design

Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle
William Chang Suk Ping, The Grandmaster
Michael O’Connor, The Invisible Woman
Patricia Norris, 12 Years a Slave
Winner: Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby

Best makeup and hairstyling

WINNERS: Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews, Dallas Buyers Club
Stephen Prouty, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger

Best short film (animated)

Feral
Get a Horse!
WINNER: Mr Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom

Best animation

The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest and Celestine
WINNER: Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best visual effects

WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

Best short

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
WINNER: Helium
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem

Best documentary short

CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
WINNER: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best documentary

The Act of Killing
Cutie and The Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
WINNER: 20 Feet from Stardom

Best foreign film

Broken Circle Breakdown(Belgium)
WINNER: The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

Best sound mixing

Captain Phillips
WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Best sound editing

All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

Best supporting actress

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
WINNER: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Best cinematography

Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster
WINNER: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska
Roger A Deakins, Prisoners

Best editing

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
WINNER: Gravity
12 Years a Slave

Best production design

American Hustle
Gravity
WINNER: Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn, The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave

Best original score

John Williams, The Book Theif
WINNER: Steven Price, Gravity
William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr Banks

Best original song

Alone Yet Not Alone, Alone Yet Not Alone
Happy, Despicable Me 2
WINNER: Let It Go, Frozen
The Moon Song, Her
Ordinary Love, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

Best adapted screenplay

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Billy Ray, Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena
WINNER: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best original screenplay

Eric Warren Singer and David O Russell, American Hustle
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club
WINNER: Spike Jonze, Her
Bob Nelson, Nebraska

Best director

David O Russell, American Hustle
WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best actress

Amy Adams, American Hustle
WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine ♥
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best actor

Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club