by Abhishek Panikkar
It’s that time of the year again, the nominations are out and the campaigning has begun. The award season is in a full swing with the 2014 Critics’ Choice Awards, The Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globes coming to an end as film enthusiasts around the world eagerly await the crowning glory, the 86th annual Academy Awards.
It has been a great year for Hollywood with movies like Gravity taking you on a rollercoaster ride of technical brilliance, riveting and breathless scripts of Captain Philips and Prisoners, heartbreaking epics like 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club, the wildly entertaining American Hustle and who can ignore Scorsese’s over the top The Wolf of Wall Street.
The 86th Academy Awards takes place on Sunday, 2nd March 2014 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. In India, Star Movies will most likely air the show-live the next day morning. Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres will host the Oscars ceremony, which according to reports will celebrate ‘movie heroes’.
The 86th Academy Awards takes place on Sunday, 2nd March 2014 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. In India, Star Movies will most likely air the show-live the next day morning. Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres will host the Oscars ceremony, which according to reports will celebrate ‘movie heroes’.
12 Years a Slave seems to be the punters choice to win the coveted Best Picture award with the odds favouring the film but recently American Hustle has been making waves and hoping to cause an upset, along with the obvious Gravity, a strong contender. Alfonso Cuarón is likely to pick up the best director award and Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett seem to be favourites for the Best Actor awards after their outstanding roles in Dallas Buyers Club and Blue Jasmine respectively. Gravity is a strong favourite to pick up many technical awards although personally I’d like to see Roger Deakins cinematography work in Prisoners recognised as well as the unforgettable Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club for Best Supporting Actor.
So who are the nominee’s? Check out the full list below:
Best picture
Best director
Best lead actor
Best lead actress
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role
Best animated feature film of the year
Achievement in cinematography
Achievement in costume design
Best documentary feature
Best documentary short subject
Achievement in film editing
Best foreign language film of the year
Achievement in makeup and hair styling
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Achievement in production design
Best animated short film
Best live action short film
Achievement in sound editing
Achievement in sound mixing
Achievement in visual effects
Best adapted screenplay
Best original screenplay
Best picture
- 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
- Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
- Alexander Payne - Nebraska
- David O. Russell - American Hustle
- Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
Best lead actor
- Christian Bale - American Hustle
- Bruce Dern - Nebraska
- Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
- Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
- Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Best lead actress
- Amy Adams - American Hustle
- Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
- Judi Dench - Philomena
- Meryl Streep - August: Osage County
- Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Best performance by an 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 performance by an 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 animated feature film of the year
- The Croods
- Despicable Me 2
- Ernest & Celestine
- Frozen
- The Wind Rises
Achievement in cinematography
- The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd
- Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
- Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
- Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
- Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins
Achievement in 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
Best documentary feature
- The Act of Killing
- Cutie and the Boxer
- Dirty Wars
- The Square
- 20 Feet from Stardom
Best documentary short subject
- CaveDigger
- Facing Fear
- Karama Has No Walls
- The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
- Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Achievement in 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 Walker
Best foreign language film of the year
- The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
- The Great Beauty, Italy
- The Hunt, Denmark
- The Missing Picture, Cambodia
- Omar, Palestine
Achievement in makeup and hair styling
- Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty
- The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- The Book Thief - John Williams
- Gravity - Steven Price
- Her - William Butler and Owen Pallett
- Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
- Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- Alone Yet Not Alone from Alone Yet Not Alone
- Happy from Despicable Me 2
- Let It Go from Frozen
- The Moon Song from “Her
- Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Achievement in production design
- American Hustle - Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
- Gravity - Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
- The Great Gatsby - Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
- Her - Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
- 12 Years a Slave - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
Best animated short film
- Feral
- Get a Horse!
- Mr. Hublot
- Possessions
- Room on the Broom
Best live action short film
- Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
- Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
- Helium
- Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
- The Voorman Problem’
Achievement in 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 Stateman
Achievement in 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 Brownlow
Achievement in 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 Dalton
Best adapted screenplay
- Before Midnight - written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, 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 Winter
Best 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 Nelson