It was a great vibe at the Oscars last night in the Dolby Theater, Los Angeles. Ellen DeGeneres gave the ceremonies a real feel-good vibe and aside from the usual poking fun at the nominees spent large parts of the show mingling with the crowd and taking selfies – one of which became the most retweeted tweet of all time, almost bringing Twitter to a standstill.
The Oscars selfie (Play this video in Creation 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VU_CkKJJo
Ellen’s 9 minute opening speech was very well received and is well worth watching if you missed it last night. She had a laugh poking fun at Jennifer Lawrence for falling her way onto the red carpet (as she did last year) and quite wisely suggested that “If you win tonight I think we should bring the Oscar to you..”
Ellen DeGeneres Opening Monologue at the (Oscars 2014) (Play this video in Creation 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmc_8u15egs
The big award of the night for Best Picture went to ’12 Years A Slave’ and the big acting awards went to Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett. Matthew won Best Actor for his brilliant portrayal of a Texas man suffering from AIDS in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and Cate won Best Actress in the Woody Allen film, ‘Blue Jasmine’.
It was quite a landmark win for ’12 Years a Slave’ – the first time Hollywood has given it’s top honor to the work of a black director. “I’d like to thank this amazing story,” said Steve McQueen, “Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. He dedicated the film to those who had endured slavery, past and present.
The most trophies went to ‘Gravity’ which scooped an incredible 7 Academy Awards – including Best Visual Effects and Best Direction. The first award of the evening went to Jared Leto who won, as many expected, Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’. Best Supporting Actress went to first time nominee Lupita Nyong’o for her chilling portrayal of a slave in ’12 Years a Slave’. “It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s, and so I want to salute the spirit of Patsey, for her guidance,” she said in her acceptance speech.
Lupita Nyong’o wins Oscars 2014 – Acceptance Speech (Play this video in Creation 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fluQ6iyy85g
The Best Animated Feature Film (unsurprisingly) went to ‘Frozen’ which has already made more than $1 billion at the box office.
Surprisingly, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and Leonardo DiCaprio got nothing, but ‘The Great Gatsby’ in which he starred won awards for production and design.
Anyway, movie lovers are now looking forward to the new blockbuster season – quite telling this weekend as the action thriller ‘Non-Stop’ and the religious drama ‘Son of God’ have sold more tickets than the best picture nominees – ‘Dallas Buyer’s Club’, ‘Her’ or ‘Nebraska’ – had managed to sell since their release!
Pink performance Somewhere Over The Rainbow at Oscars 2014 (Play this video in Creation 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzwbywY9h0
The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honors the actors, technical achievements, and films of 2013:
BEST PICTURE
WINNER: 12 Years a Slave
Nominees: American Hustle; Captain Phillips; Dallas Buyers Club; Gravity; Her; Nebraska; Philomena; The Wolf of Wall Street; 12 Years a Slave
BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Nominees: Christian Bale, American Hustle; Bruce Dern, Nebraska; Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street; Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club; Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Nominees: Amy Adams, American Hustle; Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; Sandra Bullock, Gravity; Judi Dench, Philomena; Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Nominees: 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 SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Nominees: Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine; Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle; Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave; Julia Roberts, August: Osage County; June Squibb, Nebraska
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Nominees: 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 ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
WINNER: Frozen
Nominees: The Croods; Despicable Me 2; Ernest & Celestine; Frozen; The Wind Rises
BEST FOREIGN FILM
WINNER: The Great Beauty
Nominees: The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium; The Great Beauty, Italy; The Hunt, Denmark; The Missing Picture, Cambodia; Omar, Palestine
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Her, Spike Jonze
Nominees: American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell; Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen; Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack; Her, Spike Jonze; Nebraska, Bob Nelson
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: 12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
Nominees: Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke; Captain Phillips, Billy Ray; Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope; 12 Years a Slave, John Ridley; The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: Gravity
Nominees: The Book Thief; Gravity; Her; Philomena; Saving Mr. Banks
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: Let It Go, from Frozen
Nominees: 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
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Gravity
Nominees: The Grandmaster; Gravity; Inside Llewyn Davis; Nebraska; Prisoners
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: The Great Gatsby
Nominees: American Hustle; The Grandmaster; The Great Gatsby; The Invisible Woman; 12 Years a Slave
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER: 20 Feet From Stardom
Nominees: The Act of Killing; Cutie and the Boxer; Dirty Wars; The Square; 20 Feet From Stardom
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
WINNER: The Lady in Number 6
Nominees: 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
BEST FILM EDITING
WINNER: Gravity
Nominees: American Hustle; Captain Phillips; Dallas Buyers Club; Gravity; 12 Years a Slave
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
WINNER: Dallas Buyers Club
Nominees: Dallas Buyers Club; Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa; The Lone Ranger
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: The Great Gatsby
Nominees: American Hustle; Gravity; The Great Gatsby; Her; 12 Years a Slave
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
WINNER: Mr. Hublot
Nominees: Feral; Get a Horse!; Mr. Hublot; Possessions; Room on the Broom
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNER: Helium
Nominees: Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me); Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything); Helium; Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?); The Voorman Problem
BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER: Gravity
Nominees: All Is Lost; Captain Phillips; Gravity; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Lone Survivor
BEST SOUND MIXING
WINNER: Gravity
Nominees: Captain Phillips; Gravity; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Inside Llewyn Davis; Lone Survivor
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: Gravity
Nominees: Gravity; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Iron Man 3; The Lone Ranger; Star Trek Into Darkness
Pharrell – Happy (Oscar Awards 2014 live performance) (Play this video in Creation 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMQxxaCgOX0
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