The 86th Academy Awards ceremony held at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday night (Monday morning in India) in Los Angeles. Gravity bagged 7 awards including the best director. Dallas Buyers Club gave Matthew McConaughey his first Oscar in Best Actor category.
Director Steve McQuee’s heart-touching movie 12 Years a Slave won the best-picture Oscar tonight.
Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress in leading role for her extraordinary performance in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
Hot favourite Matthew McConaughey received his maiden Oscar for his epic portrayal of an HIV sufferer in Dallas Buyers Club. He thanked god, his family and the team of Dallas Buyers Club.
Alfonso Cuarón won the Director Oscar for his amazing film Gravity. Gravity also bagged the most number of awards including Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.
“What really sucks is that for a lot of these people that transformation was wisdom. For me, it was the colour of my hair,” Cuaron said while receive the award for best director.
The most-watched star studded event of the world began with announcing the winner of actor in supporting role category. Jared Leto has won the best actor in supporting role for Dallas Buyers Club.
Beautiful Lupita Nyong’o won the Oscar for her incredible supporting role 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” the Kenyan actress said in her acceptance speech.
Here’s the complete list of winners:
| Award Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best Picture | 12 Years a Slave |
| Best Director | Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) |
| Best Actress in leading role | Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) |
| Best Actor in leading role | Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) |
| Best Original Screenplay | Spike Jonze (Her) |
| Best Original Song | “Let It Go”, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen) |
| Best Animated Feature | Frozen |
| Best Documentary Feature | 20 Feet from Stardom |
| Best Foreign Language Film | The Great Beauty (Italy) |
| Best Original Score | Steven Price (Gravity) |
| Best Cinematography | Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity) |
| Best Production Design | Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration) – (The Great Gatsby) |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews (Dallas Buyers Club) |
| Best Costume Design | Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby) |
| Best Film Editing | Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Gravity) |
| Best Visual Effects | Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (Gravity) |
| Best Sound Mixing | Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (Gravity) |
| Best Sound Editing | Glenn Freemantle (Gravity) |
| Best Documentary — Short | The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life |
| Best Live Action Short | Helium |
| Best Animated Short | Mr. Hublot |
| Academy Honorary Awards | Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, Piero Tosi |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Angelina Jolie |
