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2014 Academy Award Winners
12 Years a Slave By this point, you’re probably well aware of who has a new golden figurine on his/her most prized mantelpiece this morning, but here’s the full list. I found the show relatively painless — in large thanks to Ellen DeGeneres and the show-stopping Adele Dazeem — with the predictable loss of The Act of Killing and its fellow “issue” docs to 20 Feet From Stardom a cynic’s microcosm for the affair. More curious was the passive agressive beef between 12 Years a Slave’s John Ridley and Steve McQueen, who seemed to go out of their way not to acknowledge one another in their respective speeches. For the In Memoriam segment, Sarah Jones received the below-the-line treatment as a commercial bumper, just outside the Philip Seymour Hoffman finish. For the first time in what seems like forever, the Independent Spirit Awards and Oscars aligned perfectly in their pickings for the Big 6, which can be a little disheartening to think that true independent films are now elbowed aside by nitty gritty Brad Pitt productions. One wonders if the ISA’s should rethink their moniker.
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Original Song: “Let It Go,” Frozen
Best Original Score: Gravity
Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Editing: Gravity
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Best Sound Editing: Gravity
Best Sound Mixing: Gravity
Best Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom
Best Documentary Short: “The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life”
Best Live Action Short Film: “Helium”
Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Best Animated Feature Film: Frozen
Best Animated Short Film: Mr Hublot
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
