The 86th Academy Awards took place Sunday 2 March at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The top winner for the night, however, was “Gravity” with seven awards. In addition to Alfonso CuarĂ³n’s win for director, the film also won for visual effects, sound mixing, sound editing, cinematography, film editing and original score.
Best picture
12 Years a Slave – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
Best performance by an actor in a leading role
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Achievement in directing
Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron
Original screenplay
Her, Spike Jonze
Adapted screenplay
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Let It Go” from Frozen; Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Gravity, Steven Price
Achievement in production design
The Great Gatsby, Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
Achievement in film editing
Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
Achievement in cinematography
Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki
Achievement in sound editing
Gravity, Glenn Freemantle
Achievement in sound mixing
Gravity, Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
Best foreign-language film
The Great Beauty, Italy
Best documentary feature
20 Feet From Stardom, Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
Best documentary short subject
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
Best live-action short film
Helium, Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
Achievement in visual effects
Gravity, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
Best animated feature
Frozen
Best animated short film
Mr. Hublot, Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club, Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
Achievement in costume design
The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin
credit: The Daring Librarian