86th Academy Awards

Broadcast Date: March 2014 - Australia


G'day, blog viewers and posters,
the news had announced for the
Oscars of 2014. The recent
ceremony of the official Academy
Awards is to be hosted by
television actress and hostess
Ellen DeGeneres. Still changed
are the two categories of Best
Makeup and Hairstyling and
Best Production Design.

More surprising is that the place that hosted the awards presentation in Los Angeles, California, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, got renamed from Kodak Theatre to the Dolby Theatre. Click on the link "oscar.go.com" and who you want to be to win these 24 categories.

Don't miss out on the show for two months, Film Guru Lad out.


Best 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 Long Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich,
Edison Williams and John Fraizer
Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick
Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

Best Film Editing

12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker
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

Best Costume Design

12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris

American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson 

The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping

The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin

The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee and 

Robin Matthews

Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty

The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow and 

Gloria Pasqua-Carny

Best Cinematography

The Grandmaster - Phillipe LeSourd

Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki 

Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel

Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael

Prisoners - Roger Deakins

Best Production Design

12 Years a Slave - Adam Stockhausen 

(Production Design); Alice Baker (Set 

Decoration)

American Hustle - Judy Becker 

(Production Design); Heather Loeffler

(Set Decoration)

Gravity - Andy Nicholson (Production 

Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne 

Wollard (Set Decoration)

The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin 

(Production Design); Beverley Dunn 

(Set Decoration)

Her - K. K. Barrett (Production 

Design); Gene Serdena (Set 

Decoration)

Best 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

Best Sound Editing

All is Lost - Steve Boeddeker and 

Richard Hymns

Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney

Gravity - Glenn Fremantle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 

Brent Burge

Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman

Best Original Song

"Alone, Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet 

Not Alone - Bruce Broughton and 

Dennis Spiegel

"Happy" from Despicable Me 2 - 

Pharrell Williams 

"Let It Go" from Frozen - Kristen 

Anderson & Robert Lopez

"The Moon Song" from Her - Karen 

Orzolek and Spike Jonze

"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: 

Long Walk to Freedom - U2

Best Original Score

The Book Thief - John Williams

Gravity - Steven Price

Her - William Butler and Oliver Pallett 

Philomena - Alexandre Desplat

Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman 

Best Animated Short Film

Feral - Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden

Get a Horse! - Lauren MacMullan and 

Dorothy McKim

Mr. Hublot - Laurent Witz and Alexandre 

Espigares 

Possessions - Shuhei Morita 

Room on the Broom - Max Lang and 

Jan Lachauer 

Best Live Action Short Film

Aquel no era yo (That Wasn't Me) - 

Esteban Crespo 

Avant que de tout perdre (Just 

Before Losing Everything) - 

Xavier Lengrand 

Helium - Andres Walter and Kim 

Magnusson

Pitääko mun kaikki hoitaa? (Do o

I Have to Take Care of Everything?) - 

Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari 

The Voorman Problem - Mark Gill 

and Baldwin Li

Best Documentary - Short Subject

CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff

Facing Fear - Jason Cohen

Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq 

The Lady in Number 6: Music 

Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke 

and Nicholas Reed 

Prison Terminal: The Last Days 

of Private Dan Hall - Edgar Barens 

Best Documentary - Feature

20 Feet from Stardom - Morgan 

Neville

The Act of Killing - Joshua 

Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge 

Sørensen

Cutie and the Boxer - Zachary 

Heinzerling and Lydia Dean 

Picher

Dirty Wars - Richard Rowley and 

Jeremy Scahill 

The Square - Jehane Noujaim and 

Karin Amer

Best Foreign Language Film

The Broken Circle Breakdown 

(Belgium) in Dutch - Felix Van 

Groeningen 

The Great Beauty (Italy) in 

Italian - Paolo Sorrentino 

The Hunt (Denmark) in Danish - 

Thomas Vinterberg

The Missing Picture (Cambodia) 

in French - Rithy Panh

Omar (Palestine) in Arabic - 

Hany Abu-Assad 

Best Animated Feature

The Croods - Kirk DeMecco, Chris Sanders 

and Kristine Belson
Despicable Me 2 - Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
and Chris Meledandri
Ernest & Celestine - Benjamin Renner and
Didier Brunner
Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter
Del Vicho
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio
Suzuki

Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay

12 Years a Slave - John Ridley
Before Midnight - Richard Linklater, Julie 
Delpy and Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
Philomena - Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street - Terence Winter

Best Writing - Original Screenplay

American Hustle - Eric Warren Russell and
David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club - Craig Borten and
Melisa Wallack
Her - Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Bob Nelson

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine as Ginger
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle - Rosalyn
Rosenfield
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave as Patsey
Julia Roberts - August: Osage Country - Barbara
Weston-Fordham
June Squibb - Nebraska - Kate Grant

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle as Agent
Richard "Richie" DiMaso
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave as
Edwin Epps
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street as Donnie Azoff
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon

Best Actress

Amy Adams - American Hustle as Sydney Prosser
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine as Jeannette
"Jasmine" Francis
Sandra Bullock - Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone
Judi Dench - Philomena as Philomena Lee
Meryl Streep - August: Osage Country - Violet
Weston

Best Actor

Christian Bale - American Hustle as Irving Rosenfield
Bruce Dern - Nebraska as Woody Grant

Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street as 

Jordan Belfort

Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave as Solomon 

Northup

Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club 

as Ron Woodroof 

Best Director

Alfonso Caurón - Gravity

Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

Alexander Payne - Nebraska

David O. Russell - American Hustle 

Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, 

Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony 

Katagas

American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard 

Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon

Captain Phillips - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti 

and Michael De Luca

Dallas Buyers Club - Robbie Brenner and 

Rachel Winter

Gravity - Alfonso Caurón and David Heyman 

Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and 

Vincent Landay

Nebraska - Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa 

Philomena - Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan 

and Tracey Seaward

The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese, 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland and 

Emma Tillinger Koskoff

Academy Honorary Awards

Angela Lansbury

Steve Martin

Piero Tosi

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Angelina Jolie

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