2. Oscar Nominations Announced
It's Award Season in tinseltown, and we here on the site have been very busy reporting and writing about our
own predictions,
hopeful nominees, and
probable snubs. The Academy officially released their list of Oscar nominees on Wednesday, with Gravity and American Hustle dominating with ten nominations each. Here's a complete list of the nominees:
Best Picture 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street Captain Phillips Her American Hustle Gravity Dallas Buyers Club Nebraska Philomena
Best Director Steve McQueen -- 12 Years a Slave David O. Russell -- American Hustle Alfonso Cuaron -- Gravity Alexander Payne -- Nebraska Martin Scorsese -- The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actor Bruce Dern -- Nebraska Chiwetel Ejiofor -- 12 Years a Slave Matthew McConaughey -- Dallas Buyers Club Leonardo DiCaprio -- The Wolf of Wall Street Christian Bale -- American Hustle
Best Actress Amy Adams -- American Hustle Cate Blanchett -- Blue Jasmine Judi Dench -- Philomena Sandra Bullock -- Gravity Meryl Streep -- August: Osage County
Best Supporting Actor Barkhad Abdi -- Captain Phillips Bradley Cooper -- American Hustle Jonah Hill -- The Wolf of Wall Street Jared Leto -- Dallas Buyers Club Michael Fassbender -- 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Lawrence -- American Hustle Lupita Nyong'o -- 12 Years a Slave June Squibb -- Nebraska Julia Roberts -- August: Osage County Sally Hawkins -- Blue Jasmine
Best Original Screenplay American Hustle -- David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer Blue Jasmine -- Woody Allen Her -- Spike Jonze Nebraska -- Bob Nelson Dallas Buyers Club -- Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Best Adapted Screenplay 12 Years a Slave -- John Ridley Before Midnight -- Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater The Wolf of Wall Street -- Terence Winter Captain Phillips -- Billy Ray Philomena -- Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
Best Animated Feature The Wind Rises Frozen Despicable Me 2 Ernest & Celestine The Croods
Best Foreign Feature The Hunt (Denmark) The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium) The Great Beauty (Italy) Omar (Palestinian territories) The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Best Music (Original Song) Frozen: "Let it Go" -- Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom: "Ordinary Love" -- U2, Paul Hewson Her: "The Moon Song" -- Karen O, Spike Jonze Despicable Me 2: "Happy" -- Pharrell Williams Alone Yet Not Alone: "Alone Yet Not Alone" -- Bruce Broughton, Dennis Spiegel
Best Music (Original Score) Gravity -- Steven Price Philomena -- Alexandre Desplat The Book Thief -- John Williams Saving Mr. Banks -- Thomas Newman Her -- William Butler and Owen Pallett
Best Cinematography Gravity -- Emmanuel Lubezki Inside Llewyn Davis -- Bruno Delbonnel Nebraska -- Phedon Papamichael Prisoners -- Roger Deakins The Grandmaster -- Phillippe Le Sourd
Best Costume Design The Great Gatsby -- Catherine Martin 12 Years a Slave -- Patricia Norris The Grandmaster -- William Chang Suk Ping American Hustle -- Michael Wilkinson The Invisible Woman -- Michael O'Connor
Best Documentary Feature The Act of Killing 20 Feet From Stardom The Square Cutie and the Boxer Dirty Wars
Best Film Editing Gravity -- Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger 12 Years a Slave-- Joe Walker Captain Phillips -- Christopher Rouse American Hustle -- Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten Dallas Buyers Club -- John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
Best Makeup And Hairstyling The Lone Ranger -- Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa -- Stephen Prouty Dallas Buyers Club -- Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
Best Production Design 12 Years a Slave -- Adam Stockhausen and Alice Baker The Great Gatsby -- Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn American Hustle -- Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler Gravity -- Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard Her -- K.K. Barrett and Gene Serdena
Best Visual Effects Gravity The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Star Trek Into Darkness Iron Man 3 The Lone Ranger
Best Sound Mixing Gravity Captain Phillips Lone Survivor Inside Llewyn Davis The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Sound Editing Gravity All Is Lost Captain Phillips Lone Survivor The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best sShort Film, Live Action "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 Short Film, Animated Feral Get a Horse! Mr. Hublot Possessions Room on the Broom
Best Documentary Short 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 I recommend checking out our site's follow-up Oscar articles here:
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