The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, better known as simply, The Academy, announced the nominees for 86th Academy Awards, affectionately referred to as The Oscars. The ceremony will take place on 2 March at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Leading talent and content from the movie industry has been recognised in this year’s nominations list. Gravity and American Hustle lead the nominations with 10 apiece. These movies will be going head to head in categories including Best Director and Best Picture.
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave received nine nominations, including Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong'o. 12 Years A Slave recently received the prestigious Best Motion Picture - Drama award at the Golden Globes.
Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto garnered an impressive six nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Leto and Best Picture. Both McConaughey and Leto recently walked away with the Golden Globes for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama and Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, respectively.
Another movie to receive six nominations was Nebraska, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways), starring Bruce Dern. Nominations for Nebraska included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
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A full list of the nominees follows:
BEST PICTURE
“12 Years a Slave” “American Hustle” “Captain Phillips” “Dallas Buyers Club” “Gravity” “Her” “Nebraska” “Philomena” “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST DIRECTOR
David O. Russell, “American Hustle” Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity” Alexander Payne, “Nebraska” Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave” Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, “American Hustle” Bruce Dern, “Nebraska” Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave” Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “American Hustle” Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine” Sandra Bullock, “Gravity” Judi Dench, “Philomena” Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“American Hustle” “Blue Jasmine” “Her” “Nebraska” “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Before Midnight” “Captain Phillips” “Philomena” “12 Years a Slave” “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave” Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle” June Squibb, “Nebraska” Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County” Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips” Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle” Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave” Jonah Hill, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ANIMATED FILM
“The Croods” “Despicable Me 2” “Ernest & Celestine” “Frozen” “The Wind Rises”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Grandmaster” “Gravity” “Inside Llewyn Davis” “Nebraska” “Prisoners”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson, “American Hustle” William Chang Suk Ping, “The Grandmaster” Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby” Michael O’Connor, “The Invisible Woman” Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Act of Killing”Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen “Cutie and the Boxer” Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher “Dirty Wars” Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill “The Square” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer “20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined
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 Jack Hall” Edgar Barens
BEST FILM EDITING
“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 “12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium “The Great Beauty” Italy “The Hunt” Denmark “The Missing Picture” Cambodia “Omar” Palestine
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty “The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams, “The Book Thief” Steven Price, “Gravity” William Butler and Owen Pallett, “Her” Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena” Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone” Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2” Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
“Let It Go” from “Frozen” Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“The Moon Song” from “Her” Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
“Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“American Hustle” Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
“Gravity” Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
“The Great Gatsby” Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
“Her” Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
“12 Years a Slave” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
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 Legrand and Alexandre Gavras “Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson “Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari “The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
BEST SOUND EDITING
“All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns “Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney “Gravity” Glenn Freemantle “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge “Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman
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 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 Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier “Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton