Academy Awards 2014

[Ⓐaron]

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Director

Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

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

Actress

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best picture

Captain Phillips
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
Philomena
American Hustle
Her
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street
Dallas Buyers Club

Supporting actor

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Jonah Hill, Wolf of Wall Street

Supporting actress

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Animated feature film

The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Ernest & Celestine
The Wind Rises

Cinematography

The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

Costume design

American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave

Makeup and hairstyling

Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

Documentary short subject

CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karma Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hill

Documentary feature

The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom

Foreign language film

The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Missing Picture
Omar

Music, original score

John Williams, The Book Thief
Steven Price, Gravity
William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks

Music, original song

Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel, “Alone Yet Not Alone” from Alone Yet Not Alone
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams, “Happy” from Despicable Me 2
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, “Let it Go,” from Frozen
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze, “The Moon Song,” from Her
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson, “Ordinary Love,” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Production design

American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave

Short film, animated

Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom

Short 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

Film Editing

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave

Sound editing

All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

Sound mixing

Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Visual effects

Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Lone Ranger
Iron Man 3
Star Trek Into Darkness

Writing, adapted screenplay

Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Writing, original screenplay

American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska

All I can say is that Gravity had better win ALL THE AWARDS. Discuss.

 

[Pixel]

I really hope "Her" gets some recognition. It's a beautiful film. Its up against some tough competition though.

 

[Carlie]

To me the best two pictures of the year are Gravity and 12 Years A Slave, I haven't decided yet which one I think is the best.

I really hope Chiwetel Ejiofor wins Best Actor because he's great and someone who was in Serenity should win something.

 

[Keveh Kins]

Poor Leonardo Di Capro, he always gets nominated for Best Actor during years where there are so many unreal performances. Don't think this will be his year either.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

It will probably play out like Dale Earnhardt with winning the Daytona 500. He'll finally win it -- then die while filming a sequel to that movie.

 

[Kermitu Kleric Katie]

I'll be honest, of these movies, the only ones I've seen are Frozen and The Great Gatsby.

 

[Danseru-kun]

Why is Lone Ranger nominated in Visual Effects and Pacific Rim is not :/

I don't know what to feel if Jennifer Lawrence wins again, I think Lupita N'yongo deserves this one

 

[Fangu]

Poor Leonardo Di Capro, he always gets nominated for Best Actor during years where there are so many unreal performances. Don't think this will be his year either.

Yeah give the man an award, one less thing for Tumblr to whine about

 

[Ⓐaron]

Why the discussion of 12 Years A Slave needs to refocus | Den of Geek

Interesting (and, to my mind, quite accurate) editorial about the coverage of 12 Years a Slave in the media.

 

[Keveh Kins]

Best Animated will probably go to Frozen, but I'd be happy to see Despicable Me 2 get it. It's a lot more of a kiddie film but I really enjoyed it and thought it did what it set out to do pretty well. I'm also completely biased in its favour because there's a minion called Kevin in it

 

[Pixel]

I dunno, frozen felt slightly like a dreamworks cg film. A photocopy of a photocopy. It still had a bit of the disney magic, but not so much of the subtlty.

 

[Geostigma]

I'm pretty upset that Oblivion isnt on the list for music or visuals.

Sure the story was lackluster but I've been hard pressed to find anyone who thought the movie wasnt visually stunning or thought that the soundtrack wasnt down right amazing.

 

[HylianMogget]

I think that literally the only new movies I've seen this year are Frozen and Pacific Rim (which isn't nominated for anything ), haha.

I'm pretty interested in how the animated category will turn out, especially since Pixar isn't represented at all (deservedly so, nothing against Monsters University, but it default winning over The Wind Rises or Frozen would have been even more aggravating than last year). I'm personally rooting for Frozen, especially since it likely won't win the song category, but I'd be OK with The Wind Rises winning. The latter would certainly be a bold choice for the Academy, being an animated biopic with a Japanese perspective on World War II. I think it's a toss up between the two.

I dunno, frozen felt slightly like a dreamworks cg film. A photocopy of a photocopy. It still had a bit of the disney magic, but not so much of the subtlty.

I'm gonna respectfully disagree with you here, since I had the totally opposite reaction (I felt like Disney out Pixar'd Pixar). Frozen has its issues, especially in terms of pacing, but I felt like Brave had more issues and if that can win Frozen certainly should have a shot, and in terms of Disney princess movies it was fresher than Tangled, IMO. Maybe I'm just overly pleased that Disney ended up avoiding the knee-jerk reaction to make Elsa the villain, but I thought it was a good deal more nuanced than typical Disney stuff.

 

[Carlie]

So I thought Lupita Nyong'o stole the night with her lovely acceptance speech:

Also Idina Menzel was as always brilliant when she sang Let it Go which won Best Original Song and I loved their acceptance speech:

Also Cate Blanchett said this about female films:

Fuck yeah.

Also they served pizza during the ceremony which is the greatest thing anyone can do at any event.

 

[Lex]

Oh hell, I'm downloading this right now.

 

[Kai Schulen]

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/award-se...oters-are-ignorant-about-animation-96680.html

I'm just gonna leave this here. >:|

 

[X-SOLDIER]

That's rather infuriating, but not surprising given how bullshit 90% of all the things with the inner workings of anything with the film industry are, ESPECIALLY when it comes to dealing with VFX or animation.



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[Ⓐaron]

Honestly, apart from the usual animation ghetto I was pretty impressed with the choices for the awards this year. I can't really quibble with the results of any of the awards I actually cared about. Frozen unquestionably should have been a Best Picture nominee though (as should at least half of Pixar's films in years past).

 

[Carlie]

I can imagine what happened last year for Brave to win over Wreck It Ralph then.