The 86th Annual Academy Awards ceremony featured films and nominees from a wide array of passion projects, innovative productions and powerful performances, all deserving of recognition. The big winners of the evening were Steve McQueen's
12 Years a Slave, which walked away with Best Picture; Alfonso Cuarón's
Gravity, which took home seven Oscars, among them Best Director; and Jean-Marc Vallée's
Dallas Buyers Club, which earned Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
Many of tonight's Academy Award nominated films and Oscar winning-standouts are either already available on Blu-ray or are available for pre-order:
The winners and nominees of the 86th Annual Academy Awards are as follows:
Best Picture
- Winner: 12 Years a Slave
- American Hustle
- Captain Phillips
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Gravity
- Her
- Nebraska
- Philomena
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Director
- Winner: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
- American Hustle (David O. Russell)
- Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
- 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Winner: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Christian Bale (American Hustle)
- Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Winner: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Amy Adams (American Hustle)
- Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
- Judi Dench (Philomena)
- Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Winner: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
- Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
- Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Winner: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
- Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
- Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
- Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
- June Squibb (Nebraska)
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner: 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
- Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
- Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
- Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner: Her (Spike Jonze)
- American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
- Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
- Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
- Nebraska (Bob Nelson)
Best Cinematography
- Winner: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
- The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
- Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
- Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)
Best Film Editing
- Winner: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
- American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
- Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
- Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
- 12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)
Best Production Design
- Winner: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
- American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
- Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
- Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
- 12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)
Best Costume Design
- Winner: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
- American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
- The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
- The Invisible Woman (Michael O'Connor)
- 12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- Winner: Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
- The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)
Best Visual Effects
- Winner: Gravity
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Iron Man 3
- The Lone Ranger
- Star Trek Into Darkness
Best Animated Feature
- Winner: Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
- The Croods (Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson)
- Despicable Me 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri)
- Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)
Best Animated Short Film
- Winner: Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
- Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
- Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
- Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
- Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)
Best Live Action Short Film
- Winner: Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
- That Wasn't Me (Esteban Crespo)
- Just Before Losing Everything (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
- Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
- The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner: 20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen)
- Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher)
- Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill)
- The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer)
Best Documentary, Short Subject
- Winner: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
(Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
- CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
- Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
- Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
- Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)
Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner: The Great Beauty (Italy)
- The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
- The Hunt (Denmark)
- The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
- Omar (Palestine)
Best Sound Mixing
- Winner: Gravity
- Captain Phillips
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Lone Survivor
Best Sound Editing
- Winner: Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
- All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
- Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
- Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)
Best Original Score
- Winner: Gravity (Steven Price)
- The Book Thief (John Williams)
- Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
- Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
- Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)
Best Original Song
- Winner: Let It Go (Frozen)
- Happy (Despicable Me 2)
- The Moon Song (Her)
- Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
About the Academy Awards
Far from the eagerly anticipated and globally televised event it is today, the first Academy Awards ceremony took place out of the public eye during an Academy banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Two hundred seventy people attended the May 16, 1929 dinner in the hotel's Blossom Room; guest tickets cost $5. And there was little suspense when the awards were presented that night, as the recipients had already been announced three months earlier.
That all changed the following year, however, when the Academy kept the results secret until the ceremony but gave a list in advance to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. on the night of the Awards. This policy continued until 1940 when, much to the Academy's surprise, the Los Angeles Times broke the embargo and published the names of the winners in its evening edition – which was readily available to guests arriving for the ceremony. That prompted the Academy in 1941 to adopt the sealed-envelope system still in use today.
As the event grew in size, banquets became impractical and the event moved from banquet room to a theater venue beginning with the 16th Oscar ceremony in 1942, held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Since 2001, the Oscar ceremony has been held in Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, just steps from the historic Chinese Theatre.
In 1953, the first televised Oscar ceremony enabled millions throughout the United States and Canada to watch the proceedings. Broadcasting in color began in 1966, affording home viewers a chance to fully experience the dazzling allure of the event. Since 1969, the Oscar show has been broadcast internationally, now reaching movie fans in over 200 countries.