The nominations for the 86th edition of the Academy Awards were announced on Thursday by Chris Hemsworth and Cheryl Boone Isaacs at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. Crime-comedy drama American Hustle and 3D sci-fi thriller Gravity top the list with 10 nods each.
Here is the list of Oscar nominees
BEST PICTURE
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
Nebraska
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
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 IN A LEADING ROLE
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 IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine
Amy Adams — American Hustle
Sandra Bullock — Gravity
Judi Dench — Philomena
Meryl Streep — August Osage County
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradley Cooper — American Hustle
Barkhad Abdi — Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender — 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill — The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto — Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence — American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o — 12 Years a Slave
Sally Hawkins — Blue Jasmine
Julia Roberts — August Osage County
June Squibb — Nebraska
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
The Croods
Ernest & Celestine
The Wind Rises
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke — Before Midnight
Billy Ray — Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope — Philomena
John Ridley — 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter — The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Warren Singer and David O Russell — American Hustle
Woody Allen — Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack — Dallas Buyers Club
Spike Jonze — Her
Bob Nelson — Nebraska
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Let It Go — Frozen
Ordinary Love — Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Alone Yet Not Alone — Alone Yet Not Alone
Happy — Despicable Me 2
The Moon Song — Her
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom
BEST FILM EDITING
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
Published in The Express Tribune, January 18th, 2014.
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