Oscars 2014 : Big wins for 'Gravity', 'dallas Buyers Club' and '12 years a Slave'


As the presenters were stalking the stars on the red carpet, early towards the evening, we get to see a huge line up of celebrities, nominated and hosting, arrive. They sashay in their gowns or pose in their tuxedos, and we have our anchors running to them to ask what or rather 'whose' they are wearing. They slowly take their time talking to as many of them as they could and finally when we arrive inside the huge Dolby theatre in L.A, we hush up as the light go dim.


Enters, the host for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, Ellen DeGeneres, and cracks up a lot many cool wits about the celebrities present in there, and many were actually funny. But then the rest of the evening she played waiter to the stars down in the theater serving pizza. Less jokes therefore, and wasn't as eventful as some of the previous years.

Now coming to the event itself, they played the one absolutely undoubtful category, with Jared Leto unanimously taking away the Best Supporting Actor award. Then springing up few of the creative departments, and all I thought was they are finishing up the easy and predictable ones sooner to make place for some suspense in the end.

Then came the first category that could sport some confusion. The best supporting actress was going to be tight in a way, with Lupita and Jennifer leading the way. But it went into the almost sure 'Lupita nYongos' bag. The rest of the evening followed suit, and no real surprises were sprang among any of the categories.


Mathew McCounaghey won the best actor for 'Dallas Buyers Club', while Cate Blanchett deservedly took home the best actress statue for 'Blue Jasmine'. '12 years a Slave' won the best film, while the best director was the absolutely amazing Alfonso Cuaron for 'Gravity'. 'Gravity' also took home almost all the technical categories. The moment i felt respect to the Academy was when the awarded the best original screenplay to Spike Jones for 'HER'.


Here follows the award winners :

Best Picture: "12 Years a Slave"
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"

Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Adapted Screenplay: "12 Years a Slave," John Ridley
Best Original Screenplay: "Her," Spike Jonze
Best Director: Alfonoso Cuaron, "Gravity"

Achievement in Costume Design: "The Great Gatsby," Catherine Martin
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling: "Dallas Buyers Club," Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
Best Animated Short Film: "Mr. Hublot" Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
Best Animated Feature Film: "Frozen"
Achievement in Visual Effects: "Gravity," Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould
Best Live Action Short Film: "Helium," Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
Best Documentary Short Subject: "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life," Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
Best Documentary Feature: "20 Feet from Stardom," Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
Best Foreign Language Film: "The Great Beauty," Italy
Achievement in Sound Mixing: "Gravity" Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

Achievement in Cinematography: "Gravity," Emmanuel Lubezki
Achievement in Sound Editing: "Gravity," Glenn Freemantle
Achievement in Film Editing: "Gravity," Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
Achievement in Production Design: "The Great Gatsby," Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
Best Original Score: "Gravity" Steven Price
Best Original Song: "Let It Go" from "Frozen," Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and performed by Idina Menzel

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Padmaavat Review

Image
Padmaavat(i) - is a lavish visual spectacle from the master of Indian magnum opus, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It has all the ingredients you expect from a film like his, but compared to his previous movies there were some slight misses.  The movie starts off strong, obviously because of the visuals, but slowly meanders into sequence of three lines of 'Rajput praising' just for the sake of it, songs that don't fit but were there because those worked in his 'BajiRao', Deepika and Sh ahid becoming side caricatures in a 'heroic' saga and so on. But the film is entertaining, and Ranveer is Ranveer. Ranveer's screen time and performance eclipse the other title characters, and so when they come on screen all they have is some punch dialogs, which was irritating. Aditi is always a pleasant sight for sore eyes. As a director, I feel SLB failed because I thought he had a great story in hand, but instead of making it into a proper political emotional saga, he wen
Read more

Aningaaq : Jonas Cuaron's 'Gravity' spin off explores the other side to Bullock's distress call

Image
Remember this scene from 'Gravity' where Sandra Bullock's character Ryan Stone, loses all hope of surviving and shuts down her drone. Just before that she finds peace in her conversation through her transmitter with a guy called Aningaaq. You hear his voice, and his speech, a dogs bark and a crying child. Have you wondered who they were? Well, you don't have to any more. Jonas Cuaron, son of the director Alfonso Cuaron himself, who co-wrote 'gravity' alongside his father, wrote a shortie based on this conversation. Financed by Warner Videos, who wanted the short to come out with their Blu-ray editions, found the short's potential to be much more than they intended. Now doing rounds in various festivals for short films, they might be just in luck if they could get a nomination for their short film 'Aningaaq' at the prestigious Oscars this year, in the live action short film category. If so, it could be very much possible that Warner's could b
Read more

Avengers final trailer turns the tables in Avengers favor

Image
The two big trailers we saw in the past couple of months, for Avengers saw the invincible tea bowing down to a great AI threat Ultron. From the brooding ambiance all through those trailers there was a feeling of defeat of Avengers. But now Marvel has come out with the latest trailer which turns the tables. It not only shows the Avengers are all one team, (even the ones currently in doubt), but also shows us some stunning action where they 'kick ass' of Ultron and his minions. Watch this new trailer here:
Read more