Yours truly scores 100 percent on Oscar picks
By Kam Willliams
12 Years a Slave walked away with big prize, Best Picture at the 86th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The historical drama was directed by Steve McQueen and also netted accolades in the Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong’o) and Adapted Screenplay (John Ridley) categories. Dallas Buyers Club also won a trio of Oscars, although Gravity landed the most overall, at seven.
The event was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, who did a phenomenal job of loosening up the crowd with bits ranging from ordering pizzas for the audience to taking a group selfie with some of the celebs in attendance. Her good-natured brand of humor was not only hilarious but seemed tailor-made for the occasion.
The acceptance speeches were uniformly gracious, with both Nyong’o’s and Leto’s proving to be particularly moving. Perhaps the only one with a glaring faux pas was Cate Blanchett, who inexplicably went out of her way to thank Woody Allen at a time when he’s being shunned by polite society because of his daughter Dylan’s recent allegations that he’d molested her as a child.
As far as this critic’s Oscar handicapping, faithful readers who relied on my predictions in their office pools were richly rewarded since all 21 of my picks were correct. See: https://plus.google.com/+TroyJohnson/posts/LSYJJEgnZnj
Complete List of Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Best Foreign Language film: The Great Beauty (Italy)
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom
Best Animated Feature: Frozen
Best Original Song: “Let It Go” from Frozen, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Best Original Score: Steven Price, Gravity
Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Best Film Editing: Gravity
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Best Sound Mixing: Gravity
Best Sound Editing: Gravity
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club
Best Animated Short Film: Mr. Hublot
Best Live-Action Short Film: Helium
Best Documentary Short: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
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