Oscars 2014: And the nominees are…

Back to school days, I had always watched the Oscar nights on TV… Nowadays, I still enjoy watching them – especially all these pretty dresses that every actress is wearing for that BIG NIGHT!! Dunno if my taste in movies have changed over the years… but I found that competition back then were much harder as there were soooo many good movies coming out at the same time… 

The 86^th Annual Academy Award will be held in March 2nd

Here is the complete list of this year’s nominees:

Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf Of Wall Street

Best Performance by an 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 Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Jonah Hill - The Wolf Of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years A Slave

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years A Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

Best Animated Feature Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best Foreign Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Missing Picture
Omar

Best Documentary Feature
The Act Of Killing
20 Feet From Stardom
Cutie And The Boxer
The Square
Dirty Wars

Best Documentary Short Subject
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal: The Last Days Of Private Jack Hall

Best Adapted Screenplay
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and 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 and Melisa Wallack - Dallas Buyers Club
Spike Jonze - Her
Bob Nelson - Nebraska

Achievement in Directing
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Steve McQueen - 12 Years A Slave
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf Of Wall Street

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original song)
Bruce Broughton and Dennis Spiegel - Alone Yet Not Alone from Alone Yet Not Alone
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez - Let It Go from Frozen
Karen O and Spike Jonze - The Moon Song from Her
U2 - Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Pharrell Williams - Happy from Despicable Me

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original score)
John Williams - The Book Thief
Steven Price - Gravity
William Butler and Owen Pallett - Her
Alexandre Desplat - Philomena
Thomas Newman - Saving Mr. Banks

Best Cinematography
Philippe Le Sourd - The Grandmaster
Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity
Phedon Papamichael - Nebraska
Bruno Delbonnel - Inside Llewyn Davis
Roger A. Deakins - Prisoners

Best Film Editing
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years A Slave

Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

Best Costume Design
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years A Slave

Best Production Design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years A Slave

Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Lone Survivor

Best 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
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

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
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem

Do you have a favourite? Do you think that Oscar winning movies can have an influence of your “must see” movie choice list? I think they do. For me, I have heard about Gravity but I haven’t seen it as I wasn’t interested in the storyline… but now I’m curious about this film. Also about American Hustle and Blue Jasmine *haha* One “must see” movie for me this year is definitely The Wolf Of Wall Street… Not least of the main actor *lol*

Lisa xoxo