REFLECTIONS ON FILM CULTURE

Daily | Oscar Nominations 2014

Gravity

‘Gravity’

Inside Llewyn Davis. What happened?” tweeted Ioncinema‘s Eric Lavallee moments after the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced. Well, it did score Cinematography and Sound Mixing. Otherwise, the frontrunners have been fairly clear for at least a month now. The breakdown:


Update: Sorting through the snubs and surprises and/or offering further analysis are Jason Bailey (Flavorwire), Anthony Breznican (EW), Richard Brody (New Yorker), Kyle Buchanan and David Edelstein (Vulture, where you can also listen to all the nominated songs), Christopher Campbell (Movies.com), Scott Feinberg (Hollywood Reporter), Peter Knegt (Indiewire), Joe Leydon (CultureMap), Guy Lodge (In Contention), Oliver Lyttelton (Playlist), Andrew O’Hehir (Salon), David Poland (Movie City News), Matt Prigge (Metro), Lily Rothman (Time), Melena Ryzik (New York Times), Ramin Setoodeh (Variety), Tom Shone (Guardian), Matt Singer and Jen Chaney (Dissolve) and Henry Stewart (L).


BEST PICTURE

12 Years a Slave.
American Hustle.
Captain Phillips.
Dallas Buyers Club.
Gravity.
Her.
Nebraska.
Philomena.
The Wolf of Wall Street.

BEST DIRECTOR

David O. Russell, American Hustle.
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity.
Alexander Payne, Nebraska.
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave.
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street.

BEST ACTOR

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

Amy Adams, American Hustle.
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine.
Sandra Bullock, Gravity.
Judi Dench, Philomena.
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips.
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle.
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave.
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street.
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine.
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle.
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave.
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County.
June Squibb, Nebraska.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, American Hustle.
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine.
Spike Jonze, Her.
Bob Nelson, Nebraska.
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave.
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater, Before Midnight.
Billy Ray, Captain Phillips.
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena.
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

20 Feet From Stardom.
The Act of Killing.
Cutie and the Boxer.
Dirty Wars.
The Square.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The Broken Circle Breakdown.
The Great Beauty.
The Hunt.
The Missing Picture.
Omar.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Croods.
Despicable Me 2.
Ernest & Celestine.
Frozen.
The Wind Rises.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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

BEST EDITING

Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten, American Hustle.
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity.
John McMurphy and Martin Pensa, Dallas Buyers Club.
Christopher Rouse, Captain Phillips.
Joe Walker, 12 Years a Slave.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her.
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena.
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks.
Steven Price, Gravity.
John Williams, The Book Thief.

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

American Hustle. Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler.
Gravity. Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard.
The Great Gatsby. Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn.
Her. Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena.
12 Years a Slave. Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

William Chang Suk Ping, The Grandmaster.
Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby.
Patricia Norris, 12 Years a Slave.
Michael O’Connor, The Invisible Woman.
Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle.

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING

Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger.
Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews, Dallas Buyers Club.
Stephen Prouty, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier, The Lone Ranger.
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick, Iron Man 3.
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould, Gravity.

BEST SOUND EDITING

Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns, All Is Lost.
Brent Burge, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Glenn Freemantle, Gravity.
Wylie Stateman, Lone Survivor.
Oliver Tarney, Captain Phillips.

BEST SOUND MIXING

Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro, Captain Phillips.
Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow, Lone Survivor.
Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro, Gravity.
Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland, Inside Llewyn Davis.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Alone Yet Not Alone” from Alone Yet Not Alone. Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel.
“Happy” from Despicable Me 2. Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams.
“Let It Go” from Frozen. Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
“The Moon Song” from Her. Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze.
“Ordinary Love” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

CaveDigger, Jeffrey Karoff.
Facing Fear, Jason Cohen.
Karama Has No Walls, Sara Ishaq.
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed.
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall, Edgar Barens.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Feral, Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden.
Get a Horse!, Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim.
Mr. Hublot, Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares.
Possessions, Shuhei Morita.
Room on the Broom, Max Lang and Jan Lachauer.

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me), Esteban Crespo.
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything), Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras.
Helium, Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson.
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari.
The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill and Baldwin Li.

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