The 2014 Academy Awards will go down in Hollywood history as one of the most diverse. This year, not only did the show feature performers and presenters of varied backgrounds, but so did the winner’s list. Check out our roundup of winners in the major categories:
Best Picture
12 Years a Slave WINNER. Making Oscar history as the first film with a mostly black cast and a Black director to win Best Picture.
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actor
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) WINNER
Best Actress
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) WINNER
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 (Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) WINNER
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) WINNER. Nyong’o is now the seventh black woman to win an Oscar, the six to win as Best Supporting Actress.
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Best Director
Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) WINNER, making Cuarón the first Best Director of Latin descent. Only the second person of color to win the award.
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Best Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) WINNER. Ridley and Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) are the only two blacks to ever win an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater (Before Midnight )
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street )
Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)
Best Original Screenplay
David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)
Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
Spike Jonze (Her) WINNER
Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club)
Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
Best Foreign Film
Denmark, The Hunt
Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown
Italy, The Great Beauty WINNER
Palestine, Omar
Cambodia, The Missing Picture
Best Documentary Feature
20 Feet from Stardom WINNER
The Act of Killing
Dirty Wars
The Square
Cutie and the Boxer
Best Animated Feature
The Wind Rises
Frozen WINNER
Despicable Me 2
The Croods
Ernest & Celestine
Best Film Editing
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity WINNER
12 Years a Slave
Best Original Song
“Alone Yet Not Alone” (Alone Yet Not Alone)
“Happy” (Despicable Me 2)
“Let It Go” (Frozen) WINNER
“The Moon Song” (Her)
“Ordinary Love” (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
Best Original Score
John Williams (The Book Thief)
Steven Price (Gravity) WINNER
Alexandre Desplat (Philomena)
Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)
William Butler and Owen Pallett (Her)
Best Cinematography
Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster)
Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity) WINNER
Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Roger Deakins (Prisoners)
Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)
Best Costume Design
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby WINNER
The Invisible Woman
12 Years A Slave
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Lone Ranger
Dallas Buyers Club WINNER
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Best Production Design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby WINNER
Her
12 Years a Slave
Best Sound Editing
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity WINNER
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
Best Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips
Gravity WINNER
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Visual Effects
Gravity WINNER
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
Best Short Film, Live Action
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Helium WINNER
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem
Best Short Film, Animated
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot WINNER
Possessions
Room on the Broom
Best Documentary Short Subject
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life WINNER
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Perhaps the highlight of the night for many, though, was Lupita Nyong’o’s win for Best Supporting Actress. The crowd gave her a standing ovation as she accepted her award and Nyong’o delivered a moving speech that honored those involved with making 12 Years a Slave and the spirit of Patsey, the real-life woman she played in the film.
Thank you to the Academy for this incredible recognition. It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s. And so I want to salute the spirit of Patsey for her guidance. And for Solomon, thank you for telling her story and your own. Steve McQueen, you charge everything you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Thank you so much for putting me in this position. This has been the joy of my life. I’m certain that the dead are standing about you and watching and they are grateful and so am I.
Chiwetel, thank you for your fearlessness and how deeply you went into telling Solomon’s story. Michael Fassbender, thank you so much. You were my rock. Alfre and Sarah, it was a thrill to work with you. Joe Walker, the invisible performer in the editing room, thank you. Sean Bobbitt, Kalaadevi, Adruitha, Patty Norris, thank you, thank you, thank you, I could not be here without your work.
I want to thank my family for your training and the Yale School of Drama as well for your training. My friends, the Wilsons, this one’s for you. My brother, Junior, sitting by my side. Thank you so much. You are my best friend. And Ben, my other best friend, my chosen family.
When I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from your dreams are valid.
Thank you.
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