Even though the Best Picture race seemed to be a close one, the 86th Annual Academy Awards yielded few surprises, with the top awards mostly shaking out the way pundits expected. In a rare split, Best Picture went to 12 Years a Slave, while Best Director went to Alfonso Cuarón of Gravity. Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett took the top acting prizes for Dallas Buyers Club and Blue Jasmine, respectively. Lupita Nyong’o ended up edging out Jennifer Lawrence for Best Supporting Actress.
Read the full results below.
Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Predicted winner: 12 Years a Slave
Actual winner: 12 Years a Slave. “Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,” director Steve McQueen said in his acceptance speech. The win made history. McQueen became the first black person to win a Best Picture trophy. The movie was the first film by a black director to win the Oscars’ top prize.
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
Predicted winner: Matthew McConaughey
Actual winner: Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey’s speech is long and rambling. All right, all right, all right.
Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Predicted winner: Cate Blanchett
Actual winner: Cate Blanchett. This result is not surprising, she had swept basically every award up until this point.
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
Predicted winner: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Actual winner: Cuarón wins, making him the first Latino man to win the award. The award was handed out by Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier, who was the first black man to win Best Actor.
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
Predicted winner: Jared Leto
Actual winner: Jared Leto. Leto gave an emotional speech about his mother. He also brought up both Venezuela and Ukraine in his speech and said: “this is for the 36 million people who have lost the battle to AIDS.”
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
Predicted winner: Jennifer Lawrence
Actual winner: Lupita Nyong’o. She gets a standing ovation. Read her full speech here.
Best Costume Design
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years Slave
Predicted winner: Gatsby
Actual winner: Gatsby
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger
Predicted winner: The Lone Ranger
Actual winner: Dallas Buyers Club. The hair and makeup budget for the film was insanely low, just $250.
Best Animated Short Film
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom
Predicted winner: Get a Horse!
Actual winner: Mr. Hublot. No Disney love here.
Best Animated Feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises
Predicted winner: Frozen
Actual winner: Frozen. Of course.
Best Visual Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 2
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
Predicted winner: Gravity
Actual winner: Gravity
Best Live-Action Short Film
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
Predicted winner: Helium
Actual winner: Helium, definitely the sentimental favorite. It’s the story of a child suffering from cancer.
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
Predicted winner: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Actual winner: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, which is about the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor. The subject died last week.
Best Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom
Predicted winner: The Square
Actual winner: 20 Feet From Stardom, the biggest crowd-pleaser. Darlene Love, one of the film’s subjects, took the stage, and closed out the acceptance speech by singing her heart out.
Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
Omar (Palestine)
Predicted winner: The Great Beauty
Actual winner: The Great Beauty. Read our Q&A with the director here.
Best Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
Predicted winner: Gravity
Actual winner: Gravity
Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
Predicted winner: Gravity
Actual winner: Gravity. “My heart is beating faster than Sandra’s,” winner Glenn Freemantle said.
Best Cinematography
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
Predicted winner: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Actual winner: Gravity. When announcing the award with Amy Adams, Bill Murray tacked on Harold Ramis’ name to the list of nominees.
Best Film Editing
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
Predicted winner: Captain Phillips
Actual winner: Gravity
Best Production Design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave
Predicted winner: The Great Gatsby
Actual winner: The Great Gatsby, which makes sense since some would argue that the movie is entirely production design.
Best Original Score
John Williams for The Book Thief
Steven Price for Gravity
William Butler and Owen Pallett for Her
Alexandre Desplat for Philomena
Thomas Newman for Saving Mr. Banks
Predicted winner: Steven Price for Gravity
Actual winner: Gravity
Best Original Song
“Happy” from Despicable Me 2
“Let it Go” from Frozen
“The Moon Song” from Her
“Ordinary Love” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Predicted winner: “Let It Go”
Actual winner: “Let it Go.” Bobby Lopez, who co-wrote the song with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, just got an EGOT with this win!
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Predicted winner: 12 Years a Slave
Actual winner: 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska
