The 86th Academy Awards
(also known as the Oscars) where Sunday and the host was the very funny and
talented Ellen DeGeneres. It was a great
night. Ellen ordered pizza for the actors in the audience, and Ellen’s selfie
with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Kevin
Spacey, Jared Leto, Lupita N’Yongo, and Marel Stryep broke a record for the most re-tweets on a
tweet. It even broke twitter for some period of time. PINK sang a tribute to
celebrate the 75th year of The Wizard of Oz. It was absolutely
outstanding. It left me speechless. There was also another stunning performance
of Indina Menzel singing the very popular Let it Go from the mega hit Frozen.
In the actual awards there was some
surprises and some that we knew would win. The main surprise was no wins for 10 time
nominated American Hustle. I’ve never seen the film but, I’ve heard the best
things from it. With nominations in the
big 7 (Best Picture, Best Actor and Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Supporting Actress, Best
Director, and Original Screenplay) you would think it would win at least one.
It didn’t. Even though I have not seen Hustle, I think David O’ Russle should
have won best director. In my opinion the ultimate responsibility of a director
is to get the best performance out of his cast.
He obviously did that. He did it last year 2! The only time in history
where the in the Acting categories came from the same movie. Russle directed
both of them.
12 Years a Slave was also the movie
that everyone was talking about to win a lot of awards. It was nominated 7 times but only won 3 of
them. It won the biggest award Best Picture, and Best adapted screenplay which
is a big one to win as well. Lupita Nyong’o won best supporting actress which
was a strong competition against Jennifer Lawrence. The each won about the same
amount of awards before the Oscars and Lupita came out on top.
The big winner was the absolutely
outstanding Gravity. Nominated 10 times and winning 7 of those. Gravity swept
the technical awards. It won Visual Effects, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Best Original
Score, Film Editing, and Best Director.
It’s understandable these are the awards it won because it was called by
many a break through for the movie
industry and it really was. It’s also
understandable that it lost the other 3 it was up for. It lost Best Picture which was understandable
because it is so hard to win in a category with 9 nominees. It also lost best
Production Design to The Great Gatsby and Sandra Bullock lost to Cate Blachett
for Best Actress. If you have not seen Blue Jasmine, you really should. Woody
Allen is such a talented director and writer.
Frozen went home with 2 awards.
Best Animated Film and Beset Song for Let it Go. It also crossed the 1 billion
dollar mark at the box office this weekend becoming the 18th film in
history to do so here is a quick run down of
the leaders this year at the 86th
Academy Awards.
Gravity-7 wins
12 Years a Slave-3 wins
Dallas Buyers Club-3 wins
Frozen-2 wins
The Great Gatsby-2 wins
Blue Jasmine-1 win
Her-1 win
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