Oscar Winners & Speeches 2014: 12 Years wins Best Picture

The 86th Academy Awards are done with, see the full list of winners below (and nominations here).

The end tally: sci-fi thriller Gravity won 7, dramas 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club won 3 each, The Great Gatsby and Disney’s Frozen won 2.

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In other Oscar news:

* In taking the top gong, producer (and director) Steve McQueen – amazingly – became the first black Best Film winner.
* Host Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie stunt (above), became the most retweeted photo ever (779,295 retweets in approximately half an hour) – breaking Obama’s ‘Four more years’ photo in 2012.
* Cate Blanchett did indeed thank Woody Allen.
*  While we tip our hat to his achievement, Matthew McConaughey is annoying, is his own hero, and thanked God. Be prepared for the term ‘McConaissance’ to be well overused.
* At least Spike Jonze won for his Her screenplay.
* Lupita Nyong’o – Best Supporting Actress winner for 12 Years a Slave – is a freaking stunner.
* Sadly, Bette Midler sang The Wind Beneath My Wings.
* Scorsese and DiCaprio’s Wolf of Wall Street won nothing, which made this reporter spit on the ground.
* The Great Beauty‘s win for Best Foreign Language Film is the 11th time an Italian picture has won the award.

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Full list of winners:

BEST PICTURE: 12 Years a Slave

“Thank you for this incredible honour you bestowed on our film tonight. I know I speak for everyone standing behind me that it has been an absolute privilege to work on Solomon’s story. And we all get to stand up here tonight because of one man who brought us all together to tell that story. And that is the indomitable Mr. Steve McQueen.” -Brad Pitt (producer)

“Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup. I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery. And the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today.” -Steve McQueen (director)

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BEST LEAD ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

“As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary performances by women… I’m here excepting an award in an extraordinary screenplay by Woody Allen. Thank you so much, Woody, for casting me. I truly appreciate it.

“[Thank you] to the audiences who went to see it and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the centre are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”

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BEST LEAD ACTOR: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

“When I was 15 years old, I had a very important person in my life come to me and say “who’s your hero?” … I said “You know who it is? It’s me in 10 years.” So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, “So, are you a hero?” And I was like, “not even close… because my hero’s me at 35.” So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero’s always 10 years away. I’m never gonna be my hero. I’m not gonna attain that. I know I’m not, and that’s just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.“

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

“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.

“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.“

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

“To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say we are here and as you struggle to… to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible… We’re thinking of you tonight.“

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BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

“Like any other human endeavor, making a film can be a transformative experience, and I want to thank Gravity because for many of us involved in this film, it was definitely a transformative experience. And it’s good, because it took so long that if not, it would be like a waste of time. What really sucks is that for a lot of these people, that transformation was wisdom; for me, it was just the colour of my hair.”

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BEST ANIMATED FILM: Frozen

“We want to thank each and every person at Walt Disney Animation Studios, our family. We are so proud of you for making the film as magical as it is. And we’re bringing this home to you.” –Peter Del Vecho

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BEST DOCUMENTARY: 20 Feet from Stardom

“I first want to thank, along with my producer, Cait, our other producer Gil Friesen. This was his idea and it was his baby. And when I first met with him I remember he said, “I want to win an Oscar.” I remember thinking, “You’re crazy… that will NEVER happen.” Gil passed away just weeks before we premiered the film at Sundance. And tonight I know he’s celebrating with us.” -Morgan Neville

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BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The Great Beauty

“Thank you to my sources of inspiration: Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese. And thank you to Roma and to Napoli and to my personal great beauty, Daniela, Anna and Carlo.” –Paolo Sorrentino (director)

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spike Jonze, Her

“I’m not up here alone. I’m up here with all of my friends and family who support me and help me make what we make… We made a movie about relationships and intimacy and that’s what we share together.” 

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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

“I started writing in sitcoms a long time ago. And at that time I was very fortunate to meet a script coordinator who was gracious enough to read everything I wrote. And when she thought it was ready, she put a smiling face at the end and I knew that it was job done. And, Gayle, seeing you here tonight, smiling, you take away all that soul-crushing inadequacy.“

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BEST COSTUME DESIGN: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)

“ I do have a few words tucked into my bra. It’s a very Australian thing to do. It’s where you put your tissues…. Mainly I’d like to thank my incredible team. I have a group of ladies who are sewing for me right now in Sydney on a show we’re making of Baz’s first film, a musical. They’re my golden girls… and, of course, my incomparable husband, Baz Luhrmann, he makes it all possible. He dreams the dream.“

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BEST MAKEUP & HAIR: Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)

“To Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, thank you so much for letting us transform and torture you through a million, bazillion hair and makeup changes a day… And finally for all the victims of AIDS, we are so lucky and blessed to be able to bring your story to the forefront of the younger generation today that doesn’t understand AIDS `85.” -Robin Mathew

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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)

“[Thanks to] Sandra Bullock for filling our visual effects with life and with emotion.” -Tim Webber

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BEST SOUND MIX: Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)

“We want to thank [Alfonso Cuarón] for your amazing vision and also for your incredible patience.” -Skip Lievsay

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BEST SOUND EDITING: Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)

“Wow, my heart’s beating faster than Sandra’s.”

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity

“I would like to share this with the cast and crew. I know everybody says that. But I truly want to share it with the cast and crew, especially with my friend and my teacher, Mr. Alfonso Cuarón.“

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BEST EDITING: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity

“The unsung hero in all of this, our executive producer Nikki Penny. There is no greater accolade than to be recognized by those who inspire you, and by that I mean, you sir, my fellow nominees and the Academy, thank you very much indeed.” -Mark Sanger

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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn)

“I accept this award on behalf of the truly many technicians who fall under the umbrella of the art department. And believe you me, on Gatsby, there were many, many very talented technicians who worked on the film.” -Beverly Dunn

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Gravity (Steven Price)

“Alfonso [Cuarón], I share this with you. You inspired every frame of this film and certainly every note that I wrote.”

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BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Frozen (‘Let It Go’ by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez)

“Happy Oscars to you. Let’s do Frozen 2.”

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Best Animated Short Film: Mr. Hublot
Best Short Documentary: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Best Live Action Short: Helium

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