Here are the nominees in the main categories at the 86th Academy Awards, to be handed out Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood:
Best picture: "American Hustle," "Captain Phillips," "Dallas Buyers Club," "Gravity," "Her," "Nebraska," "Philomena," "12 Years A Slave," "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Best director: David O. Russell ("American Hustle"), Alfonso Cuaron ("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 animated feature: "The Croods," "Despicable Me 2," "Ernest & Celestine," "Frozen," "The Wind Rises."
Best foreign language film: "The Broken Circle Breakdown" (Belgium), "The Great Beauty" (Italy), "The Hunt" (Denmark), "The Missing Picture" (Cambodia), "Omar" (Palestine).
Best documentary feature: "The Act of Killing," "Cutie and the Boxer," "Dirty Wars," "The Square," "20 Feet from Stardom."
Best original screenplay: Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell ("American Hustle"), Woody Allen ("Blue Jasmine"), Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack ("Dallas Buyers Club"), Spike Jonze ("Her"), Bob Nelson ("Nebraska").
Best adapted screenplay: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke ("Before Midnight"), Billy Ray ("Captain Phillips"), Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope ("Philomena"), John Ridley ("12 Years A Slave"), Terence Winter ("The Wolf of Wall Street").
Best cinematography: "The Grandmaster," "Gravity," "Inside Llewyn Davis," "Nebraska," "Prisoners."
Best original score: "The Book Thief" (John Williams), "Gravity" (Steven Price), "Her" (William Butler and Owen Pallett), "Philomena" (Alexandre Desplat), "Saving Mr. Banks" (Thomas Newman).
Best original song: "Alone Yet Not Alone" from "Alone Yet Not Alone" by Bruce Broughton and Dennis Spiegel, "Happy" from "Despicable Me 2" by Pharrell Williams, "Let It Go" from "Frozen" by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, "The Moon Song" from "Her" by Karen O and Spike Jonze, "Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" by U2.
Best visual effects: "Gravity," "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," "Iron Man 3," "The Lone Ranger," "Star Trek Into Darkness."
Number of nominations for films with two or more nods:
"American Hustle" - 10
"Gravity" - 10
"12 Years a Slave" - 9
"Captain Phillips" - 6
"Dallas Buyers Club" - 6
"Nebraska" - 6
"Her" - 5
"The Wolf of Wall Street" - 5
"Philomena" - 4
"Blue Jasmine" - 3
"The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug" - 3
"August: Osage County" - 2
"Despicable Me 2" - 2
"Frozen" - 2
"The Grandmaster" - 2
"The Great Gatsby" - 2
"Inside Llewyn Davis" - 2
"The Lone Ranger" - 2
"Lone Survivor" - 2
AFP RELAXNEWS
Sun Mar 02 2014
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