2014 Academy Awards Nominations
 

As always, my predictions will be in bold:

BEST PICTURE
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
David O. Russell – American Hustle
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 FILM
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

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
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
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

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom

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
(Not saying this will end in a tie)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Alone, Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone
"Happy" from Despicable Me 2
"Let It Go" from Frozen
"The Moon Song" from Her
"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

BEST SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

BEST SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (WTF!!)
The Lone Ranger

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman

BEST FILM EDITING
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

Frozen and Sandra Bullock all the way. :)

As for the rest, I honestly have never heard of more than half of the nominees, be they people, processes, or productions. :P

I don't blame you. Most of the movies nominated I have no intention of seeing anyway.

Here are the winners:

Best Picture:
12 Years a Slave

Best Actor:
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor:
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress:
Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave

Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

Best Animated Feature Film:
Frozen

Best Original Score:
Steven Price - Gravity

Best Original Song:
Let it Go - Frozen (YES!!!!! :frankiesmile: :frankiesmile: :frankiesmile: :frankiesmile:)

Best Original Screenplay:
Her

Best Adapted Screenplay:
12 Years a Slave

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Great Beauty (Italy)

Best Documentary Feature:
20 Feet from Stardom

Best Documentary Short:
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Best Animated Short Film:
Mr. Hublot

Best Live Action Short Film:
Helium

Best Cinematography:
Gravity

Best Costume Design:
The Great Gatsby

Best Production Design:
The Great Gatsby

Best Sound Editing:
Gravity

Best Sound Mixing:
Gravity

Best Visual Effects:
Gravity

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:
Dallas Buyers Club

Best Editing:
Gravity

Cassini is pleased. ;D

Cassini is displeased. >:(

Cassini is largely indifferent. :herrsleep:

It's worth noting though that Gravity, a sci-fi film, took home several awards, including Best Director. Nice to see a movie in this usually shunned by the hoity-toity elitist idiots genre get a little respect for a change. 8-)

That I do agree with. I'm not much of a sci-fi fan, but it's great to see a film like Gravity get its fair share of wins, even if I have no intention of seeing it.

Although you should be pleased that Frozen also won Best Original Song. If that award had went to U2, well... this would've been my reaction. Just replace Happy Madison Productions with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.