By Mark Saldana
Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out golden statuettes to actors and filmmakers for their achievements in 2013. Everything seemed to go without a hitch and strictly by the book. In fact the awards presentation was so “by the book” that it lacked fun and excitement. There was no introductory musical number and the only choreographed dance number in the entire show took place during Pharrell’s performance of “Happy”, one of the nominees for Best Song. Ellen Degeneres made an okay host with her best joke material during her intro monologue. Other than a cute pizza gag, which ran on a bit long, the comic material really didn’t do much for me. Despite the lackluster presentation, the suspense in awaiting the results kept me watching otherwise.
Here are the winners of this year’s Academy Awards including my picks and predictions which I had previously posted last week.
BEST PICTURE
American Hustle — My Prediction
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her — My Pick
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave — Winner
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
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 — My Pick
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club — My Prediction & Winner
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
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 — My Pick
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club — My Prediction & Winner
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer, American Hustle
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club
Spike Jonze, Her — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
Bob Nelson, Nebraska
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Billy Ray, Captain Philips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena
John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave — Winner
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street — My Pick and Prediction
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
The Wind Rises
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ( I have no opinion or prediction in this category, as I have not seen any of the films.)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy) — Winner
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
BEST DOCUMENTARY – FEATURE
The Act of Killing — My Pick and Prediction
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom — Winner
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Happy,” Despicable Me 2
“Let It Go,” Frozen — Winner
“The Moon Song,” Her
“Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom — My Pick and Prediction
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster
Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity — Winner
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska
Roger A. Deakins, Prisoners — My Pick and Prediction
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle
William Chang Suk Ping, The Grandmaster — My Pick and Prediction
Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby — Winner
Michael O’Connor, The Invisible Woman
Patricia Norris, 12 Years a Slave
BEST DOCUMENTARY – SHORT SUBJECT (I have no opinion, as I have not seen these films.)
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life — Winner
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
BEST FILM EDITING
Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten, American Hustle
Christopher Rouse, Captain Phillips
John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa, Dallas Buyers Club
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
Joe Walker, 12 Years a Slave
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathew, Dallas Buyers Club — My Prediction & Winner
Stephen Prouty, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — My Pick
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams, The Book Thief
Steven Price, Gravity — My Prediction & Winner
William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her — My Pick
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker (Production Design) and Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration), American Hustle
Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration), Gravity
Catherine Martin (Production Design) and Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration), The Great Gatsby — My Prediction & Winner
K.K. Barrett (Production Design) and Gene Serdena (Set Decoration), Her — My Pick
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design) and Alice Baker (Set Decoration), 12 Years a Slave
BEST SHORT FILM – ANIMATED ( I have only seen Get a Horse!)
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot — Winner
Possessions
Room on the Broom
BEST SHORT FILM – LIVE ACTION (I have not seen these.)
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me), Esteban Crespo
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything), Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
Helium, Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson — Winner
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
BEST SOUND EDITING
Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns, All Is Lost
Oliver Tarney, Captain Phillips
Glenn Freemantle, Gravity — My Pick, Prediction & Winner
Brent Burge, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Wylie Stateman, Lone Survivor
BEST SOUND MIXING
Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro, Captain Phillips
“Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro, Gravity — My Prediction & Winner
Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland, Inside Llewyn Davis
Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow, Lone Survivor — My Pick
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould, Gravity — My Prediction & Winner
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick, Iron Man 3 — My Pick
Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier, The Lone Ranger
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton, Star Trek Into Darkness