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Sandra Bullock received her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Dr. Ryan Stone in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. The sci-fi survival thriller swept the Oscars with wins for direction, cinematography, editing, sound, and VFX. The film also earned $723 million at the box office.

Bullock and George Clooney reportedly spent ten hours every day attached to a robotic arm alone inside a lightbox for the production of the film. While Clooney was only on set for three weeks, Bullock was there for much longer and got frustrated due to the lonely shooting style and precise movements for VFX.

Sandra Bullock Got Annoyed At The Technological Hurdles She Went Through During Gravity Sandra Bullock in Gravity | Credits: Warner Bros.

Alfonso Cuarón reportedly worked on Gravity for over four years due to the technological hurdles presented by the script (via The Guardian). Conceived as a tale of survival in the face of adversity,...

A groundbreaking sci-fi drama that pushed the industry's boundaries in 2013 was almost stopped by Hollywood giants David Fincher and James Cameron. At least, that's what would have happened if the director behind the movie in question, Gravity, had followed their advice when he told them the idea for the then "impossible-to-make" film. Coming courtesy of Deadline, Alfonso Cuarn took the opportunity to speak about the early days of Gravity's conception when he took the stage during a masterclass at Locarno Film Festival. When he discussed some of his widely known projects, Cuarn addressed how Fincher and Cameron were hesitant to believe he could pull off such an ambitious science fiction film.

Cuarn revealed how, following Children of Men flopping commercially, he knew he needed to write something but no arty sh*t. The filmmaker needed something that would let a studio give me a cheque," and came up with...

"Do it again. This time so it doesn't suck." A remarkable proof-of-concept short film to show the incredible potential of the Unreal Engine. Of course this isn't the first animated short film to do this, but this one does stand out. Flite is a sci-fi hyper-realistic 3D animated short film created by VFX artist Tim Webber, who also happens to be Cco of the VFX studio known as Framestore in the UK. They've been hyping this up all year and it's finally online to watch. "Using state-of-the-art virtual production techniques comes one of the most technically impressive sci-fi shorts." Set in London 2053, a world champion hoverboarder finds herself imprisoned in a skyscraper by her obsessive manager. She engineers an ingenious high-rise escape but soon finds herself riding for her life. The film features Alba Baptista as Stevie, with Gethin Anthony, Daniel Lawrence Taylor, and Hayley Carmichael. This comes from an...

Time Webber was sitting on a London Film Festival industry panel about generative AI

Tim Webber, chief executive officer of UK-based animation and visual effects company Framestore, says he believes generative artificial intelligence (AI) is not as impactful as initially thought.

“It is neither quite as revelatory and amazing as we all thought it might be in the early days, nor is it quite as scary and threatening as we all thought it might be in the early days,” Webber said to a packed out room at Picturehouse Central where he was participating on a BFI London Film Festival industry...

Time Webber was sitting on a London Film Festival industry panel about generative AI

Tim Webber, chief executive officer of UK-based animation and visual effects company Framestore, says he believes generative artificial intelligence (AI) is not as impactful as initially thought.

“It is neither quite as revelatory and amazing as we all thought it might be in the early days, nor is it quite as scary and threatening as we all thought it might be in the early days,” Webber said to a packed out room at Picturehouse Central where he was participating on a BFI London Film Festival industry...

The Academy CEO and Bafta director will discuss ’academies, awards and the future of cinema’.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Bafta managing director Jane Millichip will participate in a conversation as part of the 67th BFI London Film Festival’s industry programme.

The talk is titled ‘Academies, awards and the future of cinema’ and will be hosted by BFI CEO Ben Roberts on October 5.

There will also be three Spotlight conversations with industry leaders: Jennifer Lee, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer and the co-writer and co-director of the Frozen films, will be in conversation with Tricia Tuttle, head...

Updated with Best Screenplay Award for Switch, written by Sara Robin: The 19th HollyShorts Film Festival has handed out its awards, including the Grand Prix Best Short Award to We Were Meant To, an honor that comes with a $60,000 prize from Panavision.

Tari Wariebi directed We Were Meant To, set in a reality where “Black men have wings and their first flight is a rite of passage.” The film stars Tim Johnson Jr. The Grand Prix Award qualifies the short for Oscar consideration. Also qualifying for the Oscars are Misan Harriman’s The After, which won Best Live Action Short, Rita Basulto’s Humo (Smoke), winner of the Best Animation Award, and Elisa Gambino’s Every Day After, winner of Best Documentary Short.

‘Humo’

The After stars David Oyelowo and Jessica Plummer. Animated winner Humo, meanwhile, “follows a boy called Daniel, who travels to a dark destination known as the smokehouse.

In a HollyShorts Film Festival awards ceremony that took place at midnight the day before a tropical storm was scheduled to his Los Angeles, Tari Wariebi’s “We Were Meant To” won a $60,000 prize and with the win qualified for the Academy Award in the Best Live Action Short category.

The awards were originally scheduled to be handed out on Sunday evening at the TLC Chinese Theatre, but they were moved to the unusual Saturday midnight slot as Hurricane Hilary approached.

“We Were Meant To,” set in a world where Black men can fly, won the Grand Prix for the best short in the 10-day festival, which began on Aug. 10 at the Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. For the first time, the top film also received a $60,000 prize from Panasonic, in addition to the Oscar qualification.

Three other films also qualified for this year’s Oscars by winning awards at HollyShorts: Misan Harriman’s “The After,...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “Change is the only constant in life.” The entertainment sector is no exception to this adage. It’s an industry that has long benefited from advancements in technology that have increasingly enriched the quality of films and programs and have also condensed the filmmaking process across the entire pipeline from pre-production to distribution and exhibition.

But while it’s easy to look back and see how digital tech has improved the sector, assessing the future of the business as it stands on the threshold of two hot button topics — Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine — is much less clear.

AI has been increasingly polarizing, with Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak among more than 1,100 signatories of an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced AI systems, citing “risks to society”. Meanwhile,...

Tim Webber, the Oscar-winning VFX supervisor of Alfonso Cuaron’s 2013 space-set thriller Gravity, has unwrapped the trailer for his directional debut — an experimental sci-fi short titled Flite that the inventive filmmaker created while putting a new VFX and virtual production pipeline through its paces.

London-headquartered VFX facility Framestore (for which Webber serves as Cco) was the lead VFX vendor on Gravity, which made early use of techniques now considered a part of what is known as virtual production, which the VFX community is now quickly working to develop and adopt for all types of production. For Flite, Webber made use of Framestore’s latest iteration of its system, custom built around Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. “A lot of the things we did in [Flite] are taking what we did in Gravity and moving them on with modern technology and making them easier to do and more sophisticated,” Webber tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Recently, ABC released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Once Upon A Time" episode 4 of season 4. The episode is entitled, "The Apprentice," and it sounds like things will get very intriguing and dramatic as Will tries to break into the library. Hook makes a shady deal with Gold to get his hand reattached, and more. In the new, 4th episode press release: "After Emma asks Hook out on a real first date, Hook is going to visit Mr. Gold and asks for his hand to be reattached so that he can embrace her with both hands. But magic always comes with a price. Henry and Mary Margaret are going to try to offer hope to Regina when she becomes frustrated over not being able to find a cure to save a frozen Marian. Will Scarlet is going to attempt to break into the Storybrooke library to find a special book.

The 40th Annual Saturn Awards were held this past Thursday, June 26th, and a what great show it was from (as Johnny Carson used to say) "beautiful downtown Burbank"! Here's the full list of winners and more.

Actually, we were high above the city at the famous Castaway restaurant and banquet hall. The Saturn Awards has been held here for the past few years, and it really is a fabulous venue with the best views of the San Fernando Valley anywhere.

Among the winners are Dread Central favorites "The Walking Dead," "Hannibal," The Conjuring, and Vera Farmiga's no holds barred performance as Norma Bates in "Bates Motel." The eye candy and updates from the carpet come from director Neil Marshall; the Curse of Chucky crew - Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, and Fiona Dourif; Insidious 3's Lin Shaye; and more. There's even some Ghostbusters 3 non-news!

It was a star-studded event,...

The Academy has announced the new class of invited members for 2014 and, as is typical, many of which are among last year's nominees, which includes Barkhad Abdi, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong'o and June Squibb in the Actors branch not to mention curious additions such as Josh Hutcherson, Rob Riggle and Jason Statham, but, okay. The Directors branch adds Jay and Mark Duplass along with Jean-Marc Vallee, Denis Villeneuve and Thomas Vinterberg. I didn't do an immediate tally of male to female additions or other demographics, but at first glance it seems to be a wide spread batch of new additions on all fronts. The Academy is also clearly attempting to aggressively bump up the demographics as this is the second year in a row where they have added a large number of new members, well over the average of 133 new members from 2004 to 2012. As far as...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.

Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.

“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”

The 2014 invitees are:

Actors

Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”

Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”

Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”

Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”

Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”

Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”

Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...

Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave were two of the 271 artists and industry leaders invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which determines nominations and winners at the annual Oscars. The entire list of Academy membership—which numbers about 6,000—isn’t public information so the annual invitation list is often the best indication of the artists involved in the prestigious awards process. It’s worth noting that invitations need to be accepted in order for artists to become members; some artists, like two-time Best Actor winner Sean Penn, have declined membership over the years.

Pop quiz: What do Chris Rock, Claire Denis, Eddie Vedder and Josh Hutcherson all have in common? Answer: They could all be Oscar voters very soon. The annual Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences invitation list always makes for interesting reading, shedding light on just how large and far-reaching the group's membership is -- or could be, depending on who accepts their invitations. This year, 271 individuals have been asked to join AMPAS, meaning every one of them could contribute to next year's Academy Awards balloting -- and it's as diverse a list as they've ever assembled. Think the Academy consists entirely of fusty retired white dudes? Not if recent Best Original Song nominee Pharrell Williams takes them up on their offer. Think it's all just a Hollywood insiders' game? Not if French arthouse titans Chantal Akerman and Olivier Assayas join the party. It's a list that subverts expectation at every turn.

At this point, you’ve either seen “Gravity” already or you’re just plain not interested. The movie made $716 million worldwide and it won seven Academy Awards just over two months ago. Director Alfonso Cuarón talked about the making of the movie on so many different occasions now that the film’s production history is probably common knowledge for those who consider themselves to be big fans of the film. But if there’s one group who can’t seem to stop talking about “Gravity,” it’s the Academy. They held an event at the DGA Theater this past week called “Deconstructing Gravity” where they conducted a Q&A with editor Mark Sanger, animation supervisor Max Solomon, and visual effects supervisor Tim Webber. Also present for the event was astronaut Cady Coleman who gave a speech commending the makers behind “Gravity” for their exceptional work. During the Q&A part of the event,...

Even if you think you know how the Oscar-winning space odyssey "Gravity" was made, you don't. That is, unless you're Alfonso Cuaron or another member of the cast and crew. There aren't enough special features, docs, interviews, or behind the scenes information available for anyone outside the creators to fully grasp the monumental efforts that went into making last year's critical and commercial smash appear as simple as it did.  Seven Oscars really weren't enough for "Gravity."  The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences held a special event Monday night in Hollywood to honor the film's stunning technical achievements with editor Mark Sanger, visual effects supervisor Tim Webber -- both of whom won Oscars in February -- and animation supervisor Max Solomon. Hosted by Academy Governor Bill Kroyer, "Deconstructing Gravity" took an in-depth look at the production methods employed to make the space odyssey come to life. Here are the highlights of the incredibly.

Fresh off his Oscar win on Sunday, Gravity visual effects supervisor Tim Webber joins us to talk about his work with Alfonso Cuaron and explain how we can build our own CGI babies at home. Plus, we discuss how soon is too soon when it comes to real-life tragedy adaptations, and Josh Spiegel from Mousterpiece Cinema helps us debate the state of children’s movies (while envisioning a high octane version of Winnie The Pooh). You should follow Josh (@mousterpiece), the show (@brokenprojector), Geoff (@drgmlatulippe) and Scott (@scottmbeggs) on Twitter for more on a daily basis. And, as always, if you like the show (or hate it with seething fervor), please help us out with a review. Download Episode #51 Directly Or subscribe Through iTunes On This Week’s Show: And Pony Show [0:00 - 3:30] The Bringingening [3:30 - 14:00] The VFX Gestation Period (w/ Oscar winner Tim Webber) [14:00 - 31:30] Hardcore Pooh (w/ Josh Spiegel) [31:30 - 48:45] Heroes of the Week [48:45 - 50:00] Get In Touch With Us:...

Amid Gravity's incredible awards season run - which culminated this Sunday with 7 Oscar wins at the Academy Awards - director Alfonso Cuarón weighed into the debate surrounding the film's status as a British film.

"You cannot tell from my accent, but I consider myself part of the British film industry," he said as he collected his BAFTA for Best Director earlier this year. "I have lived in London for 13 years and done almost half of my movies here. I make a very good case for curbing immigration."

Just an hour previously, Gravity triumphed in the Best British Film category igniting a mini-social media storm questioning its national identity.

Cuarón's film may not be a kitchen sink drama about working class grind, but look past the Hollywood stars and Warner Bros backing and there's no question that this is a film that - like the Harry Potter series before it...

Oscar 2014 winners and nominees (photo: Oscar winners Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto chat at the 2014 Oscar ceremony) Best Picture: American Hustle, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon; Captain Phillips, Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca; Dallas Buyers Club, Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter; Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman; Her, Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay; Nebraska, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa; Philomena, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward; 12 Years a Slave, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas; The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland, Emma Tillinger Koskoff. Best Foreign Language Film: The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium; The Great Beauty, Italy; The Hunt, Denmark; The Missing Picture, Cambodia; Omar, Palestine. Best Actress: Amy Adams, American Hustle; Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; Sandra Bullock, Gravity; Judi Dench, Philomena; Meryl Streep, August: Osage County. Best Actor: Christian Bale, American Hustle; Bruce Dern, Nebraska; Leonardo DiCaprio,...

The morning after the Oscars is always a strange feeling. We've been covering this process in earnest for months, and now it's over. And for the first time ever, I'm pleased to say that I scored a perfect 10 in predicting the winners in the crafts categories! (I went 21/24 overall, missing Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short and…Best Picture.) To be fair, however, I'm hardly the only person to have gone 10/10 in this respect. In that sense, we had a night without surprises, which is not to say we didn't have stories. The big story in the crafts categories is, of course, "Gravity's" dominance, as it won six of the 10 below-the-line fields, with the obvious (and highly deserved) win in Best Visual Effects being a foreshadowing of things to come in Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score. Visual effects supervisor Tim Webber,...

The 86th annual Academy Awards were really fun to watch. Ellen Degeneres did a fantastic job hosting, and I enjoyed the show she put on. It was also insanely predictable, at least, for me it was. Overall, I'm happy with all of the films that won. My favorite win of the the night was Spike Jonze taking home the Oscar for Best Original screenplay for Her. That was such an amazing movie, and I really wanted it to win that award, but I wasn't sure it would happen. My favorite speech of the night came from Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey. I was never really a big fan of his, but over the last couple of years he has sure blown up into an amazing actor who has starred in some really incredible films. Then that speech he gave last night won me over, and now I'm on team McConaughey.

The film Gravity has taken home seven Oscars, and kickstarted the careers of many graduates

At this year's Oscars there was one standout winner. Gravity, the space thriller starring Sandra Bullock, won seven Oscars.

But while everyone knows the name of director Alfonso Cuarón, who won best director, graduates from two Bournemouth universities worked behind the scenes and have reason to celebrate too.

One of the wins for Gravity was for best visual effects, the spectacular highlight of the film. Years of work to get went into that Oscar victory, and recent graduates played a key part in the process.

"Around 40-50 Bournemouth University graduates worked on the film," says Adam Redford, a lecturer at the university's National Centre for Computer Animation. Redford worked on the film too, as a texture artist ("that means painting the surface detail on the models for all the 3D computer-generated parts of the film...

While live-blogging the Oscars you really don't get too much of a chance to take in all the acceptance speeches. I catch a few moments here and there, and I can pretty much tell when the air is being let out of the room as well as those moments where someone is really capturing the moment. What I've put together below are the five speeches where I think the winner really managed to stand-out. I also love the true excitement coupled with the words chosen in these speeches. Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, especially, seemed to capture the room with her infectious smile as much as Jennifer Lawrence a year before, not to forget her brother, Peter, who photobombed Ellen's Twitter-breaking selfie and is clearly someone very special in Lupita's life and she in his. The only truly strange thing about these speeches is John Ridley and Steve McQueen failing...

It was another incredible night at the 86th Academy Awards earlier this evening (March 2), as Ellen DeGeneres hosted a wonderful show filled with fabulous moments.

Big wins went to Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong'o in the Supporting Actors categories, while Cate Blanchett and Matthew McConaughey took home the golden statues for their work as Leading Actors.

Meanwhile, the cast and crew of "12 Years a Slave" was recognized with a Best Picture Oscar and Alfonso Cuaron took home the award for Best Director.

Check out the full list of 2014 Academy Award winners below!

Best Picture

"American Hustle"

"Captain Phillips"

"Dallas Buyers Club"

"Gravity"

"Her"

"Nebraska"

"Philomena"

Winner "12 Years a Slave"

"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips”

Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle”

Michael Fassbender in “12 Years a Slave”

Jonah Hill in “The Wolf of Wall Street”

Winner Jared Leto...

Historical drama wins three including Best Picture; Gravity leads the pack with seven wins.

12 Years a Slave won the coveted Best Picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night and picked up two more prizes to score the hat-trick.

Brad Pitt, one of the film’s producers, took to the stage along with stars of the drama and said it was “an absolute privilege” to work on the true story of Solomon Northup, before introducing “the indomitable Mr Steve McQueen”.

After thanking his backers, including Pitt’s Plan B and Tessa Ross at Film4, the British director said: “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.”

Full list of Oscars 2014 winnersCOMMENT: No surprises, smart choicesAll the winners speeches

In a statement, Ross later...

Historical drama wins three including Best Picture; Gravity leads the pack with seven wins.

12 Years a Slave won the coveted Best Picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night and picked up two more prizes to score the hat-trick.

Brad Pitt, one of the film’s producers, took to the stage along with stars of the drama and said it was “an absolute privilege” to work on the true story of Solomon Northup, before introducing “the indomitable Mr Steve McQueen”.

After thanking his backers, including Pitt’s Plan B and Tessa Ross at Film4, the British director said: “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.”

Full list of Oscars 2014 winnersCOMMENT: No surprises, smart choicesAll the winners speeches

In a statement, Ross later...

Thanks to a Mexican, the Brits enjoyed a successful night at the 86th Annual Academy Awards. Technically speaking, Gravity - Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón's nightmarish exploration of space - cleaned up, winning seven awards from its ten nominations. Its first winners were the visual effects team of Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould, who highlighted the ambition of the film, claiming that it had “seemed like a crazy project.

The Oscars honor the best performances on film, but the telecast is all about celebrating the best speeches. Here’s how we called it:

1. Dallas Buyers Club’s Matthew McConaughey, Best Actor

Running over three minutes, the Best Actor acceptance speech was a monument of pure unfiltered McConaughey-ness. He thanked God. He thanked his late father: “I know he’s up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo…he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite, and he’s dancin’.” He went on a very long tangent about how his hero is himself — or rather,...

Sneak Peek host Ellen Degeneres delivering her opening monologue @ the 86th annual Academy Awards broadcast, March 2, 2014, live on ABC, plus take a look @ the complete 'winners' list:

And the winners are :

Best Supporting Actor

Jared Leto ("Dallas Buyers Club")

Achievement In Costume Design

Catherine Martin ("The Great Gatsby")

Achievement In Makeup and Hairstyling

Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews ("Dallas Buyers Club")   

Best Animated Short Film

Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares ("Mr. Hublot")

Best Animated Feature Film 

Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho ("Frozen")

Achievement in Visual Effects

Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould ("Gravity")

Best Live Action Short Film

Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson ("Helium")

Best Documentary Short Subject

Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed ("The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life")

Best Documentary Feature

Morgan Neville ("20 Feet from Stardom")

Best Foreign Language Film

Italy ("The Great Beauty")

Achievement In Sound Mixing

Skip Lievsay,...

The hot favourites romped home at the 86th Academy Awards as 12 Years a Slave was named best picture and Gravity's Alfonso Cuaron became the first Latino to win the best director award.

Cate Blanchett. got the best actress trophy for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, ranking as the first Australian actor to win two gold statues. She won best supporting actress for The Aviator in 2005.

Matthew McConaughey nabbed best lead actor for Dallas Buyers Club and that film.s Jared Leto was named best supporting actor. Lupita Nyong.o was judged best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave.

Catherine Martin made history by taking her Oscars tally to four, surpassing costume designer Orry George Kelly who won for An American In Paris (1951), Les Girls (1957) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

Cm collected the awards for costume design and production design for The Great Gatsby while that film.s Beverly Dunn shared. the costume design Oscar.

Gravity by Alfonso Cuaron won seven Oscars at the 86th Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing. 12 Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen won the Best Picture.

Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club while Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress for Blue Jasmine.

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty won the Best Foreign Language Film.

Complete list of Oscars:

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Best Animated Feature

Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)

Best Cinematography

Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Best Costume Design

The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)

Best Directing

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)

Best Documentary Feature

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12 Years A Slave, Gravity, Dallas Buyers Club, Frozen and more take home the Oscars. Here's the full list of winners...

Overnight, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - AMPAS to its mates - handed out its annual clutch of Oscars. And as it turned out, the event went by the form book, with just one or two little surprises along the way.

The big prizes were split between 12 Years A Slave, Gravity and Dallas Buyers Club, with the former taking Best Picture, but Alfonso Cuaron picking up a gong for his directorial work on Gravity. Dallas Buyers Club picked up the two acting awards - for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto - that it was broadly expected to. There were two gongs for Disney's Frozen too, in the week that it passed $1bn at the global box office.

Of the surprises? Lupita Nyong'o...

After a lengthy awards season that lasted three long months, the race for the Oscars came to a conclusion tonight at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

This year’s 86th Academy Awards saw a split between Best Picture and Director. 12 Years A Slave won three, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o.

Backstage, producer/actor Brad Pitt said, “ I love this movie. I ‑‑ just as a film, as a lover of film, the filmmaking, the ‑‑ this heroic story of a man in this inhumane situation trying to get back to his family. I love this film. I love the filmmaking. It’s counterintuitive to the way we’re making films today. It’s a real achievement by Mr. McQueen here. I love this movie. I think it’s important. I think it’s important because it deals with our history that we haven...

The Oscars speech of the night goes to newcomer Lupita Nyong’o, who won best supporting actress for her role as Patsey in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave.

Transcripts of all Academy Awards winners’ onstage speeches…

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

Yes! Thank you to the Academy for this incredible recognition. 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...

Sunday night, Ellen DeGeneres hosted the 86th Academy Awards, where 12 Years A Slave won Best Picture and Gravity earned seven Oscars, the most of any film this year. Here is a complete list of the winners:

Best Picture:

12 Years A Slave

Best Actress:

Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best Actor:

Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actor:

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress:

Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years A Slave

Best Director:

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Best Adapted Screenplay:

John Ridley – 12 Years A Slave

Best Original Screenplay:

Spike Jonze – Her

Best Costume Design:

Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Adruitha Lee and Robin Matthews – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Animated Short:

Mr. Hublot

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen

Best Original Score:

Steven Price – Gravity

Best Original Song:

“Let It Go” (Frozen) – Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

Best Visual Effects:

Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil...

12 Years A Slave took home Best Picture, but it was Gravity that won the most golden statues with seven Oscar wins at the 86th Academy Awards.

Host Ellen DeGeneres had fun with the star-studded audience, ordering pizza and making Brad Pitt give out paper plates to lucky ladies such as Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who were all very hungry. DeGeneres also made fun of Jennifer Lawrence’s great fall at last year’s Oscars in her opening monologue and likening the entire awards show to The Hunger Games.

The awards went off swiftly, and not without a hitch or two, but technical difficulties aside, DeGeneres delivered a sweet, funny and uncontroversial show. Her best host moment came when she took a selfie mid-show with Streep that turned into a selfie with anyone in the first three rows who was quick enough to run and beat each other into the frame.

Below is the full list of winners for the 86th annual Academy Awards.

Are there any winners that surprised you?

Actor in a Leading Role

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Actress in a Supporting Role

Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

Directing

Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

Animated Feature Film

Frozen

Art Direction

The Great Gatsby

Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)

Cinematography

Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki

Costume Design

The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin

Documentary (Feature)

20 Feet from Stardom

Documentary (Short Subject)

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed

Film Editing

Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

Foreign Language Film

The Great Beauty, Italy

Makeup

Dallas Buyers Club

Music (Original Score)

Gravity, Steven Price

Music (Original Song)

“Let it Go” from Frozen,...

What an amazing night in Hollywood! From "Dallas Buyers Club" to "12 Years A Slave" it was a big night in movie history -- see who took home the Oscar in each major category below! Best Supporting ActorJared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"Best Supporting ActressLupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"Best Song"Let It Go," from "Frozen"Visual Effects Tim Webber for "Gravity" Best Adapted Screenplay"12 Years a Slave"Best Original Screenplay"Her"Best Animated Feature"Frozen"Best Documentary Feature"20 Feet from Stardom"Best Foreign Language Film"The Great Beauty," ItalyBest DirectorAlfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"Best ActressCate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"Best ActorMatthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"Best Picture"12 Years a Slave" Want more Oscar goodness? Check out even more coverage below:- The Academy Awards: What You Didn't See on TV!- Academy Awards: All the Red Carpet Photos- The Most Epic Oscar Selfie of All Time- Oscar After-Party Madness: See Who Got Down!

Alfonso Cuarón has won the Best Director Academy Award for Gravity.

The Mexican-director, who was first nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for Y tu mamá también, continued his awards season success by adding an Academy Award to his Golden Globe and BAFTA.

Cuarón beat David O Russell (American Hustle), Alexander Payne (Nebraska), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) to take home the prize.

The filmmaker admitted that making the big budget space blockbuster was a "transformative" experience.

"For most people, that transformation was wisdom; for me, it was the colour of my hair," he joked. "I want to thank the people who made that happen.

"My son Jonás Cuarón, Sandy - you are the soul and heart of the film, an amazing collaborator and one of the best people I ever met; George Clooney for your trust; Tim Webber, Steven Price."

Oscars 2014:...

Los Angeles, March 3: Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" received the best achievement in visual effects award at the 86th Academy Awards here Sunday.

Timothy Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould - the team behind the 'out of the world' experience of the movie, collected the golden statuette at the ceremony.

The movie, which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, narrates the story of three members of a shuttle crew, who while working outside the craft to repair the Hubble telescope, have a catastrophic encounter with a field of space debris.

The movie was in contention for the Oscar with "The Hobbit:.

And in the end, it was a predictable Oscar night! The frontrunners were true frontrunners with "12 Years a Slave" taking home the Best Picture trophy while "Gravity" won all technical awards. In the acting categories, Cate Blanchett won Best Actress, Matthew McConaughey was awarded the Best Actor trophy, while Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong'o received the Supporting Actor and Actress awards, respectively.

I think Ellen did a great job hosting the award, and the best musical performer for me was Pink singing "Over the Rainbow" in tribute to "The Wizard of Oz."

And here are the winners of the granddaddy of the Awards Season -- the 2014 Oscars:

Actor in a Leading Role

Christian Bale in .American Hustle.

Bruce Dern in .Nebraska.

Leonardo DiCaprio in .The Wolf of Wall Street.

Chiwetel Ejiofor in .12 Years a Slave.

Winner: Matthew McConaughey in .Dallas Buyers Club.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Barkhad Abdi in...

Another year has gone by with some simply fantastic movies and yes, it’s the night of the Oscars yet again. We’ll be up throughout the night tweeting from @HeyUGuys and we’ll be updating this post as we go throughout the night.

If you miss a winner, fear not as they’ll all be here as we go or if you’re reading this in the UK in the morning, welcome and we’re no doubt asleep!

The Tally:

Gravity: 7 Dallas Buyers Club: 3 12 Years a Slave: 3 The Great Gatsby: 2 Frozen: 2 Blue Jasmine: 1

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Best Picture

“American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers “Captain Phillips” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers “Dallas Buyers Club” Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers “Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers “Her” Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers “Nebraska” Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa,...

The 86th Annual Academy Awards have come and gone, and Et has the complete list of winners!

Read on to find out who took home gold. (Winners underlined).

Related Pics: Hit or Miss: The 2014 Oscars!

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street

Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

June Squibb, Nebraska

Julia Roberts, August: Osage County

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

Best Animated Feature

Frozen

The Croods

The Wind Rises

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Lead 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 Lead Actress

Amy Adams, American Hustle

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12 Years A Slave wins best picture, best supporting actress, best adapted screenplay; Gravity wins seven Oscars including Best Director.Click here to read the acceptance speeches

The winners of the 86th Academy Awards:

Best motion picture of the year

12 Years A Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale, American Hustle

Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Amy Adams, American Hustle

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

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12 Years A Slave wins best picture, best supporting actress, best adapted screenplay; Gravity wins seven Oscars including Best Director.Click here to read the acceptance speeches

The winners of the 86th Academy Awards:

Best motion picture of the year

12 Years A Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale, American Hustle

Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Amy Adams, American Hustle

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

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Screen is updating the Oscar winners live here…winners so far include Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Frozen, The Great Beauty, 12 Years A Slave and more.

The winners are being announced at the 86th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

The winners are listed below, followed by the nominees.

Best motion picture of the year“American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers“Captain Phillips” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers“Dallas Buyers Club” Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers“Her” Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers“Nebraska” Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers“Philomena” Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers“12 Years a Slave” Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers“The Wolf of Wall Street” Nominees to be determinedPerformance by an actor in a leading roleChristian Bale in “American Hustle”Bruce Dern in “Nebraska”[link...

Here we are again after the Golden Globes, Mike Fleming and Anita Busch taking on the task of play by play during the most wide-open Oscar race we can remember. Even on the party circuit, industry insiders who usually have a grasp of who’ll walk away with Oscars were evenly torn between Alfonso Cuaron’s 3D masterpiece Gravity and Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave. Then again, there were so many terrific films that got Best Picture nominations, and all of them have at least a puncher’s chance at an upset. Related: Oscars: Pete Hammond’s Absolute Final Predictions That includes American Hustle, where David O Russell co-wrote the Best Original Script nominee with Eric Warren Singer and got tour de force performances and nominations for Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Perfs so strong there was no room on the nomination roster for perennial Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner.

Waking up bright and early, Chris Hemsworth headed over to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, CA to announce the 2014 Academy Award nominations on January 16.

In addition, the President of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, took to the stage to kick off the day in honor the "heroes" in the film industry and read off the list with the "Thor" hunk.

Starting off the nominees list were the talented men in the Supporting Actor category including Barkad Abdi, Bradley Cooper, Michael Fassbender, Jonah Hill and Jared Leto.

As for the ladies in the Supporting Actress category, Sally Hawkins, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong'o, Julia Roberts and June Squibb each earned recognition.

When it came to the Best Picture nominees, nine films including "American Hustle," "Captain Phillips," "Dallas Buyers Club," "Gravity," "Her," "Nebraska," "Philomena," "12 Years a Slave" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" gained a nod.

Check out the full list of 2014 Oscar nominees below!