Best Picture Winner
12 Years a Slave
Best Picture
Director: Steve McQueen
Studio: Fox Searchlight
In the antebellum United States, a free Black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery.
All Categories (29)
Animated Feature Film
Frozen— Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
Winner
Despicable Me 2— Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
Ernest & Celestine— Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
The Croods— Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
The Wind Rises— Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
Best Picture
12 Years a Slave— Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
Winner
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
The Wolf of Wall Street— Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
Actor In A Leading Role
Bruce Dern— Nebraska {"Woody Grant"}
Chiwetel Ejiofor— 12 Years a Slave {"Solomon Northup"}
Christian Bale— American Hustle {"Irving Rosenfeld"}
Leonardo DiCaprio— The Wolf of Wall Street {"Jordan Belfort"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi— Captain Phillips {"Muse"}
Bradley Cooper— American Hustle {"Richie DiMaso"}
Jonah Hill— The Wolf of Wall Street {"Donnie Azoff"}
Michael Fassbender— 12 Years a Slave {"Edwin Epps"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Amy Adams— American Hustle {"Sydney Prosser"}
Judi Dench— Philomena {"Philomena"}
Meryl Streep— August: Osage County {"Violet Weston"}
Sandra Bullock— Gravity {"Ryan Stone"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Jennifer Lawrence— American Hustle {"Rosalyn Rosenfeld"}
Julia Roberts— August: Osage County {"Barbara Weston"}
June Squibb— Nebraska {"Kate Grant"}
Sally Hawkins— Blue Jasmine {"Ginger"}
Directing
12 Years a Slave— Steve McQueen
American Hustle— David O. Russell
Nebraska— Alexander Payne
The Wolf of Wall Street— Martin Scorsese
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
12 Years a Slave— Screenplay by John Ridley
Winner
Before Midnight— Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips— Screenplay by Billy Ray
Philomena— Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street— Screenplay by Terence Winter
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Her— Written by Spike Jonze
Winner
American Hustle— Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine— Written by Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club— Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Nebraska— Written by Bob Nelson
Cinematography
Gravity— Emmanuel Lubezki
Winner
Inside Llewyn Davis— Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska— Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners— Roger A. Deakins
The Grandmaster— Philippe Le Sourd
Music (Original Score)
Gravity— Steven Price
Winner
Her— William Butler and Owen Pallett
Philomena— Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks— Thomas Newman
The Book Thief— John Williams
Music (Original Song)
"Let It Go" from Frozen— Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Winner
"Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone— Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. After the nominations were announced on January 16, 2014, it was determined that Mr. Broughton had taken actions in promoting the song that were inconsistent with the Academy's campaign regulations. The Board of Governors voted to rescind the nomination on January 29, and only four songs were included on the final ballot.
"Happy" from Despicable Me 2— Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom— Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
"The Moon Song" from Her— Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
Production Design
The Great Gatsby— Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
Winner
12 Years a Slave— Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
American Hustle— Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
Gravity— Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
Her— Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
Visual Effects
Gravity— Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould
Winner
Iron Man 3— Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
Star Trek Into Darkness— Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug— Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
The Lone Ranger— Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
Film Editing
Gravity— Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
Winner
12 Years a Slave— Joe Walker
American Hustle— Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips— Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club— John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
Sound Editing
Gravity— Glenn Freemantle
Winner
All Is Lost— Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
Captain Phillips— Oliver Tarney
Lone Survivor— Wylie Stateman
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug— Brent Burge and Chris Ward
Sound Mixing
Gravity— Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
Winner
Captain Phillips— Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
Inside Llewyn Davis— Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Lone Survivor— Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug— Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
Costume Design
The Great Gatsby— Catherine Martin
Winner
12 Years a Slave— Patricia Norris
American Hustle— Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster— William Chang Suk Ping
The Invisible Woman— Michael O'Connor
Makeup And Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club— Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
Winner
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa— Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger— Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
Documentary (Feature)
20 Feet from Stardom— Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
Winner
Cutie and the Boxer— Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars— Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
The Act of Killing— Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
The Square— Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
Documentary (Short Subject)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life— Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
Winner
CaveDigger— Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear— Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls— Sara Ishaq
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall— Edgar Barens
Short Film (Animated)
Mr. Hublot— Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
Winner
Feral— Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
Get a Horse!— Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
Possessions— Shuhei Morita
Room on the Broom— Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
Short Film (Live Action)
Helium— Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
Winner
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)— Esteban Crespo
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)— Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
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
Foreign Language Film
The Great Beauty— Italy
Winner
Omar— Palestine
The Broken Circle Breakdown— Belgium
The Hunt— Denmark
The Missing Picture— Cambodia
Honorary Award
To Angela Lansbury, an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors.
Winner
GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
Peter W. Anderson
To Piero Tosi, a visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures.
To Steve Martin in recognition of his extraordinary talents and the unique inspiration he has brought to the art of motion pictures.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Angelina Jolie
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Academy Award Of Merit)
To all those who built and operated film laboratories, for over a century of service to the motion picture industry. Lab employees have contributed extraordinary efforts to achieve filmmakers' artistic expectations for special film processing and the production of billions of feet of release prints per year. This work has allowed an expanded motion picture audience and unequaled worldwide cinema experience. [Special Photographic]
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To OFER ALON for the design and implementation of the ZBrush software tool for multi-resolution sculpting of digital models. ZBrush pioneered multi-resolution digital sculpting, transforming how artists conceive and realize their final designs. ZBrush has enabled artists to create models far more quickly and with much greater detail than previous approaches. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Winner
To ANDRE GAUTHIER, BENOIT SEVIGNY, YVES BOUDREAULT and ROBERT LANCIAULT for the design and implementation of the FiLMBOX software application. FiLMBOX, the foundation of MotionBuilder, enables the real-time processing and control of devices and animation. For over two decades, its innovative architecture has been a basis for the development and evolution of new techniques in filmmaking, such as virtual production. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To EMMANUEL PRÉVINAIRE, JAN SPERLING, ETIENNE BRANDT and TONY POSTIAU for their development of the Flying-Cam SARAH 3.0 system. This battery-powered, radio-controlled, miniature helicopter camera system employs computer-assisted piloting and tele-operation in an airframe that utilizes GPS-assisted flight controls for aerial filming of unparalleled sophistication. Flying-Cam SARAH achieves shots impossible for full-size helicopters, cable systems or other traditional camera support devices. [Photography]
To ERIC VEACH for his foundational research on efficient Monte Carlo path tracing for image synthesis. Physically based rendering has transformed computer graphics lighting by more accurately simulating materials and lights, allowing digital artists to focus on cinematography rather than the intricacies of rendering. In his 1997 Ph.D. thesis and related publications, Veach formalized the principles of Monte Carlo path tracing and introduced essential optimization techniques, such as multiple importance sampling, which make physically based rendering computationally feasible. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To OLIVIER MAURY, IAN SACHS and DAN PIPONI for the creation of the ILM Plume system that simulates and renders fire, smoke and explosions for motion picture visual effects. The unique construction of this system combines fluid solving and final image rendering on the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) hardware without needing an intermediate step involving the CPU. This innovation reduces turnaround time, resulting in significant efficiency gains for the ILM effects department. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Winner
JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
To ANDREW CAMENISCH, DAVID CARDWELL and TIBOR MADJAR for the concept and design, and to CSABA KOHEGYI and IMRE MAJOR for the implementation of the Mudbox software. Mudbox provides artists powerful new design capabilities that significantly advance the state of the art in multi-resolution digital sculpting for film production. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To COLIN DONCASTER, JOHANNES SAAM, AREITO ECHEVARRIA, JANNE KONTKANEN and CHRIS COOPER for the development, prototyping and promotion of technologies and workflows for deep compositing. Their contributions include early advancements in key deep compositing features such as layer and holdout-order independence, spatial and intra-element color correction, post-render depth of field, and precise blending of complex layer edges. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To Charles "Tad" Marburg in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
To DR. PETER HILLMAN for the long-term development and continued advancement of innovative, robust and complete toolsets for deep compositing. Dr. Hillman's ongoing contributions to standardized techniques and a common deep image file format have enabled advanced compositing workflows across the digital filmmaking industry. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To FLORIAN KAINZ, JEFFERY YOST, PHILIP HUBBARD and JIM HOURIHAN for the architecture and development of the Zeno application framework. For more than a decade, Zeno's flexible and robust design has allowed the creation of a broad range of Academy Award-winning visual effects toolsets at ILM. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To GIFFORD HOOPER and PHILIP GEORGE of HoverCam for the continuing development of the Helicam miniature helicopter camera system. The current Helicam system is a high-speed, extremely maneuverable, turbine-engine, radio-controlled miniature helicopter that supports professional film and digital cinema cameras. Helicam provides a wide range of stabilized, remotely operated pan, tilt and roll capabilities, achieving shots impossible for full-size helicopters. [Photography]
To JEREMY SELAN for the development of the OpenColorIO color management framework. OpenColorIO, developed at Sony Pictures Imageworks, is an open source framework that enables consistent color visualization of motion picture imagery across multiple facilities and numerous software applications. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To JOHN FRAZIER, CHUCK GASPAR and CLAY PINNEY for the design and development of the Pneumatic Car Flipper. This self-contained high-pressure pneumatic device safely launches a stationary full-sized car on a predetermined trajectory. The precision of operation enhances the safety of performers, and the physical design allows a rapid setup and strike. [Stage Operations]
To JOSHUA PINES, DAVID REISNER, LOU LEVINSON, CURTIS CLARK, ASC, and DAVID REGISTER for the development of the American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List technology. The ASC CDL unifies color correction principles for use on- and off-set, providing for the faithful reproduction of color values across a variety of color correction devices. This technology provides basic image-processing mathematics that translate the lift, gamma and gain settings to a set of common color values to help preserve the cinematographer's intent throughout production. [Systems]
To MARTIN HILL, JON ALLITT and NICK McKENZIE for the creation of the spherical harmonics-based efficient lighting system at Weta Digital. The spherical harmonics lighting pipeline precomputes and reuses a smooth approximation of time-consuming visibility calculations. This enables artists to quickly see the results of changing lights, materials and set layouts in scenes with extremely complex geometry. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To MATT PHARR, GREG HUMPHREYS and PAT HANRAHAN for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book "Physically Based Rendering." Physically based rendering has transformed computer graphics lighting by more accurately simulating materials and lights, allowing digital artists to focus on cinematography rather than the intricacies of rendering. First published in 2004, "Physically Based Rendering" is both a textbook and a complete source-code implementation that has provided a widely adopted practical roadmap for most physically based shading and lighting systems used in film production. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To PETER HUANG and CHRIS PERRY for their architectural contributions to, and to HANS RIJPKEMA and JOE MANCEWICZ for the core engineering of, the Voodoo application framework. For more than a decade, Voodoo's unique design concepts have enabled a broad range of character animation toolsets to be developed at Rhythm & Hues. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To RONALD D. HENDERSON for the development of the FLUX gas simulation system. The use of the Fast Fourier Transform for solving partial differential equations allows FLUX a greater level of algorithmic efficiency when multi-threading on modern hardware. This innovation enables the creation of very high-resolution fluid effects while maintaining fast turnaround times. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To THOMAS LOKOVIC and ERIC VEACH for their influential research and publication of the fundamental concepts of deep shadowing technology. Providing a functional and efficient model for the storage of deep opacity information, this technology was widely adopted as the foundation of early deep compositing pipelines. [Digital Imaging Technology]