Director Steve McQueen’s movie, 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for best picture at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday 2 March in Hollywood while Alfonso Cuaron won best director for Gravity, which scooped up six more awards, including a best actor win for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto taking the Oscar for best supporting actor.
The glamorous and highly anticipated event was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and will be broadcast on 3 March at 19h30 on pay-channel M-Net.
Full list of winners
Best Picture
12 Years a Slave: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas (producers)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave
Achievement in Directing
Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity
Original Screenplay
Spike Jonze for Her
Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
Let It Go from Frozen; Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Steven Price for Gravity
Achievement in Production Design
Catherine Martin: Production Design and Beverley Dunn: Set Decoration for The Great Gatsby
Achievement in Film Editing
Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger for Gravity
Achievement in Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity
Achievement in Sound Editing
Glenn Freemantle for Gravity
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro for Gravity
Best Foreign Language Film
The Great Beauty, Italy
Best Documentary Feature
20 Feet From Stardom, Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
Best Documentary Short Subject
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
Best Live-Action Short Film
Helium: Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
Achievement in Visual Effects
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould for Gravity
Best Animated Feature
Frozen
Best Animated Short Film
Mr. Hublot: Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews for Dallas Buyers Club
Achievement in Costume Design
Catherine Martin for The Great Gatsby
