Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón won the Oscar for Best Director. Gravity could be called the night’s big winner, taking home seven Oscars (including camerawork, editing, music, special effects, sound mixing and sound editing). The biggest loser must have been American Hustle, which was nominated ten times but didn’t win a single one.
Matthew McConaughey won, as many had hoped, the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as a scrawny AIDS patient in Dallas Buyers Club. And the female favorite was rewarded: Cate Blanchett for her role in Woody Allen’s bitter tragicomedy Blue Jasmine.
There was no Dutch touch to the ceremony this year, unless Amsterdam-based director Steve McQueen managed to take home the Oscar. The Belgian Oscar nominee The Broken Circle Breakdown, produced by Dutch co-production Topkapi Film, was beaten by the acclaimed Italian drama La grande bellezza.
The ceremony was sarcastically hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
Watch her opening monologue here.
The most important Oscars at a glance:
Movie: 12 Years a Slave
Director: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Actor: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
Foreign movie: The Great Beauty
Original script: She (Spike Jonze)
Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
Animated movie: Frozen
Feature Documentary: 20 Feet from Stardom
Are you also curious about the less popular categories?
Visit the official Academy Awards website here.
