The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2014 Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actress Ellen DeGeneres hosted the show for the second time, having previously hosted the 79th ceremony held in 2007.
In related events, the academy held its 5th annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 16, 2013. On February 15, 2014, in a ceremony at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan.
12 Years a Slave won three awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Gravity with seven awards, Dallas Buyers Club with three, Frozen and The Great Gatsby with two, and Blue Jasmine, The Great Beauty, Helium, Her, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Mr Hublot, and 20 Feet from Stardom with one. The telecast garnered nearly 44 million viewers in the United States, making it the most-watched Academy Award ceremony since the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 and the most-watched non-sport program in American television since 2004.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 86th Academy Awards were announced on January 16, 2014, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the academy, and actor Chris Hemsworth. American Hustle and Gravity tied for the most nominations with ten each.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 2, 2014. American Hustle became David O. Russell's second consecutive film to earn nominations in all acting categories and the fifteenth film overall in Oscar history to achieve this distinction, but the first such film to not win any since 1936's My Man Godfrey. It also was the third film after Gangs of New York and True Grit to lose all ten of its nominations. 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen, became the second film by a black director to receive a nomination for Best Picture and the first to win. McQueen became the third black person to receive a nomination for Best Directing and the first black Best Picture co-winner. John Ridley became the second black winner for writing. Alfonso Cuarón became the first person of Latin American descent to win Best Director.
With Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto's respective wins in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, Dallas Buyers Club was the fifth film to win both male acting awards. Megan Ellison became the first woman to score two Best Picture nominations in the same year. At 23, Jennifer Lawrence became the youngest actress to earn her third nomination. Cate Blanchett became the sixth actress to have won both female acting awards in her career. Lupita Nyong'o was the sixteenth Oscar acting winner to win for a debut film performance and the ninth Best Supporting Actress recipient to achieve this feat. Best Original Song co-winner Robert Lopez became the youngest individual to win all four major American entertainment awatds (Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony) and the 12th person overall to earn these accolades.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
12 Years a Slave – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, producersAmerican 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 | valign="top" width="50%"|Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity David O. Russell – American Hustle Alexander Payne – Nebraska Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall StreetMatthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof Christian Bale – American Hustle as Irving Rosenfeld Bruce Dern – Nebraska as Woodrow "Woody" Grant Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave as Solomon NorthupCate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis Amy Adams – American Hustle as Edith Greensly / Sydney Prosser Sandra Bullock – Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone Judi Dench – Philomena as Philomena Lee Meryl Streep – August: Osage County as Violet WestonJared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse Bradley Cooper – American Hustle as Richard "Richie" DiMaso Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave as Edwin Epps Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street as Donnie AzoffLupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave as Patsey Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine as Ginger Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld Julia Roberts – August: Osage County as Barbara Weston-Fordham June Squibb – Nebraska as Kate GrantHer – Spike Jonze American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen Dallas Buyers Club – Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack Nebraska – Bob Nelson12 Years a Slave – John Ridley; Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke; Captain Phillips – Billy Ray; Philomena – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope; The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter; Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho The Croods – Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson Despicable Me 2 – Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri Ernest & Celestine – Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio SuzukiThe Great Beauty (Italy) in Italian – Directed by Paolo Sorrentino The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium) in Dutch – Directed by Felix Van Groeningen The Hunt (Denmark) in Danish – Directed by Thomas Vinterberg The Missing Picture (Cambodia) in French – Directed by Rithy Panh Omar (Palestine) in Arabic – Directed by Hany Abu-Assad20 Feet from Stardom – Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Gil Friesen (posthumous award) The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher Dirty Wars – Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill The Square – Jehane Noujaim and Karim AmerThe Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life – Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed CaveDigger – Jeffrey Karoff Facing Fear – Jason Cohen Karama Has No Walls – Sara Ishaq Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall – Edgar BarensHelium – Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson That Wasn't Me – Esteban Crespo Just Before Losing Everything – Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? – Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari The Voorman Problem – Mark Gill and Baldwin LiMr Hublot – Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares 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 LachauerGravity – Steven Price The Book Thief – John Williams Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett Philomena – Alexandre Desplat Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman"Let It Go" from Frozen – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez "Happy" from Despicable Me 2 – Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams "The Moon Song" from Her – Music by Karen O; Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyrics by Paul Hewson "Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone yet Not Alone – Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel (nomination revoked) Gravity – Glenn Freemantle All Is Lost – Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns Captain Phillips – Oliver Tarney The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Brent Burge and Chris Ward Lone Survivor – Wylie Stateman Gravity – Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro Captain Phillips – Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson Inside Llewyn Davis – Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland Lone Survivor – Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow The Great Gatsby – Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn 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 12 Years a Slave – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki The Grandmaster – Philippe Le Sourd Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael Prisoners – Roger Deakins Dallas Buyers Club – Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Stephen Prouty The Lone Ranger – Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson The Grandmaster – William Chang Suk Ping The Invisible Woman – Michael O'Connor 12 Years a Slave – Patricia Norris Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse Dallas Buyers Club – John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa 12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker Gravity – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds Iron Man 3 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick The Lone Ranger – Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier Star Trek Into Darkness – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
Governors Awards The academy held its 5th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 16, 2013, during which the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards To Angela Lansbury, an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors. To Steve Martin in recognition of his extraordinary talents and the unique inspiration he has brought to the art of motion pictures. To Piero Tosi, a visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Angelina Jolie
Films with multiple nominations and awards
The following 19 films received multiple nominations:
Nominations Film 10 American Hustle Gravity 9 12 Years a Slave 6 Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Nebraska 5 Her The Wolf of Wall Street 4 Philomena 3 Blue Jasmine The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2 August: Osage County Despicable Me 2 Frozen The Grandmaster The Great Gatsby Inside Llewyn Davis The Lone Ranger Lone Survivor
The following five films received multiple awards:
Awards Film 7 Gravity 3 Dallas Buyers Club 12 Years a Slave 2 Frozen The Great Gatsby
Presenters and performers The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters