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. Martin, who won twice before for art direction and costume design for Moulin Rouge!, thanked her husband Baz Luhrmann and joked that she had “a few notes tucked into her bra… It's a very Australian thing to do."
Director Steve McQueen dedicated the best film Oscar to "all those people who have endured slavery."
Frozen was deemed best animated film, The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino’s love letter to Rome was best foreign language film and 20 Feet from Stardom got the feature documentary trophy.
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features)
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
“The Great Gatsby” (Warner Bros.) Catherine Martin
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features) Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Mr. Hublot”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
“Frozen” (Walt Disney)
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
“Gravity” (Warner Bros.) Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Helium”
An M & M Production
Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life”
A Reed Entertainment Production
Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“20 Feet From Stardom” (RADiUS-TWC)
A Gil Friesen Productions and Tremolo Production
Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
“The Great Beauty” (Janus Films) – Italy
An Indigo Film Production
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
“Gravity” (Warner Bros.) Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years A Slave” (Fox Searchlight)
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Gravity” (Warner Bros.) Emmanuel Lubezki
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
“Gravity” (Warner Bros.) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
“The Great Gatsby” (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Catherine Martin; Costume Design: Beverley Dunn
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE)
“Gravity” (Warner Bros.) Steven Price
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Let It Go” from “Frozen” (Walt Disney)
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“12 Years A Slave” (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by John Ridley
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Her” (Warner Bros.) Written by Spike Jonze
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
“Gravity” (Warner Bros.) Alfonso Cuarón
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine” (Sony Pictures Classics)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features)
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
“12 Years a Slave” (Fox Searchlight)
A River Road, Plan B, New Regency Production
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers