The Academy Awards are not generally a major concern of ours here at Daily Grindhouse. We like to emphasize the movies we love, above all, without treating movies as competition. We’re really more of a petting zoo than a horse race. That said, this is all the film world is talking about today, so as a service to our readers, below are the winners from the 86th Academy Awards, announced on March 2nd, 2014. We lucked out I think, movie-wise. 2013 was teeming with garbage for the first half of the year, and then we started getting overloaded with good stuff. Obviously my own personal favorites were nearly entirely shut out, but still, you can’t go wrong with most of the big winners.

Keep scrolling down past the awards for a humble tribute to all the wonderful talents we unfortunately lost during a noticeably unsparing year.

 

 

BEST MOTION PICTURE

 

12 YEARS A SLAVE

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Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

 

Spike Jonze, HER

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Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

John Ridley, 12 YEARS A SLAVE

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Best Achievement In Directing

 

Alfonso Cuarón, GRAVITY

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Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role

Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE

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Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role

 

Matthew McConaughey, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

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Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role

 

Lupita Nyong’o, 12 YEARS A SLAVE

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Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role

 

Jared Leto, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

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Best Achievement in Editing

 

Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger, GRAVITY

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Best Achievement in Cinematography

 

 

Emmanuel Lubezki, GRAVITY

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Best Achievement in Costume Design

 

Catherine Martin, THE GREAT GATSBY

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Best Achievement in Production Design

 

Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn, THE GREAT GATSBY

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Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

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Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

GRAVITY: Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro

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Best Achievement in Sound Editing

GRAVITY: Glenn Freemantle

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Best Achievement in Visual Effects

GRAVITY: Timothy Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould

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Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

THE GREAT BEAUTY (2013): Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)

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Best Documentary, Feature

 

20 FEET FROM STARDOM (2013): Morgan Neville

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Best Documentary, Short Subject

 

THE LADY IN NUMBER 6 (2013): Malcolm Clarke, Carl Freed

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Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

 

FROZEN

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Best Short Film, Animated

MR. HUBLOT (2013): Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares

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Best Short Film, Live Action

 

HELIUM: Anders Walter

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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

 

Steven Price, GRAVITY

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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

FROZEN:  Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez (“Let It Go”)

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IN MEMORIAM

 (Hardly a complete list, but a gathering of all of Daily Grindhouse’s tributes to beloved film figures lost in 2013.)

 

JESS FRANCO

 

HARRY REEMS

 

 

ROGER EBERT

 

RAY HARRYHAUSEN

 

 

RICHARD MATHESON

JAMES GANDOLFINI

JIM KELLY

TED POST

DENNIS FARINA

ELMORE LEONARD

KAREN BLACK

MICHAEL ANSARA

LUCIANO VINCENZONI

HAJI

HAL NEEDHAM

ED LAUTER

 

NIGEL DAVENPORT

 

TOM LAUGHLIN

PETER O’TOOLE

 

AL GOLDSTEIN

RIZ ORTOLANI

RUN RUN SHAW

MIKE VRANEY

 

PAUL WALKER

 

SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK

 

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

SARAH JONES

HAROLD RAMIS

 

 

@jonnyabomb

 

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