The history lesson that is "12 Years a Slave" lived up to
predictions making it the favorite to win the Oscar for Best Picture at
the 86th Academy Awards, a gala also marked by the historic success of
Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron, the first Latino to take the director's award.Cuaron's
movie, "Gravity," took seven of the 10 statuettes for which it was
nominated - Achievement in Directing, Achievement in Film Editing (also
for Cuaron together with Mark Sanger), Achievement in Cinematography
(for Mexico's Emmanuel Lubezki), Best Original Score, Achievement in
Sound Editing, Achievement in Sound Mixing and Achievement in Visual
Effects.
One of the sights of the night was Brad Pitt accepting
his first Oscar after five nominations, a reward for his work as
producer of "12 Years a Slave."
The Mexican-born Kenyan, Lupita
Nyong'o won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "12
Years a Slave," while John Ridley took Best Adapted Screenplay honors
for the same movie.
"Dallas Buyers Club" scored a double in acting
with Matthew McConaughey named Best Actor and Jared Leto taking Best
Supporting Actor, while "Frozen" came out on top in two categories:
Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song for "Let It Go."
Cate Blanchett, as expected, took the Best Actress award for "Blue Jasmine."
Leonardo
DiCaprio, who starred in "The Wolf of Wall Street," went home
empty-handed yet again following his fifth Oscar nomination.
Nyong'o and Anthony Quinn are the only actors born in Mexico that have won an Oscar.
The
Italian movie "La Grande Bellezza" was honored as Best Foreign Language
Film and its director, Paolo Sorrentino, surprised the audience with a
speech citing Argentina's soccer legend Diego Maradona among his sources
of inspiraton, together with moviemakers like Federico Fellini and
Martin Scorsese, and the musical group Talking Heads.
Big
disappointments of the night? Not a single Oscar went to either
"American Hustle" with 10 nominations or "The Wolf of Wall Street".
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