Alfonso Cuaron's space thriller takes seven awards, but loses out to 12 Years a Slave for best picture
• How the night unfolded
• Full list of winners
Gravity may be set in space, but it achieved a landslide at the 86th Academy Awards, taking seven Oscars, while 12 Years a Slave went home with three.
The technical prowess of Alfonso Cuarón's sci-fi drama meant it dominated the first half of the ceremony, taking visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing, cinematography, editing and original score. It was that final couple of categories which pointed the way to the landslide ahead; Cuarón himself jointly accepted the award for editing, though he was cut off by the orchestra before being able to speak.
His chance came later, when he picked up the prize for best director, making him the first Latino film-maker to take the honour. In a speech that mixed English and Spanish, he thanked his family and crew, in particular Sandra Bullock, "the soul, the heart of the film … and one of the best people I ever met".
In her opening monologue, ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres addressed the central battle between Gravity and 12 Years a Slave. There were two possibilities for the evening, she said – "That 12 Years a Slave wins the best picture Oscar. And possibility two: you're all racists."
It was a relief, then, when McQueen's drama did indeed take the big prize. Picking up his award alongside producer Brad Pitt, McQueen offered thanks to cast, crew and family, particularly "all the women in my life".
He went on to dedicate the award to "the 21 million people who still endure slavery" and quoted from the film saying "everyone deserves not just to survive but to live".
The film's star, Lupita Nyong'o, was a popular winner of the best supporting actress prize earlier in the evening, while John Ridley took the best adapted screenplay prize. Both dedicated their gongs to Solomon Northup, whose memoir the film is based on.
Dallas Buyers Club also performed strongly, taking both male acting awards, as well as best hair and makeup. Jared Leto picked up the first award of the evening, for best supporting actor, and used his speech to give a shout out to citizens of Ukraine. He also paid tribute to those who had died from Aids, the disease that the film focuses on.
Picking up the best actor award, Matthew McConaughey – whose career has seen an unprecedented renaissance in recent years – thanked God, his family (in particular his late father, whom he pictured in heaven) and his hero, who turned out to be himself, 10 years hence: "It keeps me as somebody who keeps on chasing."
Cate Blanchett had been seen as the one dead cert, and she progressed to take home the best actress prize as anticipated. In her speech, Blanchett paid tribute to her fellow nominees individually, as well to her director Woody Allen, who many felt she might neglect to mention, following the storm of negative publicity surrounding Allen in recent weeks.
American Hustle, which, like Gravity, had gone into the ceremony with 10 nominations, came away with nothing, as did fellow best picture nominees Nebraska, Philomena and Captain Phillips.
Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won best foreign language film, with the director offering thanks to, among others, Fellini, Scorsese, Maradona, Rome and his brother Marco.
There was a minor upset in the documentary category, in which the odds-on The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer's surreal and inventive study of the Indonesian death squads of the 1960s, was trumped by 20 Feet from Stardom, about the lot of the backing singer. The film was the one triumph for the Weinstein Company, whose fortunes dipped a little following many years of Oscars dominance.
DeGeneres – who first acted as MC seven years ago – proved popular both on social media and inside the auditorium, mingling with the crowd, ordering pizza (delivered by a bonafide delivery man) and snapping selfies with the celebrities. One featuring Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep and more DeGeneres put forward in a bid for the most retweeted picture of all time. Her ambition was achieved around an hour after it was published, knocking Barack Obama's post-election win hug with his wife Michelle off the top spot.
• More details to come …
• How the night unfolded
• Full list of winners
-Tonight's winners in full-
*Best supporting actor*
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
*WINNER: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club*
*Best costume design*
Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle
William Chang Suk Ping, The Grandmaster
*WINNER: Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby*
Michael O'Connor, The Invisible Woman
Patricia Norris, 12 Years a Slave
*Best makeup and hairstyling*
*WINNERS: Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews, Dallas Buyers Club*
Stephen Prouty, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger
*Best short film (animated)*
Feral
Get a Horse!
*WINNER: Mr Hublot*
Possessions
Room on the Broom
*Best animation*
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest and Celestine
*WINNER: Frozen*
The Wind Rises
*Best visual effects*
*WINNER: Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
*Best short*
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
*WINNER: Helium*
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem
*Best documentary short*
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
*WINNER: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life*
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
*Best documentary*
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
*WINNER: 20 Feet from Stardom*
*Best foreign film*
Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
*WINNER: The Great Beauty (Italy)*
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
*Best sound mixing*
Captain Phillips
*WINNER: Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
*Best sound editing*
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
*WINNER: Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
*Best supporting actress*
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
*WINNER: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave*
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
*Best cinematography*
Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster
*WINNER: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity*
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska
Roger A Deakins, Prisoners
*Best editing*
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
*WINNER: Gravity*
12 Years a Slave
*Best production design*
American Hustle
Gravity
*WINNER: Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn, The Great Gatsby*
Her
12 Years a Slave
*Best original score*
John Williams, The Book Thief
*WINNER: Steven Price, Gravity*
William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr Banks
*Best original song*
Alone Yet Not Alone, Alone Yet Not Alone [disqualified]
Happy, Despicable Me 2
*WINNER: Let It Go, Frozen*
The Moon Song, Her
Ordinary Love, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
*Best adapted screenplay*
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Billy Ray, Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena
*WINNER: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave*
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street
*Best original screenplay*
Eric Warren Singer and David O Russell, American Hustle
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club
*WINNER: Spike Jonze, Her*
Bob Nelson, Nebraska
*Best director*
David O Russell, American Hustle
*WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity*
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
*Best actress*
Amy Adams, American Hustle
*WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine*
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
*Best actor*
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
*WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club*
*Best picture*
*WINNER: 12 Years a Slave*
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street Reported by guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago.
• How the night unfolded
• Full list of winners
Gravity may be set in space, but it achieved a landslide at the 86th Academy Awards, taking seven Oscars, while 12 Years a Slave went home with three.
The technical prowess of Alfonso Cuarón's sci-fi drama meant it dominated the first half of the ceremony, taking visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing, cinematography, editing and original score. It was that final couple of categories which pointed the way to the landslide ahead; Cuarón himself jointly accepted the award for editing, though he was cut off by the orchestra before being able to speak.
His chance came later, when he picked up the prize for best director, making him the first Latino film-maker to take the honour. In a speech that mixed English and Spanish, he thanked his family and crew, in particular Sandra Bullock, "the soul, the heart of the film … and one of the best people I ever met".
In her opening monologue, ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres addressed the central battle between Gravity and 12 Years a Slave. There were two possibilities for the evening, she said – "That 12 Years a Slave wins the best picture Oscar. And possibility two: you're all racists."
It was a relief, then, when McQueen's drama did indeed take the big prize. Picking up his award alongside producer Brad Pitt, McQueen offered thanks to cast, crew and family, particularly "all the women in my life".
He went on to dedicate the award to "the 21 million people who still endure slavery" and quoted from the film saying "everyone deserves not just to survive but to live".
The film's star, Lupita Nyong'o, was a popular winner of the best supporting actress prize earlier in the evening, while John Ridley took the best adapted screenplay prize. Both dedicated their gongs to Solomon Northup, whose memoir the film is based on.
Dallas Buyers Club also performed strongly, taking both male acting awards, as well as best hair and makeup. Jared Leto picked up the first award of the evening, for best supporting actor, and used his speech to give a shout out to citizens of Ukraine. He also paid tribute to those who had died from Aids, the disease that the film focuses on.
Picking up the best actor award, Matthew McConaughey – whose career has seen an unprecedented renaissance in recent years – thanked God, his family (in particular his late father, whom he pictured in heaven) and his hero, who turned out to be himself, 10 years hence: "It keeps me as somebody who keeps on chasing."
Cate Blanchett had been seen as the one dead cert, and she progressed to take home the best actress prize as anticipated. In her speech, Blanchett paid tribute to her fellow nominees individually, as well to her director Woody Allen, who many felt she might neglect to mention, following the storm of negative publicity surrounding Allen in recent weeks.
American Hustle, which, like Gravity, had gone into the ceremony with 10 nominations, came away with nothing, as did fellow best picture nominees Nebraska, Philomena and Captain Phillips.
Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won best foreign language film, with the director offering thanks to, among others, Fellini, Scorsese, Maradona, Rome and his brother Marco.
There was a minor upset in the documentary category, in which the odds-on The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer's surreal and inventive study of the Indonesian death squads of the 1960s, was trumped by 20 Feet from Stardom, about the lot of the backing singer. The film was the one triumph for the Weinstein Company, whose fortunes dipped a little following many years of Oscars dominance.
DeGeneres – who first acted as MC seven years ago – proved popular both on social media and inside the auditorium, mingling with the crowd, ordering pizza (delivered by a bonafide delivery man) and snapping selfies with the celebrities. One featuring Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep and more DeGeneres put forward in a bid for the most retweeted picture of all time. Her ambition was achieved around an hour after it was published, knocking Barack Obama's post-election win hug with his wife Michelle off the top spot.
• More details to come …
• How the night unfolded
• Full list of winners
-Tonight's winners in full-
*Best supporting actor*
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
*WINNER: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club*
*Best costume design*
Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle
William Chang Suk Ping, The Grandmaster
*WINNER: Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby*
Michael O'Connor, The Invisible Woman
Patricia Norris, 12 Years a Slave
*Best makeup and hairstyling*
*WINNERS: Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews, Dallas Buyers Club*
Stephen Prouty, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger
*Best short film (animated)*
Feral
Get a Horse!
*WINNER: Mr Hublot*
Possessions
Room on the Broom
*Best animation*
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest and Celestine
*WINNER: Frozen*
The Wind Rises
*Best visual effects*
*WINNER: Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
*Best short*
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
*WINNER: Helium*
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem
*Best documentary short*
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
*WINNER: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life*
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
*Best documentary*
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
*WINNER: 20 Feet from Stardom*
*Best foreign film*
Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
*WINNER: The Great Beauty (Italy)*
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
*Best sound mixing*
Captain Phillips
*WINNER: Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
*Best sound editing*
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
*WINNER: Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
*Best supporting actress*
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
*WINNER: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave*
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
*Best cinematography*
Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster
*WINNER: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity*
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska
Roger A Deakins, Prisoners
*Best editing*
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
*WINNER: Gravity*
12 Years a Slave
*Best production design*
American Hustle
Gravity
*WINNER: Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn, The Great Gatsby*
Her
12 Years a Slave
*Best original score*
John Williams, The Book Thief
*WINNER: Steven Price, Gravity*
William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr Banks
*Best original song*
Alone Yet Not Alone, Alone Yet Not Alone [disqualified]
Happy, Despicable Me 2
*WINNER: Let It Go, Frozen*
The Moon Song, Her
Ordinary Love, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
*Best adapted screenplay*
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Billy Ray, Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena
*WINNER: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave*
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street
*Best original screenplay*
Eric Warren Singer and David O Russell, American Hustle
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club
*WINNER: Spike Jonze, Her*
Bob Nelson, Nebraska
*Best director*
David O Russell, American Hustle
*WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity*
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
*Best actress*
Amy Adams, American Hustle
*WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine*
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
*Best actor*
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
*WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club*
*Best picture*
*WINNER: 12 Years a Slave*
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street Reported by guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago.