The 2014 Oscar nominations are live, and we are so excited! There has seriously been an obscene number of fantastic film this year - not that we're complaining! I'm going to try to watch the Oscars from Sweden, which is going to be a pretty ridiculous process as the time difference means they begin at 1am and end at 4:30am on a Monday. HA! Challenge accepted! Here's our shortlist of the awards to pay attention to! I didn't see enough of this year's films to take a swing at guessing the winners. All I can say is this: if "Let It Go" wins the Oscar for Original Song, I will consider the night a success. It would be great as well if the new Hobbit film took the Oscar for visual effects, because I absolutely loved how they created Smaug. Also so so incredibly stoked to see Ellen D. host again!
FILM
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf Of Wall Street
DIRECTOR
Steve McQueen - 12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf Of Wall Street
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell - American Hustle
Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
Bob Nelson - Nebraska
Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack - Dallas Buyers Club
Spike Jonze - Her
ACTOR
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
ACTRESS
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County
Judi Dench - Philomena
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill - The Wolf Of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
June Squibb - Nebraska
ANIMATED FILM
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises
ORIGINAL SCORE
Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
The Book Thief - John Williams
Gravity - Steven Price
Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman
Her - William Butler, Owen Pallett
ORIGINAL SONG
'Alone Yet Not Alone' - Alone Yet Not Alone
'Happy' - Despicable Me 2
'Let It Go' - Frozen
'The Moon Song' - Her
'Ordinary Love' - Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom
COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman - Michael O’Connor
The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping
12 Years A Slave - Patricia Norris
VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3 - Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
Star Trek Into Darkness - Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett
The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium
The Great Beauty - Italy
The Hunt - Denmark
The Missing Picture - Cambodia
Omar - Palestine
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act Of Killing
Cutie And The Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom
