Oscar Nomination 2014

Oscar Nomination 2014 – Whatever you did or didn’t see in 2013, Thursday’s brief nominations presentation in Hollywood represents the official kick-off of the Oscars Awards season. From this moment forward, every name and film mentioned will be repeated countless times on TV talk shows, commercials, tweets, Facebook posts and movie posters.

Now that we have the full list (see the major award nominees below) you can start handicapping the winners (and catching all the films you missed) and then we can all watch together on March 2 when the Academy hands out all those gold statuettes.

Best Picture

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Director

American Hustle
David O. Russell
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
Nebraska
Alexander Payne
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese

Actor in a Leading Role

Christian Bale
American Hustle
Bruce Dern
Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club

Actress in a Leading Role

Amy Adams
American Hustle
Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock
Gravity
Judi Dench
Philomena
Meryl Streep

Actor in A Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

Sally Hawkins
Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence
American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o
12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts
August: Osage County
June Squibb
Nebraska

Adapted Screenplay

Before Midnight
Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips
Screenplay by Billy Ray
Philomena
Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave
Screenplay by John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street
Screenplay by Terence Winter

Original Screenplay

American Hustle
Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine
Written by Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club
Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Her
Written by Spike Jonze
Nebraska
Written by Bob Nelson