12 Years A Slave Academy Awards

12 YEARS A SLAVE

Top of the heap ... Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. Photograph: Allstar/New Regency Pictures/Sportsphoto Ltd

12 Years a Slave has won the all-time picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a nine-strong field that included Gravity, The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle for the headline prize at this year's ceremony. 12 Years a Slave becomes the showtime film from a black director to take the best picture Oscar.

12 Years a Slave
Production year: 2013
Countries: Rest of the earth, USA
Runtime: 133 mins
Directors: Steve McQueen
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Dano
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Directed by Steve McQueen, the landmark slavery drama stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a gratis man kidnapped and sold to slaveowners in 19th-century Louisiana. It was based on the bestselling memoir by Solomon Northup, first published in 1853. 12 Years a Slave follows McQueen's laurels-winning dramas Hunger and Shame, and was produced by amidst others Brad Pitt'southward Program B outfit. Pitt also takes a small only pivotal office as abolitionist carpenter Samuel Bass.

Every bit a gang of cast members and crew took to the stage of the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles, Pitt came to the microphone outset to say that the film could not have been made without the "indomitable" McQueen.

After thanking a long listing of people, the director dedicated the Oscar to the 21 million people still indelible slavery in the world today, maxim: "Everyone deserves non but to survive, but to alive."

• Xan Brooks's liveblog of the ceremony

Tonight's winners in total

All-time 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 Peachy 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 Granddad
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger

All-time short motion-picture show (animated)

Feral
Get a Horse!
WINNER: Mr Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom

Best animation

The Croods
Despicable Me two
Ernest and Celestine
WINNER: Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best visual furnishings

WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Atomic number 26 Man 3
The Solitary Ranger
Star Expedition Into Darkness

Best curt

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Only before Losing Everything)
WINNER: Helium
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Exercise 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 half-dozen: Music Saved My Life
Prison house Last: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best documentary

The Deed of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Foursquare
WINNER: 20 Anxiety from Stardom

Best foreign picture

Cleaved Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
WINNER: The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Chase (Denmark)
The Missing Film (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

Best audio mixing

Captain Phillips
WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Pathos of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Best sound editing

All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Pathos of Smaug
Alone Survivor

All-time supporting actress

Sally Hawkins, Bluish Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
WINNER: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage Canton
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

All-time editing

American Hustle
Helm 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

Lonely However Non Solitary, Lonely However Not Lone [disqualified]
Happy, Despicable Me 2
WINNER: Let It Go, Frozen
The Moon Vocal, Her
Ordinary Dearest, 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, Baronial: Osage County

Best thespian

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 pic

WINNER: 12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Helm Phillips
Dallas Buyers Guild
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/03/12-years-a-slave-wins-best-picture-oscar

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