Invitations to the Academy

Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites people to join the Academy. It's usually to fill vacancies that open when members pass on or retire. Under Dawn Hudson, CEO since 2011, the Academy has been trying to increase diversity. (https://www.yahoo.com/movies/lupita-nyongo-julia-louis-dreyfus-michael-fassbender-89987731367.html)

Members of the Academy represent 17 general areas - actors, directors, animators and short film makers, designers, casting directors, costume designers, cinematographers, composers and songwriters, documentary filmmakers, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, producers, public relations specialists, sound artists and engineers, visual effects experts and writers. Each has different requirements and must be nominated by other members.

Here's the list of the 271 people invited to join! They come from all over - it's a big list!

ACTORS
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Clancy Brown (The Hurricane; The Shawshank Redemption)
Paul Dano (12 Years a Slave; Prisoners)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave; Shame)
Ben Foster (Lone Survivor; Ain't Them Bodies Saints)
Beth Grant (The Artist; No Country for Old Men)
Clark Gregg (Much Ado About Nothing; Marvel's The Avengers)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine; Happy-Go-Lucky)
Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games; The Kids Are All Right)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said; Planes)
Kelly Macdonald (Brave; No Country for Old Men)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt; Casino Royale)
Joel McKinnon Miller (Super 8; The Truman Show)
Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises; Inception)
Lupita Nyong'o (Non-Stop; 12 Years a Slave)
Rob Riggle (21 Jump Street; The Hangover)
Chris Rock (Grown Ups 2; Madagascar)
June Squibb (Nebraska; About Schmidt)
Jason Statham (Parker; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
David Strathairn (Lincoln; Good Night, and Good Luck)

CASTING DIRECTORS
Douglas Aibel (The Grand Budapest Hotel; The Immigrant)
Simone Bär (The Monuments Men; The Book Thief)
Kerry Barden (August: Osage County; Dallas Buyers Club)
Nikki Barrett (The Railway Man; The Great Gatsby)
Mark Bennett (Drinking Buddies; Zero Dark Thirty)
Risa Bramon Garcia (Speed; Wall Street)
Michelle Guish (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Nanny McPhee)
Billy Hopkins (Lee Daniels' The Butler; Disconnect)
Ros Hubbard (Romeo & Juliet; The Mummy)
Allison Jones (The Way, Way Back; The Heat)
Christine King (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
Beatrice Kruger (To Rome With Love; The American)
Marci Liroff (Mean Girls; Pretty in Pink)
Debbie McWilliams (Skyfall; Quantum of Solace)
Joseph Middleton (The Twilight Saga: New Moon; Legally Blonde)
Robi Reed (For Colored Girls; Do the Right Thing)
Kevin Reher (Monsters University; Finding Nemo)
Paul Schnee (August: Osage County; Dallas Buyers Club)
Gail Stevens (Zero Dark Thirty; Slumdog Millionaire)
Lucinda Syson (Gravity; Fast & Furious 6)
Fiona Weir (J. Edgar; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2)
Ronnie Yeskel (The Sessions; Atlas Shrugged Part 1)

CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave; The Place Beyond the Pines)
Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster; Seven Pounds)
James Neihouse (Hubble 3D; NASCAR: The IMAX Experience)
Masanobu Takayanagi (Out of the Furnace; Silver Linings Playbook)
Bradford Young (Ain't Them Bodies Saints; Pariah)

COSTUME DESIGNERS
William Chang Suk Ping (The Grandmaster; In the Mood for Love)
Pascaline Chavanne (Renoir; Augustine)
Daniela Ciancio (The Great Beauty; Il Divo)
Frank L. Fleming (Draft Day; Monster's Ball)
Maurizio Millenotti (Hamlet; Othello)
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (Great Expectations; Good Will Hunting)
Karyn Wagner (Lovelace; The Green Mile)

DESIGNERS
William Arnold (Lovelace; Crazy, Stupid, Love.)
K.K. Barrett (Her; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Susan Benjamin (Saving Mr Banks; The Blind Side)
Bill Boes (The Smurfs 2; Fantastic Four)
Tony Fanning (Contraband; War of the Worlds)
Robert Greenfield (Priest; Almost Famous)
Marcia Hinds (I Spy; The Public Eye)
Sonja Brisbane Klaus (Prometheus; Robin Hood)
David S. Lazan (Flight; American Beauty)
Diane Lederman (Lee Daniels' The Butler; Tower Heist)
Heather Loeffler (American Hustle; Silver Linings Playbook)
Christa Munro (Jack Reacher; Erin Brockovich)
Andy Nicholson (Gravity; The Host)
Adam Stockhausen (12 Years a Slave; Moonrise Kingdom)

DIRECTORS
Hany Abu-Assad (Omar; Paradise Now)
Jay Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home; Cyrus)
Mark Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home; Cyrus)
David Gordon Green (Joe; Pineapple Express)
Gavin O'Connor (Warrior; Miracle)
Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees; Love and Basketball)
Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty; This Must Be the Place)
Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club; Young Victoria)
Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown; The Misfortunates)
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners; Incendies)
Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt; The Celebration)

DOCUMENTARY
Malcolm Clarke (The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life; Prisoner of Paradise)
Dan Cogan (How to Survive a Plague; The Queen of Versailles)
Kief Davidson (Open Heart; Kassim the Dream)
Dan Geller (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Ballets Russes)
Dayna Goldfine (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Ballets Russes)
Julie Goldman (God Loves Uganda; Gideon's Army)
Sam Green (Utopia in Four Movements; The Weather Underground)
Gary Hustwit (Urbanized; Helvetica)
Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In; Why We Fight)
Brian Johnson (Anita; Buena Vista Social Club)
Ross Kauffman (E-Team; Born Into Brothels)
Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom; Troubadours)
Matthew J. O'Neill (Redemption; China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province)
Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture; S-21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine)
Lucy Massie Phenix (Regret to Inform; Word Is Out)
Enat Sidi (Detropia; Jesus Camp)
Molly Thompson (The Unknown Known; Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer)
Cynthia Wade (Mondays at Racine; Freeheld)

EXECUTIVES
Adrian Alperovich
Sean Bailey
Len Blavatnik
Nicholas Carpou
Nancy Carson
Charles S. Cohen
Jason Constantine
Peter Cramer
William Kyle Davies
Christopher Floyd
David Garrett
David Hollis
Tomas Jegeus
Michelle Raimo Kouyate
Anthony James Marcoly
Hiroyasu Matsuoka
Kim Roth
John Sloss

FILM EDITORS
Alan Baumgarten (American Hustle; Gangster Squad)
Alan Edward Bell (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; The Amazing Spider-Man)
Dorian Harris (The Magic of Belle Isle; The Mod Squad)
Sabrina Plisco (The Smurfs 2; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Tatiana S. Riegel (Million Dollar Arm; The Way, Way Back)
Julie Rogers (Wreck-It Ralph; Kit Kittredge: An American Girl)
Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Joan Sobel (Admission; A Single Man)
Crispin Struthers (American Hustle; Silver Linings Playbook)
Tracey Wadmore-Smith (About Last Night; Death at a Funeral)
Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave; Shame)
John Wilson (The Book Thief; Billy Elliot)

MAKEUP ARTISTS AND HAIRSTYLISTS
Vivian Baker (Oz the Great and Powerful; Conviction)
Adruitha Lee (Dallas Buyers Club; 12 Years a Slave)
Robin Mathews (Dallas Buyers Club; The Runaways)
Anne Morgan (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone; A Little Bit of Heaven)
Gloria Pasqua-Casny (The Lone Ranger; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Peter Becker
Jeff Dashnaw
Kenneth L. Halsband
Jody Levin
Tom MacDougall
Chuck Picerni, Jr.
Spiro Razatos
Mic Rodgers
Kevin J. Yeaman

MUSIC
Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen; Winnie-the-Pooh)
Stanley Clarke (The Best Man Holiday; Boyz N the Hood)
Earl Ghaffari (Frozen; Wreck-It Ralph)
Steve Jablonsky (Lone Survivor; Ender's Game)
Robert Lopez (Frozen; Winnie the Pooh)
Steven Price (Gravity; The World's End)
Tony Renis (Hidden Moon; Quest for Camelot)
Angie Rubin (Pitch Perfect; Sex and the City)
Buck Sanders (Warm Bodies; The Hurt Locker)
Charles Strouse (All Dogs Go to Heaven; Annie)
Eddie Vedder (Eat Pray Love; Into the Wild)
Pharrell Williams (Despicable Me 2; Fast & Furious)

PRODUCERS
Jason Blumenthal (Hope Springs; Seven Pounds)
Dana Brunetti (Captain Phillips; The Social Network)
Megan Ellison (American Hustle; Her)
Sean Furst (Daybreakers; The Cooler)
Nicola Giuliano (The Great Beauty; This Must Be the Place)
Preston Holmes (Waist Deep; Tupac: Resurrection)
Lynette M. Howell (The Place Beyond the Pines; Blue Valentine)
Anthony Katagas (12 Years a Slave; Killing Them Softly)
Alix Madigan (Girl Most Likely; Winter's Bone)
Paul Mezey (The Girl; Maria Full of Grace)
Stephen Nemeth (The Sessions; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Tracey Seaward (Philomena; The Queen)
John H. Williams (Space Chimps; Shrek 2)

PUBLIC RELATIONS
Larry Angrisani
Nancy Bannister
Christine Batista
Karen Hermelin
Marisa McGrath Liston
David Magdael
Steven Raphael
Bettina R. Sherick
Dani Weinstein

SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION
Didier Brunner (Ernest & Celestine; The Triplets of Belleville)
Scott Clark (Monsters University; Up)
Pierre Coffin (Despicable Me 2; Despicable Me)
Esteban Crespo (Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me); Lala)
Peter Del Vecho (Frozen; The Princess and the Frog)
Kirk DeMicco (The Croods; Space Chimps)
Doug Frankel (Brave; WALL-E)
Mark Gill (The Voorman Problem; Full Time)
David A.S. James (Mr Peabody & Sherman; Megamind)
Fabrice Joubert (Dr Seuss' The Lorax; French Roast)
Jean-Claude Kalache (Up; Cars)
Jason Katz (Toy Story 3; Finding Nemo)
Jennifer Lee (Frozen; Wreck-It Ralph)
Baldwin Li (The Voorman Problem; Full Time)
Nathan Loofbourrow (Puss in Boots; How to Train Your Dragon)
Lauren MacMullan (Get a Horse!; Wreck-It Ralph)
Tom McGrath (Megamind; Madagascar)
Dorothy McKim (Get a Horse!; Meet the Robinsons)
Hayao Miyazaki (The Wind Rises; Spirited Away)
Ricky Nierva (Monsters University; Up)
Chris Renaud (Despicable Me 2; Despicable Me)
Benjamin Renner (Ernest & Celestine; A Mouse's Tale (La Queue de la Souris))
Michael Rose (Chico & Rita; The Gruffalo)
Toshio Suzuki (The Wind Rises; Howl's Moving Castle)
Selma Vilhunen (Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitta? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?); The Crossroads)
Anders Walter (Helium; 9 Meter)
Laurent Witz (Mr Hublot; Renart the Fox)

SOUND
Niv Adiri (Gravity; The Book Thief)
Christopher Benstead (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; Gravity)
Steve Boedekker (All Is Lost; Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Beau Borders (Million Dollar Arm; Lone Survivor)
David Brownlow (Lone Survivor; The Book of Eli)
Chris Burdon (Captain Phillips; Philomena)
Brent Burge (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Andre Fenley (How to Train Your Dragon 2; All Is Lost)
Glenn Freemantle (Gravity; Slumdog Millionaire)
Greg Hedgepath (Frozen; The Incredible Hulk)
Craig Henighan (Noah; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Tony Johnson (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Avatar)
Laurent M. Kossayan (Red Riding Hood; Public Enemies)
Thomas L. Lalley (Mr Peabody & Sherman; Star Trek Into Darkness)
Ai-Ling Lee (Godzilla; 300: Rise of an Empire)
Stephen Morris (Monsters University; Fruitvale Station)
Jeremy Peirson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; Looper)
Mike Prestwood Smith (Divergent; Captain Phillips)
Alan Rankin (Iron Man 3; Star Trek)
Oliver Tarney (Captain Phillips; Philomena)
Chris Ward (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Gary Brozenich (The Lone Ranger; Wrath of the Titans)
Everett Burrell (Grudge Match; Pan's Labyrinth)
Marc Chu (Noah; Marvel's The Avengers)
David Fletcher (Sabotage; Prisoners)
Swen Gillberg (Ender's Game; Jack the Giant Slayer)
Paul Graff (The Wolf of Wall Street; Identity Thief)
Alex Henning (Star Trek Into Darkness; Hugo)
Evan Jacobs (Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Olympus Has Fallen)
Chris Lawrence (Edge of Tomorrow; Gravity)
Eric Leven (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2; The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1)
Steven Messing (Godzilla; Oz the Great and Powerful)
Ben Matthew Morris (Lincoln; The Golden Compass)
Jake Morrison (Thor: The Dark World; Marvel's The Avengers)
Eric Reynolds (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
David Shirk (Gravity; Elysium)
Patrick Tubach (Star Trek Into Darkness; Marvel's The Avengers)
Bruno Van Zeebroeck (Lone Survivor; Public Enemies)
Tim Webber (Gravity; The Dark Knight)
Harold Weed (G.I. Joe: Retaliation; Star Trek)

WRITERS
Chantal Akerman (A Couch in New York; Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours; Irma Vep)
Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club)
Scott Z. Burns (Side Effects; Contagion)
Jean-Claude Carriere (The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Steve Coogan (Philomena; The Parole Officer)
Claire Denis (White Material; Beau Travail)
Larry Gross (We Don't Live Here Anymore; 48 Hrs.)
Mathieu Kassovitz (Babylon A.D.; Hate (La Haine))
Diane Kurys (For a Woman; Entre Nous)
Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now; (500) Days of Summer)
Jeff Pope (Philomena; Pierrepoint - The Last Hangman)
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave; Undercover Brother)
Paul Rudnick (In & Out; Jeffrey)
Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle; The International)
Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club; Mirror Mirror)
Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now; (500) Days of Summer)
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street; Get Rich Or Die Tryin')

ASSOCIATES
Matt Del Piano
Joe Funicello
Robert Hohman
Paul Christopher Hook
David Kramer
Joel Lubin
David Pringle
Melanie Ramsayer
Beth Swofford
Meredith Wechter

The Oscars 2014 - Complete List

The biggest night is here!! I'll be liveblogging - this post will be updated with every winner and my thoughts! Winners are bolded! I'll be putting comments below the nominees, so be sure to scroll down. Here we go!

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon (Producers)
Captain Phillips - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca (Producers)
Dallas Buyers Club - Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter (Producers)
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman (Producers)
Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay (Producers)
Nebraska - Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa (Producers)
Philomena - Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward (Producers)
12 Years a Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas (Producers)
The Wolf of Wall Street - Nominees to be determined (as of January 16, 2014)

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 - August: Osage County

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

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Croods - Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson
Despicable Me 2 - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri
Ernest & Celestine - Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner
Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd
Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor
12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris

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

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Cutie and the Boxer - Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars - Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill
The Square - Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom -  Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens

FILM EDITING
American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium
The Great Beauty - Italy
The Hunt - Denmark
The Missing Picture - Cambodia
Omar - Palestine

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief - John Williams
Gravity - Steven Price
Her - William Butler, Owen Pallett
Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr Banks - Thomas Newman

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SONG
"Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone - Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel
"Happy" from Despicable Me 2 - Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams
"Let It Go" from Frozen - Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"The Moon Song" from Her - Music by Karen O; Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze
"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyrics by Paul Hewson

PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle - Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration)
Gravity - Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration)
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)
Her - K.K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)
12 Years a Slave - Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration)

SHORT FILM: ANIMATED
Feral - Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden
Get a Horse! - Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim
Mr Hublot - Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares
Possessions - Shuhei Morita
Room on the Broom - Max Lang, Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM: LIVE ACTION
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) - Esteban Crespo
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) - Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras
Helium - Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) - Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari  
The Voorman Problem - Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost - Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns
Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney
Gravity - Glenn Freemantle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Brent Burge
Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman

SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips - Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro
Gravity - Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson
Inside Llewyn Davis - Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland
Lone Survivor - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow

VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick
The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier
Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton

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

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

HONOURARY AWARDS
Angela Lansbury
Steve Martin
Piero Tosi

HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Angelina Jolie

8:31pm - Of course Ellen's not wearing a gown! People are crazy. And seven years ago was the last time she hosted? Wow. And love the "so different!" Everyone is nominated who was last time; perfection.

8:32pm - Only Ellen could pull off that Barkhad Abdi joke without being too offensive. AND the Liza Minnelli joke!

8:33pm - I always forget the Oscars get themes. Heroes in Hollywood is a good one, though.

8:34pm - Definitely laughing more this year than last! I'll always take Ellen over Seth MacFarlane.

8:35pm - Love the 'total of six years of college' - especially with people like Lupita Nyong'o in the room!

8:37pm - It is the Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence won last year. PERFECT. And gotta love that Ellen is pushing to bring her the Oscar - no more tripping! She only trips once, generally, so we should be good.

8:40pm - Oh Ellen! Killing it with the subtle penis jokes for Jonah Hill!

8:41pm - I obviously have a problem remembering the order of awards. I always forget Best Supporting Actor is given first!

8:43pm - YES! Jared Leto definitely, more than anyone, deserved this award. He broke my heart and lifted it at the same time. His performance in Dallas Buyers Club blew me away. This award was maybe predictable after he swept the awards all season long, but it doesn't mean that getting this highest honour doesn't mean anything.

8:47pm - Ahh Jim Carrey, not feeling shafted at all! Haha. I find Jim Carrey less and less funny as time goes on,though.

8:51pm - Oh, Ellen. Never gives up a moment to plug Finding Nemo. Who's excited for the second one? (Because Ellen's more excited than you are, I promise.)

8:47pm - Love Pharrell engaging with everyone in the front row! Meryl would, but Amy Adams was amazing. She was so into it! Love her so much.

8:59pm - I love Catherine Martin's design work, and I also love her. She's awesome. And Gatsby costumes were phenomenal! Love her work with Luhrmann. Also, things you learn: she's married to Baz Luhrmann. I used to know who everyone was married to!

9:20pm - I'm not sure I can handle the adorbs of JGL! Bowing to Emma Watson, looking like an excited little boy to open the envelope - the man is so amazing.

9:30pm - I was SO hoping Kate and Goldie would be presenting together. Oh well. I bet Jason Sudeikis is crossing fingers for HELIUM to win - he was nervous about pronunciation! OH IT WAS HELIUM!

9:42pm - Love the honourary Oscars! Steve Martin is so gracious. And Angela Lansbury - 'are you the living definition of range.' Well put, Geoffrey Rush. Well. Put. AND she would call an Oscar a golden chap.

9:43pm - Piero Tosi, yes!

9:44pm - Jean Herschel Award for Angelina Jolie is in no way surprising, but much as I don't like her as an actress, she does great work.

9:55pm - Fingers crossed for Benedict Cumberbatch to run around behind U2 onstage and do another epic photobomb.

10:04pm - I still think the Science & Tech awards should get WAY more recognition. These are the people who make things POSSIBLE!

10:35pm - No one can tell me P!nk can't sing. Not ever. Not a conventional belting voice, but she's still lovely to listen to.

10:36pm - Things I learn: I'm really bad at liveblogging and really good at livetweeting.

11:36pm - Really, Angelina Jolie? Maybe you don't cut off Sidney Poitier. Who cares what the teleprompter says or if he's slow? Shush!

There were really no upsets this year! That often makes for a fun but volatile time. I figured most of the people who won would win. But I also didn't have a problem with anyone who won, really. It mostly made me see that I need to see all of the films! When I'm not planning an event going up two days after the Oscars, I will see all of the nominated films. Thanks for coming along on the awards season ride for another year!