Oscars winners 2014: the full list

The emotional drama 12 Years A Slave won best picture at the 86th Academy Awards . Kenyan star, Lupita Nyong'o made the whole of Africa proud with her Oscar win also starring Nigerian-American, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

12 Years a slave

At an Oscars where awards went in all directions - including outer space, with eight wins for the philosophical sci-fi movie Gravity - British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave took top honours.


His film, based on a 19th-century memoir about Solomon Northup who was hijacked into slavery, capped the Oscars' recognition for movies dealing with the issue of slavery and follows nominations for The Help, Lincoln and Django Unchained in the past three years.


"I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery," said McQueen, the British director best known previously for Hunger and Shame. "And the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today."


The film, produced by Brad Pitt and starring best actor nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor who played Solomon Northup, also won best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyong'o, a Kenyan actress who played a brutally treated slave, Patsey, in her film debut. The film also won best adapted screenplay for John Ridley.


Best director went to Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron, who spent more than four years years making the technically ambitious Gravity, in which Sandra Bullock and George Clooney played stranded astronauts.


The sci-fi action movie-cum-philosophic meditation won with eight Oscars. It won best director and swept the technical categories with wins for best cinematography, visual effects, editing, sound mixing and sound editing.


Matthew McConaughey won best actor for playing an AIDS patient who imports HIV drugs in Dallas Buyers Club – a movie, as he said on the red carpet, that was turned down 137 times over 20 years before it was finally made.


It was a transformative performance in two ways: not only did he lose 18 kilograms to get a gaunt look for the movie, it completed his shift from romantic comedy hunk to serious dramatic actor.


Co-star Jared Leto, who won best supporting actor for playing a transgender AIDS patient in Dallas Buyers Club, paid an emotional tribute to his mother, who was a teenager when she had two sons.

Take a look at who walked away with the gold below:

Best picture

"12 Years a Slave" -- WINNER

"American Hustle"

"Captain Phillips"

"Dallas Buyers Club"

"Gravity"

"Her"

"Nebraska"

"Philomena"

"The Wolf of Wall Street"

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" -- WINNER

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" -- WINNER

Actress in a leading role

Amy Adams - "American Hustle"

Cate Blanchett - "Blue Jasmine" -- WINNER

Sandra Bullock - "Gravity"

Judi Dench - "Philomena"

Meryl Streep - "August: Osage County"

Actress in a supporting role

Sally Hawkins - "Blue Jasmine"

Jennifer Lawrence - "American Hustle"

Lupita Nyong'o - "12 Years a Slave" -- WINNER

Julia Roberts - "August: Osage County"

June Squibb - "Nebraska"

Directing

Alfonso Cuaron - "Gravity" -- WINNER

Steve McQueen - "12 Years a Slave"

Alexander Payne - "Nebraska"

David O. Russell - "American Hustle"

Martin Scorsese - "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Writing (adapted screenplay)"

"12 Years A Slave" - John Ridley -- WINNER

"Before Midnight" - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke

"Captain Phillips" - Billy Ray

"Philomena" - Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

"The Wolf of Wall Street" - Terence Winter

Writing (original screenplay)

"American Hustle" - Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell

"Blue Jasmine" - Woody Allen

"Dallas Buyers Club" - Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack

"Her" - Spike Jonze -- WINNER

"Nebraska" - Bob Nelson

Animated feature film

"The Croods"

"Despicable Me 2"

"Ernest & Celestine"

"Frozen" -- WINNER

"The Wind Rises"

Documentary (feature)

"The Act of Killing"

"Cutie and the Boxer"

"Dirty Wars"

"The Square"

"20 Feet From Stardom" -- WINNER

Music (original song)

"Happy" - "Despicable Me 2" - Pharrell Williams

"Let it Go" - "Frozen" - Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez -- WINNER

"Ordinary Love" - "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" - U2, lyrics by Paul Hewson, aka Bono

"The Moon Song" - "Her" - music by Karen O, lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze

Music (original score)

"The Book Thief" - John Williams

"Gravity" Steven Price -- WINNER

"Her" - William Butler and Owen Pallett

"Philomena" - Alexandre Desplat

"Saving Mr. Banks" - Thomas Newman

Visual effects

"Gravity" -- WINNER

"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

"Iron Man 3"

"The Lone Ranger"

"Star Trek Into Darkness"

Cinematography

"The Grandmaster"

"Gravity" -- WINNER

"Inside Llewyn Davis"

"Nebraska"

"Prisoners"

Costume design

"12 Years a Slave"

"American Hustle"

"The Grandmaster"

"The Great Gatsby" -- WINNER

"The Invisible Woman"

Makeup and hairstyling

"Dallas Buyers Club" -- WINNER

"Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa"

"The Lone Ranger"

Film editing

"12 Years a Slave"

"American Hustle"

"Captain Phillips"

"Dallas Buyers Club"

"Gravity" -- WINNER

Documentary (short subject)

"CaveDigger"

"Facing Fear"

"Karama Has No Walls"

"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life" -- WINNER

"Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall"

Foreign language film

"The Broken Circle Breakdown" - Belgium

"The Great Beauty" - Italy -- WINNER

"The Hunt" - Denmark

"The Missing Picture" - Cambodia

"Omar" - Palestine

Short film (live action)

"Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)"

"Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)"

"Helium" -- WINNER

"Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)"

"The Voorman Problem"

Short film (animated)

"Feral"

"Get a Horse!"

"Mr. Hublot" -- WINNER

"Possessions"

"Room on the Broom"

Production design

"12 Years a Slave"

"American Hustle"

"Gravity"

"The Great Gatsby" -- WINNER

"Her"

Sound editing

"All Is Lost"

"Captain Phillips"

"Gravity" -- WINNER

"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

"Lone Survivor"

Sound mixing

"Captain Phillips"

"Gravity" -- WINNER

"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

"Inside Llewyn Davis"

"Lone Survivor"

source: nigerianeye