86th OSCAR Awards (Nominees)

Grabbed from OSCAR website

I cannot deny the fact that 2013 has produced a lot of great films and 2 of these great films (while I don't enjoy the other one but still great) are "American Hustle" and "Gravity" lead the OSCAR race both with 10 nominations and followed by "12 Years A Slave" with 9 nods.

Here are the nominees:

Best Picture:

"American Hustle"

"Captain Phillips"

"Dallas Buyers Club"

"Gravity"

"Her"

"Nebraska"

"Philomena"

"12 Years a Slave"

"The Wolf of Wall Street" 

I don't get it, why 9 films? No surprises here.

Best Supporting Actor: 

Barkhad Abdi, "Captain Phillips"

Bradley Cooper, "American Hustle"

Jonah Hill, "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Michael Fassbender, "12 Years a Slave"

Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club" 

Jonah Hill was a surprise.

Best Supporting Actress:

Sally Hawkins, "Blue Jasmine"

Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"

Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"

Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"

June Squibb, "Nebraska" 

No surprises but please not Jennifer Lawrence.

Best Director:

David O. Russell, "American Hustle"

Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"

Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"

Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"

Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street" 

Paul Greengrass was bumped out of the magic 5 by Marty.

Best Actor:

Christian Bale, "American Hustle"

Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"

Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"

Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyer's Club" 

Notice Tom Hanks and Robert Redford absent in the list.  It will be Bruce versus Matthew for the Best Actor.

Best Actress:

Amy Adams, "American Hustle"

Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"

Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"

Judi Dench, "Philomena"

Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County" 

Where is Emma Thompson?  Well, replaced by Meryl Streep.

Of course Angelina Jolie will be honored with a Jean Hersholt award - highest recognition!

Complete list of nominees can be found here.