2014 Academy Award Nominations Announced

The 2014 Academy Awards nominations are out and there is still plenty of time to catch some of the year’s best films before the awards ceremony on March 2.

For the second year in a row, David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) is living large with American Hustle with nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Original or Adapted) Screenplay and nominations in each of the four acting categories. In total, it scored 10 nominations, tying with Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity.

Several surprises and disappointments arrived with the announcement, including no nominations for Oscar bait hopeful Lee Daniel’s The Butler and only one nomination (Best Original Score) for Saving Mr. Banks. The Coen Brothers were skunked with no nominations for Inside Llewyn Davis nor it’s magnetically tragic star Oscar Isaac, but these quibbles are merely part of the tradition for the most prestigious of Hollywood awards shows, now in its 86th year. And maybe Leonardo DiCaprio will finally score his first win as disgraced Wall Street playboy Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Below find a list of all the nominees in the major categories and be sure to check back soon for SF Station’s own annual Oscar winner predictions ahead of the March 2 event:

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

Best Director:
David O. Russell – American Hustle
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
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

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 Buyers Club

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

Best Supporting Actor:
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

Best Original Screenplay:
Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack – Dallas Buyers Club
Spike Jonze – Her
Bob Nelson – Nebraska

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

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar(Palestine)