Comincia la lunga strada della Road to Oscar 2014, e comincia con una brevissima diretta, che sicuramente avrete seguito con noi.
Countdown. «Four minutes to air», dice una voce fuori campo, un tecnico. E parte l’intro della serata by Ellen Degeneres, una Ellen che si presenta in perfetta forma, in un abito scuro da fare invidia. «Three minutes to air». «Two minutes, two minutes». «One minute, one minute to air, thank you». «Thirty seconds, thirty seconds». E poi c’è la sigla ufficiale dell’evento, che sancisce definitivamente l’inizio della corsa agli Oscar 2014.
Il Presidente dell’Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, da il benvenuto e il buongiorno alla platea, ringraziando chi si unisce alla serata dedicata agli eroi del film-making. Chris Hemsworth, interprete di un ‘vero supereroe’ nella serie di Thor e The Avengers, la affianca nell’annuncio delle principali categorie.
Ottima la nomination in Original Song per Frozen, mentre Ordinary Love in Mandela: Long way to freedom raccoglie qualche tiepido applauso da una poco partecipe platea. Entusiasmo che si solleva un po’ in Adapted Screenplay per The Wolf of Wall Street, mentre Original Screenplay si scuote solamente per Dallas Buyers Club. Animated Feature vede Desplicable Me 2 contrapposto a Frozen, ma l’accoglienza è… Piuttosto gelata. Hayao Miyazaki con The Wind Rises raggiunge la nomination che era prevista e supposta già da un pezzo, perché fondamentalmente si sapeva che avrebbe puntato a quella. Leonardo Dicaprio conquista un’altra nomination come Best Actor in a leading role, per The Wolf of Wall Street, e presto sapremo se riuscirà a coronare questo suo sogno.
La piccola platea segue in silenzio, raramente si lascia andare a qualche applauso a sentire i nomi dei finalisti alla corsa verso il Dolby Theatre, ma qualche gradimento in più si ottiene quando viene candidato, in diverse categorie, il film Philomena.
Ma ora vediamo la lista completa dei candidati agli Oscar 2014, e che il countdown per il 2 Marzo abbia inizio!
Best picture
American Hustle
Nebraska
Captain Philips
Philomena
Dallas Buyers Club
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
The Wolf of Wall street
Her
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 Hutle
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage Country
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 Country
June Squibb – Nebraska
Animated Feature Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises
Cinematography
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
Costume Design
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave
Directing
American Hustle – David O. Russell
Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón
Nebraska – Alexander Payne
12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese
Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars – Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
The Square – Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom – Nominees to be determined
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 and Nicholas Reed
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall – Edgar Barens
Film Editing
American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club – John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and 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 and Robin Mathews
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger – Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
Music, Original Score
The Book Thief – John Williams
Gravity – Steven Price
Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett
Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman
Music, Original Song
“Alone Yet Not Alone” – ALONE YET NOT ALONE
“Happy” – DESPICABLE ME 2
“Let it Go” – FROZEN
“The Moon Song” – HER
“Ordinary Love” – MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Production Design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave
Short Film, Animated
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom
Short Film, Live Action
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Helium
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem
Sound Editing
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
Visual Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Writing, Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska