Academy Award nominations - 2014


Actor in a Leading Role


Christian Bale in “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern in “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave”
Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Actor in a Supporting Role

Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender in “12 Years a Slave”
Jonah Hill in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Actress in a Leading Role

Amy Adams in “American Hustle”
Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”
Judi Dench in “Philomena”
Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County”

Actress in a Supporting Role

Sally Hawkins in “Blue Jasmine”
Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years a Slave”
Julia Roberts in “August: Osage County”
June Squibb in “Nebraska”

Animated Feature Film

“The Croods” Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
“Despicable Me 2” Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
“Ernest & Celestine” Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
“Frozen” Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
“The Wind Rises” Hayao Miyazaki and 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

“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” 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 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)

“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
“Let It Go” from “Frozen”
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“The Moon Song” from “Her”
Music by Karen O; Lyric 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; Lyric by Paul Hewson

Best Picture

“American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
“Captain Phillips” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
“Dallas Buyers Club” Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
“Her” Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
“Nebraska” Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
“Philomena” Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
“12 Years a Slave” Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
“The Wolf of Wall Street” Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers

Production Design

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

Short Film (Animated)


“Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
“Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
“Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
“Possessions” Shuhei Morita
“Room on the Broom” Max Lang and 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 and Alexandre Gavras
“Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
“Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
“The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

Sound Editing

“All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
“Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney
“Gravity” Glenn Freemantle
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge and Chris Ward
“Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman

Sound Mixing

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

Visual Effects

“Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
“Iron Man 3” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
“The Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
“Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and 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 and 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 and David O. Russell
“Blue Jasmine” Written by Woody Allen
“Dallas Buyers Club” Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
“Her” Written by Spike Jonze
“Nebraska” Written by Bob Nelson

Dead Man Walking (1995)


"A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families."

Another of my all time favourite films. A well deserved Oscar win for Susan Sarandon and if we're being totally honest, Sean Penn deserved to win too and I'm really surprised that he didn't. 

Yet more graveyard pictures!

Currently assembling images of cemeteries for a uni project and narrowing the results down as I go...

(Hover over to browse the photos)

I also hope that I have yielded some successful images with my new film camera which I am currently having some images developed from. Gotta wait until next week to pick them up but hopefully they will be worth the wait! 

Canon EOS 300 35mm Film Camera


Probably my best eBay find ever. Canon EOS 300 35mm film camera, 6 filters, zoom lens, remote switch, batteries & a roll of black and white film for less than it usually costs to buy the camera body on its own.

So pleased with it! Upon closer inspection, the eBay seller had in fact left a brand new roll of film inside the camera itself which I have already used up and sent off to be developed. Exciting!

Screen Actors Guild Awards - 2014


Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- 12 Years a Slave
- American Hustle
- August: Osage County
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Bruce Dern / Woody Grant – “Nebraska”
- Chiwetel Ejiofor / Solomon Northup – “12 Years a Slave”
- Tom Hanks / Capt. Richard Phillips – “Captain Phillips”
- Matthew McConaughey / Ron Woodroof – “Dallas Buyers Club”
- Forest Whitaker / Cecil Gaines – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Cate Blanchett / Jasmine – “Blue Jasmine”
- Sandra Bullock / Ryan Stone – “Gravity”
- Judi Dench / Philomena Lee – “Philomena”
- Meryl Streep / Violet Weston – “August: Osage County”
- Emma Thompson / P.L. Travers – “Saving Mr. Banks”


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Barkhad Abdi / Muse – “Captain Phillips”
- Daniel Brühl / Niki Lauda – “Rush”
- Michael Fassbender / Edwin Epps – “12 Years a Slave”
- James Gandolfini / Albert – “Enough Said”
- Jared Leto / Rayon – “Dallas Buyers Club”


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Jennifer Lawrence / Rosalyn Rosenfeld – “American Hustle”
- Lupita Nyong’o / Patsey – “12 Years a Slave”
- Julia Roberts / Barbara Weston – “August: Osage County”
- June Squibb / Kate Grant – “Nebraska”
- Oprah Winfrey / Gloria Gaines – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
- Matt Damon / Scott Thorson – “Behind the Candelabra”
- Michael Douglas / Liberace – “Behind the Candelabra”
- Jeremy Irons / King Henry IV – “The Hollow Crown”
- Rob Lowe / John F. Kennedy – “Killing Kennedy”
- Al Pacino / Phil Spector – “Phil Spector”


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
- Angela Bassett / Coretta Scott King – “Betty & Coretta”
- Helena Bonham Carter / Elizabeth Taylor – “Burton and Taylor”
- Holly Hunter / G.J. – “Top of the Lake”
- Helen Mirren / Linda Kenney Baden – “Phil Spector”
- Elisabeth Moss / Robin Griffin – “Top of the Lake”


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Steve Buscemi / Enoch “Nucky” Thompson – “Boardwalk Empire”
- Bryan Cranston / Walter White – “Breaking Bad”
- Jeff Daniels / Will McAvoy – “The Newsroom”
- Peter Dinklage / Tyrion Lannister – “Game of Thrones”
- Kevin Spacey / Francis Underwood – “House of Cards”


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
- Claire Danes / Carrie Mathison – “Homeland”
- Anna Gunn / Skyler White – “Breaking Bad”
- Jessica Lange / Fiona Goode – “American Horror Story: Coven”
- Maggie Smith / Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham – “Downton Abbey”
- Kerry Washington / Olivia Pope – “Scandal”


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- Boardwalk Empire
- Breaking Bad
- Downton Abbey
- Game of Thrones
- Homeland


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- Alec Baldwin / Jack Donaghy – “30 Rock”
- Jason Bateman / Michael Bluth – “Arrested Development”
- Ty Burrell / Phil Dunphy – “Modern Family”
- Don Cheadle / Martin “Marty” Kaan – “House of Lies”
- Jim Parsons / Sheldon Cooper – “The Big Bang Theory”


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
- Mayim Bialik / Amy Farrah Fowler – “The Big Bang Theory”
- Julie Bowen / Claire Dunphy – “Modern Family”
- Edie Falco / Jackie Peyton – “Nurse Jackie”
- Tina Fey / Liz Lemon – “30 Rock”
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Vice President Selina Meyer – “Veep”


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
- 30 Rock
- Arrested Development
- The Big Bang Theory
- Modern Family
- Veep

(All images courtesy of The Guardian)
As with the Golden Globes, an all round great set of winners and nominees. I'm really happy to see the Modern Family love is still going strong, particularly the win for Ty Burrell. 

As per usual, the SAG Awards are an (almost) mirror of the Golden Globes with a few minor changes (and the obvious difference in actual categories). The Globes are also usually a fairly good indication of how the Oscars are going to pan out. Usually. It's not totally unheard of for someone to say, win best actress at the Globes and then not win best actress at The Oscars (like Michelle Pfeiffer winning at the Globes for The Fabulous Baker Boys and then not winning the Oscar also, I MEAN SERIOUSLY). 

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