Ya vivimos la noche del Oscar 2014. Como era de esperarse, una host del nivel de Ellen DeGeneres, iba a traer un performance a la gala cargado de todo tipo de sorpresas.
Ellen, contrario a Seth MacFarlane el año pasado, se encargó de mantener entretenida a la audiencia. Algo que se tomó muy en serio fue que no pasaran hambre, por eso a mitad del show ordenó pizza y Brad Pitt la ayudó a repartir los platos.
Es increíble, Ellen puede hacer lo que sea, mueve un dedo y es graciosa. Su discurso de introducción de la noche fue para matarse de la risa, acá lo pueden ver:
Como comentaba Ellen en el discurso, fue host del Oscar hace siete años, en el momento en que Myspace era un boom. Aquí fue cuando hizo una de las suyas que quedó para la historia, la selfie con Clint Eastwood:
Y por supuesto, como es Ellen, la selfie se volvió a repetir, pero a gran escala:
Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Angelina Jolie y Bradley Cooper posaron para la foto:
Ellen se robó el show completamente. Por parte de las premiaciones, algunas fueron predecibles, otras bastante merecidas y una que a nuestro parecer resultó un desastre.
En el resumen que hacemos este año de la gala del Oscar, presentamos: los mejores discursos de aceptación de la noche, los mejores performances musicales, la razón de por qué, 12 years a Slave no merecía ganar el galardón a Mejor Película, Mejor Guión Adaptado y Mejor Actriz Secundaria, y la lista completa de ganadores.
Los Mejores Discursos de la Noche:
Jared Leto- Mejor Actor Secundario
“Incredible. Ellen, I love you. To my fellow nominees, I’m so proud to share this journey with you. I’m in awe and have so much respect for you all. To the Academy, thank you. In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she’s here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream. To my brother, Shannon, the best big brother in the world, you’re a true artist. Thank you so much for sharing this insane and amazing adventure that is 30 Seconds to Mars, and for being my best friend. I love you. Thank you.
To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say we are here and as you struggle to… to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible… We’re thinking of you tonight. And this is, is incredibly special as well because there’s so many people that helped me get here. And I just want to say thank you to Focus Features, to Mick Sullivan, to Jim Toth, to Jason Weinberg, to Emma Ludbrook, to Kelly Adams, to the entire Dallas Buyers Club team. Matthew, I love. Jean-Marc. And this for the 36 million people who have lost the battle to AIDS and to those of you out there who have ever felt injustice because of who you are or who you love, tonight I stand here in front of the world with you and for you. Thank you so much and goodnight.”
Cate Blanchett- Mejor Actriz Principal
“Sit down. You’re too old to be standing. Thank you, Mr. Day-Lewis, from you it exacerbates this honor to and it blows it right out of the ballpark. Thank you so much to the Academy. As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary, yet again, extraordinary performances by women. Amy Adams, everything you do, but your performance in American Hustle blew my mind. And Meryl, what can I say? Sandra, I could watch that performance to the end of time, and I sort of felt like I had. Julia, #suckit. You know what I mean? And Judi Dench, I mean what a career. She’s not here tonight because at the age of 79, her film was so successful that she’s in India doing a sequel. I mean what a career that is, if I could hope.
And me, I’m here excepting an award in an extraordinary screenplay by Woody Allen. Thank you so much, Woody, for casting me. I truly appreciate it. I’m so very proud that Blue Jasmine stayed in the cinemas for as long as it did. And thank you to Sony Classics, to Michael and Tom for their extraordinary support. For so bravely and intelligently distributing the film and to the audiences who went to see it and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
Thank you to my mum, to my sister, to my brother, to my three glorious sons. I would not be standing here without you. To my husband, Andrew, you are a legend. Thank you to my agent, Hylda Queally, you’re behind the pillar somewhere up there. You are a goddess. To my agent in Australia, Robyn Gardiner, I love you so very much. To my publicist Lisa Kasteler. To the sublime Sally Hawkins. And to the extraordinary cast of Blue Jasmine. I don’t know how to do this with other actors and this I share with you. To the hair and makeup people who sweated me up and tried to make me look attractive. Thank you for the attempt. To Carla Meyer for getting Sally and I together and for incredible support. To Helen Robin. To everyone involved in Blue Jasmine, I thank you so much.
And finally, I would like to thank every single member of the Sydney Theatre Company, one of the great theater companies in the world. For me, working on Blue Jasmine, it was a real synthesis of my work in the theater and on film. And not only working with you for the last six years has been the most enormous privilege of my career but it’s made me a better actress. There is so much talent in Australia and Michael Wilkinson and C.M. and I are just tonight’s tip of the iceberg. Thank you so much. Thank you.”
Matthew McCoaughey- Mejor Actor Principal
“Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to the Academy for this—all 6,000 members. Thank you to the other nominees. All these performances were impeccable in my opinion. I didn’t see a false note anywhere. I want to thank Jean-Marc Vallée, our director. Want to thank Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, who I worked with daily.
There’s a few things, about three things to my account that I need each day. One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase. Now, first off, I want to thank God. ‘Cause that’s who I look up to. He has graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand. He has shown me that it’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late Charlie Laughton, who said, “When you’ve got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you.”
To my family, that who and what I look forward to. To my father who, I know he’s up there right now with a big pot of gumbo. He’s got a lemon meringue pie over there. He’s probably in his underwear. And he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite and he’s dancing right now. To you, Dad, you taught me what it means to be a man. To my mother who’s here tonight, who taught me and my two older brothers… demanded that we respect ourselves. And what we in turn learned was that we were then better able to respect others. Thank you for that, Mama. To my wife, Camila, and my kids Levi, Vida and Mr. Stone, the courage and significance you give me every day I go out the door is unparalleled. You are the four people in my life that I want to make the most proud of me. Thank you.
And to my hero. That’s who I chase. Now when I was 15 years old, I had a very important person in my life come to me and say “who’s your hero?” And I said, “I don’t know, I gotta think about that. Give me a couple of weeks.” I come back two weeks later, this person comes up and says “who’s your hero?” I said, “I thought about it. You know who it is? It’s me in 10 years.” So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, “So, are you a hero?” And I was like, “not even close. No, no, no.” She said, “Why?” I said, “Because my hero’s me at 35.” So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero’s always 10 years away. I’m never gonna be my hero. I’m not gonna attain that. I know I’m not, and that’s just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.
So, to any of us, whatever those things are, whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we’re chasing, to that I say, Amen. To that I say, Alright, alright, alright. To that I say just keep living. Thank you.”
Los Mejores Performances Musicales de la Noche:
Idina Menzel- “Let it Go” (Frozen)
Pink- “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz)
Karen O- “The Moon Song” (Her)
La Peor “Mejor Película del Año”
Razones sobran para explicar por qué 12 years a Slave es la peor película del año y no merecía ninguno de los galardones que le otorgaron. Acá pueden ver mi explicación: https://soloencinestv.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/12-years-a-slave-la-peor-pelicula-del-ano/
La Lista Completa de Ganadores
BEST PICTURE
12 Years a Slave – WINNER
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
Nebraska
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
BEST DIRECTOR
David O Russell – American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity – WINNER
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST 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
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine – WINNER
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August Osage County
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club – WINNER
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave – WINNER
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Julia Roberts – August Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Despicable Me 2
Frozen – WINNER
The Croods
Ernest & Celestine
The Wind Rises
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave – WINNER
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Warren Singer and David O Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack – Dallas Buyers Club
Spike Jonze – Her – WINNER
Bob Nelson – Nebraska
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Great Beauty (Italy) – WINNER
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Let It Go – Frozen – WINNER
Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Alone Yet Not Alone – Alone Yet Not Alone
Happy – Despicable Me 2
The Moon Song – Her
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief
Gravity – WINNER
Her
Philomena
Saving Mr Banks
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom – WINNER
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
SaveDigger
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
BEST FILM EDITING
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity – WINNER
12 Years a Slave
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club – WINNER
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr Hublot – WINNER
Possessions
Room on the Broom
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
Avant Que De Tour Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Helium – WINNER
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby – WINNER
Her
12 Years a Slave
BEST SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity – WINNER
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
BEST SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips
Gravity – WINNER
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity – WINNER
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby – WINNER
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster
Gravity – WINNER
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
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