Oscars Winners Club & Red Carpet Stars 2014

Best film "12 Years a Slave", 7 Oscars for Gravity, and Jared Leto joining the Oscars Winners Club for his touching role as a trans woman in "Dallas Buyers Club".

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Oscar winners Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto shaking hands

Hi, as anticipated, Steve McQueen's slave drama 12 Years a Slave got Best Picture of 2013 and was able to turn 3 of 9 nominations into Oscars, but was trumped by sci-fi thriller Gravity, which performed a perfect take-off with 7 Oscars including the important Directing Oscar for Alfonso Cuarón.

The HIV drama Dallas Buyers Club earned three deserved Oscars: Matthew McConaughey was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for playing a racist and homophobic Texan, who later finds out that he is HIV positive. Jared Leto's wonderful performance as a trans woman earned him the Best Actor in a supporting role Oscar, and lastly makeup and hairstyling was also worth a statue. It is also nice to see that a movie with a relatively low budget (5.5 millions) can also make it to the top in Hollywood.

Big looser of the 86th Academy Awards was Golden Globe favorite American Hustle, which was not able to turn any of its 10 Oscar nominations into gold.

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Best actor in a leading role, Matthew McConaughey aka Ron in Dallas Buyers Club, and Camila Alves

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Best actor in a supporting role, Jared Leto aka Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club

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Best actress in a leading role, Cate Blanchett aka Jasmine in Blue Jasmine

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Best actress in a supporting role, Lupita Nyong’o aka Patsey in 12 Years a Slave

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Anne Hathaway in a black studded halter dress by Gucci

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Anne Hathaway's dress from behind

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a sparkling long-sleeved dress by Elie Saab

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Jessica Biel wearing a strapless sequined dress by Chanel Couture

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Anna Kendrick wearing a black dress by J. Mendel

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Charlize Theron in Dior

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Emma Watson wearing a shimmering dress by Vera Wang

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Penelope Cruz wearing a caped silk dress by Giambattista Valli Haute Couture

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Christoph Waltz was this year a presenter at the Academy Awards gala and was seemingly more relaxed than last year ;)

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Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio. Again no Oscar for DiCaprio although he was nominated for his role in The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Pharrell Williams wearing a shorts (Bermuda) tuxedo by Lanvin and Helen Lasichanh

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Internet celebrity George Takei and Brad Altman :)

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Japanese film maker Shuhei Morita

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Lady Gaga in a lilac sequined gown by Versace

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Portia De Rossi wearing a white halter dress by Naeem Kahn

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Jada Pinkett Smith in Versace

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Kate Hudson in a caped dress by Versace

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Oscars Winners Club: Lupita Nyong’o, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, and Matthew McConaughey

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Wizard of Oz tribute Over the Rainbow performed by P!nk

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Have you already seen any of the new Oscar movies or which of them would you like to watch? Who was your favorite appearance on the Red Carpet?

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