'12 Years a Slave' wins Oscar best picture
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The slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" won the Academy Award for the best picture in Hollywood on Sunday.
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A poster of "12 Years a Slave" [Photo/Mtime.com] |
The movie is the first from a black director to win the film industry's highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars.
Directed by British Steve McQueen, it also won two other Oscars, including the best supporting actress for Lupita Nyong'o and the best adapted screenplay based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man sold into slavery in Louisiana.
"Everyone deserves not just to survive but to live, this is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup," said McQueen in his acceptance speech, agencies reported.
The space thriller "Gravity" directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron took seven awards, including the best director, a first for a Latin American director.
"Gravity," starring Sandra Bullock as a stranded astronaut, swept the technical awards like visual effects and cinematography, a reward for its groundbreaking work on conveying space and weightlessness.
Matthew McConaughey won the best actor for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club" and his co-star, Jared Leto, won the best supporting actor.
Australia's Cate Blanchett won the best actress for her acclaimed role as the socialite unhinged by her husband's financial crimes in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine."
The tale of Nordic princesses, "Frozen," won the best animated film, a first for Disney Animation Studios since the category was introduced in 2002.
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