From the worst - to the traditional unsung - to the most expected here are the winners to end them all. The Razzies (10 categories)
Top Honors of Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay is Movie 43
Worst Actor - Jaden Smith,
Worst Supporting Actor Will Smith,
and Worst Screen Combo Jaden Smith & Will Smith - After Earth
Worst Actress - Tyler Perry (in Drag) - A Madea’s Christmas,
Worst Supporting Actress Kim Kardashian - Tyler Perry’s Temptation Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel:- The Lone Ranger
The Spirit Awards known largely as the independent spirt awards, it’s a Vanguard event in its 28th year of existence celebrating the best of independent film making, If you were to look at this years winners an argument can be made to the initial concept. In 1990 keynote speaker Martin Scorsese said in his speech independent film making doesn’t mean making low budget movies without studio backing...”It’s a way for being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity”. For whatever it is worth take it with a grain of salt, Struggling artists, or lesser known established actors, inspiring visionary film makers, there is a platform - a grand stage - to make your mark, the Spirit awards working alongside Film Independent offers great films, artistic films, and art films a chance to shine against the raging big Hollywood machine. The winners of 2014 Spirit Awards were:
Best Feature - 12 Years of a Slave
Best Directed - Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Best First Feature- Fruitvale Station: Ryan Coogler
Best Female Lead - Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Best Male Lead - Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club Supporting Actress - Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
Supporting Actor - Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Best First Screenplay - Nebraska - Bob Nelson
Best Cinematography - 12 Years a Slave - Sean Bobbitt
Best International Film - Blue is the Warmest Color Best Documentary - 20 Feet from Stardom
Best Editing - Short Term 12
John Cassavetes Award - This Is Martin Bonner
Truer Than Fiction Award - Let the Fire Burn
Robert Altman Award - Mud
Usually the winners of the Independent Spirit awards don’t normally line up so closely to the academy awards winners. There is however, some comfort to be taken that the nominees who attended the Spirit Awards like France Ha, Upstream Color, In a World, Don Jon, All is Lost, and Enough Said, was given there moment of recognition on a venue to be celebrated with Hollywood’s Best and the televised world.
86th Academy Awards Winners Best Picture & Adapted Screenplay - 12 Years a Slave Best Supporting Actress - Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
Best Director - Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity Original Score, Editing, Cinematography, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects - Gravity Best Actor - Matthew McConaughey & Best Supporting Actor - Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Best Makeup & Hairstyling - Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Best Original Screenplay - Her (Spike Jonze)
Best Original Song & Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - Frozen
Best Animated Short - Mr Hublot
Best Live Short - Helium
Best Documentary Short - Lady in Number 6
Best Costume Design & Best Production Design - The Great Gatsby
Best Documentary Feature - 20 Feet From Stardom
Best Foreign Language Film - The Great Beauty (Italy)
Nominees and contenders that were completely shut out were Captain Phillips,The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, Philomena , Nebraska, Despicable Me 2, Hobbitt Desolation of Sound, and August: Osage County. The Oscar Pre-Show Review was about 87% correct on the winners, and those we got wrong, we provided reasons on those who did win big.
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