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Space thriller and historical drama big winners at Oscars.
HARROWING historical drama 12 Years A Slave was crowned best picture Oscar on Sunday, while 3D space thriller Gravity was the top prize winner at the 86th Academy Awards with seven.
True-life AIDS activist drama Dallas Buyers Club won three Oscars including best actor for Matthew McConaughey, while Australia’s Cate Blanchett won best actress for Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
But 1970s crime caper American Hustle and Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street went home empty-handed from the Oscars, the climax of Hollywood’s annual awards season.
12 Years A Slave won three Oscars overall: best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actress for Kenya’s Lupita Nyong’o for her searing turn as a brutalised slave.
“I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today,” its British director Steve McQueen said at the climax of the three-and-half-hour show.
Mexican Alfonso Cuaron won best director for Gravity, which took six other prizes: best visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing, cinematography, film editing and original score.
As widely expected, Jared Leto won the best supporting actor Oscar for his fearless portrayal of a transgender woman suffering