Oscars 2014: Live coverage of 86th Academy Awards, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture

CATE Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey and the movie 12 Years A Slave were the big winners at the 86th annual Academy Awards. See how all the action went down.

GOLDEN girl Cate Blanchett took home the award for the Best Actress at the Oscars.

The Aussie actress delivered an emotion-filled acceptance speech where she urged producers to make more films with women as the lead. She also thanked controversial director Woody Allen “for casting me” and gave a shout-out to her beloved Sydney Theatre Company.

CATE’S WILD OSCARS NIGHT

Cate Blanchett accepts the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role award for 'Blue Jasmine'.

But it’s lucky that Blanchett was even around to accept her award, telling E! that she almost missed her big moment because she was having a drink with another Hollywood heavyweight.

“I was with Julia Roberts at the bar for rather too long and I just got back to my seat in time,” Blanchett said.

Cate Blanchett poses with her Oscar at the Governor's Ball following the 86th Academy Awards.

Other big winners on the night were Matthew McConaughey for his role in Dallas Buyer’s Club while the Brad Pitt-produced film 12 Years A Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Host Ellen DeGeneres dished out the jokes, transforming the night into one of the most enjoyable awards ceremonies in recent memory.

See the full list of winners and a rundown of all the action as it happened below.

FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

Best Picture — 12 Years A Slave

Best Actor — Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyer’s Club

Best Actress — Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Director — Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

Best Original Screenplay — Spike Jonze, Her

Best Adapted Screenplay — John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

Best Original Song — Let It Go, Frozen

Best Original Score — Steven Price, Gravity

Best Production Design — The Great Gatsby

Best Film Editing — Gravity

Best Cinematography — Gravity

Best Supporting Actress — Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Best Sound Editing — Gravity

Best Sound Mixing — Gravity

Best Foreign Language Film — The Great Beauty

Best Documentary: 20 Feet From Stardom

Best Short Documentary: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Best Live Action Short Film: Helium

Best Visual effects — Gravity

Best Animated Feature Film — Frozen

Best Animated Short Film — Mr. Hublot

Best Makeup and Hairstyling — Dallas Buyer’s Club

Best Costume Design — Catherine Martin for The Great Gatsby

Best Supporting Actor — Jared Leto for Dallas Buyer’s Club

AS IT HAPPENED:

• Brad Pitt and Steve McQueen, along with the cast of 12 Years A Slave accept the award for Best Picture.

12 Years a Slave producer Brad Pitt accepts the Best Picture award.

• Cate Blanchett accepts her Best Actress award and jokingly says: “To Julia, hashtag suck it!” At least Julia Roberts seemed to know what she was talking about.

In a press conference afterwards, Cate spoke about the bizarre comment, saying: “It happened in the bar with Ms. Roberts. And that’s all I’m prepared to say.” We’re so intrigued.

Golden girl Cate Blanchett gave a shout-out to the Sydney Theatre Company in her speech.

• Matthew McConaughey‘s emotional acceptance speech included a shout-out to his deceased father, saying: “To my father, who I know is up there right now ... to you, Dad, you taught me what it means to be a man.”

Matthew McConaughy wins Best Actor for his role in Dallas Buyer’s Club.

• Ashton Kutcher, who we assume was watching the awards show from home, took to Twitter to poke a little fun at the Best Actor winner.

Mathew McConaughey has officially put his shirt back on!

— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) March 3, 2014

• John Travolta introduced Frozen star Idina Menzel but totally mispronounced her name. So awkward.

• Bette Midler took everyone on a trip down memory lane, singing Wind Beneath My Wings. It was the 68-year-old’s first Oscars performance ever and she received a standing ovation.

Still got it! Bette Midler looked fantastic on stage at the Oscars.

• Pink delivered a flawless tribute to Judy Garland, performing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Wow.

• Ellen gets the laughs when she appears on stage dressed as Glinda the Good Witch of the North from The Wizard of Oz.

Ellen the Good Witch of the North.

• Ellen assembled a crew of A-listers for possibly the best selfie of all time. She then broke Twitter after the epic photo hit social media.

Ellen’s incredible Oscars selfie. Who can you spot?

Kevin Spacey, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen DeGeneres and Jared Leto gather for an Oscars selfie.

• Ellen ordered pizza and started dishing it out to the crowd. Brad Pitt assists by handing out paper plates

Ellen ordered pizza for all, and then hit up the front row to pay for them.

Brad Pitt shares pizza with Meryl Streep in the audience.

• Lupita Nyong’o’s heartfelt acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress brought a tear to everyone’s eye

Jennifer Lawrence and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o embrace at the Oscars.

• Pharrell Williams performed his hit single, Happy, wearing his signature hat

• Jared Leto’s Best Supporting Actor speech was a winner: “You have an opportunity standing on the stage. You can make it about yourself or you can hold up a mirror and shine a light.”

• Ellen couldn’t resist taking a stab at clumsy Jennifer Lawrence, who stacked it on the red carpet

• Veteran actor Kim Novak shocked with her incredibly ‘youthful’ appearance

• Aussie costume designer and wife of Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin pulled her acceptance speech out of her bra, saying “it’s a very Australian thing to do.”

The woman responsible for the dazzling designs in The Great Gatsby. — Catherine Martin.

• Rock band U2 performed Ordinary Love from the film Mandella: Long Walk To Freedom

• Aussie actor Margot Robbie debuted a darker, sultry look on the ruby rug

Margot Robbie stuns on the red carpet with a fierce new look.

• Rebel Wilson was a no-show, opting to stay at home and watch the awards in her trackies

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Jared Leto accepts the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Dallas Buyer’s Club.

Singer Pharrell Williams performs onstage during the Oscars.

Ellen DeGeneres opens the 86th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emma Watson on stage during the Oscars.

Three days of heavy downpour have soaked parts of the red carpet along Hollywood boulevard.

Who will take home the gold statues? We’re dying to find out.

Emma Watson looking glam at the 2014 Oscars.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie shine on the Oscars red carpet.

Kristen Bell arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles.

Portia de Rossi arrives on the red carpet for the 86th Academy Awards.

Naomi Watts arrives at the Oscars.

Amy Adams hits the Oscars red carpet.

Photographers are in place as they wait for the big stars to arrive.

FULL LIST OF OSCAR 2014 NOMINEES:

BEST PICTURE:

12 Years a Slave

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

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

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:

Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Jennifer Lawrence — American Hustle

Lupita Nyong’o — 12 Years a Slave

Sally Hawkins — Blue Jasmine

Julia Roberts — August Osage County

June Squibb — Nebraska

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:

Despicable Me 2

Frozen

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

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

Bob Nelson — Nebraska

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

The Great Beauty (Italy)

The Hunt (Denmark)

The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)

The Missing Picture (Cambodia)

Omar (Palestine)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

Let It Go — Frozen

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

Her

Philomena

Saving Mr Banks

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet from Stardom

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT:

SaveDigger

Facing Fear

Karama Has No Walls

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

BEST FILM EDITING:

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

12 Years a Slave

BEST MAKE-UP & HAIRSTYLING:

Dallas Buyers Club

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger

BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED):

Feral

Get a Horse!

Mr Hublot

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

Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)

The Voorman Problem

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

American Hustle

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Her

12 Years a Slave

BEST SOUND EDITING:

All Is Lost

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lone Survivor

BEST SOUND MIXING:

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Inside Llewyn Davis

Lone Survivor

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Gravity

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

The Invisible Woman

12 Years a Slave

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Grandmaster

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Prisoners