Oscar nominees: Your cheat sheet

Yes, forget the dresses on the red carpet — there are some actual awards being given out tonight

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Hollywood: Here are the nominees in the main categories at the 86th Academy Awards, to be handed out Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Best picture:

“American Hustle,”

“Captain Phillips,”

“Dallas Buyers Club,”

“Gravity,”

“Her,”

“Nebraska,”

“Philomena,”

“12 Years A Slave,”

“The Wolf of Wall Street.”

 

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:

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:

Amy Adams (“American Hustle”),

Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine”),

Sandra Bullock (“Gravity”),

Judi Dench (“Philomena”),

Meryl Streep (“August: Osage County”).

 

Best supporting actor:

Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Phillips”),

Bradley Cooper (“American Hustle”),

Michael Fassbender (“12 Years A Slave”),

Jonah Hill (“The Wolf of Wall Street”),

Jared Leto (“Dallas Buyers Club”).

 

Best supporting actress:

Sally Hawkins (“Blue Jasmine”),

Jennifer Lawrence (“American Hustle”),

Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”),

Julia Roberts (“August: Osage County”),

June Squibb (“Nebraska”).

 

Best animated feature:

“The Croods,”

“Despicable Me 2,”

“Ernest & Celestine,”

“Frozen,”

“The Wind Rises.”

 

Best foreign language film:

“The Broken Circle Breakdown” (Belgium),

“The Great Beauty” (Italy),

“The Hunt” (Denmark),

“The Missing Picture” (Cambodia),

“Omar” (Palestine).

 

Best documentary feature:

“The Act of Killing,”

“Cutie and the Boxer,”

“Dirty Wars,”

“The Square,”

“20 Feet from Stardom.”

 

Best original screenplay:

Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (“American Hustle”),

Woody Allen (“Blue Jasmine”),

Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack (“Dallas Buyers Club”),

Spike Jonze (“Her”),

Bob Nelson (“Nebraska”).

 

Best adapted screenplay:

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and 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 cinematography:

“The Grandmaster,”

“Gravity,”

“Inside Llewyn Davis,”

“Nebraska,”

“Prisoners.”

 

Best original score:

“The Book Thief” (John Williams),

“Gravity” (Steven Price),

“Her” (William Butler and Owen Pallett),

“Philomena” (Alexandre Desplat),

“Saving Mr. Banks” (Thomas Newman).

 

Best original song:

“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2” by Pharrell Williams,

“Let It Go” from “Frozen” by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez,

“The Moon Song” from “Her” by Karen O and Spike Jonze,

“Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” by U2.

 

Best visual effects:

“Gravity,”

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,”

“Iron Man 3,”

“The Lone Ranger,”

“Star Trek Into Darkness.”

 

Number of nominations for films with two or more nods:

“American Hustle” - 10

“Gravity” - 10

“12 Years a Slave” - 9

“Captain Phillips” - 6

“Dallas Buyers Club” - 6

“Nebraska” - 6

“Her” - 5

“The Wolf of Wall Street” - 5

“Philomena” - 4

“Blue Jasmine” - 3

“The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug” - 3

“August: Osage County” - 2

“Despicable Me 2” - 2

“Frozen” - 2

“The Grandmaster” - 2

“The Great Gatsby” - 2

“Inside Llewyn Davis” - 2

“The Lone Ranger” - 2

“Lone Survivor” - 2

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