<P> 12 Years a Slave won three awards including Best Picture . Gravity won the most awards with seven including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón . Other winners included Dallas Buyers Club also with three awards, Frozen, and The Great Gatsby with two, and Blue Jasmine, The Great Beauty, Helium, Her, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Mr Hublot, and 20 Feet from Stardom with one . The telecast garnered nearly 44 million viewers in the United States, making it the most watched Oscar ceremony since the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 . </P> <P> The nominees for the 86th Academy Awards were announced on January 16, 2014, at 5: 38 a.m. PST (13: 38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, and actor Chris Hemsworth . American Hustle and Gravity tied for the most nominations with ten each . </P> <P> The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 2, 2014 . American Hustle became David O. Russell's second consecutive film to earn nominations in all acting categories and the fifteenth film overall in Oscar history to achieve this distinction . It also was the third film after Gangs of New York and True Grit to lose all ten of its nominations . Steve McQueen became the first black director to direct a Best Picture winner and the third such person to receive a nomination for directing . Alfonso Cuaron became the first person of Mexican descent to win Best Director . With Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto's respective wins in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, Dallas Buyers Club was the fifth film to win both male acting awards . Additionally, 3 other films (American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, and The Wolf of Wall Street) also received nominations for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor . Cate Blanchett became the sixth actress to have won both female acting awards in her career . Lupita Nyong'o was the sixteenth Oscar acting winner to win for a debut film performance and the ninth Best Supporting Actress recipient to achieve this feat . Best Original Song co-winner Robert Lopez became the youngest individual to win an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award and the twelfth person overall to earn these accolades . </P> <P> Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). </P>

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