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After weeks of build-up featuring a flurry of red carpet luncheons, speculations and other affairs, the 2014 Academy Awards are eventually here.

The ceremony takes place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood this Sunday (2 March) and will once again be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen hosted the 2007 ceremony so this is her second stint.


The ceremony will air live on DStv, on M-Net Movies Premiere in the early hours of Monday morning. The broadcast starts at 03h00 and runs until 06h00.

The ceremony will be rebroadcast on M-Net on Monday evening (3 March) at 19h30 (earlier than the rebroadcasts of other awards.)

Of course E! Entertainment will be all over the red carpet before the live broadcast. E!s red carpet coverage warms up at 00h30 on Monday morning (3 March) and heats up at 01h00 once the A-listers start arriving. Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest headline the carpet as per usual.

Then, on Tuesday (4 March) the Fashion Police analyse everyone's fashion crimes at 22h30.

While the nominees and other guests preen and primp to get ready, here's a reload of the nominees in case you've missed them or want to scrutinize them again:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave

Performance by an 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

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyang'o - 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Achievement in Cinematography

The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd
Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins

Achievement in Costume Design

American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor
12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris

Achievement in Directing

American Hustle - David O. Russell
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron
Nebraska - Alexander Payne
12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese

Best Documentary Feature

The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sorensen
Cutie and the Boxer - Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars - Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
The Square - Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom - nominees to be determined

Best Documentary Short Subject

CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens

Achievement in Film Editing

American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium
The Great Beauty - Italy
The Hunt - Denmark
The Missing Picture - Cambodia
Omar - Palestine

Achievement in Make-Up and Hairstyling

Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee and Robins Mathews
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

Achievement for Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

The Book Thief - John Williams
Gravity - Steven Price
Her - William Butler and Owen Pallett
Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman

Achievement for Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

Alone Yet Not Alone from Alone Yet Not Alone (Disqualified!)
Music by Bruce Broughton
Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel

Happy from Despicable Me 2
Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams

Let It Go from Frozen
Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

The Moon Song from Her
Music by Karen O
Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze

Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono

Achievement in production design

American Hustle
Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler

Gravity
Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard

The Great Gatsby
Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn

Her
Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena

12 Years a Slave
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

Best animated short film

Feral - Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
Get a Horse! - Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
Mr. Hublot - Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
Possessions - Shuhei Morita
Room on the Broom - Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

Best live action short film

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) - Esteban Crespo
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) - Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
Helium - Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) - Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
The Voorman Problem - Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

Achievement in sound editing

All Is Lost - Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney
Gravity - Glenn Freemantle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Brent Burge
Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

Captain Phillips - Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
Gravity - Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
Inside Llewyn Davis - Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Lone Survivor - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

Achievement in visual effects

Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

Adapted screenplay

Before Midnight - Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips - Screenplay by Billy Ray
Philomena - Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave - Screenplay by John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street - Screenplay by Terence Winter

Original screenplay

American Hustle - Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Written by Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club - Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Her - Written by Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Written by Bob Nelson

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