86th Academy Awards: A preview

Ellen DeGeneres enthralled the audience at the city’s Dolby Theatre by keeping it simple yet lively. The theatre was filled with the sounds of applause when Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor award for Dallas Buyers Club and Cate Blanchett was laurelled with Best Actress honour for Blue Jasmine. Matthew was excited to take the honour and confessed the three things, the Oscar achiever require each day, “I need someone to look up to, something to look forward to and someone to chase.” McConaughey eyes himself for heroic inspiration and comments, “Every day, every week, every month, every year of my life — my hero is always 10 years away. And that’s just fine with me. It gives me someone to keep chasing.”

Cate surfaced as a surprise; no doubt, she is a good actress but Blanchett stated her joy mentioning, "As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of, yet again, great performances by women." The actress has previously won Best Supporting Actress award in 2005 and has been nominated five times for Oscars. The Best Supporting Actor of 2014 Jared Leto got sentimental taking the award and paid tribute to his mom, “In 1971, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high-school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. That girl is my mother.”
Jennifer Lawrence, in spite of not getting any Oscar, remained in limelight throughout. Jennifer fell down and to have a grip, she held the neck of a woman ahead of her. Cops had to come and make her stand on her feet. Bradley Cooper’s girlfriend and model-actress Suki Waterhouse addressed the evening saying, "I had such a great time. I loved it. It was a lot of fun." The night’s other highlights (Best dressed men) were Brad Pitt, Jared Leto, Will Smith, Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Seacrest and many more.