With less than a week to go before the Academy Awards, here's a reminder of this year's Oscar nominees, as announced on 16 January in Los Angeles by actor Chris Hemsworth and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Best Picture 12 Years a Slave American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena The Wolf of Wall Street Best Director Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) Alexander Payne (Nebraska) David O Russell (American Hustle) Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) Best Actor ## Christian Bale (American Hustle) Bruce Dern (Nabraska) 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 Adapted Screenplay 12 Years a Slave Before Midnight Captain Phillips Philomena The Wolf of Wall Street Best Original Screenplay American Hustle Blue Jasmine Dallas Buyers Club Her Nebraska Best Animated Feature The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and 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 20 Feet from Stardom The Act of Killing Cutie and the Boxer Dirty Wars The Square http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/95306.aspx
