November 29, 2024

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Oscars 2014: Your Fan Voted Favorites Revealed

In just a few hours the winners of the 2014 Oscars will be announced... But who cares what the Academy thinks, when we have your fan voted winners right now? Over the past few days we asked you to vote for your favorites in our reader polls... And now the winners stand revealed.

See how well your picks stand up to the real winners when the Oscars are announced later tonight:

Best Animated Feature Film: "
With nearly 76% of the vote, this one wasn't even close. And we agreed, choosing the Disney blockbuster for both who should win and who will win.

Best Adapted Screenplay: "12 Years A Slave"
Steve McQueen's divisive feature managed to get nearly double the votes of "Wolf of Wall Street." Though we were pulling for "Before Midnight" in this category, we agree that "12 Years" will take home the gold when all is said and done.

Best Original Screenplay: "American Hustle"
Your votes broke down like our predictions: "American Hustle" for the win, but "Her" coming up a mere 10% behind in the fan vote. Will Spike Jonze's scifi romance eke out a surprise win IRL?

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, "
Another close race, this time between David O. Russel for "American Hustle" and Alfonso Cuarón for "Gravity." But Cuarón pulled out the win, and unless there's a major upset he'll do the same at the Oscars.

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Lawrence dominated this category. And though our heart put the win with Lupita Nyong'o for "12 Years ...

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Check Out Reviews For Every Oscar-Nominated Film

We've all been there.

It's Oscar time, and you've only seen a few of the movies. Sure, they're all great, but you want to know which ones are right for you. After all, you can't see every film, can you?

Struggle no more, as MTV News has rounded up helpful reviews from our friends at Film.com for pretty much every film that secured an Oscar nomination this year. From Best Documentary Short to Best Picture, you'll be fully covered for your Oscar binge-watching.

So dive in, and don't come out of your house till you've seen every last one (kidding! Get some air, and make sure to hydrate well).

"American Hustle"
Nominations (10): Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Directing, Costume Design, Film Editing, Production Design, Original Screenplay
"While 'American Hustle' disappoints from a story standpoint and fails its perceived status as a worthwhile Oscar contender, it still satisfies on the strength of its wholly entertaining cast of characters and visually appealing look and feel. It may not leave much of a mark upon first blush, but its bold highlights seem engineered to ensure decades of fans yelling out about "science ovens" and hoping that someone will recognize such brilliance." — Full Review

"Captain Phillips"
Nominations (6): Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay
"'Captain Phillips' is a film so tense that it makes 'Gravity' feel like a foot massage ... many viewers will be moved to tears as the centrifugal force of the narrative finally tapers during the end credits, the accumulated ...

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Oscars 2014 Predictions: Best Picture

For the first time in what's probably been years, there is a serious amount of suspense heading into the Oscars night, and a lot of the drama is focused squarely on the Best Picture race. Two films that would make two very different types of Best Pic... ...

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Razzies Biggest Loser: ‘Movie 43’ Is The Worst Film Of The Year

While this weekend's biggest awards show is obviously the Oscars, there's another award ceremony that is often just as contentious (and usually way more fun): the Razzies, which have "honored," for the past 34 years, the very worst cinema has to offer.

Amazingly, Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups 2" didn't take home the top prize. Instead, that honor went to "Movie 43," a movie that was a collection of astoundingly unfunny sketches featuring some surprisingly huge names (Kate Winslet, what did they blackmail you with?). Other winners were somewhat more predictable.

In addition to Worst Picture, the Razzies handed "Movie 43" the Worst Director (which will have to be divided amongst the 13 people credited with having a hand in that monstrosity) and Worst Screenplay awards (again: 19 credited writers will have to divvy up the award).

The other big Razzie winner turned out to be "After Earth," the dull-as-dishwater space movie starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. Will was named Worst Supporting Actor, while Jaden nabbed the Worst Lead Actor award. The pair, described as hopelessly being "stranded on Planet Nepotism," were also granted the award for Worst Screen Combo. Unsurprisingly, they didn't show up to pick up their awards.

Tyler Perry, whose drag persona, Madea, has become the cinematic equivalent of nails on a chalkboard, won Worst Actress for the 8th time (!), while Kim Kardashian, in another Tyler Perry joint ("Temptation"), was bestowed with the Worst Supporting Actress award. Kanye is not going to be happy.

Since we all know the biggest targets are also the easiest, Disney's $250 million adventure "The ...

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Oscars 2014 Predictions: Best Director

In the Oscars battle for Best Director, there are no bad choices.

David O. Russell clearly ushered an ensemble unlike any other for "American Hustle," given the near sweep of acting nominations from the film.

Alexander Payne once again nails small town America in "Nebraska," bringing great dramatic performances from normally comedic actors.

Steve McQueen managed to present a horrific subject with an unflinching eye in "12 Years a Slave."

And Martin Scorsese was back to his old rabble rousing tricks in "The Wolf of Wall Street."

...But only one man will bring home the gold:

Best Director
Who Will Win: Alfonso Cuarón
"MTV's movie of the year, and with only one exception every major award has followed suit. This is Cuarón's to lose.

Oscars 2014 Prediction: Best Director

Who Should Win: Alfonso Cuarón
Then there's the human element. In a year where we saw Sandra Bullock goof around with Melissa McCarthy in "The Heat," we also saw Bullock alone on screen for nearly the entire running time of "Gravity" and could not believe her human, lived in performance. Cuarón is a director who, in the midst of striking technical achievements never forgets the human element. He's got this locked up.

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Outsmart Your Oscars Party With These 13 Facts

You know how it is. Every year, there are those people at your Oscar party who just can't wait to unleash their knowledge of all things Oscars, reaching into banks of knowledge you didn't even know existed. Every time, you just wish that you could pu... ...

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Juicy J’s Oscar Advice: ‘Just Don’t Be Drunk’

With only 45 seconds, many Academy Award recipients barely have enough time to spit out their thanks before getting the cue to wrap it up. So when MTV News caught up with Oscar winner Juicy J on the set of MTV2's we asked the Three 6 Mafia rapper if he had any advice on accepting such a prestigious honor in such a small increment of time.

"Just don't be drunk, you know, be sober the whole show. And if you win, or if you don't win or whatever, then get drunk after the show," he said. "That's what I did, you know what I'm saying, I was super sober and after the show, after we won, I actually tried to get drunk, but I couldn't because I was super tired, but I was drunk, a little bit."

Juicy J gives Katy Perry a perfect "10" on the stripper pole.

When Three 6 took home the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2006, "Thank you Jesus," was the first words out of Juicy's mouth. With this said, it's no surprise that giving it up to the big guy in the sky was first on his list of "dos."

"I think they should thank God, man, you know what I'm saying; I don't hear a lot of people thanking God, in their acceptance speeches," he explained. "They be just like, yo, thank this person. You should thank everybody, and thank God as well, you know what I'm saying. It it wasn't for him, we wouldn't even be here."

With a host of gold and ...

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2014 Independent Spirit Awards: Everything You Need To Know

While the red-carpet that nominees walked on their way to the beachside tent hosting the Independent Spirit Awards was a deep blue, the weather in Santa Monica for the 29th Annual edition of the awards was all roaring dark surf and slate-grey clouds that, on occasion, opened up with rain.

Still, stars were in attendance — Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Jeremy Renner, Maria Bello, Shailene Woodley and other non-nominees or prior winners. Notable nominees in attendance included "12 Years a Slave" star Lupita Nyong'o (resplendent in gold), Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett and Jared Leto.

Once everyone was safely inside and relatively dry, the show kicked. Here's everything you need to know about the Saturday night's show.

Dallas Winner's Club
Jared Leto, an early winner in the Best Supporting Actor category for his work as Rayon in "Dallas Buyer's Club" noted in his attendance speech that "I'm f--king proud to be part of this group who take risks," thanking "burritos ... Kurt Cobain ... every woman who's been with me, every woman who thinks they've been with me and my future wife, Lupita N'yongo" to laughter before ultimately dedicating his award to AIDS victims and "the whole L, G, B and T community."

Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey was clearly humbled by winning an award for playing AIDS-stricken unlikely activist Ron Woodroof, saing, "[Ron] made enough noise that he moved that file, waiting on the desks of Congress or the FDA — how do we treat AIDS patients going forward? — to the top of the stack ..."

Patton Oswalt: The Host with the Most by ...

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