With this year’s Oscar ceremony just a couple of weeks away, it’s worth going back and remembering the awards show from a decade prior.
The 86th Academy Awards ceremony was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and featured that infamous Oscar selfie that briefly broke the internet and John Travolta completely whiffed on pronouncing Idina Menzel’s name.
Steve McQueen’s historical drama 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture, while Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club and Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar in the Best Actress category for Blue Jasmine.
Now that we’re 10 years removed, we’ve decided to go back and reconfigure the nominees and winners for this set of Oscars. This is a purely subjective exercise, although we skewed toward the critical consensus and the way the canon has developed over the years in determining our reworkings.
We analyze the eight major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
A hint: we fix the Leonardo DiCaprio Oscars thing.