Oscar awards: And the Nominees Are...?

The con-artist comedy ‘American Hustle’ and the 3-D space odyssey ‘Gravity’ grabbed the prime attention by becoming the lead nominees with 10 nominations each in different categories at the 86th Academy Awards, announced Thursday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif.

In addition to that, the historical epic ’12 Years a Slave’ concluded with nine nominations to grab the second spot in terms of nominations.

Moreover, this year's Oscar awards will be telecasted on March 2, with Ellen DeGeneres hosting for the second time and once again the expectations are high for world’s most prestigious award ceremony.

Here is the complete list of nominees for the 86th Academy Awards category wise:

Best picture:

• American Hustle
• Captain Phillips
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Gravity
• Her
• Nebraska
• Philomena
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• 12 Years a Slave

Best actor

• Christian Bale, American Hustle
• Bruce Dern, Nebraska 
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

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 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 animated feature film:

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

Best foreign film:

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

Best original screenplay:

• American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell
• Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen 
• Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
• Her, Spike Jonze
• Nebraska, Bob Nelson

Best adapted screenplay:

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

Best original score:

• The Book Thief
• Gravity
• Her
• Philomena
• Saving Mr. Banks

Best original song:

• Alone Yet Not Alone, from Alone Yet Not Alone
• Happy, from Despicable Me 2
• Let It Go, from Frozen
• The Moon Song, from Her
• Ordinary Love, from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 

 Best cinematography:

• The Grandmaster
• Gravity
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nebraska
• Prisoners

Best costume design:

• American Hustle
• The Grandmaster
• The Great Gatsby
• The Invisible Woman
•  12 Years a Slave

Best documentary feature:

• The Act of Killing
• Cutie and the Boxer
• Dirty Wars
• The Square
• 20 Feet from Stardom

Best documentary short subject:

• CaveDigger
• Facing Fear
• Karama Has No Walls
• The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
• Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best film editing:

• American Hustle
• Captain Phillips
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Gravity
• 12 Years a Slave

Best makeup and hairstyling:

• Dallas Buyers Club
• Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
• The Lone Ranger

Best production design:

• American Hustle
• Gravity
• The Great Gatsby
• Her
• 12 Years a Slave

Best animated short film:

• Feral
• Get a Horse!
• Mr. Hublot
• Possessions
• Room on the Broom

Best live-action short film:

• Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
• Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
• Helium
• Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
• The Voorman Problem

Best sound editing:

• All Is Lost
• Captain Phillips
• Gravity
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Lone Survivor

Best sound mixing:

• Captain Phillips
• Gravity
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Lone Survivor

Best visual effects:

• Gravity
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Iron Man 3
• The Lone Ranger
• Star Trek Into Darkness