12 Years A Slave Makes History At Oscar 2014 …As Lupita Nyongo Wins Best Supporting Actress Award

The slavery drama, “12
Years A Slave,” has won the Academy Award for best picture, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honour in 86 years of the Oscars.
British Director, Steve McQueen’s unflinching portrayal of pre-civil war American slavery also won two other Oscars, including best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyongo and best adapted  screen play based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man sold into slavery in Louisiana.
“12 years a slave” prevailed over space thriller Gravity”, from Mexican film maker, Alfonso Cuaron, which never the less racked up the  most Oscars of the Night  with seven including the best director honour  for Cuaron, a first for a latin America Director.
Low budget “Dallas Buyers Club,” a biopic of an early Aids activities two decades in the making won three Oscars, including the two male acting awards. Matthew  McConanghey won best actor for his portrayal of the homophobe  turned AIDs victim turned treatment crusader, Ron Woodroof his co-star,  Lared Leto won best supporting  actor for his role as Woodroof’s unlikely business sidekick the transgender woman Rayon.
Mathew David Mc Conanghey in the 2000s, became best known for starring in romantic comedies, including the Wedding planner (2001), “How to lose a Guy in 10 days” (2003), “Failure to Launch” (2006) and “Ghost of Girl Friends Past” (2009).
Since 2010, he has moved away from romantic  comedies and has had critically acclaimed roles  in the films, the Lincoln Lawyer (2011) Bernie (2011), Killer  Joe (2011), Mud (2012), Mud (2012), Magic Mike  (2012) and the Wolf of Wall Street (2013) for portraying a cowboy diagnosed with Aids in the biographical film” Dallas Buyers Club,” which earned  him the Golden  Glob award for Best Actor-Drama, among other awards and nominations. He currently stars in the 2014 HBO crime anthology series, True Detectives alongside  Woody Harrelson.