The show is over
Los Angeles — 05:22 GMT - That's a wrap - And so, the Oscars is over for another year.
"12 Years A Slave" had the last word, but the epic drama shared the night's spoils with "Gravity".
The top-grossing space disaster won a leading seven Oscars, including best director for Alfonso Cuaron, while Steve McQueen's "12 Years A Slave" won three - best supporting actress for Lupita Nyong'o, best adapted screenplay and the night's top honor - best picture.
"Dallas Buyers Club" also triumphed, winning three Oscars, including best actor and best supporting actor for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.
"American Hustle", which was nominated in ten categories, however, emerged the loser with no Oscars.
Also empty handed were "The Wolf of Wall Street", which had five nominations, "Nebraska" and "Captain Phillips", which both had six nominations, and "Philomena", which had four.
"The Great Gatsby", which wasn't shortlisted for best film, won two Oscars while "Frozen" scored the best animated feature award and best original song. "Her", meanwhile, won best original screenplay.
As expected, Cate Blanchett added a best actress Oscar to her haul of trophies for her riveting performance in "Blue Jasmine".
Host Ellen DeGeneres spared us the song and dance numbers and a pre-recorded skit featuring humorous references to nominated films.
She made the audience laugh but never wince as she poked fun at stars, ordered in pizza, broke Twitter with her A-lister overloaded selfie and handed lottery scratch cards to Bradley Cooper as a consolation prize.
She wasn't around too much and when she was, moved things along as briskly as possible for the lumbering three-and-a-half hour awards show.
And those watching at home seemed to like what they saw; in a snap poll by CBS, 88 percent of voters said they thought the well-loved talkshow host so good she should return next year. Will she be back? We'll have to wait and see what the ratings say.
See you until next year Folks!! Keep watching good movies.... J
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