News Entertainment Hollywood Oscars 2014: Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, 12 Years A Slave win top honours (see pics)

Oscars 2014: Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, 12 Years A Slave win top honours (see pics)

Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama "12 Years a Slave" best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.Steve McQueen's slavery odyssey, based on Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, has been hailed as a landmark corrective

oscars 2014 cate blanchett matthew mcconaughey 12 years a slave win top honours see pics oscars 2014 cate blanchett matthew mcconaughey 12 years a slave win top honours see pics
Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama "12 Years a Slave" best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.

Steve McQueen's slavery odyssey, based on Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, has been hailed as a landmark corrective to the movie industry's long omission of slavery stories and years of whiter tales like 1940 best-picture winner "Gone With the Wind."

McQueen dedicated the honor to those who suffered slavery and "the 21 million who still endure slavery today."