Kate Blanchett Best Actress

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