countries but leaves israel off the map. interesting. it was hollywood s biggest night, we keep talking about it, of the year, the 86th academy awards. who were winners and losers? joining us is dominick patton. when you start off, you look for the big announcements like big actor, best picture. best actor not a surprise, right? not at all. everybody thought matthew mcconaughey was going to get it and it was all right, all right, all right. that s how he ended his speech; correct? matthew has been making that line throughout the awards season and he did it again last night. and i thought what was a very raw and honest and moving speech especially when he talked about his faith. yeah, let s listen. first off, i want to thank god because that s who i look up to. he has graced my life with
welcome back. the 86th academy awards are in the books. and last night s show featured all the glamour we expect to see from the oscars. there are so many great moments, we really don t know where to start so we enlisted the help of an expert. joining us is grae drake, senior editor at rotten tomatoes. thanks so much more coming in. absolutely. so, this show was unusual. lots of films with heavy messages, atds, slavery, political corruption, forced adoption. and the academy honored that level of emotional acting. was this a surprise at all? not a surprise at all. it is absolutely necessary that the academy honor 12 years a slave with its highest honor, right? like the fact that 12 years a slave won best picture was definitely expected. especially by me. and all of the awards for dallas buyers club, same thing. that movie blew everybody s minds. and really put the spotlight on an important issue, being aids and transgendered people, and
back on the red carpet here, at the 86th academy awards. how are you doing? i m well. how are you? i m excited, i enjoy this. i m glad you do. how are you feeling? i m feeling happy and excited. i see all of my castmates and lupita and chiwetel and michael and steve so i m happy to be together with them tonight. what would it mean for the cast to win best movie for this fill tsunami. it would just be a big sort of loop but we found out that 12 years is now a part of high school curriculum and so as much the same as schindler s list it s reaching international audiences so for a story that belongs so much to not just americans but americans, brits, africans and caribbean people,
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shoechlt a little blue sky popping out. mother nature kind of had us all on egg shells. they thought it was going to rain on the red carpet. it didn t. the red carpet went off without a hitch and the show went off without a hitch. all everybody is saying is that the show, oscars, 86. the 86th academy awards was a huge success. john? we ll get back to the glamour in a bit. thanks so much, micayla. russia s official news agency says russia has given ukraine forces until tomorrow morning to surrender or they will storm military bases on the crimean peninsula. ukrainian troops refusing to surrender to what appear to be russian forces, both sides armed and ready. u.s. officials confirmed that russian forces have complete operational control of the crimean peninsula. while this is happening, they are said to be calling for the annexation of crimea. we will get back to that in just