Lifestyle Network: The Phl’s newest home for the Oscars

MANILA, Philippines - What is considered to be the movie industry’s most prestigious award has found a new home for its annual ceremony’s broadcast on Philippine television, as the 86th Academy Awards — popularly known as the Oscars — now reaches out to eager viewers via the Lifestyle Network, airing live as it happens.

From its historical introduction in 1929, the Academy Awards has since become known as the organization behind the world of film’s most prestigious honor, coming in the form of the Oscar statuette. This statuette has now reached the status of an internationally admired symbol that stands as proof and recognition of the very highest level of achievement in movies, bearing significance of a caliber entirely its own.

This 2014, the Academy Awards is set to mount its 86th ceremony at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chosen to take its audience and viewers alike through the star-studded event will be one of television’s favorite personalities, Ellen DeGeneres, who also previously hosted the event in 2007.

For this year’s Oscars awards, the nominees were recently announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science president Cheryle Boone Isaacs, who was joined by Heart of the Sea star Chris Hemsworth upon the declaration of the upcoming potential winners.

Some of the nominees:

Best Picture

• American Hustle

• Captain Phillips

• Dallas Buyers Club

• Gravity

• Her

• Nebraska

• Philomena

• 12 Years a Slave

• The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

• Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

• Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

• Alexander Payne, Nebraska

• David Russell, American Hustle

• Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

• Christian Bale, American Hustle

• Bruce Dern, Nebraska

• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street

• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress

• Amy Adams, American Hustle

• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

• Sandra Bullock, Gravity

• Judi Dench, Philomena

• Meryl Streep, August: Osage County