LIFESTYLE NETWORK: The Philippines’ newest HOME for the OSCARS

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 86^th 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 86^th 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.

The nominees for the 86^th Academy Awards are as follows:

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 O. 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

·      BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

·      David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer, American Hustle

·      Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

·      Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club

·      Spike Jonze, Her

·      Bob Nelson, Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

·      Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight

·      Billy Ray, Captain Philips

·      Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena

·      John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

·      Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

·      The Croods

·      Despicable Me 2

·      Ernest & Celestine

·      Frozen

·      The Wind Rises

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

·      "Alone Not Alone," Alone Yet Not Alone

·      "Happy," Despicable Me 2

·      "Let It Go," Frozen

·      "The Moon Song," Her

·      "Ordinary Love," Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

·      BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

·      Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster

·      Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity

·      Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis

·      Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska

·      Roger A. Deakins, Prisoners

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

·      Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle

·      William Chang Suk Ping, The Grandmaster

·      Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby

·      Michael O'Connor, The Invisible Woman

·      Patricia Norris, 12 Years a Slave

BEST DOCUMENTARY – SHORT SUBJECT

·      CaveDigger

·      Facing Fear

·      Karama Has No Walls

·      The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

·      Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

BEST FILM EDITING

·      Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten, American Hustle

·      Christopher Rouse, Captain Phillips

·      John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa, Dallas Buyers Club

·      Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity

·      Joe Walker, 12 Years a Slave

·      BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

·      Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathew, Dallas Buyers Club

·      Stephen Prouty, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

·      Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny, The Lone Ranger

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

·      John Williams, The Book Thief

·      Steven Price, Gravity

·      William Butler and Owen Pallett, Her

·      Alexandre Desplat, Philomena

·      Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

·      Judy Becker (Production Design) and Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration), American Hustle

·      Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration), Gravity

·      Catherine Martin (Production Design) and Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration), The Great Gatsby

·      K.K. Barrett (Production Design) and Gene Serdena (Set Decoration), Her

·      Adam Stockhausen (Production Design) and Alice Baker (Set Decoration), 12 Years a Slave

BEST SHORT FILM – ANIMATED

·      Feral

·      Get a Horse!

·      Mr. Hublot

·      Possessions

·      Room on the Broom

BEST SHORT FILM – LIVE ACTION

·      Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me), Esteban Crespo

·      Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything), Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras

·      Helium, Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson

·      Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari

·      The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

BEST SOUND EDITING

·      Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns, All Is Lost

·      Oliver Tarney, Captain Phillips

·      Glenn Freemantle, Gravity

·      Brent Burge, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

·      Wylie Stateman, Lone Survivor

·      BEST SOUND MIXING

·      Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro, Captain Phillips

·      "Gravity" Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro, Gravity

·      Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

·      Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland, Inside Llewyn Davis

·      Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow, Lone Survivor

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

·      Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould, Gravity

·      Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

·      Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick, Iron Man 3

·      Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier, The Lone Ranger

·      Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton, Star Trek Into Darkness

Don’t miss out on the year’s most anticipated night in the international film industry, the 86^th Academy Awards, airing live on the Lifestyle Network on March 3, 2014 and on ABS-CBN. For schedules and updates, visit and like the Lifestyle Network on Facebook (www.facebook.com/LifestyleNetwork

JOHN LLOYD, TONI consider Church Marriage plans after joining “HOME SWEETIE HOME”

John Lloyd Cruz and Toni Gonzaga are currently thinking about taking things steps further when it comes to steady relationships, as the two stars of the newest hit sitcom “Home Sweetie Home” admitted in a recent interview.

Following two successful weeks of making it to the number one spot in Sunday television ratings, they have become humbly grateful and hopeful for things to come.

Toni, when asked what’s up next after the experiences she has had so far while taping “Home Sweetie Home” said that the love story of her character Julie and John Lloyd’s character Romeo are set to take on whole new heights.

“I think they will head eventually to a marriage in Church,” Toni said. “That’s why they’re saving up.”

“Home Sweetie Home,” however, doesn’t end at the topic of marriage. John Lloyd and Toni also expressed what they hope the show will become—a time for families to spend time together.

“We’re hoping the show becomes a Sunday viewing habit for Filipino families,” John Lloyd Said. Toni added, “After all, Sunday is family day.”

This Sunday (January 19), catch Romeo and Julie as they start to settle down into married life. Of course, starting to live together, they discover new things about each other. Julie ends up finding a box with Romeo’s name on it that he had kept from even before the two met. Could Romeo be hiding something from Julie, even at the very start of their lives together?

Meanwhile, another romantic secret on another of the Kapamilya Network’s Sunday shows is about to be revealed.

On the teen series “LUV U,” Camille (Miles Ocmapo) and JB (Marco Gumabao) have yet to tell the other students about the real status of what’s going on between them. With how connected everyone is to each other these days, can they go on without other people finding out?

Catch  “Home Sweetie Home,” airing Sundays after the kiddie gag show “Goin’ Bulilit”, and “LUV U” after “ASAP 19”. Make your weekends complete with “Banana Split: Extra Scoop” on Saturdays after “Maalaala Mo Kaya”.