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The Lifestyle Network recently announced one of its biggest events ever—an exclusive, once in a lifetime chance to catch the biggest international film awarding ceremony live, in anticipation of the upcoming 86th Academy Awards.

The Academy Awards, more popularly known as the Oscars, has found a new home on in the Lifestyle Network. In celebration of this new step for the channel, the Lifestyle Network is holding a contest entitled the "Oscars Big Win Promo--"a first in the Philippine market. The "Oscars Big Win Promo", which will run from February 3 until March 3, 2014, is an online prediction contest. Winner with the highest number of correct predictions will win a trip to Los Angeles, California and two bleacher seats to watch the 2015 Oscars Red Carpet ceremony.

The contest is open to all SkyCable, Destiny Cable, and other provincial cable operator subscribers carrying the Lifestyle Network aged 18 years and above. In order for contestants to keep tabs on their predictions, the results can be tracked live online on the day of the Academy Awards. Points will constantly be updated as each award is presented.

Catch the 86th Academy Awards as it airs straight from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 3, 2014 (Philippine time) on the Lifestyle Network (SkyCable channel 24).

For the complete mechanics, log on to www.lifestylenetwork.com.ph. For updates, visit and like the Lifestyle Network on Facebook (www.facebook.com/LifestyleNetwork).

Lifestyle Network : The Philippine's Newest Home for the Oscars

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Watch out for the 86^th Academy Awards, airing live on the Lifestyle Network on March 3, 2014 and on ABS-CBN.

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.

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