‘12 Years a Slave’ Wins Academy Award for 2013 Best Picture
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“12 Years a Slave,” the film about a free black man kidnapped into slavery in the pre-Civil War south, was crowned best picture of 2013 in an Oscars ceremony where the thriller “Gravity” led with seven awards.
The two films emerged as big winners at the 86th Academy Awards, broadcast last night in a live ABC telecast from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Ellen DeGeneres, in her second turn as Oscars host, brought the 3-hours-plus show into the social-media age by posting a group photo of actors that briefly crashed the Twitter.com service.