Nothing in the Hollywood schedule equals the magnificence and glamour of the Oscars. Presently in its 86th year, the Academy Award function unites the greatest performing artists, chiefs, and parts of handling staff in the film business, before showering some of them with brilliant statuettes and colossally unmanageable blessing packs. This present year's show put the capable 12 Years a Slave up against the tight and strained Gravity in the best picture class, gave the best performer grant to Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine, and saw Leonardo Dicaprio denied his first Oscar after his fourth designation.