- Fox Searchlight's (NASDAQ:FOXA) "12 Years a Slave" has won the Oscar for the Best Picture and picked up two other Academy awards.
- Warner Bros' (NYSE:TWX) "Gravity" received the most gongs with seven Oscars, including Best Director for director Alfonso Cuaron.
- Disney's (NYSE:DIS) "Frozen," which has taken over $1B at the box office, took Oscars for best animated feature film and original song.
- However, Paramount Pictures' (NASDAQ:VIAB) "The Wolf of Wall Street" failed to win any awards despite five nominations, while "American Hustle" came away empty handed despite 10 nominations.
- Host Ellen DeGeneres caused Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) to crash briefly after posting a star-studded selfie that was retweeted over 2M times, setting a new record.