Ngozi Nwosu, Uche Ogbodo, Others For ‘Top Celebrities Women Leadership Conference’

On Thursday, March 6, 2014, some Nollywood stars would converge in Lagos for a leadership conference tagged: ‘Transforming ideas into wealth’, which holds at the Niteshift Coliseum, Ikeja.

The event is being put together by Top Celebrities magazine. Speakers for this occasion include: Dame Felicia Ngozi Okoli, Mrs. Sally Mbanefo, Dr. Okei Odumakin, Dr. Gloria Elemo and Princess Adeola Ilozohhine.

Some of the stars expected at the event are; Foluke Daramola-Salako, Uche Ogbodo, Clarion Chuwurah, Kayode Salako, Tee Mac, Uche Elendu, Ella Mensah, Ras Kimono, Mike Okri and Efe Kimono.

Others include; Ngozi Nwosu, Dr. Austin Izagbo, Tese Onokala, Mr. Patrick, Queen Ure, Don Leo, Chawa Khalic, Kenni Ayeola and many more.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leonardo DiCaprio lose out as ‘Gravity’ rules at Oscars 2014

Despite ‘12 Years of a Slave‘ winning three awards including the highly placed ‘Best Picture‘ at the Academy Awards aka the Oscars this year, lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor failed to grab the ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role‘ award.

The category which also fielded another favourite Leonardo DiCaprio (who had an outstanding lead role in the movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street) was won by US actor Matthew McConaughey for his role in the biographical drama film Dallas Buyers Club.

The biggest winner of the night however was British-American 3D science-fiction thriller ‘Gravity‘. The movie which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney won seven awards on the night including ‘Best Directing‘ by Alfonso Cuarón.

Another big winner of the night was ‘12 yeas of a Slave‘ actress Lupita Nyong’o. The Kenyan star who was tipped to win the Oscar, ousted favourites Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lawrence to clinch the award for ’Best Actress In A Supporting Role‘.

Check out the full list of winners below…

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave – Winner
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) - Winner
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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) - Winner

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) - Winner
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) - Winner

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) - Winner
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) - Winner
Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Her (Spike Jonze) - Winner
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley) - Winner
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)

BEST FILM EDITING
American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger) - Winner
12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin) - Winner
The Invisible Woman (Michael O’Connor)
12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen - Winner
The Wind Rises

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares) - Winner
Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen)
Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher)
Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer)
20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers) - Winner

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed) - Winner
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy) - Winner
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews) - Winner
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief (John Williams)
Gravity (Steven Price) - Winner
Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Happy – Despicable Me 2
Let It Go – Frozen - Winner
The Moon Song – Her
Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn) - Winner
Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) (Esteban Crespo)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson) - Winner
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)

BEST SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle) - Winner
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)

BEST SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips (Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro)
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro) - Winner
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland)
Lone Survivor (Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould) - Winner
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds)
Iron Man 3 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick)
The Lone Ranger (Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton)

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