The Best Recipes to Honor Our Oscar Picks

Julia Bainbridge
·Food Editor
Updated

Oscar nominations 2K14 have landed! And while we have feelings about the nominated films, we also have feelings (lots of them!) about food. Here are the dishes we’d pair with our picks for the top categories. (In other words, Oscar Nom Noms.)

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Photo credit: Warner Brothers Pictures; Martha Stewart

Best Picture: “Her”
Spike Jonze’s film is a quiet, neoclassic romance in which most of the characters (the human ones, at least), experience painful solitude. It’s set in the near future, with slick technology shining all around people who, otherwise, look like throwbacks to the 50s. Enter the casserole—a throwback that’s been updated—with one lone fork.

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Photo credit: Biography.com; Food52

Best Director: Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
McQueen is intense: his films have had to do with Northern Irish prisoner Bobby Sands’ hunger strike (“Hunger”), sex addiciton (“Shame”), and, now, slavery. He’s also straightforward: just watch him in interviews, there’s no BS. He’s like a bagna cauda, a classic and VERY pungent Piedmontese garlic-anchovy dip that stays with you for days (even if you might not want it to).

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Photo credit: Paramount Vantage; Martha Stewart

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Bruce Dern’s Woody is an aging man who, due to booze and a desperate, impossible dream (to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize), crumbles before our eyes.

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Photo credit: Columbia Pictures; Bon Appétit

Best Actress: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Seared duck breast. We don’t think this one needs an explanation.

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Photo credit: Focus Features; Martha Stewart

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Rayon, a transgender woman, is a saucy minx, all lipstick and high heels. But she’s very fragile, too.

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Photo credit: Columbia Pictures; Food52

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
She’s a pistol, all right. She packs a punch like a Manhattan cocktail topped with a zingy citrus wheel.

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