Leto takes home Oscar for best actor in a supporting role

Los Angeles, March 3 (IANS) Actor-singer Jared Leto, who plays a transgender AIDS patient named Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club", was

given the award for best actor in a supporting role at the 86th

Academy Awards held here Sunday evening.

Accompanied by his mother and brother to the event, the award was

presented by actress Anne Hathaway.

The actor had earlier said that he flirted with director Jean-Marc

Vall©e for the role in the film.

Earlier this year he won many awards like the Golden Globe and Screen

Actor Guild awards for his role.

This was the first Academy Award nomination for him.Other nominees

were Barkhad Abdi ("Captain Phillips"), Bradley Cooper ("American

Hustle"), Michael Fassbender ("12 Years a Slave") and Jonah Hill ("The

Wolf of Wall Street").