The 89th Academy Awards saw film royalty gather at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on 26th February 2017 and walk down the red carpet to acknowledge and celebrate the best that the industry has to offer.
Musical God Justin Timberlake got the evening going with a bang, performing a mashup that got everyone pumped up. The awards were hosted by ABC TV host Jimmy Kimmel this year, who navigated through the evening with a generous sprinkling of wit, Donald Trump jokes, a short segment of Mean Tweets and a decent supply of cookies and candy dropping from above.
The 89th year of the Academy Awards saw numerous records being broken. The romantic comedy musical La La Land was nominated for fourteen Oscars, allowing it a spot alongside ‘Titanic’ and ‘All about Eve’ as the films with the most Oscar nominations. The film would end up walking away with only six gold statuettes though.
Sound mixer Kevin O’Connell who held the longest losing streak in Oscar history, finally broke through with a win on his 21st try through his work on Hacksaw Ridge. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim to win an Oscar when he accepted the award for actor in supporting role. Damien Chazelle, director of La La Land became the youngest person to win the Best Director award at 32 years of age.
However, the moment that will definitely go down in academy record books is slightly more scandalous. It occurred when legends Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced the winner for best picture as La La Land. In a series of unfortunate events, the La La Land team were halfway through their victory speeches when it was noticed that the wrong film name had been read out by Warren Beatty and that Moonlight was actually the winner. Whoops! We bet someone’s head is going to roll, over this error.
“There’s a mistake. Moonlight, you won best picture,” Jordan Horowitz, La La Land producer, announced. He even held up the card as proof, with the name Moonlight clearly written.
One of the best reactions to the blunder was when director M.Night Shyamalan took to twitter to justify the surprise ending to the evening.
The handover was graciously completed and the Moonlight team took away the well deserved prestigious award. The evening was rounded up into the perfect mix of an award-winning film. There was laughter, tears, shock and awe with a stunning cast to boot.
The complete list of winners from the evening!
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight: WINNER
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle, La La Land : WINNER
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actress in a Leading Role
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land: WINNER
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Actor in a Leading Role
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea: WINNER
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
Actress in a Supporting Role
Viola Davis, Fences: WINNER
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Actor in a Supporting Role
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight: WINNER
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Cinematography
Arrival, Bradford Young
La La Land, Linus Sandgren: WINNER
Lion, Greig Fraser
Moonlight, James Laxton
Silence, Rodrigo Prieto
Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan
La La Land, Damien Chazelle
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan: WINNER
20th Century Women, Mike Mills
Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight: WINNER
Makeup and Hairstyling
A Man Called Ove, Eva von Bahr and Love Larson
Star Trek Beyond, Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo
Suicide Squad, Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson: WINNER
Costume Design
Allied, Joanna Johnston
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Colleen Atwood : WINNER
Florence Foster Jenkins, Consolata Boyle
Jackie, Madeline Fontaine
La La Land, Mary Zophres
Foreign Language Film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman : WINNER
Tanna
Toni Erdmann
Documentary Feature
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America : WINNER
13th
Original Song
“Audition (The Fools Who Dream),” La La Land
“City of Stars,” La La Land: WINNER
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana
“The Empty Chair,” Jim: The James Foley Story
“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls
Original Score
Jackie, Mica Levi
La La Land, Justin Hurwitz: WINNER
Lion, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
Moonlight, Nicholas Britell
Passengers, Thomas Newman
Sound Mixing
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge: WINNER
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Sound Editing
Arrival, Sylvain Bellemare: WINNER
Deepwater Horizon, Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
Hacksaw Ridge, Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
La La Land, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
Sully, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Animated Short Film
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper: WINNER
Animated Feature Film
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia: WINNER
Production Design
Arrival, Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock
Hail, Caesar! , Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh
La La Land, Davis Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco: WINNER
Passengers, Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena
Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon, Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Justin Billington, and Burt Dalton
Doctor Strange, Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould
The Jungle Book, Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon: WINNER
Kubo and the Two Strings, Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould
Film Editing
Arrival, Joe Walker
Hacksaw Ridge, John Gilbert: WINNER
Hell or High Water, Jake Roberts
La La Land, Tom Cross
Moonlight, Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
Documentary Short Subject
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets: WINNER
Live Action Short Film
Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing: WINNER
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