And the biggest night of Hollywood arrived in style! The star-studded night took place at Los Angeles, Dolby Theatre yesterday. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 89th Academy Awards was filled with Hollywood celebrities, political jabs, surprise food and lots of smiles. It was truly a night of celebrating the best of best.
La La Land received 14 nods for the Oscars and took away 6 winning trophies, matching the all-time record, set by ‘Titanic’ and ‘All About Eve.’ Damien Chazelle, 32, became the youngest director to ever win in the Best Director category. Emma Stone took home the Best Actress trophy and gave an adorable speech. Casey Affleck won the Best Actor award and rightly so. If you’ve seen Manchester By The Sea, it was just nice to see Casey smile to be honest. Mahershala Ali took home the Best Supporting Role award for Moonlight becoming the first Muslim actor to win the Academy award.
Highlight of the show? The Best Picture award. Pretty much everyone expected La La Land to win and it seems thats why the hosts, Beatty and Dunaway, announced the wrong best picture winner. Not kidding, total Steve Harvey moment. Nonetheless, Moonlight took home the prestigious award after all that drama on stage.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Best Picture – ‘Moonlight’ by Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
Best Actress in a Leading Role – Emma Stone for ‘La La Land’
Best Actor in a Leading Role – Casey Affleck for ‘Manchester By The Sea’
Best Director – Damien Chazelle for ‘La La Land’
Best Adapted Screenplay – Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for ‘Moonlight’
Best Original Screenplay – Kenneth Lonergan for ‘Manchester By The Sea’
Best Original Song – ‘City Of Stars’ from ‘La La Land’ by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Best Original Score – Justin Hurwitz for ‘La La Land’
Best Cinematography – Linus Sandgren for ‘La La Land’
Best Live Action Short – ‘Sing’ by Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy
Best Documentary Short – ‘The White Helmets’ by Orlando Von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
Best Film Editing – John Gilbert for ‘Hacksaw Ridge’
Best Visual Effects – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R Jones and Dan Lemmon for ‘The Jungle Book’
Best Production Design – David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco for ‘La La Land’
Best Animated Feature – ‘Zootopia’ by Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer
Best Animated Short – ‘Piper’ by Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
Best Foreign Language Film – ‘The Salesman’ by Asghar Farhadi
Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Viola Davis for ‘Fences’
Best Sound Mixing – Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace for ‘Hacksaw Ridge’
Best Sound Editing – Sylvian Bellemare for ‘Arrival’
Best Documentary Feature – Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow for ‘O J: Made In America’
