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Feb 27, 2017 · 2017 Oscars highlights 55 photos. The Oscars kept viewers guessing all the way to the end -- and even after it -- with “Moonlight” coming in as a surprise best picture winner after the award...
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Feb 27, 2017 · Oscars 2017. For a brief few minutes, “La La Land” lovers relished the victory, while those rooting for “Moonlight” to win best picture turned the TV off or tweeted their anguish.
But perhaps no moment will ever be as shocking as 2017's show-ending mix-up, when La La Land was announced as Best Picture—only for it to be revealed that actually, Moonlight had won.
The 89th annual Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, was full of buzzed-about moments.
- Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin Mccraney
- Emma Stone
- Mahershala Ali
- Anousheh Ansari
- Viola Davis
- Casey Affleck
- Damien Chazelle
Best adapted screenplay for Moonlight Before Moonlight's shocking win for best picture after La La Land was announced, Jenkins and playwright McCraney delivered a timely message to LGBT youth, particularly those affected by Trump's reversal of transgender bathroom policies this past week as they accepted the awardfor best adapted screenplay. "For a...
Best actress for La La Land Regardless of whether you think she deserved best actress over French icon Isabelle Huppert or Jackie star Natalie Portman (who was unable to attend due to her pregnancy), it was impossible not to feel glad for the 28-year-old La La Landstar as she took the stage, teary and grinning as she rattled off a list of names. "I...
Best supporting actor for Moonlight The awards-season breakout gave one of the year’s most memorable speeches at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month, where he proudly declared “I am a Muslim” while accepting the supporting actor trophy for Moonlight. While not politically charged, his Oscars speech Sunday night was no less emotional, as he th...
Accepted the foreign-film trophy on behalf of AsgharFahardi, theIranaiandirector of The Salesman After a long season of anti-Trump speeches from everyone from Meryl Streep to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sunday's awards felt oddly restrained, with host Jimmy Kimmel doing much of the political heavy-lifting. But one of the ceremony's most powerful moments a...
Best-supporting actressfor Fences Look, no one has mastered the art of the heart-tugging acceptance speech better than Viola Davis. From her urgent plea for representation at the 2015 Emmy Awards to her championing of "ordinary stories" at last month's SAG Awards, the How to Get Away With Murder actress has always been impassioned and eloquent in d...
Best actor for Manchester By the Sea A night after calling out Donald Trump's "abhorrent" and "un-American" policies at the Independent Spirit Awards, the best-actor winner was admittedly at a loss for words while accepting the Oscar for Manchester by the Sea. "Man, I wish I had something bigger and more meaningful to say, but I’m really proud to b...
Best director for La La Land The youngest-ever winner for best director played it fairly by the numbers in his acceptance speech, thanking his fellow nominees, his family, La La Landcomposer Justin Hurwitz, and the movie musical's stars Gosling and Stone. But he did wrap his time at the podium on a sweet note, with a shout-out to his girlfriend, ac...
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Feb 27, 2017 · Coming-of-age drama Moonlight took home three wins, including best supporting actor (Mahershala Ali), and Manchester By The Sea won best original screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan) and best actor ...
Feb 24, 2017 · Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Steve Harvey, Warren Beatty meekly apologized, and Barry Jenkins, who could hardly contain his surprise, gave a speech that put a period on the whole night.
