Monday, 27 February 2017

Academy Awards - Moonlight wins Best Picture after major announcement mix-up

Moonlight was eventually named as the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture last night in Los Angeles after one of the biggest gaffs in Academy history. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway who were entrusted with revelaing the winner announced La La Land as the winner of this particular category only to realise after the producers and cast were on stage to receive their award that they in fact had the envelope revelaing Emma Stone as Best Actress for her role in La La Land in their possession and the correct winner was actually Barry Jenkins Moonlight. What followed was an embarrassing and farcial scene as the La La Land entourage had to make way for the rightful winners Moonlight to accept their award.
Marshali Ali, winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Moonlight even remarked in the after show interviews that his empathy for the La La Land production teams embarrassment prevented him from really cherishing the moment as part of the Moonlight crew on winning the prestigious Best Picture Oscar.
This mix-up will undoubtedly go down in the annals of Academy folklore on what was a largely smooth production and successful debut for host Jimmy Kimmel.
Outside of this collossal blunder there was acting gongs for the magnificent Casey Affleck for his turn in Manchester By the Sea, a Best Actress Oscar for Emma Stone in La la Land and supporting Oscars for Marshali Ali and Viola Davis for their roles in Moonlight and Fences, respectively.
Damien Chazelle can console himself after the Best Picture debacle by winning the Oscar for Best Director on a night that saw the end to the longest Oscar winning drought as Kevin O'Connell finally won an Osacr for Hacksaw Ridge sound editing after his 21st nomination.
The winners in full were:
Best Picture: Moonlight
Best Actress: La La Land's Emma Stone
Best Actor: Manchester By The Sea's Casey Affleck
Best Director: La La Land's Damien Chazelle
Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea
Best Original Score: La La Land
Best Original Song: City of Stars from La La Land
Best Supporting Actress: Fences' Viola Davis
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
Best Animated Feature: Zootopia
Best Animated Short Film: Piper
Best Cinematography: La La Land
Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Suicide Squad
Best Documentary Feature: OJ Made in America's Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
Best Documentary Short: The White Helmets
Best Film Editing: Hacksaw Ridge's John Gilbert
Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman 
Best Production Design: La La Land
Best Live Action Short Film: Sing
Best Sound Editing Oscar: Arrival
Best Sound Mixing: Hacksaw Ridge
Best Visual Effects: The Jungle Book

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