Oscars 2017: Complete List of Winners

27 February, 2017

Here is the complete list of 2017 Oscar winners and nominees.

Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Moonlight (WINNER)
Manchester by the Sea
Lion

Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway, initially declared La La Land the winner of „Best Picture”. While in the middle of producer’s Jordan Horowitz (La La Land) acceptance speech,  the mistake was discovered and Horowitz announced the real winner.

Best Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea (WINNER)
20th Century Women

Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Moonlight (WINNER)
Lion

Moonlight is a small independent film, with an afro-american director and cast, which tackles homophobia and class structures. The film will premiere in Romanian cinemas on March 10th

Best Cinematography
Arrival
Lion
La La Land (WINNER)
Moonlight
Silence

Best Editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge (WINNER)
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight

Best Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book (WINNER)
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Ioan Boieriu was the Technical Director for Special Effects for “The Jungle Book” movie, becoming the first Romanian who won, together with his team, an Oscar.

Best Sound Mixing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge (WINNER)
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours

Best Sound Editing
Arrival (WINNER)
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best Production Design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Ceasar!
La La Land (WINNER)
Passengers

Best Costume Design
Allied
Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them (WINNER)
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land

Best Make-up and Hairstyling
A Man Called Love
Suicide Squad (WINNER)
Star Trek Beyond

Best Song
Audition (La La Land)
Can’t Stop the Feeling (Trolls)
City of Stars (La La Land) – WINNER
The Empty Chair (Jim: The James Foley Story)
How Far I’ll Go (Moana)

Best Score
Jackie
La La Land (WINNER)
Moonlight
Lion
Passengers

Best animated feature
Kubo and The Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
Zootopia (WINNER)
The Red Turtle

Best animated short
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper (CÂȘTIGĂTOR)

Best Documentary
Fire at Sea
I am not your Negro
Life, Animated
OJ: Made in America (WINNER)
13th

Best Short Documentary
4.1 Miles
Extremis
Joe’s Violin
The White Helmets (WINNER)
Watani: My Homeland
Best Live-action Short Film
Ennemis Interieurs
Silent Nights
La Femme et le TGV
Sing (WINNER)
Timecode

Best Foreign Language film
Toni Erdmann
Tanna
The Sales Man (WINNER)
A Man called Ove
Land of Mine

Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle, La La Land (WINNER)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Damien Chazelle becomes the youngest director to win a „Best Director” Oscar in Hollywood’s history.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight (WINNER)
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

First Oscar and nomination for Mahershala Ali, becoming the first muslim to win an Oscar. During his acceptace speech he thanked his wife who gave birth to a daughter for days prior to the Gala.

Best Actor
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea (WINNER)
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences

Casey Affleck scores his first nomination and first Oscar, getting one step closer to his brother Ben Affleck.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Viola Davis, Fences (WINNER)
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Viola Davis has two more Oscar nomination for her performances in The Help (2011) as a leading actress and for her supporting role in Doubt (2008). 2017 marks her first Oscar win and she also has a Tony Award for the same role. Viola Davis is the only afro-american actress with three Oscar nominations and one of the few with an Emmy, a Tony and an Oscar award.

Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land (WINNER)
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

This is the first Oscar for Emma Stone and her second nomination, after Birdman’s supporting role in 2015. During her acceptance speech Emma thanked the ladies who shared Best Actress category with her: “To the women in this category, Natalie, Isabel, Meryl, Ruth, you were all so extraordinary. I look up to you and I admire you more than I can put into words. It’s been the greatest honour just to stay alongside you, that is the greatest honour of all.”
Stone also thanked her family, her crew and director Damien Chazelle, and mostly her co-star Ryan Gosling for „making her laugh and also raising the bar”



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