Academy Awards 2017

The 26th of February this year saw the culmination of this year’s award season at the 89th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, with host Jimmy Kimmel cracking up his assembled all-star audience. Apart from the surprise of ‘Moonlight’ winning best picture and the fiasco involved with announcing it, there were no major surprises at this year’s Oscars as the results generally mimicked those of the preceding award ceremonies, seeing ‘La La Land’ taking home the most statuettes with six (but by no means dominating), and ‘Moonlight’ winning three.

Although the bestowing of awards for artistry is completely subjective and we can endlessly debate over who should win what, this is a chance for films and their filmmakers to be globally recognised for another great year of work so let’s see who the principal nominees and winners were this year;

 

Best Picture

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• Moonlight (Winner)

• Arrival

• Fences

• Hacksaw Ridge

• Hell or High Water

• Hidden Figures

• La La Land

• Lion

• Manchester by the Sea

Our Pick from the Nominees: Manchester by the Sea

Our Pick Overall: Manchester by the Sea

 

 

Directing

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• Damien Chazelle for ‘La La Land’ (Winner)
  

• Mel Gibson for ‘Hacksaw Ridge’

• Barry Jenkins for ‘Moonlight’

• Kenneth Lonergan for ‘Manchester by the Sea’

• Denis Villeneuve for ‘Arrival’

Our Pick from the Nominees: Damien Chazelle for ‘La La Land’

Our Pick Overall: Damien Chazelle for ‘La La Land’

 

 

Actor in a Leading Role

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• Casey Affleck for ‘Manchester by the Sea’  (Winner)
  

• Andrew Garfield for ‘Hacksaw Ridge’

• Ryan Gosling for ‘La La Land’

• Viggo Mortensen for ‘Captain Fantastic’

• Denzel Washington for ‘Fences’

Our Pick from the Nominees: Casey Affleck for ‘Manchester by the Sea’

Our Pick Overall: Casey Affleck for ‘Manchester by the Sea’

 

 

Actress in a Leading Role

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• Emma Stone for ‘La La Land’ (Winner)
  

• Isabelle Huppert for ‘Elle’
  

• Ruth Negga for ‘Loving’

• Natalie Portman for ‘Jackie’

• Meryl Streep for ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’

Our Pick from the Nominees: Natalie Portman for ‘Jackie’

Our Pick Overall: Natalie Portman for ‘Jackie’

 

 

Actor in a Supporting Role

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• Mahershala Ali for ‘Moonlight’ (Winner)
  

• Jeff Bridges for ‘Hell or High Water’

• Lucas Hedges for ‘Manchester by the Sea’

• Dev Patel for ‘Lion’

• Michael Shannon for ‘Nocturnal Animals’

Our Pick from the Nominees: Mahershala Ali for ‘Moonlight’

Our Pick Overall: Mahershala Ali for ‘Moonlight’

 

 

Actress in a Supporting Role

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• Viola Davis for ‘Fences’ (Winner)
  

• Naomie Harris for ‘Moonlight’

• Nicole Kidman for ‘Lion’

• Octavia Spencer for ‘Hidden Figures’
  

• Michelle Williams for ‘Manchester by the Sea’
  

Our Pick from the Nominees: Viola Davis for ‘Fences’

Our Pick Overall: Viola Davis for ‘Fences’

 

 

Writing- Original Screenplay

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• Manchester by the Sea (Winner)

• 20th Century Women

• Hell or High Water

• La La Land

• The Lobster

Our Pick from the Nominees: Manchester by the Sea

Our Pick Overall: Manchester by the Sea

 

 

Writing- Adapted Screenplay

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• Moonlight (Winner)
  

• Arrival

• Fences

• Hidden Figures

• Lion

Our Pick from the Nominees: Arrival

Our Pick Overall: Arrival

 

 

Music- Original Score

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• Justin Hurwitz for ‘La La Land’ (Winner)

• Nicholas Britell for ‘Moonlight’

• Mica Levi for ‘Jackie’
  

• Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka for ‘Lion’
  

• Thomas Newman for ‘Passengers’

Our Pick from the Nominees: Justin Hurwitz for ‘La La Land’

Our Pick Overall: Justin Hurwitz for ‘La La Land’

 

 

Music- Original Song

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• “City of Stars” from ‘La La Land’ (Winner)
  

• “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from ‘La La Land’

• “Can’t Stop the Feeling” from ‘Trolls’

• “The Empty Chair” from ‘Jim: The James Foley Story’

• “How Far I’ll Go” from ‘Moana’

Our Pick from the Nominees: “City of Stars” from ‘La La Land’

Our Pick Overall: “City of Stars” from ‘La La Land’

 

 

Animated Feature Film

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• Zootopia (Winner)

• My Life as a Zucchini

• Moana
  

• The Red Turtle

• Kubo and the Two Strings

Our Pick from the Nominees: Kubo and the Two Strings

Our Pick Overall: Kubo and the Two Strings

 

 

Foreign Language Film

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• The Salesman (Iran) (Winner)

• Land of Mine (Denmark)
  

• A Man Called Ove (Sweden)

• Tanna (Australia)

• Toni Erdmann (Germany)

Our Pick from the Nominees: Toni Erdmann (Germany)

Our Pick Overall: The Wailing (South Korea)

 

 

Documentary Feature

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• O.J.: Made in America (Winner)

• Fire at Sea

• I Am Not Your Negro

• Life, Animated

• 13th

Our Pick from the Nominees: 13th

Our Pick Overall: 13th

 

 

Cinematography

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• Linus Sandgren for ‘La La Land’ (Winner)

• Greig Fraser for ‘Lion’

• James Laxton for ‘Moonlight’

• Rodrigo Prieto for ‘Silence’

• Bradford Young for ‘Arrival’

Our Pick from the Nominees: Rodrigo Prieto for ‘Silence’

Our Pick Overall: Peter Suschitzky for ‘Tale of Tales’

 

 

Film Editing

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• Hacksaw Ridge (Winner)

• Arrival

• Hell or High Water

• La La Land

• Moonlight

Our Pick from the Nominees: La La Land

Our Pick Overall: La La Land

 

 

Visual Effects

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• The Jungle Book (Winner)

• Deepwater Horizon

• Doctor Strange

• Kubo and the Two Strings

• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Our Pick from the Nominees: The Jungle Book

Our Pick Overall: The Jungle Book

 

 

Costume Design

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• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Winner)
  

• Allied

• Florence Foster Jenkins

• Jackie

• La La Land

Our Pick from the Nominees: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Our Pick Overall: Tale of Tales

 

 

Production Design

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• La La Land (Winner)
  

• Arrival

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

• Hail, Caesar!

• Passengers

Our Pick from the Nominees: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Our Pick Overall: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

 

 

Sound Editing

• Arrival (Winner)
  

• Deepwater Horizon

• Hacksaw Ridge

• La La Land

• Sully

Our Pick from the Nominees: Arrival

Our Pick Overall: Arrival

 

 

Sound Mixing

• Hacksaw Ridge (Winner)
  

• Arrival

• La La Land

• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Our Pick from the Nominees: La La Land

Our Pick Overall: La La Land

 

 

Short Film (Live Action)

• Sing (Winner)
  

• Ennemis Intérieurs

• La Femme et le TGV

• Silent Nights

• Timecode

 

 

Short Film (Animated)

• Piper (Winner)
  

• Blind Vaysha

• Borrowed Time

• Pear Cider and Cigarettes

• Pearl

 

 

Documentary (Short Subject)

• The White Helmets (Winner)
  

• Extremis

• 4.1 Miles

• Joe’s Violin

• Watani: My Homeland

 

Makeup and Hairstyling

• Suicide Squad (Winner)
  

• A Man Called Ove

• Star Trek Beyond

Our Pick from the Nominees: Star Trek Beyond

Our Pick Overall: Tale of Tales

 

 

So there you have it, ‘La La Land’ doesn’t quite sweep the board after its 14 nominations but goes away with six Oscars, despite making headlines for bizarrely losing the big one to ‘Moonlight’, who goes away with three awards itself. The acting categories play out as generally predicted, with Casey Affleck picking up best actor for our best film of the year ‘Manchester By the Sea’, but perhaps the most dubious decision was to make ‘Suicide Squad’ an Academy Award-winning film by giving it the prize for makeup and hairstyling. Let us know what you think of the Oscar nominations and our picks by commenting here and on FilmPhonic at Facebook and Twitter.

 

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