By Travis Johnson
We can put that old chestnut about whether Jack Palance accidentally read out Marisa Tomei’s name to bed now – we’ve got bigger fish to fry. And they don’t come much bigger than Hollywood royalty Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway accidentally (albeit briefly) giving the Best Picture Oscar to La La Land over the actual winner, Moonlight.
Apparently, the card naming the winner for Best Actress – Emma Stone for La La Land – was in the envelope that Beatty opened, and both he and Dunaway made the understandable assumption that the LA-set musical had taken the top honour.
The mistake was soon corrected and a visibly stunned Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, took to the stage. “All you people out there who feel like there’s no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected, the Academy has your back, the ACLU has your back, we have your back and for the next four years we will not leave you alone, we will not forget you,” he said, echoing similar sentiments about diversity, identity and representation to those spoken by Viola Davis when she won Best Supporting Actress earlier in the evening for her work in Fences.
La La Land, the strong favourite for Best Picture, still did quite well, with 32-year-old director Damian Chazelle becoming the youngest ever Best Director recipient and, as mentioned above, Emma Stone winning Best Actress. The film also took home Best Cinematography, Best Score, and Best Song.
And the winners are:
Best Picture: Moonlight
Best Director: Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Best Actor: Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea
Best Actress: Emma Stone for La La Land
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis for Fences
Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
Best Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight
Best Animated feature Film: Zootopia
Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman (Iran)
Best Documentary – Feature: O.J.: Made in America
Best Documentary – Short: The White Helmets
Best Live Action Short Film: Sing
Best Animated Short Film: Piper
Best Original Score: Justin Hurwitz for La La Land
Best Original Song: City of Stars (La La Land)
Best Sound Editing: Sylvain Bellemare for Arrival
Best Sound Mixing: Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace for Hacksaw Ridge
Best Production Design: David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco for La La Land
Best Cinematography: Linus Sandgren for La La Land
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson for Suicide Squad
Best Editing: John Gilbert for Hacksaw Ridge
Best Special Effects: Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon for The Jungle Book.
