Final update: Oscars 2017 complete winners list is out now as Moonlight wins the Best Picture award after a big gaffe. La La Land was first announced as the winner by mistake. Speeches and everything were given and then the mistake was realised. Everyone was in shock but then applauded for Moonlight.
Update: Emma Stone and Casey Affleck have the Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively at the Oscars 2017 show. This is the first Oscar win for both the actors. Emma won the award for her role in La La land while Affleck got the top honor for Manchester by the Sea.
Los Angeles: The Oscars 2017 show is live and Hollywood applauded as Viola Davis’ historic bid for her first Academy Award came to a close Sunday night, capping off with the actress winning a the much coveted award.
For her performance alongside Denzel Washington’s in the big-screen adaptation of August Wilson Fences translating for the big screen the same stage role that won her a 2010 Tony Award, Davis won in the Best Supporting Actress category, joining the likes of Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Hudson, Mo’Nique, Octavia Spencer and Lupita Nyong’o as one of only seven black actresses to have won the same award since the Academy’s inaugural ceremony in 1929.
After thanking the Academy, Davis delivered an emotional speech.
“There’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place — and that’s the graveyard,” she said. “People ask me all the time, ‘What kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola?’ And I say, ‘Exhume those bodies, exhume those stories — the stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition. People who fell in love and lost.’ I became an artist and thank god I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.”
Davis also thanked the producers, including her costar and director, along with the writer.
“Oh captain, my captain; Denzel Washington, thank you for putting two entities in the driving seat: August and God. They served you well.”
Show’s host Jimmy Kimmel started the Oscars broadcast by acknowledging that the country is politically divided and that he felt some pressure to be the guy to bring people together.
“Let’s get something straight off the top: I can’t do that,” he said, to laughter. The host then pointed out controversial “Hacksaw Ridge” director nominee Mel Gibson and said: “There’s only one ‘Braveheart’’ in this audience, and he’s not going to unite us either.”
Referring to last year’s #OscarsSoWhite controversy he said, “Maybe this is not a popular thing to say, but I want to thank President Trump. Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”
The 89th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are airing live from Los Angeles on ABC.
We will keep you updated with latest Oscars 2017 winners list as the show progresses.
Here’s the list so far:
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
WINNER: Sing
Timecode
Best actress nominee Natalie Portman will miss Oscars
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
WINNER: The White Helmets
FILM EDITING
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight
VISUAL EFFECTS
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
WINNER: The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
WINNER: La La Land
Passengers
ANIMATED FEATURE
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
WINNER: Zootopia
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
WINNER: Piper
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Land of Mine, Denmark
A Man Called Ove, Sweden
WINNER: The Salesman, Iran
Tanna, Australia
Toni Erdmann, Germany
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
SOUND MIXING
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
SOUND EDITING
WINNER: Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully
DOCUMENTARY
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
WINNER: O.J.: Made in America
COSTUME DESIGN
Allied
WINNER: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
WINNER: Suicide Squad
SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
BEST PICTURE
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Winner: Moonlight
ACTRESS
Winner: Emma Stone, La La Land
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
ACTOR
Winner: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight
ORIGINAL SCORE
Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers
ORIGINAL SONG
Audition (The Fools Who Dream) from La La Land
Can’t Stop the Feeling! from Trolls
City of Stars from La La Land
The Empty Chair from Jim: The James Foley Story
How Far I’ll Go from Moana
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence