Entertainment Desk :
The Best Film for the year 2017 is La La Land. Wait, no, its not. While the Oscars 2017 announcement was made that La La Land had not just won the film, but is only one of highest nominated and won film in the history of Oscars. There was a disruption at 89th Academy Awards, a huge one in fact. The presenter Warren Beatty had announced the award incorrectly. The envelope was apparently incorrect, and had Emma Stone’s name in it for winning Best Actress for La La Land. So the presenter, who was confused, assumed that the movie was La La Land. This was not a prank by Jimmy Kimmel, nope it was not.
“I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said, “Emma Stone, La La Land.” That’s why I took such a long look at Faye and at you. I wasn’t trying to be funny,” said Warren Beatty.
More laughter and shock followed when Jimmy Kimmel came out of nowhere and said, “Well, I don’t know what happened. I blame myself for this. Let’s remember it’s just an award show, we hate to see people disappointed but we got to see some extra speeches. We have some great movies. Um, I knew I would screw this show-up, I really did. … I promise I’ll never come back.” Moonlight’s makers then came on stage and said the win of their film “was not a joke.”
The correct envelope was then taken by the person who had just received the award to make the speech, when he realised that the Best Picture was Moonlight.
That is right. The film that people had been rooting for from the beginning, the film that gave us some of the best performance on screen, and the film that led to the first black Muslim actor winning an award for his performance.
It was chaos, as even the official Twitter handles, the media handles, and the general audience had all tweeted about La La Land winning the award in the race to be the first to tweet. Now, we see all the ‘correction’ tweets trending.
Winners list in full
Best film
Moonlight
Best actress
Emma Stone (La La Land)
Best actor
Casey Affleck (Manchester By The Sea)
Best director
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Best supporting actress
Viola Davis (Fences)
Best supporting actor
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Best original screenplay
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By The Sea)
Best adapted screenplay
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight)
Best cinematography
Linus Sandgren (La La Land)
Best original score
Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)
Best original song
Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land)
Best sound editing
Sylvain Bellemare (Arrival)
Best foreign language film
Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman)
Best film editing
John Gilbert (Hacksaw Ridge)
Best visual effects
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon (The Jungle Book)
Best production design
David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds Wasco (La La Land)
Best sound mixing
Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace (Hacksaw Ridge)
Best documentary Feature
Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow (O.J.: Made in America)
Best animated film
Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer (Zootopia)
Best animated short film
Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer (Piper)
Best documentary short subject
Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara (The White Helmets)
Best live action short film
Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy (Sing)
Best make-up
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson (Suicide Squad)
Best costume design
Colleen Atwood (Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them)
