Moonlight, La La Land win big at the Oscars

  • 27/02/2017

The 89th Academy Awards have been handed out in a ceremony marred by one of the biggest mistakes in Oscars history.

La La Land, which led the nominees, was announced as the winner for Best Picture - but the real winner was Moonlight.

  • Scroll down for a full list of winners.

There was much confusion as the producers of La La Land were part way through their acceptance speech when the mistake was discovered and the Moonlight team were brought on-stage.

Even the official Academy Awards Twitter account had already tweeted out the wrong result.

Academy Awards Twitter account announces wrong Best Picture 2017

La La Land did win Best Director, Best Actress, Cinematography, Production Design, Best Original Score and Best Original Song, while Moonlight also won Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

A New Zealander is among the winners, with John Gilbert being honoured for editing Hacksaw Ridge.

In his opening monologue, host Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Matt Damon, Mel Gibson, US President Donald Trump and the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

"I want to say thank you to President Trump. I mean, remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?" said Kimmel.

"That's gone, thanks to him. It has been an amazing year for movies - black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz. That's what we call progress."

Early winners included Mahershala Ali, who won Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight - making him the first ever Muslim actor to win an Oscar - and Kevin O'Connell, who won the honour of Best Sound Mixing for Hacksaw Ridge, which was his 21st nomination.

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won Best Foreign Film for The Salesman, but did not attend the ceremony due to the Trump administration's controversial travel ban.

"My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations whom have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the US," said Farhadi in a written statement, read out at the awards by a spokesperson.

Below is a complete list of the nominees, with the winners highlighted in bold as they're announced.

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

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

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

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

Supporting Actress
WINNER: Viola Davis, Fences

Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Supporting Actor
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
WINNER: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

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

Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
WINNER: Moonlight

Cinematography
Arrival
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Editing
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight

Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
WINNER: Zootopia

Documentary Feature
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
WINNER: O.J.: Made in America
13th

Sound Editing
WINNER: Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best Sound Mixing
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Foreign Language Film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
WINNER: The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann

Original Score
Jackie
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers

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

Best Costume Design
La La Land
WINNER: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
Allied

Best Makeup and Hair Styling
A Man Called Ove 
Star Trek Beyond
WINNER: Suicide Squad

Best Production Design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Hail, Caesar!
WINNER: La La Land
Passengers

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

Live Action Short Film
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
WINNER: Sing
Timecode

Documentary Short
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe's Violin
Watani: My Homeland
WINNER: The White Helmets

Animated Short Film
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
WINNER: Piper

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