Here’s Everything You Need To Know About OSCARS 2017

The 89^th Academy Awards aka Oscars were held successfully in Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California on 26^th February 2017. Every movie fan anxiously watched the whole ceremony going from the nail-biting moment of wrongly announced Best Picture award to the eye-watering moment of Viola Davis’s speech while a constant cluster of laughter throughout the presentation by the host, Jimmy Kimmel. This year, it was a really tough competition between the pictures due to their varying genres and brilliant direction which made it quite interesting overall. Here we present a list of all the Oscar winners with respective nominations under the category.

Best original screenplay

Nominations:

• Hell or High Water
• La La Land
• The Lobster
• 20^th Century women
• Manchester by the Sea

WINNER: Manchester by the Sea

Best adapted screenplay

Nominations:

• Arrival
• Fences
• Hidden Figures
• Moonlight
• Lion

WINNER: Moonlight

Best director

Nominations:

• Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
• Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
• Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
• Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
• Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

WINNER: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Best actor

Nominations:

• Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
• Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
• Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
• Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
• Denzel Washington (Fences)

WINNER: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Best actress

Nominations:

• Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
• Ruth Negga (Loving)
• Natalie Portman (Jackie)
• Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)
• Emma Stone (La La Land)

WINNER: Emma Stone (La La Land)

Best picture

Nominations:

• Arrival
• Fences
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hell or High Water
• La La Land
• Hidden Figures
• Lion
• Manchester by the Sea

WINNER: Moonlight

(NOTE- La La Land was wrongly announced as the best picture due to some misunderstanding)

Best supporting actor

Nominations:

• Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
• Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
• Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
• Dev Patel (Lion)
• Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

WINNER: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Best supporting actress

Nominations :

• Viola Davis (Fences)
• Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
• Nicole Kidman (Lion)
• Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
• Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

WINNER: Viola Davis (Fences)

Best cinematography

Nominations:

• Arrival
• Lion
• La La Land
• Moonlight
• Silence

WINNER: La La Land

Best score

Nominations:

• Jackie
• Lion
• La La Land
• Moonlight
• Passengers

WINNER: La La Land