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Here’s Everything You Need To Know About OSCARS 2017

The 89th Academy Awards aka Oscars were held successfully in Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California on 26th 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
  • 20th Century women
  • Manchester by the Sea

WINNER: Manchester by the Sea

OSCARS 2017
OSCARS 2017

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

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