This year’s Academy Awards is the 89th edition of the series. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Academy Awards were distributed in 24 categories. This year’s Oscars has been directed by Glenn Weiss and produced by Michael De Luca. This was the first time when late-night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel took the center stage for hosting the ceremony.
In this article, we have compiled all the Oscars nominees and winners of 2017. Moonlight won 3 awards while La La Land won 6 awards after being nominated in 14 different categories. This year’s Oscars has ended up with a blunder which was sorted out just after the announcement. The blunder was that the movie ‘La La Land’ was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture before announcing the real winner ‘Moonlight’.
Oscars Nominees & Winners 2017
The nominees for Oscars 2017 was announced on January 24th, 2017. And, the whole ceremony took place on February 26th, 2017.
Best Picture
Winner: Moonlight
Nominees:
Moonlight, Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, and Manchester by the Sea
Best Actor In A Leading Role
Winner: Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea
Nominees:
Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea, Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge, Ryan Gosling for La La Land, Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic, and Denzel Washington for Fences
Best Actress In A Leading Role
Winner: Emma Stone for La La Land
Nominees:
Emma Stone for La La Land, Isabelle Huppert for Elle, Ruth Negga for Loving, Natalie Portman for Jackie, and Meryl Streep Florence for Foster Jenkins
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Winner: Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
Nominees:
Mahershala Ali for Moonlight, Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water,Lucas Hedges for Manchester by the Sea, Dev Patel for Lion, and Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Winner: Viola Davis for Fences
Nominees:
Viola Davis for Fences, Naomie Harris for Moonlight, Nicole Kidman for Lion, Octavia Spencer for Hidden Figures, and Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea
Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: Zootopia
Nominees:
Zootopia, Kubo and the Two Strings, Moana, My Life as a Zucchini, and The Red Turtle
Best Cinematography
Winner: Linus Sandgren for La La Land
Nominees:
Linus Sandgren for La La Land, Bradford Young for Arrival, Greig Fraser for Lion, James Laxton for Moonlight, and Rodrigo Prieto for Silence
Best Costume Design
Winner: Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Nominees:
Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Joanna Johnston for Allied, Consolata Boyle for Florence Foster Jenkins, Madeline Fontaine for Jackie, and Mary Zophres for La La Land
Best Director
Winner: Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Nominees:
Damien Chazelle for La La Land, Mel Gibson for Hacksaw Ridge, Denis Villeneuve for Arrival, Barry Jenkins for Moonlight, and Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
Best Documentary (Feature)
Winner: O.J.: Made in America
Nominees:
O.J.: Made in America, Fire at Sea, I Am Not Your Negro, Life Animated, and 13th
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner: The White Helmets
Nominees:
The White Helmets, Extremis, 4.1 Miles, Joe’s Violin, and Watani: My Homeland
Best Film Editing
Winner: John Gilbert for Hacksaw Ridge
Nominees:
John Gilbert for Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Walker for Arrival, Jake Roberts for Hell or High Water, Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon for Moonlight, and Tom Cross for La La Land
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: The Salesman (Iran)
Nominees:
The Salesman (Iran), Land of Mine (Denmark), A Man Called Ove (Sweden), Tanna (Australia), and Toni Erdmann (Germany)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Winner: Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson for Suicide Squad
Nominees:
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson for Suicide Squad, Eva von Bahr and Love Larson for A Man Called Ove, and Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo for Star Trek Beyond
Best Music (Original Score)
Winner: Justin Hurwitz for La La Land
Nominees:
Justin Hurwitz for La La Land, Mica Levi for Jackie, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka for Lion, Nicholas Britell for Moonlight, Thomas Newman for Passengers
Best Music (Original Song)
Winner: Justin Hurwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for “City of Stars” from La La Land
Nominees:
Justin Hurwitz, Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for “City of Stars” from La La Land, Justin Hurwitz, Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from La La Land, Justin Timberlake with Max Martin, and Karl Johan Schuster (Shellback) for “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” from Trolls, J. Ralph and Sting for “The Empty Chair” from Jim: The James Foley Story, and Lin-Manuel Miranda for “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana
Best Production Design
Winner: Patrice Vermette for Arrival
Nominees:
Patrice Vermette for Arrival, Stuart Craig for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Jess Gonchor for Hail, Caesar!, David Wasco for La La Land, and Guy Hendrix Dyas for Passengers
Best Animated Short Film
Winner: Piper
Nominees:
Piper, Blind Vaysha, Borrowed Time, Pear Cider and Cigarettes, and Pearl
Best Live Action Short Film
Winner: Sing
Nominees:
Sing, Ennemis Intérieurs, La Femme et le TGV, Silent Nights, and Timecode
Best Sound Editing
Winner: Sylvain Bellemare for Arrival
Nominees:
Sylvain Bellemare for Arrival, Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli for Deepwater Horizon, Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright for Hacksaw Ridge, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan for La La Land, and Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman for Sully
Best Sound Mixing
Winner: Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace for Hacksaw Ridge
Nominees:
Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace for Hacksaw Ridge, Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye for Arrival, Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee, and Steve A. Morrow for La La Land, David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon for The Jungle Book
Nominees:
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon for The Jungle Book, Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington, and Burt Dalton for Deepwater Horizon, Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould for Doctor Strange, Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff for Kubo and the Two Strings, and John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Best Adapted Screenplay Writing
Winner: Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight
Nominees:
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight, Eric Heisserer from “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang for Arrival, August Wilson from Fences by August Wilson for Fences, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi from Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly for Hidden Figures, and Luke Davies from A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose for Lion
Best Original Screenplay Writing
Winner: Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
Nominees:
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea, Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water, Damien Chazelle for La La Land, Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for The Lobster, and Mike Mills for 20th Century Women
That was the 2017’s Oscars nominees and winners.
Also read: Amazing Performances on Brit Awards 2017
Tiru Dehariya
