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Here's The Full List Of 2017 Oscar Winners
Director Barry Jenkins (left) and the cast and crew of 'Moonlight' accepting the Best Picture award. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Another Oscars is in the books and, once again, the results were unsurprising for the most part. La La Land, as predicted by bookies, took home the big award by winning the Best Picture category...
Whoa whoa whoa—WAIT. Apparently presenter Warren Beatty had the wrong envelope, and Moonlight was the real winner! In what was the most surreal moment in Oscars history, the people behind La La Land had already come on stage to accept the award when it was revealed that the Moonlight crew were supposed to be up there.
Moonlight also received some (snafu-free) recognitions when writer/director Barry Jenkins won for Best Adapted Screenplay, and when Mahershala Ali scored the Best Supporting Actor nod.
La La Land still had a perfectly respectable night, however. Emma Stone won the Best Actress statue for her role, and Damien Chazelle took the award for Directing—at age 32, he became the youngest person to ever win it for the category (Martin Scorsese was 64 when he finally got his). In total, the love note to Los Angeles received six awards for the night.
In what was supposed to be the only bit drama of the night, Denzel Washington had a slight edge over Casey Affleck in the Best Actor category—Affleck and his scraggly beard would pull off the upset.
Also of note: Suicide Squad won an award for Makeup and Hairstyling. That's right, the movie that had once been described as a "huge swirling vortex of trash," and which had inspired an online petition that asked people to stop bashing it, took home a golden statue. This means it got a bigger haul than Scorsese's Silence.
Enough of using Scorsese as a barometer for Oscar glory, here's a full list of winners (as it stands at the moment, wow) from the night:
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Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Actor In A Leading Role
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
Actress In A Leading Role
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Actress In A Supporting Role
Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Actor In A Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Directing
Denis Villeneuve Arrival
Mel Gibson Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins Moonlight
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women
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Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight
Documentary (Feature)
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America
13th
Documentary (Short Subject)
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets
Foreign Language Film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann
Animated Feature Film
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia
Short Film (Animated)
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper
Short Film (Live Action)
Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode
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Cinematography
Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence
Music (Original Score)
Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers
Music (Original Song)
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land, Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"Can’t Stop The Feeling" from Trolls, Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
"City Of Stars" from La La Land, Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
"How Far I’ll Go" from Moana, Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Makeup and Hairstyling
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad
Costume Design
Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
Production Design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Passengers
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Sound Editing
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully
Sound Mixing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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