The 2017 Oscars were hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, on Sunday night with the ceremony airing from 11:10 pm on Sky Oscars (Sky Channel 304).
Alex Zane took a look at the movies hoping to win an award before the live coverage of the 89th Academy Awards in Los Angeles from the Red Carpet starts at 11:30 pm. With the Oscars coverage starting at 1:30 am.
As with previous years here at Blazing Minds, we were tweeting and updating the website live throughout the night with updates from the Oscars.
The night was long as we tweeted live and joined in with the Oscars fun via the various hashtags and announced the winners thoughout the night and into the early hours, right up until around 5 am in the morning.
There were several surprises, such as Suicide Squad winning an Oscar and the 14 Oscar Nominated La La Land not doing as well as we all expected, but still managed to get 6 Oscars, but this could have been down to the backlash that the film had received prior to the awards, which was a terrible shame.
Bonnie and Clyde Rob La La Land of Best Picture
Even more shocking during the Oscars was the announcement for Best Picture when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty came onto the stage to announce the winner, but upon opening the envelope, Beatty wasn’t sure of what he was reading and Dunaway announced La La Land as Best Picture, it was shortly announced that it was, in fact, Moonlight that had won the Best Picture in the 2017 Oscars!
Host Jimmy Kimmel brought some great humour to the show and he even tweeted Donald Trump and it went crazy with the ReTweets:
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 27, 2017
So Who Were This Year’s Oscar Winners
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land Our Prediction
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight WINNER
Directing
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle, La La Land Our Prediction WINNER
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actor in a Leading Role
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Our Prediction WINNER
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 Our Prediction WINNER
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Actress in a Supporting Role
Viola Davis, Fences Our Prediction WINNER
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role goes to Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight WINNER
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion Our Prediction
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Adapted Screenplay
Arrival, Eric Heisserer Our Prediction
Fences, August Wilson
Hidden Figures, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
Lion, Luke Davies
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney WINNER
Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan
La La Land, Damien Chazelle
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan Our Prediction WINNER
20th Century Women, Mike Mills
Animated Feature Film
Kubo and the Two Strings Our Prediction
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia WINNER
Foreign Language Film
Land of Mine (Denmark)Â Our Prediction
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
The Salesman (Iran)Â WINNER
Tanna (Australia)
Toni Erdmann (Germany)
Documentary Feature
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America Our Prediction WINNER
13th
Cinematography
Arrival, Bradford Young
La La Land, Linus Sandgren Our Prediction WINNER
Lion, Greig Fraser
Moonlight, James Laxton
Silence, Rodrigo Prieto
Film Editing
Arrival, Joe Walker
Hacksaw Ridge, John Gilbert WINNER
Hell or High Water, Jake Roberts
La La Land, Tom Cross Our Prediction
Moonlight, Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
Production Design
Arrival, Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock
Hail, Caesar! , Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh
La La Land, Davis Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Our Prediction WINNER
Passengers, Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena
Costume Design
Allied, Joanna Johnston
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Colleen Atwood Our Prediction WINNER
Florence Foster Jenkins, Consolata Boyle
Jackie, Madeline Fontaine
La La Land, Mary Zophres
Makeup and Hairstyling
A Man Called Ove, Eva von Bahr and Love Larson
Star Trek Beyond, Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo
Suicide Squad, Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson Our Prediction WINNER
Original Score
Jackie, Mica Levi
La La Land, Justin Hurwitz Our Prediction WINNER
Lion, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
Moonlight, Nicholas Britell
Passengers, Thomas Newman
Original Song
“Audition (The Fools who Dream),” La La Land, music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls, music and lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Karl Johan Schuster
“City of Stars,” La La Land, music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Our Prediction WINNER
“The Empty Chair,” Jim: The James Foley Story, music and lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana, music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sound Editing
Amy Adams attempts to communicate with aliens in Arrival
Arrival, Sylvain Bellemare WINNER
Deepwater Horizon, Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli Our Prediction
Hacksaw Ridge, Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
La La Land, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
Sully, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Sound Mixing
Arrival, Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye
Hacksaw Ridge, Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace WINNER
La La Land, Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee, and Steve A. Morrow
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson Our Prediction
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Mac Ruth
Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon, Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Justin Billington, and Burt Dalton
Doctor Strange, Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould Our Prediction
The Jungle Book, Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon WINNER
Kubo and the Two Strings, Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould
Animated Short Film
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time Our Prediction
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper WINNER
Live Action Short Film
Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing WINNER
Timecode Our Prediction
Documentary Short Subject
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland Our Prediction
The White Helmets WINNER
So there you have it folks, the complete list of the 2017 Oscars. Let us know your predictions in the comments below.
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
