It was a stunning upset, Moonlight won Best Picture tonight — after a historic gaffe in which La La Land was announced as the winner. Presenter Faye Dunaway read La La Land for the top award, and its principals came to the stage. But, in what many thought was a joke, Moonlight later was announced as Best Picture. Dunaway, who presented with her Bonnie and Clyde co-star Warren Beatty, explained that his envelope said “Emma Stone for La La Land,” he paused and read the L.A.-set musical as the big winner.
La La did win six trophies tonight at the 89th annual Academy Awards – but it certainly wasn’t the historic landslide many had expected. The L.A.-set musical came in with a record-tying 14 nominations and went home with seven Oscars including Best Actress for Emma Stone, and Damien Chazelle won for Best Director but lost Original Screenplay to Kenneth Lonergan’s script for Manchester by the Sea.
Casey Affleck won Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea, which was one of only three other films to win multiple Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Moonlight got three, and Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge also took a pair of statuettes.
Lionsgate led all studios with eight Oscars — the six for La La Land and two for Hacksaw Ridge — but was shut out from winning its first Best Picture trophy.
Here is the complete list of winners:
BEST PICTURE
MOONLIGHT
Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Emma Stone
La La Land
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea
DIRECTING
LA LA LAND
Damien Chazelle
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
MOONLIGHT
Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Written by Kenneth Lonergan
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MAHERSHALA ALI
Moonlight
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
VIOLA DAVIS
Fences
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ZOOTOPIA
Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE SALESMAN
Iran
CINEMATOGRAPHY
LA LA LAND
Linus Sandgren
FILM EDITING
HACKSAW RIDGE
John Gilbert
VISUAL EFFECTS
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon
PRODUCTION DESIGN
LA LA LAND
Production Design: David Wasco; Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
SOUND MIXING
HACKSAW RIDGE
Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
SOUND EDITING
ARRIVAL
Sylvain Bellemare
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA
Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
COSTUME DESIGN
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Colleen Atwood
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
SUICIDE SQUAD
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
CITY OF STARS
from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
PIPER
Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
SING
Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
THE WHITE HELMETS
Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
THE WHITE HELMETS
Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
