Presenter Warren Beatty shows the actual winner’s envelope for best picture, “Moonlight,” during The 89th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 26, 2017. Photo Courtesy AMPAS
The 2017 Academy Awards have come and gone. Held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, the annual award, now in its 89th year, honors cinematic achievements in the film industry.
This year the glitzy, and usually polished, show was not without it’s controversy. Instead of celebrating this year’s diversity of nominees and winners the results were overshadowed as many were left scratching their heads due to a historic onstage mishap. Price Waterhouse Cooper, the auditing and accounting firm that has counted Academy Award ballots for more than 80 years, faced a ton of backlash Monday after Oscar nominee “La La Land” was incorrectly named Best Picture winner during the Awards instead of the actual Oscar winner, film “Moonlight.” Presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were reportedly given the incorrect envelope when they announced “La La Land” as Best Picture winner, which Price Waterhouse Cooper confirmed in a statement to the media.
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“We sincerely apologize to ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land,’ Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for best picture,” the statement read. “The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened and deeply regret that this occurred. We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC and [host] Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation.”
Here now, the complete list of winners.
Actor: Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea.”
Actress: Emma Stone, “La La Land.”
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight.”
Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, “Fences.”
Directing: Damien Chazelle, “La La Land.”
Foreign Language Film: “The Salesman,” Iran.
Adapted Screenplay: “Moonlight,” screenplay by Barry Jenkins, story by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea.”
Production Design: “La La Land,” Production Design: David Wasco; Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco.
Cinematography: Linus Sandgren, “La La Land.”
Sound Mixing: “Hacksaw Ridge,” Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace.
Sound Editing: “Arrival,” Sylvain Bellemare.
Original Score: “La La Land,” Justin Hurwitz.
Original Song: “City of Stars” from “La La Land,” music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Ben Pasek and Justin Paul.
Costume Design: Colleen Atwood, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
Documentary (short subject): “The White Helmets,” Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara.
Documentary Feature: “O.J.: Made in America,” Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow.
Film Editing: “Hacksaw Ridge,” John Gilbert.
Makeup and Hairstyling: “Suicide Squad,” Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson.
Animated Feature Film: “Zootopia,” Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer.
Animated Short Film: “Piper,” Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer.
Live Action Short Film: “Sing,” Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy.
Visual Effects: “The Jungle Book,” Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon.