The Oscars 2017

The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honoured the best films of 2016, and took place on February 26 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Holywood, Los Angeles, California, at 5:30 pm, PST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United Kingdom by Sky Cinema Oscars and NOW TV, was produced by Michael De Luca and Jenifer Tod and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the first time.

  

Table of results

Moonlight won three awards, including Best Picture, and La La Land won the most awards of the ceremony with six after receiving a record-typing 14 nominations. In a unprecedented event for the history of the Oscars, La La Land was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, before Moonlight was clarified to be the winner.

Moonlight Mix Up at the Oscars

Moonlight became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT film to win Best Picture. Hacksaw Ridge and Manchester by the Sea won two awards each. Winners with one award include Arrival, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fences, The Jungle Book, O.J,: Made in America, Piper, The Salesman, Sing, Suicide Squad, The White Helmets, and Zootopia. 

I was very pleased overall to see that Moonlight had won Best Picture and Zootopia winning Best Animated Feature at this years Academy Awards since they were both overall my two favourite films from 2016. Hacksaw Ridge was also another feature which I really enjoyed watching which won Sound Mixing. Despite there not being an Action/Adventure films that won an Oscar for this years Academy Awards, and that this genre is what our short film fits with, I was still really pleased to see that these films had won the Oscars they deserved in their nominated categories.