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Oscars mistake: Moonlight wins best picture after announcement mix-up –
Moonlight has won best picture at the Oscars – but only after Faye Dunaway initially said La La Land had won. Warren Beatty was handed the previous winner’s envelope, containing a card saying “Emma Stone, La La Land”, resulting in the error. The team from La La Land was in the middle of its acceptance speeches when the mistake was discovered. Stone said backstage afterwards: “Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time? Cool! It’s going to be history.” PriceWaterhouseCooper, the accountancy firm responsible for counting the ballots, said in a statement: “We sincerely apologise 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 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.” [BBC]

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Winners of the 89th Academy Awards [BBC]

Best picture

• Winner: Moonlight
• Arrival
• Fences
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hell or High Water
• Hidden Figures
• La La Land
• Lion
• Manchester by the Sea

Best actress

• Winner: Emma Stone – La La Land
• Isabelle Huppert – Elle
• Ruth Negga – Loving
• Natalie Portman – Jackie
• Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins

Best actor

• Winner: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
• Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
• Ryan Gosling – La La Land
• Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
• Denzel Washington – Fences

Best supporting actress

• Winner: Viola Davis – Fences
• Naomie Harris – Moonlight
• Nicole Kidman – Lion
• Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
• Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

Best supporting actor

• Winner: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
• Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
• Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
• Dev Patel – Lion
• Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals

Best director

• Winner: La La Land – Damien Chazelle
• Arrival – Denis Villeneuve
• Hacksaw Ridge – Mel Gibson
• Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
• Moonlight – Barry Jenkins

Best original screenplay

• Winner: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
• 20th Century Women – Mike Mills
• Hell or High Water – Taylor Sheridan
• La La Land – Damien Chazelle
• The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou

Best adapted screenplay

• Winner: Moonlight – Barry Jenkins and Alvin McCraney
• Arrival – Eric Heisserer
• Fences – August Wilson
• Hidden Figures – Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
• Lion – Luke Davies

Best original score

• Winner: La La Land – Justin Hurwitz
• Jackie – Mica Levi
• Lion – Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
• Moonlight – Nicholas Britell
• Passengers – Thomas Newton

Best original song

• Winner: La La Land – City of Stars by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
• La La Land – Audition by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
• Moana – How Far I’ll Go by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Trolls – Can’t Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
• Jim: The James Foley Story – The Empty Chair by J Ralph and Sting

Best cinematography

• Winner: La La Land – Linus Sandgren
• Arrival – Bradford Young
• Lion – Greig Fraser
• Moonlight – James Laxton
• Silence – Rodrigo Prieto

Best foreign language film

• Winner: The Salesman – Iran
• A Man Called Ove – Sweden
• Land of Mine – Denmark
• Tanna – Australia
• Toni Erdmann – Germany

Best costume design

• Winner: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Colleen Atwood
• Allied – Joanna Johnston
• Florence Foster Jenkins – Consolata Boyle
• Jackie – Madeline Fontaine
• La La Land – Mary Zophres

Best make-up and hairstyling

• Winner: Suicide Squad – Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson
• A Man Called Ove – Eva Von Bahr and Love Larson
• Star Trek Beyond – Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo

Best documentary feature

• Winner: OJ: Made in America
• 13th
• Fire At Sea
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Life, Animated

Best sound editing

• Winner: Arrival – Sylvain Bellemare
• Deepwater Horizon – Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli
• Hacksaw Ridge – Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
• La La Land – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
• Sully – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Best sound mixing

• Winner: Hacksaw Ridge – Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Gary Summers, Jeffrey J Haboush and Mac Ruth
• Arrival – Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye
• 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

Best animated short

• Winner: Piper – Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
• Blind Vaysha – Theodore Ushev
• Borrowed Time – Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
• Pear Cider and Cigarettes – Robert Valley and Cara Speller
• Pearl – Patrick Osborne

Best animated feature

• Winner: Zootopia
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Moana
• My Life as a Zucchini
• The Red Turtle

Best production design

• Winner: La La Land – David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
• 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
• Passengers – Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena

Best visual effects

• Winner: The Jungle Book – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R Jones and Dan Lemmon
• Deepwater Horizon – Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton
• Doctor Strange – Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould
• 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

Best film editing

• Winner: Hacksaw Ridge – John Gilbert
• Arrival – Joe Walker
• Hell or High Water – Jake Roberts
• La La Land – Tom Cross
• Moonlight – Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon

Best documentary short

• Winner: The White Helmets – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
• 4.1 Miles – Daphne Matziaraki
• Extremis – Dan Krauss
• Joe’s Violin – Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen
• Watani: My Homeland – Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis

Best live action short

• Winner: Sing – Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy
• Ennemis Interieurs – Selim Azzazi
• La Femme et le TGV – Timo Von Gunten and Giacun Caduff
• Silent Nights – Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson
• Timecode – Juanjo Gimenez

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian Civil War
  • The Syrian Army recaptures the strategic town of Tadef from ISIL, south of al-Bab, securing key transportation routes in eastern Aleppo Governorate. (Xinhuanet)

Arts and culture

• 89th Academy Awards
  • The 89th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California. (ABC)
  • Moonlight wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, moments after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner. (ABC News Australia)
  • Mahershala Ali wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Moonlight. He is the first Muslim American to win the award. (The Guardian)
  • La La Land ‘s director Damien Chazelle wins the Oscar for Best Director and Emma Stone wins the Academy Award for Best Actress. (The Guardian)
  • Casey Affleck wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Manchester by the Sea. (ABC)
  • Viola Davis wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences. (ABC)
  • The Salesman directed by Asghar Farhadi won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Farhadi and other film crew did not attend the ceremony in protest of Donald Trump‘s visa ban. First Iranian in space Anousheh Ansari and scienist Firouz Naderi attended in place of Farhadi. (The Guardian)
  • O.J.: Made in America wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. (ABC)
  • The Netflix documentary The White Helmets, a film about the Syrian Civil War, wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Its cinematographer was unable to recieve the award due to the immigration policy of the Donald Trump administration.(CNN)
  • Zootopia wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. (ABC)

Disasters and accidents

• Millions of residents in the Chilean capital Santiago are left without access to running water after the Maipo River is contaminated by flooding and landslides. At least four people have died in the floods. (BBC)
• 16 people dead in northern India after a truck carrying villagers to church overturned on a mountain road. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Tens of thousands of people march through Moscow, Russia, to commemorate the two-year anniversary of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov’s assassination. (The Guardian) (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• Political appointments of Donald Trump
  • Philip Bilden, nominee for Secretary of the Navy, withdraws his name from consideration. Mr. Bilden says his business interests created complications. (CNN)

Sport

• 2017 EFL Cup Final
  • Manchester United beat Southampton 3–2 at Wembley Stadium to win the 2016–17 EFL Cup. (BBC)
• 2017 Daytona 500
  • Kurt Busch wins his first Daytona 500. (Orlando Sentinel)

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