The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony celebrates the film industry's best and biggest in cinema for the year 2016 with host Jimmy Kimmel, including awards for best actors, directors, songs... Read allThe 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony celebrates the film industry's best and biggest in cinema for the year 2016 with host Jimmy Kimmel, including awards for best actors, directors, songs, original screenplays and motion picture.The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony celebrates the film industry's best and biggest in cinema for the year 2016 with host Jimmy Kimmel, including awards for best actors, directors, songs, original screenplays and motion picture.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 10 nominations total
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- TriviaThe flub of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's naming the wrong film Best Picture (La La Land (2016) instead of Moonlight (2016)) had never happened before in the Oscars' history.
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Jordan Horowitz: There was a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. This is not a joke, come up. This is not a joke. Moonlight won Best Picture.
[holding the envelope and showing to the camera]
Jordan Horowitz: Moonlight. Best Picture.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Breakfast: Episode dated 27 February 2017 (2017)
- SoundtracksCan't Stop the Feeling
Music and Lyrics by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback
Performed by Justin Timberlake
As for the nominees, the only ones that I've seen in all categories are "Arrival", "Hell or High Water", "Manchester by the Sea", "Captain Fantastic", "Florence Foster Jenkins", "A Man Called Ove", "4.1 Miles", "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". It's good that "The Salesman" won, since it drew attention to Donald Trump's Muslim ban. As expected, a bunch of mouth-breathers on Twitter were angry that the Academy gave an Iranian movie an Oscar.
It was inevitable that the ceremony would be half awards, half swipe at Trump. Jimmy Kimmel pulled no punches. That gag with the people on the bus was probably a pleasant surprise for them. I mean, how often do you get to do that? When they announced the most famous car in movie history, I at first assumed that it would be either Herbie or Christine. I should've guessed that it was the DeLorean.
My only real complaint was that the ceremony opened with one of the songs. Isn't it more appropriate to introduce everyone first? As for the winners, I haven't seen enough of them to judge, and haven't been all that eager to see "La La Land" (named by Kimmel as the movie in which white people save jazz). Nonetheless, it's good that a Muslim (Mahershala Ali) finally got to win in an acting category, and that Viola Davis won; she's deserved an Oscar for a long time (this also makes her the first African-American to win the Triple Crown of Acting). It's good that Jackie Chan won an honorary Oscar, but I'd like to see the surviving members of Monty Python and the Beatles win honorary Oscars.
All in all, I was satisfied.
- lee_eisenberg
- Feb 26, 2017
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