Tonight at the 89th Academy Awards, movies like La La Land, Moonlight, Arrival, and Hell or High Water vied for a bevy of Oscars. Here’s who won.
The Oscars have finally arrived, after weeks of hype and weeks of vying between picking one movie or another for Best Picture and all those other vaguely important awards. You can even keep waffling throughout the ceremony! The Best Picture award tends to come last, anyways. Of course, it might count as cheating if you see how the rest of the night goes for something like La La Land and switch at the very end. However, a win is a win, and a correct prediction is a correct prediction.
Just maybe don’t publicize it if you switched, okay? (We won’t tell anyone if you do. Promise.)
Anyway, here’s the complete list of nominees, via the Oscars official website, so that you can continue mulling over who you want to win up to the very last second, even as the presenter starts actually presenting the award!
Say what you will about “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” as a song, but Justin Timberlake certainly opened the show with a slickly-produced rendition of the song from Trolls. Reaction shots included Taraji P. Henson jamming right out to the song. Naturally, once JT went back down into the audience, eh had some time for his wife, Jessica Biel.
And then JT introduced Jimmy Kimmel, who, in between some awkward jokes, actually talked about Matt Damon and tried to “bridge the gap” with him in the form of more jokes.
At least Meryl Streep got a standing ovation out of the opening monologue. Things went right to Best Supporting Actor, though, after that. (Well, that and a montage of previous winners.) Alicia Vikander presented.
Best Supporting Actor
- Mahershala Ali — Moonlight
Next up to present for Best Makeup and Hairstyling as well as Best Costumes were Kate McKinnon and Jason Bateman.
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- Suicide Squad — Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson
Best Costume Design
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — Colleen Atwood
Yup, Suicide Squad is an Oscar-winning movie. That basically officially makes it better than the Razzie-winning Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, right?
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monaé (all looking fabulous) presented the Best Documentary Oscars. Then, in a surprise, Katherine Johnson — one of the three women profiled in Hidden Figures — arrived on stage. Naturally, she got a standing ovation as well.
Best Documentary Feature
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
Next up was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, still looking great in a velvet jacket, ready to sing … However, Auli’i Cravalho and Lin-Manuel Miranda took over for “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana instead. By the way, Auli’i Cravalho is only 16 and knocked the performance out despite taking a whack to the side of the head.
The president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, then came out to speak about the nature of art. Then, Jimmy Kimmel actually had candy parachutes dropped down to the audience.
Sofia Boutella and Chris Evans then presented the Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing Oscars.
Best Sound Editing
- Arrival — Sylvain Bellemare
Best Sound Mixing
- Hacksaw Ridge — Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Peter Grace, and Robert Mackenzie
Vince Vaughn then arrived to talk about the Governors Awards, which give out honorary Oscars, including one for Jackie Chan. Casting director Lynn Stalmaster, film editor Anne Coates, and documentary director Frederick Wiseman also won honorary awards.
Mark Rylance presented the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
Best Supporting Actress
- Viola Davis — Fences
Viola Davis’ speech was magnificent, by the way. We note that the music did not even dare to interrupt her.
Charlize Theron narrated a tribute to The Apartment, a Best Picture winner, and focused on the performance of Shirley MacLaine in the film.
Then the two of them came out to present the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, with plenty of jokes from Shirley MacLaine, of course.
Best Foreign Language Film
- The Salesman — Iran
Director Asghar Farhadi did not attend the Oscars in protest of the travel ban, but a statement of his was read.
Dev Patel then introduced Sting’s performance of “The Empty Chair” from Jim: The James Foley Story.
Hailee Steinfeld and Gael Garcia Bernal presented the two animated awards: Best Animated Short Film and Best Animated Feature.
Best Short Film, Animated
- Piper — Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
Best Animated Feature
- Zootopia — Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan then gave the Oscar for Best Production Design. Thankfully, there were no terrible Fifty Shades Darker jokes. (All that came up was “You look familiar.” That was enough.)
Best Production Design
- La La Land — David Wasco (Production Design) and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (Set Decoration)
Kimmel then had a bunch of tourists walk in on the Oscars. They had no idea it was coming. They did, however, take lots of pictures. It took about five minutes too long, but Denzel Washington and Mahershala Ali played along. (Everyone got to touch Mahershala’s Oscar.)
After a brief video about the power of the cinema, Riz Ahmed and Felicity Jones presented the Best Visual Effects Oscar.
Best Visual Effects
- The Jungle Book — Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon
Seth Rogen talked about Back to the Future, and then he and Michael J. Fox emerged from a DeLorean, as is right and proper, to present the Oscar for Film Editing. The two of them managed to be funnier than Kimmel in those two minutes.
Best Film Editing
- Hacksaw Ridge — John Gilbert
Salma Hayek and David Oyelowo then presented the Oscars for the Best Documentary, Short Subject and Best Live Action Short Film.
Best Documentary, Short Subject
- The White Helmets — Orlando von Einseidel and Johanna Natasegara
Orlando von Einseidel read a statement from the leader of the White Helmets, Raed Saleh, as part of his acceptance speech.
Best Live Action Short Film
- Sing — Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy
Kimmel then tweeted at Donald Trump, but John Cho and Leslie Mann came out to talk about the Sci-Tech Awards, and they were also ridiculously funny.
Javier Bardem and Meryl Streep, after a tribute by him to her for her work in The Bridges of Madison County, awarded the Best Cinematography Oscar.
Best Cinematography
- La La Land — Linus Sandgren
Mean Tweets then had a special Oscars edition, featuring Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Chastain, Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Whoopi Goldberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Casey Affleck, Emma Stone, Miles Teller, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Bridges, and Robert De Niro (who was hilarious).
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone introduced John Legend’s performance of two songs from La La Land — “Audition” and “City of Stars.”
Samuel L. Jackson presented the Best Original Score Oscar:
Best Original Score
- La La Land — Justin Hurwitz
Scarlett Johansson then presented the Best Original Song award.
Best Original Song
- “City of Stars” — La La Land (Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul)
Jennifer Aniston provided the introduction to the In Memoriam segment. Sara Bareilles sang the musical accompaniment.
Kimmel parodied the tribute to other actors’ work by picking Matt Damon’s We Bought a Zoo. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon then presented the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. To continue the trolling, the orchestra played Damon off even while he was talking.
Best Original Screenplay
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
Amy Adams came on stage to award the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
Cookies and donuts then fell from the sky, to continue a bit.
Out came Halle Berry for Best Director.
Best Director
- Damien Chazelle — La La Land
To continue the speedy awarding of the big Oscars, Best Actor was next, as announced by Brie Larson:
Best Actor
- Casey Affleck — Manchester by the Sea
Best Actress followed. Leonardo DiCaprio presented.
Best Actress
- Emma Stone — La La Land
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, looking great, presented the Best Picture award.
Best Picture
- Moonlight
Yeah, Warren Beatty was given the wrong card, so everyone thought La La Land won, but it didn’t! Surprise!
Next: Final Oscars 2017 Predictions
Congratulations to all the winners, and good luck to the prediction-makers!