The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2016, and took place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, at 5:30 p.m. PST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the first time.
Relatedly, the academy held its 8th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 12, 2016. On November 25, 2016, the AMPAS announced that no anime shorts would be considered for this year's ceremony. On February 11, 2017, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by hosts John Cho and Leslie Mann.
In the main ceremony, Moonlight won three awards including Best Picture—after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner—as well as Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. La La Land won six awards, the most for the evening, out of its record-tying 14 nominations, including Best Actress for Emma Stone and Best Director for Damien Chazelle. Hacksaw Ridge and Manchester by the Sea won two awards each with Casey Affleck winning Best Actor for the latter. Viola Davis won the Best Supporting Actress honor for Fences. The telecast was viewed by 32.9 million people in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 89th Academy Awards were announced on January 24, 2017, via global live stream from the academy. La La Land received the most nominations with a record-tying fourteen (1950's All About Eve and 1997's Titanic also achieved this distinction); Arrival and Moonlight came in second with eight apiece. La La Lands Best Picture loss to Moonlight meant it set a record for most nominations without winning Best Picture. Four of the five nominations for Best Original Score were by first-time nominees, the highest figure since 1967.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. Moonlight became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, La La Land was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and Moonlight was declared the winner. O.J.: Made in America, at 467 minutes, became the longest film to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long War and Peace, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new academy rules barred any "multi-part or limited series" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, he and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and Tony wins.
At the age of thirty-two years and thirty-eight days, Damien Chazelle became the youngest person to win Best Director; Norman Taurog was only two hundred and twenty-two days older than Chazelle when he won Best Director for the 1931 comedy Skippy. Kevin O'Connell ended the longest losing streak in Oscar history after 20 unsuccessful nominations for sound mixing, winning for Hacksaw Ridge. Moonlights Dede Gardner became the first woman to win twice for producing, following her previous Best Picture win for 12 Years a Slave.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
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Moonlight – Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner Arrival – Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde Fences – Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic and David Permut Hell or High Water – Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn Hidden Figures – Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams and Theodore Melfi La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt Lion – Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder Manchester by the Sea – Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck and Kevin J. Walsh | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Damien Chazelle – La La Land Denis Villeneuve – Arrival Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea Barry Jenkins – Moonlight |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea as Lee Chandler Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge as Desmond Doss Ryan Gosling – La La Land as Sebastian "Seb" Wilder Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic as Ben Cash Denzel Washington – Fences as Troy Maxson | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Emma Stone – La La Land as Amelia "Mia" Dolan Isabelle Huppert – Elle as Michèle Leblanc Ruth Negga – Loving as Mildred Loving Natalie Portman – Jackie as Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight as Juan Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water as Marcus Hamilton Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea as Patrick Chandler Dev Patel – Lion as Saroo Brierley Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals as Detective Bobby Andes | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson Naomie Harris – Moonlight as Paula Nicole Kidman – Lion as Sue Brierley Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures as Dorothy Vaughan Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea as Randi Chandler |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Moonlight – Barry Jenkins; story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney Arrival – Eric Heisserer; based on the short story "Story of Your Life" written by Ted Chiang Fences – August Wilson (posthumous nomination); based on his play Hidden Figures – Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi; based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly Lion – Luke Davies; based on the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer Kubo and the Two Strings – Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner Moana – John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer My Life as a Zucchini – Claude Barras and Max Karli The Red Turtle – Michaël Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
The Salesman (Iran) in Persian – Directed by Asghar Farhadi Land of Mine (Denmark) in Danish – Directed by Martin Zandvliet A Man Called Ove (Sweden) in Swedish – Directed by Hannes Holm Tanna (Australia) in Nauvhal – Directed by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean Toni Erdmann (Germany) in German – Directed by Maren Ade |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
O.J.: Made in America – Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow 13th – Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish Fire at Sea – Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety and Hébert Peck Life, Animated – Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Sing – Kristóf Deák and Anna Udvardy Ennemis intérieurs – Sélim Azzazi La femme et le TGV – Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff Silent Nights – Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson Timecode – Juanjo Giménez | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
La La Land – Justin Hurwitz Jackie – Mica Levi Lion – Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka Moonlight – Nicholas Britell Passengers – Thomas Newman | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
"City of Stars" from La La Land – Music by Justin Hurwitz; lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land – Music by Justin Hurwitz; lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul "Can't Stop the Feeling!" from Trolls – Music and lyrics by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster "The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story – Music and lyrics by J. Ralph and Sting "How Far I'll Go" from Moana – Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Arrival – Sylvain Bellemare Deepwater Horizon – Wylie Stateman and Renée 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Hacksaw Ridge – Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth Arrival – Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye La La Land – Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steven A. Morrow Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
La La Land – Production design: David Wasco; set decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Arrival – Production design: Patrice Vermette; set decoration: Paul Hotte Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Production design: Stuart Craig; set decoration: Anna Pinnock Hail, Caesar! – Production design: Jess Gonchor; set decoration: Nancy Haigh Passengers – Production design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; set decoration: Gene Serdena | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
La La Land – Linus Sandgren Arrival – Bradford Young Lion – Greig Fraser Moonlight – James Laxton Silence – Rodrigo Prieto |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Hacksaw Ridge – John Gilbert Arrival – Joe Walker Hell or High Water – Jake Roberts La La Land – Tom Cross Moonlight – Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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
Governors Awards The academy held its 8th annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 12, 2016, during which the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards To Jackie Chan, an international film star who has captivated millions with his wit, boundless energy and unparalleled athletic artistry.