Moonlight has picked up the Best Picture award at the 89th Academy Awards aka The Oscars.
In an unfortunate gaffe, actor Warren Beatty read out the wrong winner for the category announcing it as La La Land. He was soon corrected and revealed that the actual winner was Moonlight and that Beatty was given the wrong announcement card.
La La Land was expected to take Best Picture so Moonlight’s win was a bit of a surprise. Moonlight also picked up Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali and Best Adapted Screenplay for Barry Jenkins and Alvin McCraney.
Despite not winning Best Picture, La La Land picked up 6 awards over the course of the evening including Best Actress for Emma Stone and Best Director for Damien Chazelle.
Other big winners on the night included Manchester by the Sea, which picked up 2 awards and Viola Davis who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences.
The full list of winners is:
Best Picture
Moonlight
Best Actor
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Best Actress
Emma Stone – La La Land
Best Director
La La Land – Damien Chazelle
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis – Fences
Best Costume Design
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Colleen Atwood
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Suicide Squad – Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson
Best Documentary Feature
OJ: Made in America
Best Sound Editing
Arrival – Sylvain Bellemare
Best Sound Mixing
Hacksaw Ridge – Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
Best Foreign Language Film
The Salesman – Iran
Best Animated Short
Piper – Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
Best Animated Feature
Zootopia
Best Production Design
La La Land – David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Best Visual Effects
The Jungle Book – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R Jones and Dan Lemmon
Best Film Editing
Hacksaw Ridge – John Gilbert
Best Documentary Short
The White Helmets – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
Best Live Action Short
Sing – Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy
Best Cinematography
La La Land – Linus Sandgren
Best Original Score
La La Land – Justin Hurwitz
Best Original Song
La La Land – City of Stars by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Best Original Screenplay
Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
Best Adapted Screenplay
Moonlight – Barry Jenkins and Alvin McCraney
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