Entertainment : Moonlight, 1st LGBT Film to Win Best Picture at the Oscars

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Hi, guys! Did you get to watch the Oscars? The ending was reminiscent of Miss Universe 2015 as the show initially announced La La Land as the Best Picture winner instead of Moonlight. Needless to say the unexpected reversal created confusion, shock, and chaos onstage.

Anyway, who did you think were the best dressed men in the red carpet? We thought Josh Dallas, Pharrell Williams, Ryan Gosling, Aldis Hodge, Jackie Chan, Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, and Andrew Garfield who wore Tom Ford looked gorgeous in their respective tuxedos. Speaking of outfits, some of the stars pinned a blue ribbon on theirs as a way of showing their support for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a “nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy organization devoted to protecting the rights of everyone in America.”

For the 89^th Academy Awards, the romantic musical La La Land had 14 Oscar nominations including the best actress, best director, and best original music score. Arrival and gay drama Moonlight on the other hand, garnered eight nominations each.

As aforementioned, Moonlight took home the Best Picture award. It stars Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Mahershala Ali, and Alex Hibbert tells the story of a young black gay man named Chiron and his challenging life in Miami. The win is historic because it is the first LGBTQ film ever to earn Best Picture in the history of the Academy Awards. Watch its trailer below.

Gay songwriter Benj Pasek on the other hand, won Best original song “City of Stars” for La La Land which he co-wrote with Justin Paul.

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2017), which is based on gay author James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House lost to O.J.: Made in America for the best documentary feature.

Check out the complete list of winners below:

Best actor in a supporting role

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

Best makeup and hairstyling

• “A Man Called Ove”
• “Star Trek Beyond”
• “Suicide Squad” – WINNER

Best costume design

• “Allied”
• “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” — WINNER
• “Florence Foster Jenkins”
• “Jackie”
• “La La Land”

Best documentary feature

• “Fire at Sea”
• “I Am Not Your Negro”
• “Life Animated”
• “13th”
• “O.J.: Made in America” — WINNER

Best sound editing

• “Arrival” — WINNER
• “Deepwater Horizon”
• “Hacksaw Ridge”
• “La La Land”
• “Sully”

Best sound mixing

• “Arrival”
• “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
• “Hacksaw Ridge” — WINNER
• “La La Land”
• “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”

Best actress in a supporting role

• Viola Davis — “Fences” — WINNER
• Naomie Harris — “Moonlight”
• Nicole Kidman — “Lion”
• Octavia Spencer — “Hidden Figures”
• Michelle Williams — “Manchester by the Sea”

Best foreign language film

• “Land of Mine” (Denmark)
• “A Man Called Ove” (Sweden)
• “The Salesman” (Iran) — WINNER
• “Tanna” (Australia)
• “Toni Erdmann” (Germany)

Best animated short film

• “Blind Vaysha”
• “Borrowed Time”
• “Pear Cider and Cigarettes”
• “Pearl”
• “Piper” — WINNER

Best animated feature film

• “Kubo and the Two Strings”
• “Moana”
• “My Life as a Zucchini”
• “The Red Turtle”
• “Zootopia” — WINNER

Best production design

• “Arrival”
• “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
• “Hail, Caesar!”
• “La La Land” — WINNER
• “Passengers”

Best visual effects

• “Deepwater Horizon”
• “Doctor Strange”
• “The Jungle Book” — WINNER
• “Kubo and the Two Strings”
• “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

Best film editing

• “Arrival”
• “Hacksaw Ridge” — WINNER
• “La La Land”
• “Moonlight”
• “Hell or High Water”

Best live action short film

• “Ennemis Intérieurs”
• “La Femme et le TGV”
• “Silent Nights”
• “Sing” — WINNER
• “Timecode”

Best documentary short subject

• “Extremis”
• “4.1 Miles”
• “Joe’s Violin”
• “Watani: My Homeland”
• “The White Helmets” — WINNER

Best cinematography

• “Arrival”
• “La La Land”  — WINNER
• “Lion”
• “Moonlight”
• “Silence”

Best original score

• “La La Land” — WINNER
• “Lion”
• “Jackie”
• “Moonlight”
• “Passengers”

Best original song

• “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” — “La La Land”
• “Can’t Stop the Feeling” — “Trolls”
• “City of Stars” — “La La Land” — WINNER
• “The Empty Chair” — “Jim: The James Foley Story”
• “How Far I’ll Go” — “Moana”

Best original screenplay

• “Hell or High Water”
• “La La Land”
• “The Lobster”
• “Manchester by the Sea” — WINNER
• “20th Century Women”

Best adapted screenplay

• “Arrival”
• “Fences”
• “Hidden Figures”
• “Lion”
• “Moonlight” — WINNER

Best director

• Damien Chazelle — “La La Land” – WINNER
• Mel Gibson — “Hacksaw Ridge”
• Barry Jenkins — “Moonlight”
• Kenneth Lonergan — “Manchester by the Sea”
• Denis Villeneuve — “Arrival”

Best lead actor

• Casey Affleck — “Manchester by the Sea” – WINNER
• Andrew Garfield — “Hacksaw Ridge”
• Ryan Gosling — “La La Land”
• Viggo Mortensen — “Captain Fantastic”
• Denzel Washington — “Fences”

Best lead actress

• Isabelle Huppert — “Elle”
• Ruth Negga — “Loving”
• Natalie Portman — “Jackie”
• Emma Stone — “La La Land” – WINNER
• Meryl Streep — “Florence Foster Jenkins”

Best picture

• “Arrival”
• “Fences”
• “Hacksaw Ridge”
• “Hell or High Water”
• “Hidden Figures”
• “La La Land”
• “Lion”
• “Manchester by the Sea”
• “Moonlight” – WINNER