89th Oscars: Best & Worst

Lets get this out of the way first: Holy shit, I cannot believe that happened. I'm not counting this as a "best" or "worst" because while I think that Moonlight was the best of the nominated films and I'm glad it won, I feel bad for the La La Land team who thought they won only to have it snatched out of their hands in the most public way possible, and I feel bad for Warren Beatty because this moment will be infamous and there are probably people out there who will only know him for this and not for Bonnie and Clyde or any of the other great movies he's made.

89th Oscar Winners

As they're announced:

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, Christopher Allen Nelson, Suicide Squad

Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Best Documentary Feature: O.J.: Made in America

Best Sound Editing: Sylvain Bellemare, Arrival

Best Sound Mixing: Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, Peter Grace, Hacksaw Ridge

Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences

Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman (Iran)

Best Animated Short Film: Piper

Best Animated Feature: Zootopia

Best Production Design: David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, La La Land

Best Visual Effects: Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, Dan Lemmon, The Jungle Book

Best Film Editing: John Gilbert, Hacksaw Ridge

Best Documentary Short Film: The White Helmets

Best Live Action Short Film: Mindenki (Sing)

Best Cinematography: Linus Sandgren, La La Land

Best Original Score: Justin Hurwitz, La La Land

Best Original Song: "City of Stars," La La Land

Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight

Best Director: Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea

Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land

Best Picture: Moonlight

89th Oscars Predictions

My predictions:

Best Picture: La La Land

Best Director: Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land

Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea

Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Best Original Screenplay: Manchester By the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight

Best Film Editing: La La Land

Best Cinematography: La La Land

Best Production Design: La La Land

Best Costume Design: La La Land

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Star Trek Beyond

Best Visual Effects: The Jungle Book

Best Sound Mixing: Arrival

Best Sound Editing: Arrival

Best Original Score: La La Land

Best Original Song: "City of Stars, " La La Land

Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman

Best Animated Feature: Zootopia

Best Documentary Feature: O.J. Made in America

Best Documentary Short: The White Helmets

Best Animated Short: Borrowed Time

Best Live-Action Short: Mindenki

21st Century Essentials: Young Adult (2011)

Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron
Country: United States

In 2007 writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman combined forces to bring the world Juno, a warm-hearted comedy about a pregnant teenager that took the box office and the critics by storm, earning an Oscar for Cody and a nomination for Reitman (in addition to earning nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress for Ellen Page). In 2011 Cody and Reitman would re-team for Young Adult, a film as acid as Juno is sweet, replacing its lovably naïve protagonist with one who is dangerously delusional and misanthropic. That it would fail at the box office and gain nary an Oscar nomination seems almost appropriate given that it is a nasty little portrait of piled up disappointments and dreams that have died – it just means that it had the same bitter experience with life as its protagonist did. But, also like its protagonist, Young Adult is a film that endures. It may be one of the meanest comedies of the last decade, but it possesses such a crystal clear vision and such sharp fangs that it will age better than most. Hostility is apparently a masterful preservative.

89th Oscars: Best Picture

The nominees are:

Arrival
Plot: When aliens touch down on earth linguist Louise Banks is brought in to help determine the purpose of their arrival, but it's the lack of communication between humans themselves that put the fate of the world in jeopardy.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Shawn Levy - first nomination

* Dan Levine - first nomination

* Aaron Ryder - first nomination

* David Lynde - first nomination

Total Nominations for Film: 8 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing