I don't know if the unprecedented amount of black actors and black movies nominated this year is a response to the #Oscarsowhite "controversy" but there sure isn't anything to complain about this year. Best Picture Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester By the Sea Moonlight Best Director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) Damien Chazelle (La La Land) Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By the Sea) Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) Best Actor Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) Ryan Gosling (La La Land) Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) Denzel Washington (Fences) Best Actress Isabelle Huppert (Elle) Ruth Negga (Loving) Emma Stone (La La Land) Natalie Portman (Jackie) Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water) Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) Dev Patel (Lion) Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals) Best Supporting Actress Viola Davis (Fences) Naomie Harris (Moonlight) Nicole Kidman (Lion) Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea) Best Original Screenplay Hell or High Water (Taylor Sheridan) La La Land (Damien Chazelle) The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou) Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) 20th Century Women (Mike Mills) Best Adapted Screenplay Arrival (Eric Heisserer) Fences (August Wilson) Hidden Figures (Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi) Lion (Luke Davies) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McRaney) Best Animated Feature Film Kubo and the Two Strings Moana My Life As a Zucchini The Red Turtle Zootopia Best Foreign Language Film Land of Mine A Man Called Ove The Salesman Tanna Toni Erdmann Best Documentary – Feature Fire at Sea I Am Not Your Negro Life, Animated O.J.: Made in America 13th Best Documentary – Short Subject 4.1 Miles Extremis Joe’s Violin Watani: My Homeland The White Helmets Best Animated Short Film Blind Vaysha Borrowed Time Pear Cider and Cigarettes Pearl Piper Best Original Score Jackie (Micachu) La La Land (Justin Hurwitz) Lion (Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka) Moonlight (Nicholas Britell) Passengers (Thomas Newman) Best Original Song “Audition” (La La Land) “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (Trolls) “City of Stars” (La La Land) “The Empty Chair” (Jim: The James Foley Story) “How Far I’ll Go” (Moana) Best Cinematography Arrival (Bradford Young) La La Land (Linus Sandgren) Lion (Grieg Fraser) Moonlight (James Laxton) Silence (Rodrigo Prieto) Best Visual Effects Deepwater Horizon Doctor Strange The Jungle Book Kubo and the Two Strings Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Best Sound Editing Arrival Deepwater Horizon Hacksaw Ridge La La Land Sully Best Sound Mixing Arrival Hacksaw Ridge La La Land Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 13 Hours
