Moonlight has won the best picture Oscar in an unlikely victory, sensationally defeating the strong favourite La La Land.
Directed by Barry Jenkins and adapted from an unpublished playscript by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight won near-universal critical plaudits for its depiction of the coming of age of a gay black teenager from a rough neighbourhood in Miami.
It defeated nine other films in the Oscar race: apart from hot favourite La La Land, it also beat Kenneth Lonergan’s grief drama Manchester by the Sea and the commercially successful Hidden Figures, about black female mathematicians who worked on Nasa’s moon mission in the 1960s.
Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali won their first Oscars for their supporting roles in African-American stories "Fences" and "Moonlight," in stark contrast to the 2016 Academy Awards when no actors of color were even nominated.

THE WINNERS LIST IN FULL

Best supporting actor
WINNER: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
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
WINNER: Suicide Squad

Best costume design
Allied
WINNER: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land

Best documentary
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
WINNER: OJ: Made in America
13th

Best sound editing
WINNER: Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best sound mixing
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours
Best supporting actress
WINNER: Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Best foreign language film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
WINNER: The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann

Best animated short
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
WINNER: Piper

Best animated feature
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life As a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
WINNER: Zootopia

Best production design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
WINNER: La La Land
Passengers

Best visual effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
WINNER: The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best film editing
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight
Best documentary short
4.1 Miles
Extremis
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
WINNER: The White Helmets

Best live-action short
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
WINNER: Sing
Timecode

Best cinematography
Arrival
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Best score
Jackie
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers

Best song
Audition (La La Land)
Can’t Stop the Feeling! (Trolls)
WINNER: City of Stars (La La Land)
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
WINNER: Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women

Best adapted screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
WINNER: Moonlight

Best director
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
WINNER: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best actor
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: Emma Stone (La La Land)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Best picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
WINNER: Moonlight

text source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/27/moonlight-wins-best-picture-oscars-academy-award-2017

pic source: http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-39099365

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The Oscars is just all about politics. Nothing more. Forget all the show things.

Since my man denzel Washington no win feeling same as Grammy just as dem rob Beyonce take give Adele for Album of the year.

ok

prof800:
The Oscars is just all about politics. Nothing more. Forget all the show things.

well, isn't virtually everything informed by that these days? reality of the world we live in

Ahmed0336:
Since my man denzel Washington no win feeling same as Grammy just as dem rob Beyonce take give Adele for Album of the year.

well, technically, you can still call your man, denzel, a winner. viola davis who played a role in the movie(Fences) he directed and starred in, nabbed the Best supporting actress award.

prof800:
The Oscars is just all about politics. Nothing more. Forget all the show things.

which one is politics again? Mention one category that the winner didn't deserve to win

So happy 4 Emma Stone!

Thank God moonlight won best picture.

Oscar na fraud! Just tell me what's so special about Moonlight!?
The most inconsequential movie of 2016.

We hear

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Csami:
Oscar na fraud! Just tell me what's so special about Moonlight!?
The most inconsequential movie of 2016.

Are u talking about the story line or the cinematography?

Which club OSCAR dy play for now?

ever since he left chelsea, i never hear from am again

With Hacksaw Ridge... Mel Gibson deserved to be the best Director

Csami:
Oscar na fraud! Just tell me what's so special about Moonlight!?
The most inconsequential movie of 2016.

because a movie does not have boxoffice numbers does not make inconsequential. ,moonlights is the first movie that shows the struggle of the average black American male.

Hidden Figures was definitely worth watching - particularly Mahershala Ali's character, charming guy.

Almost all the movies up there are rubbish except Hell or High Water and Captain Fantastic

Na only Moonlight wakka come?

abiodunalasa:
With Hacksaw Ridge... Mel Gibson deserved to be the best Director

Feel the same too.

Owk.

How many nomination did La La Land got sef? Ha!

abiodunalasa:
With Hacksaw Ridge... Mel Gibson deserved to be the best Director

guy that film too dope

Nooo What happened? Ruth Negga should had won that thing, sadly Emma Stone's popularity was a breaking edge.
Happy for Mahashala Ali and viola Davis... but I don't know how Moonlight won? I was rooting for hidden figures :/

Cool.....now i gat a bad-Ass list of movies to download!

#and not forgetting XX.X(triple x), John wick 2, the great wall etc....


Naah waah for Nairaland oooh!.... I wrote the name of a movie (XX.X) and they changed it to BLEEP! WADAPHUCK!!