Major Awards
Best Picture
Winner
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins, dir. — La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner before the error was corrected in the most dramatic moment in Oscar history
Best Director
Winner
Damien Chazelle
La La Land — youngest Best Director winner at age 32
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Mahershala Ali
Moonlight — first Muslim actor to win an Oscar
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Viola Davis
Fences — completing her EGOT-adjacent journey; first Black person to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony for acting
Screenplay & Craft Awards
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Barry Jenkins — Moonlight
Based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unpublished play
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Winner
Colleen Atwood — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Winner
Hacksaw Ridge (Sound Mixing) • Arrival (Sound Editing)
Deepwater Horizon
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Sully
Best Visual Effects
Winner
The Jungle Book
Jon Favreau — virtual production breakthrough
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Animated, International & Documentary
Best Animated Feature Film
Winner
Zootopia
Byron Howard & Rich Moore — Disney
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Best International Feature Film
Winner
The Salesman
Iran — Asghar Farhadi — director boycotted ceremony in protest of travel ban
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
O.J.: Made in America
Ezra Edelman — ESPN Films — over 7.5 hours long
13th
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
Best Original Song
Winner
“City of Stars” — La La Land
Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul — La La Land also nominated for “Audition”