Come 2:30pm New Zealand time, for better or worse! Probably worse, cause I get excited and lose the thread of what I’m doing – I’ll be live blogging and tweeting my thoughts on the 89th Academy Awards 2017, The Oscars! Wanna see how my Oscars 2016 live blogging played out while you wait? Check it out here
Pop back here at 2:30pm for the goods or follow me on Twitter: @OneTakeKate
Wanna compare my One Take Kate Oscars 2017 picks with who actually won and lost? Check it out below and here
The 89th Academy Awards | 2017 on SKY TV Movies Premiere (Runs till about 6:20pm). Once we kick off, I’ll be adding little witticisms along the way and highlighting titles below in BOLD that have won and in ITALICS for things I thought/wanted to win. If it’s BOLD and ITALICS – you know ya girl One Take Kate smashed that shit.
Well – as predicted my live blogging fell off hah-hah. But if you could see my set up, well…I wasn’t going to run between rooms to live blog and miss all of the wonderful action of one of the best and most exciting Oscar Shows I’ve seen in a long time!
Kicking off with Justin Timberlake’s performance was super cute and a remix feel of his MTV Video Vanguard Award performance from a few years back and had every one on their feet dancing, even the magical Michael J. Fox
Jimmy Kimmel was strong in the opening monologue – I did laugh and to be honest he, or more to the point perhaps his writers for the night, did win me over. Best Kimmel moment: loved his burn on Trump by bigging up Meryl Streep and the standing ovation that Ms. Streep was given by the crowd.
It was incredibly special to clap eyes on the real life, flesh and blood Katherine Johnson as introduced by the wonderful women of Hidden Figures, to which Ms. Johnson was also given a standing ovation.
There was wonderment in the first musical performance which was “How Far I’ll Go” from the fantastic Disney’s Moana. Auli’i Cravalho was absolutely heartwarming in her performance, she was clearly a little anxious and getting tickled in the face by a fake wave was startling, but didn’t put her off.
Viola Davis’s win and speech for her work in Fences was electrifying and moving – not a dry eye at my house or in the Dolby Theatre and a well deserved standing o for Viola too.
Adorable moments in the show as a Starline Tours group was ushered into the Dolby Theatre unawares that they were about to meet a whole stack of famous people and star themselves in this year’s Oscars show.
I was very moved by having presenters being a mix of the influencer and the influenced presenting together; particularly Michael J. Fox and Seth Rogen respectively presenting with THE DELOREAN! Behind them! Wow.
#Oscars #sethrogen talking about Back To The Future + standing with Michael J Fox is fuvking wow
— OneTakeKate (@OneTakeKate) 27 February 2017
It was very cute to see Ben Affleck having a little weep for his little brother Casey wining Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in Manchester By The Sea.
And then…wow! What I’ll dub as The Moonlight Mistake. By some crazy twist of weirdness, La La Land did a Marissa Tomei and was announced as the Best Picture winner for 2017 but…although it originally looked like it was the fault of salty old dog Warren Beatty, it was indeed a production error that saw a duplicate Emma Stone as Best Actress in a Leading Role winning envelope handed to Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. With absolute grace, Jordan Horowitz one of the La La Land producers made sure that the mistake was rectified immediately, calling the crew and cast of Moonlight to the stage to receive their rightful Best Picture award.
Wow…just wow. Here’s all the winners for you in the order they were awarded.
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE NOMINEES – FUCK YES! My Boy Mahershala Ali scoops it! I’m so proud for him and he’s just welcomed a daughter into the world 4 days ago. Magical.
MAHERSHALA ALI
Moonlight
JEFF BRIDGES
Hell or High Water
LUCAS HEDGES
Manchester by the Sea
DEV PATEL
Lion
MICHAEL SHANNON
Nocturnal Animals
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING NOMINEES – Would have liked to see perhaps Star Trek Beyond snatch this but happy with Suicide Squad nonetheless
A MAN CALLED OVE
Eva von Bahr and Love Larson
STAR TREK BEYOND
Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo
SUICIDE SQUAD
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson
COSTUME DESIGN NOMINEES – Wow! So proud of the Wizarding World right now. Was either wanting this or Allied so I’m a happy film freak
ALLIED
Joanna Johnston
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Colleen Atwood
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
Consolata Boyle
JACKIE
Madeline Fontaine
LA LA LAND
Mary Zophres
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) NOMINEES – Boo! Strongly against this win. No more time should be given to O.J. Simpson.
FIRE AT SEA
Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety and Hébert Peck
LIFE, ANIMATED
Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman
O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA
Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
13TH
Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish
SOUND EDITING NOMINEES – Good and deserving win for Arrival here.
ARRIVAL
Sylvain Bellemare
DEEPWATER HORIZON
Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
HACKSAW RIDGE
Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
LA LA LAND
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
SULLY
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
SOUND MIXING NOMINEES
ARRIVAL
Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye
HACKSAW RIDGE
Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
LA LA LAND
Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI
Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE NOMINEES – wonderful speech from Viola when she won. Bloody wowsauce.
VIOLA DAVIS
Fences
NAOMIE HARRIS
Moonlight
NICOLE KIDMAN
Lion
OCTAVIA SPENCER
Hidden Figures
MICHELLE WILLIAMS
Manchester by the Sea
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEES
LAND OF MINE
Denmark
A MAN CALLED OVE
Sweden
THE SALESMAN
Iran
TANNA
Australia
TONI ERDMANN
Germany
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) NOMINEES
BLIND VAYSHA
Theodore Ushev
BORROWED TIME
Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
PEAR CIDER AND CIGARETTES
Robert Valley and Cara Speller
PEARL
Patrick Osborne
PIPER
Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM NOMINEES – I adored Zootopia and if you’ve not seen it yet then please, treat yourself to this wonderful, zero tolerance on racism film.
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
MOANA
John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer
MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
Claude Barras and Max Karli
THE RED TURTLE
Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki
ZOOTOPIA
Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer
PRODUCTION DESIGN NOMINEES
ARRIVAL
Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Paul Hotte
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
HAIL, CAESAR!
Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
LA LA LAND
Production Design: David Wasco; Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
PASSENGERS
Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
VISUAL EFFECTS NOMINEES
DEEPWATER HORIZON
Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton
DOCTOR STRANGE
Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould
FILM EDITING NOMINEES
ARRIVAL
Joe Walker
HACKSAW RIDGE
John Gilbert
HELL OR HIGH WATER
Jake Roberts
LA LA LAND
Tom Cross
MOONLIGHT
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) NOMINEES
EXTREMIS
Dan Krauss
4.1 MILES
Daphne Matziaraki
JOE’S VIOLIN
Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen
WATANI: MY HOMELAND
Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis
THE WHITE HELMETS
Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) NOMINEES
ENNEMIS INTÉRIEURS
Sélim Azzazi
LA FEMME ET LE TGV
Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff
SILENT NIGHTS
Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson
SING
Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy
TIMECODE
Juanjo Giménez
CINEMATOGRAPHY NOMINEES
ARRIVAL
Bradford Young
LA LA LAND
Linus Sandgren
LION
Greig Fraser
MOONLIGHT
James Laxton
SILENCE
Rodrigo Prieto
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) NOMINEES
JACKIE
Mica Levi
LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz
LION
Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
MOONLIGHT
Nicholas Britell
PASSENGERS
Thomas Newman
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) NOMINEES
HELL OR HIGH WATER
Written by Taylor Sheridan
LA LA LAND
Written by Damien Chazelle
THE LOBSTER
Written by Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Written by Kenneth Lonergan
20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Written by Mike Mills
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) NOMINEES
ARRIVAL
Screenplay by Eric Heisserer
FENCES
Screenplay by August Wilson
HIDDEN FIGURES
Screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
LION
Screenplay by Luke Davies
MOONLIGHT
Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
DIRECTING NOMINEES – What a feat directing La La Land would have been, well done Damien Chazelle, the youngest director to win, at the age of 32.
ARRIVAL
Denis Villeneuve
HACKSAW RIDGE
Mel Gibson
LA LA LAND
Damien Chazelle
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Kenneth Lonergan
MOONLIGHT
Barry Jenkins
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE NOMINEES – Casey is heartbreaking in this role and it’s very well deserved in my opinion. Although, Denzel looked livid, positively pissed that he didn’t win. Was he?
CASEY AFFLECK
Manchester by the Sea
ANDREW GARFIELD
Hacksaw Ridge
RYAN GOSLING
La La Land
VIGGO MORTENSEN
Captain Fantastic
DENZEL WASHINGTON
Fences
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE NOMINEES – This was a tough choice and while I wanted to see Natalie take it out as she was fierce in JACKIE, I’m very pleased that Emma won, she’s a great actress and role model and I’m overjoyed for her.
ISABELLE HUPPERT
Elle
RUTH NEGGA
Loving
NATALIE PORTMAN
Jackie
EMMA STONE
La La Land
MERYL STREEP
Florence Foster Jenkins
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) NOMINEES – City of Stars was a winner from the moment I heard it.
AUDITION (THE FOOLS WHO DREAM)
from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
CAN’T STOP THE FEELING
from Trolls; Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
CITY OF STARS
from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
THE EMPTY CHAIR
from Jim: The James Foley Story; Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
HOW FAR I’LL GO
from Moana; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES – Even though it was a crazy way of eventuating, my pick, Moonlight was the victor on the night. Congratulations to Barry Jenkins and the entire crew and cast.
ARRIVAL
Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde, Producers
FENCES
Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black, Producers
HACKSAW RIDGE
Bill Mechanic and David Permut, Producers
HELL OR HIGH WATER
Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn, Producers
HIDDEN FIGURES
Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams and Theodore Melfi, Producers
LA LA LAND
Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt, Producers
LION
Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder, Producers
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck and Kevin J. Walsh, Producers
MOONLIGHT
Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments below…