Richard Reviews: Academy Awards Ceremony

Sunday, Feb. 26 at 8:30 P.M. the 89th Academy Awards Premiered on ABC with Jimmy Kimmel hosting.  The film “Moonlight” toke home the Best Picture Oscar along with two other awards, Best Adapted Screen Play and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali.  Rhode Island’s Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress for “Fences”, Emma Stone won Best Actress for “La La Land”, and Casey Affleck won Best Actor for “Manchester by the Sea”.  The big winner that night was “La La Land” taking home 6 Oscars including Best Director for Damien Chazelle who also became the youngest person to win in the directing category.  The show, however, is going to be known in infamy for its ending when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway opened the wrong envelope and proclaimed “La La Land” as Best Picture. Beatty was actually given the envelope for Best Actress by accident.  This event will go down as one of the craziest moments in Oscar history.

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