By: Isael Diaz
February 26th, 2017 was the 89th annual Academy Awards, which took place in the Dobly in Los Angeles, California. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science honored the best films of 2016. This year’s Awards were without a doubt, the most memorable Awards in history, mainly because of the ending. The two most notable films of 2016 were Moonlight and La La Land. Many expected that La La Land would be receiving tons awards during the course of the night. They in fact did receive awards, but surprisingly the didn’t receive the award that many expected them to win. The last award being presented during the night was the “Best Picture” award. The presenters of the award were the stars of the 1960’s hit film Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The situations beings as Warren Beatty reads the envelope that says La La Land, claiming that they won the Best Picture. However it turns that Moonlight was the film that actually won Best Picture, as it was discovered that Warren Beatty was handed they Best Actress In Leading Role Envelope instead. And thus, The best moment in the history of the Academy Awards happened. Despite the mishap ending of the Academy Awards it was not the only great thing about that night. The other great thing about the 2017 Academy Awards was the political moments of the ceremony. People tend not to enjoy when politics interferes in things they enjoy watching but, due to what is going on in this troubled world, it wasn’t really a surprise that during the course of the ceremony was about 70% political. The Academy Awards were acting political in a humorous way and informal way. The host of this year’s awards, Jimmy Kimmel made sure that he took that to his full advantage. From poking fun at Meryl Streep by calling her “overrated” just as Donald Trump described her in a tweet rant. The highlight of the political moments of the Academy Awards was when there were meaningful statements and a clear message send out to the president of the United States. The foreign film, The Salesman’s director Asghar Farhadi won an Oscar for the “Best Foreign Language Film”. However, The director did didn’t attend the Academy Awards because he was boycotting it due to the president’s Muslim travel ban. The award was accepted on his behalf by former Nasa scientist Firouz Naderi and engineer/astronaut Anousheh Ansari. Anousheh would then go on to read the words from the director. “My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and from the other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law which bans immigrants' entry into the U.S. Dividing the world into the 'us and our enemies' categories creates fear, a deceitful justification for aggression and war.” I applaud the director to show his compassion and support and speaking out of the issue that is impactful to many currently.
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