Sources: ABC
Nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards are released, with "Sinners" receiving 16 overall nominations, surpassing the record for most nominations for a film that was previously held by "All About Eve" (1950), "Titanic" (1997), and "La La Land" (2016). 2026-01-22
Casey Affleck wins the Best Actor for his role in "Manchester by the Sea", which also won Best Original Screenplay. 2017-02-26
Mahershala Ali wins the Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Moonlight". He is the first Muslim American to win the award. 2017-02-26
Viola Davis wins the Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Fences". 2017-02-26
"The Salesman" directed by Asghar Farhadi won Best Foreign Language Film. Farhadi and other film crew did not attend the ceremony in protest of Donald Trump's visa ban. First Iranian in space Anousheh Ansari and scienist Firouz Naderi attended in place of Farhadi. 2017-02-26
The 89th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California. 2017-02-26
The Netflix "documentary" "The White Helmets", a film about the Syrian Civil War, wins the Best Documentary Short.The cinematographer Khaled Khatib who is himself a member of the rebel-aligned group couldn't attend the ceremony because officials from the Department of Homeland Security discovered "derogatory information" about him. 2017-02-26
"Moonlight" wins Best Picture, moments after "La La Land" was mistakenly announced as the winner. It also won Best Adapted Screenplay. 2017-02-26
Nominations for the 2017 Academy Awards are announced, with "La La Land", "Moonlight" and "Hidden Figures" among the favorites. 2017-01-24