Sources: ABC
Casey Affleck wins the Best Actor for his role in "Manchester by the Sea", which also won Best Original Screenplay. 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
"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
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
"La La Land" 's director Damien Chazelle wins the Oscar for Best Director and Emma Stone wins the Best Actress. 2017-02-26
The board for the US$1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announces it will construct the museum in Los Angeles, California. 2017-01-10
American hip hop music mogul Suge Knight drives a vehicle into a crowd in Compton, California near Los Angeles resulting in the death of a pedestrian in what authorities are calling a hit and run. 2015-01-29
Authorities in Redondo Beach, California, in the US city of Los Angeles investigate what caused the death of millions of fish at the King Harbor Marina. 2011-03-8