The Favourite (2018) - Colman stands out in Lanthimos' dark, female-centric royal biopic

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An oppressive, greyish beige color background instills a sense of gloom on this heavily costumed poster for Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite

Early in the 18th century, Queen Anne of England begins to change favorites in her court, as the assertive, manipulative Sarah Churchill loses her grip on the queen's decisions - involving war with France and other matters of state - to an equally manipulative maid by the name of Abigail.

The Favourite is written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (Love My Way (2004-07)), based on the actual Queen Anne (1665-1714) and her strange and difficult life, and directed by Greek master filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth/Kynodontas (2009)).
The film is not a comedic scream such as Lanthimos' best film in my opinion, the fiercely original and grotesque masterpiece The Lobster (2015), - but there is fun to be had for sure, and The Favourite effectively relocates us to a very different time, age and milieu, which is fascinating and highly ponderous. The costumes, hair and makeup are superb.
Rachel Weisz (Death Machine (1994)) and Emma Stone (La La Land (2016)) are both good as the scheming women; one inevitably outshines the other in unsympathetic imperialism. But Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur (2011)) is outstanding as the poor center of the film; powerful as few but mired in painful ailments and grief. Her husband is non-existing in the film, and so she appears very much alone, SPOILER caught between a dominating acquaintance and a subservient one, - both insincere. The film has a couple of closeups of Colman's face, which become iconic for this wretch of a woman character, and which are among the film's best and most piercing moments.
The film is unusual because it is a plot triangle between three decisive women, a film without any male characters of note; the men in The Favourite strike one as impotent, inconsequential and ridiculous. SPOILER They are occupied by duck-racing, orange-throwing, makeup and whigs, while the women have overtaken hunting, policy-dictating - and lovemaking, although the film holds an alienated, physically-oriented view of sex. The familiar alienation that Lanthimos establishes makes the oppressive story somewhat thought-provoking; SPOILER its implications of human relationships' unbecoming similarities as roles of instructing and serving the other to the simple lives of rabbits are what it leaves us with.

Related posts:

Yorgos Lanthimos: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - Lanthimos' psycho-thriller turns out a twisted Greek tragedy
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
The Lobster (2015) - Lantimos' absurd, hilarious, out of this world relationship fantasy 
Dogtooth/Κυνόδοντας (Kynodontas) (2009) - Lanthimos establishes himself internationally with an unsettling family portrait

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 15 mil. $
Box office: 76.7 mil. $ and counting
= Big hit (returned in 5.11 times its cost)
[The Favourite premiered 30 August (Venice Film Festival, Italy) and runs 120 minutes. The script was first written in 1998 by Davis, whose only produced screenplay it is. Facts on the life of Queen Anne can be read here. SPOILER: Concerning its accuracy: Queen Anne did lose 17 children; she did not replace them with rabbits; she was married to a Danish prince; and the sexual relationships depicted in the film between her and the two women is speculation. Shooting took place in England from March - May 2017. The wigs in the film reportedly had a trailer of their own. The film opened #19 to a 422k $ first weekend in 4 theaters in North America, - the year's highest per-theater average, - and peaked at #11 and in 1,540 theaters (different weeks) having grossed 31.3 mil. $ there to date. The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets have been the UK with 19.4 mil. $ (25.3 %) and Australia with 3.5 mil. $ (4.6 %). The film has yet to open in India, where it premieres 1 March. It is nominated for 10 Oscars: Best Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design, Picture, Directing, Lead Actress, Supporting Actress (both Weisz and Stone), Cinematography (Robbie Ryan (Catch Me Daddy (2014))) and Editing. It won 1/5 Golden Globe nominations, 7/12 BAFTAs, an AFI award, 10/13 British Independent Film awards, is nominated for an Independent Spirit award, won 2 awards at the Venice Film Festival, and many other honors. Lanthimos has not announced his next film yet. Colman returned with 5 TV and short credits prior to theatrically in Them That Follow (2019), Weisz has not announced her next role yet, and Stone returned in Maniac (2018, TV-series), Paul McCartney: Who Cares (2018, music video) and theatrically likely first in Zombieland: Double Tap (2019). The Favourite is certified fresh at 94 % with an 8.5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of The Favourite?

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - Webb's Spidey sequel squanders time and money in boring blind alleys

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+ Worst Poster of the Year

The two male stars of Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 stand amazingly close in the rain before a giant phallus on a poster that promises to end a time of secrets - but please don't get your hopes up

Peter Parker fights bad memories and a new Russian criminal in New York, when engineer Matt Dillon suffers a freak accident that turns him into super-villain Electro!

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). It is written by Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek Into Darkness 2013)), Roberto Orci (Star Trek Beyond (2016)) and Jeff Pinkner (The Beast (2001), TV-series), with James Vanderbilt (Zodiac (2007)) contributing story elements, and directed by returning great filmmaker Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer (2009)).
The film has some action sequences that look expensive (and truly were), but they most often make one think of computer games, and they made me want to play that game much more than watch the film.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 clearly wants to appeal to young teenagers, and Webb makes a puppy-eyed Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge (2016)) and Emma Stone (Gangster Squad (2013)) play well below their actual ages. The chemistry between them is slight, and it is in stern contrast to Garfield's scenes with Dane DeHaan (Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)), who plays Parker's childhood friend Harry Osborn here. They lend their scenes together an erotic magnetism, SPOILER until DeHaan becomes the ghastly-looking Green Goblin. Sally Field (Lincoln (2012)) is tiring as aunt May in several scenes in which the only thing on her mind seems to be Spidey's dirty underwear. Sexy Jamie Foxx (Ali (2001)) is made to look unattractive as the engineer, - an ambition that's hard for me to accept, - and the super-villain he turns into is a poor and incomprehensible heavy. Finally Paul Giamatti (Sideways (2004)) is slightly agonizing as the film's third bad guy, the screaming simpleton Rhino.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffers from a messy structure, incoherent plotting and being just plain boring.

Related posts:

Marc Webb: 2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V] 

2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
The Amazing Spiderman (2012) or, The New and Unimproved Spidey
(500) Days of Summer (2009) or, Cute & Cuter

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Estimated 200 mil. $ - possibly as high as 293 mil. $
Box office: 708.9 mil. $
= Some uncertainty, but likely a minor flop (and a big flop if also figuring in the colossal marketing budget)
[The Amazing Spider-Man 2 premiered 10 April (London) and runs 142 minutes. Filming took place from February - June 2013 in New York and California. Shailene Woodley shot scenes as Mary Jane Watson, but these were scrapped by Webb, who wanted to focus on Peter's relationship with Gwen Stacy. The Times Square action scene in the film was incredibly tedious to make, with computer designers working a full year to complete it. The film was shot on 35 mm film and converted to 3D in post production. The marketing budget was reportedly 180-190 mil. $, which would put the film's success point at around 1 bil. $, if the budget was indeed the enormous, reported 293 mil. $. The film opened #1 to a 91.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, almost 30 mil. $ higher than the first film. It stayed in the top 5 for 3 more weeks (#2-#3-#5) and grossed 202.8 mil. $ (28.6 % of the total gross) domestically. The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were China with 94.4 mil. $ (13.3 %) and the UK with 40.4 mil. $ (5.7 %). The 2014 North-Korean hack on Sony Entertainment revealed in leaked e-mails that Sony had courted Sam Raimi to return for a new trilogy of Spider-Man films. Plans for a 3rd and 4th film were scrapped following the disappointing performance of the film, and the Spider-Man film rights befell Marvel exclusively after negotiations, with a new Spider-Man seeing the world in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is rotten at 52 % with a 5.8/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of The Amazing Spider-Man 2?

Zombieland (2009) - Reese/Wernick and Fleischer hit the post-modern bull's eye with undead escapade

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+ Best Zombie Movie of the Year

Four game stars look ready to create mayhem on this poster for Ruben Fleisher's Zombieland

A phobic, neurotic young man partners with a gun-crazed Texan in America, or Zombieland, after a zombie apocalypse has spread death and destruction everywhere, but the two are tricked by a pair of sisters.

The highly sarcastic, reference-laden kind of dialog that runs through Zombieland rarely works for movies, as it mostly gets tiring after a while, but somehow it does work here. Certain parts of Zombieland is likely to have made Zombie Godfather, New Yorker master filmmaker George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead (1968)) proud, not least the section in the theme park.
SPOILER Best in this great zombie horror-road movie-romcom genre-mixer, however, are the scenes with Bill Murray (Groundhog Day (1993)), in what purports to be his Hollywood mansion, which reaches a level of post-modern brilliance that is wholly unexpected, hilarious and delightful. Zombieland also contains some amazingly cool slo-mo shots of zombie attacks, (cinematography by Michael Bonvillain (Wanderlust (2012))), and may or may not beat Shaun of the Dead (2004) as the great modern zombie horror-comedy, according to your taste. It's a fun neo-classic in my book.
Zombieland is written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool (2016)) and directed by feature-debuting, great Washingtonian filmmaker Ruben Fleischer (Superstore (2015-17)).

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2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]  
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
30 Minutes or Less (2011) or, Idiots and Lesser Idiots

2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]  

Watch a 2-minute scene from the film here

Cost: 23.6 mil. $
Box office: 102.3 mil. $
= Big hit
[Zombieland premiered 25 September (Austin Fantastic Fest) and runs 87 minutes. Harrelson only took the part in the film on conditions, including that the set be 'environmentally conscious' and Fleischer not ingesting dairy products for a week. Shooting took place in Georgia and in Los Angeles from February - April 2009. The theme park section was mostly shot at Georgia's Wild Adventures Water and Theme Park, with 160 zombie performers in one scene. The film opened #1 to a 24.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another week (#2) and grossed 75.5 mil. $ (73.8 % of the total gross), becoming the top-grossing zombie film ever there, beating Dawn of the Dead (2004), - until Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 5.5 mil. $ (5.4 %) and Russia with 3.9 mil. $ (3.8 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, equal to a notch harder than this one. Home video sales of the film in North America alone totaled another 55.4 mil. $. If added to the theatrical gross, it would change the film's status to that of huge hit. Sequel talks began with the film's concluding production, and Harrelson talked enthusiastically of another film but later backed away from that stance. A TV-series pilot without the stars but with the writers was made for Amazon in 2013 and not picked up for serialization. The writers and Fleischer still seem intent on making a sequel (by 2017). Zombieland is certified fresh at 90 % with a 7.4 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Zombieland?

La La Land (2016) - Chazelle's irresistible throwback musical treat

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+ Best Musical of the Year

A supremely romantic and beautiful poster for Damien Chazelle's La La Land

A hopeful young actress meets a down-on-his-luck jazz pianist with big dreams of his own, and they fall in love in the city of dreams ... 

La La Land is the 3rd feature from great Long Island-born writer-director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash (2014)), who has focused on jazz musicians in his films to date, along with the struggle to break through and arrive creatively.
La La Land begins with a song-and-dance number (Another Day of Sun) on an LA freeway that is a breath of fresh air and a perfect opener for a film that has already become a modern musical classic. The film continues to be a brightly colored (with gorgeous, Oscar-nominated costumes by Mary Zophres (Inside Llewyn Davis (2013))), impressively shot (on film, by Oscar-winning Linus Sandgren (American Hustle (2013))) ode to the dreamers that make up LA in particular and the world in general. It conveys the same kind of sentimental attachment to the good old days (of traditional jazz, old-style movie theaters etc.) also found in films like Midnight in Paris (2011), although it ultimately chooses to argue that these fine things still have their place in the modern world.
La La Land is especially enjoyable for those familiar with classic musicals and classic movies in general. It is especially molded over Jacques Demy's musical masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg/Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), both, to a degree, in terms of style, and in terms of its story, which is very similar in structure here. - But where the older film manages to build to a melodramatic pitch of emotional resonance in just 91 minutes, La La Land diverts to a more realism-bound and less forceful third act (SPOILER with a fight, a breakup, and a creative failure) and sports a hefty 128 minute running time. The construction of the film makes it Chazelle's own responsibility that it be judged against this timeless piece of cinema, and it diminishes it a bit.
Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine (2010)) plays the piano convincingly (he reportedly learned this for his performance), and is terrific as the passionate Seb, and Oscar-winning Emma Stone (Magic in the Moonlight (2014)) is a peach as lovely Mia, although she looks in some pain during my least favorite song in the film, Audition/The Fools Who Dream, wherein the film breaks from its intimate, character-bound story and dishes up a more Les Misérables-type, overly eloquent salute. In contrast, my favorite song, next to the opening winner, must be the one in the walk-to-the cars scene (A Lovely Night), in which the two stars tap-dance magnificently. The film also contains John Legend (Soul Men (2008)), playing an old friend of Seb and lending his voice to another cool song (Start a Fire), and Rosemarie DeWitt (Poltergeist (2015)) as Seb's sister. Justin Hurwitz's (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)) Oscar-winning music is generally a joy.
La La Land is terrific, a rare treat. Don't miss it.

Related posts:

Midnight in Paris (2011) - Allen's zany (and a little depressing) crowdpleaser
Damien Chazelle: 2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]

2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
The day after ... the Oscars 2017 

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 30 mil. $
Box office: 396.9 mil. $ and counting
= Huge hit
[La La Land premiered 31 August (Venice International Film Festival) and runs 128 minutes. Chazelle wanted to make the film for years but could not find funding until his highly successful Whiplash opened the doors for him. Emma Watson and Miles Teller were initially in talks to star. Rehearsals took 3-4 months with piano, dancing, singing, acting and movie screenings, arranged by Chazelle. Although the film's beginning proclaims its being in CinemaScope, in fact it is not, since the technology for the old format isn't available anymore. Shooting took place in LA from August - September 2015, lasting just 40 days. The opening scene was filmed first and took two days and more than 100 dancers on the actual freeway. Other notable locations include the Griffith Observatory and the Angels Flight trolly, which was actually closed down in 2013, but which the crew got operated for a single day's shoot. The film opened #15 in 5 theaters with 0.8 mil. $ to a spectacular 176k $ theater average in North America, the year's highest average, widening to peak at #2 (behind Hidden Figures) and later at 3,236 theaters in the home market, where it has grossed 145.9 mil. $ to date. The film was nominated for 14 Oscars, tying the record number with All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997): It won 6: Best Director, Actress, Score, Song (City of Stars), Cinematography and Production Design. It lost Best Picture to Moonlight, Best Actor to Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea, Screenplay to Manchester by the Sea, Costumes to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Sound Mixing and Editing to Hacksaw Ridge and Sound Editing to Arrival (the film had two song nominations, so it comes to 14.) It also won a record 7 Golden Globes, 5 BAFTAs out of 11 nominations, AFI's Movie of the Year award, its place on the National Board of Review's Top 10 of the year, an actress award in Venice and many many more awards and nominations. It has taken the #65 spot on IMDb's user-generated Top 250, between The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Princess Mononoke/Mononoke-Hime (1997). La La Land is certified fresh at 93 % with an 8.6 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of La La Land?

The day after ... the Oscars 2017

The 89th Academy Awards have transpired, and as usual I will make a little post about it. This year I wasn't able to watch live, due to being in a Thai village, but followed vigorously through Twitter etc. nonetheless. I was sad to miss host Jimmy Kimmel's continued beef with Matt Damon, which seems to have been quite fun, the dresses - of course - the performances and the drama.
On the other hand, after the almost torturous ordeal which was watching the 2016 show, so riddled with political and racial unease, I feel alright not having seen the event for one year, although 2017 seems to have been a happier and more light-hearted celebration. - To be sure the 2017 Oscar show also had its ridiculous moments, (like the makeup and hairstyling winners of Suicide Squad dedicating their win "for all the immigrants", as if that should provoke anything but a laugh, (much less any actual change in the world), - and I might be wrong in thinking it a less aggravating watch than last year's show, not having seen it with my own two eyes.
The show will forever be remembered in the Oscar annals as the one in which the Best Picture win got botched up terribly, in a moment that lasted a couple of minutes of very strange live TV history, (watch that online!): Cinema legends Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde, announced La La Land, - the expected winner, - but as the movie's team arrived on stage, it became clear that there was a mistake in the envelopes, (somehow a second envelope with 'Emma Stone, La La Land' had gotten in their hands), and that Moonlight was the actual winner. Strange indeed.
The evening had other firsts as well: Damien Chazelle became the youngest director winner to date, at 32, and Mahershala Ali the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar. Best Foreign Film winner, The Salesman director Asghar Farhadi was not in attendance in protest of President Trump's travel ban on 7 Muslim countries, including his own, Iran. Protestations against Trump were, as expected, widespread throughout the evening, led by host Kimmel, who also tweeted Trump during the telecast, twice, first to ask if he was up, and secondly, with the hashtag, #Merylsayshi, - referring to nominated actress supreme Meryl Streep, who made a scathing speech against Trump at the Golden Globes some weeks ago.

As noted in the previous post, I haven't yet seen most of the nominated films this year and so had an unsure hand in predicting this year, which is evident in that I only got 11 right out of 21. This is down from 16 last year, 13 in 2015 and 7 in 2014.

Rounding up the winners, La La Land came out on top with 6 wins, including Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Director (Damien Chazelle), Best Production Design, Score (Justin Hurwitz), Cinematography (Linus Sandgren) and song (City of Stars). Manchester by the Sea surprised (me at least) by winning both Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Original Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan). - Amazon Studios, the streaming giant behind it, were naturally thrilled with their breakthrough to Oscar class as the first of their kind to achieve that. Moonlight won Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay (Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney) and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali). Viola Davis won Fences' only Oscar, and masterpiece Arrival won only for Best Sound Design. Hell or High Water, Nocturnal Animals, Lion, Jackie, Florence Foster Jenkins and Hidden Figures all went home empty-handed. Mel Gibson enjoyed a real comeback with his great war movie Hacksaw Ridge winning both Best Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Disney's Zootopia won Best Animation, The Salesman Best Foreign Film, and the 7-something hours long O.J.: Made in America became the longest documentary winner to date. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won Best Costumes, becoming the first Harry Potter film, (although it is without Potter, so does that label fit?) to win an Oscar. Suicide Squad took Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and The Jungle Book got Best Visual Effects. The short film Oscars went to Sing (live action), Piper (animation) and The White Helmets (documentary).
Honorary Oscars went to Jackie Chan, Anne V. Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman.

Justin Timberlake - performing nominated Can't Stop the Feeling from Trolls, - delight Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban et. al.

Red marks the person/s or film I predicted would win the Oscar/s  
Film Excess favorite marks the person/s or film I hoped would win the Oscar/s
Winner marks the person/s or film that actually won the Oscar/s

Best Picture

Arrival Film Excess favorite  
Fences  
Hacksaw Ridge  
Hell or High Water  
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion  
Manchester by the Sea  
Moonlight Winner

Best Director

Denis Villeneuve, Arrival Film Excess favorite  
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge  
Damien Chazelle, La La Land Winner  
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea  
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Best Actor

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Winner  
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge  
Ryan Gosling, La La Land  
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic Film Excess favorite
Denzel Washington, Fences

Best Actress

Isabelle Huppert, Elle  
Ruth Negga, Loving  
Natalie Portman, Jackie  
Emma Stone, La La Land Winner  
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins Film Excess favorite

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Winner  
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea  
Dev Patel, Lion  
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals Film Excess favorite

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis, Fences Film Excess favorite Winner  
Naomie Harris, Moonlight  
Nicole Kidman, Lion  
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures  
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Best Original Screenplay

Hell or High Water - Taylor Sheridan  
La La Land - Damien Chazelle  
The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Fillipou Film Excess favorite  
Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan Winner  
20th Century Women - Mike Mills

Best Adapted Screenplay

Arrival - Eric Heisserer Film Excess favorite  
Fences - August Wilson  
Hidden Figures - Allison Shroeder  
Lion - Luke Davies  
Moonlight - Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney Winner

Best Animated Feature

Kubo and the Two Strings Film Excess favorite  
Moana  
My Life As A Zucchini  
The Red Turtle  
Zootopia Winner

Best Foreign Film

Land of Mine - Martin Zandvliet, Denmark Film Excess favorite  
A Man Called Ove - Hannes Holm, Sweden  
The Salesman - Asghar Farhadi, Iran Winner  
Tanna - Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, Australia  
Toni Erdman - Maren Ade, Germany

Best Documentary Feature

Fire at Sea - Gianfranco Rosi, Donatella Palermo
I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck  
Life, Animated - Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman  
O.J. Made in America - Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow Winner  
13th - Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish Film Excess favorite

Best Score

Jackie - Mica Levi
La La Land - Justin Hurwitz Film Excess favorite Winner  
Lion - Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka  
Moonlight - Nicholas Britell  
Passengers - Thomas Newman

Best Original Song
 
La La Land: Audition (The Fools Who Dream) - Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul Film Excess favorite  
Trolls: Can't Stop the Feeling! - Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, Karl Johan Schuster
La La Land: City of Stars - Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul Winner  
Jim: The James Foley Story: The Empty Chair - J. Ralph, Sting  
Moana: How Far I'll Go - Lin-Manuel Miranda

Best Sound Editing

Arrival Film Excess favorite Winner  
Deepwater Horizon  
Hacksaw Ridge  
La La Land  
Sully

Best Sound Mixing

Arrival Film Excess favorite  
Hacksaw Ridge Winner
La La Land  
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story  
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Best Production Design

Arrival  
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them  
Hail, Caesar!  
La La Land Winner  
Passengers Film Excess favorite

Best Cinematography

Arrival - Bradford Young Film Excess favorite
La La Land - Linus Sandgren Winner  
Lion - Graig Fraser  
Moonlight - James Laxton  
Silence - Rodrigo Prieto

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Man Called Ove  
Star Trek Beyond Film Excess favorite  
Suicide Squad Winner

Best Costume Design

Allied  
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Winner  
Florence Foster Jenkins Film Excess favorite  
Jackie
La La Land

Best Editing

Arrival Film Excess favorite  
Hacksaw Ridge Winner
Hell or High Water  
La La Land  
Moonlight

Best Visual Effects

Deepwater Horizon  
Doctor Strange  
The Jungle Book Film Excess favorite Winner  
Kubo and the Two Strings  
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali from Moonlight

Best Actor Casey Affleck from Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress Emma Stone from La La Land freaked out on stage

Best Supporting Actress Viola Davis from Fences

Best Supporting Actress nominee Ruth Negga from Loving looking stunning in an eye-popping red dress

Warren Beatty, Jimmy Kimmel and cast and crews from Moonlight and La La Land in the chaos surrounding the win for Best Picture on stage

Related posts:

The day after the day after ... the Oscars 2016
Oscars 2016 - Predictions and Film Excess' favorites
The day after the day after ... the Oscars 2015   
Oscars 2015: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites
The day after ... the Oscars 2014   
Oscars 2014: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites

What did you think of the 2017 Oscars?
Did the right movies and people win?
What was the best and worst moments, and which movies can't you wait to get to see?