Emma Stone has won the Best Actress Oscar for her role playing Mia in La La Land.
In the movie she plays an aspiring actress, desperate to make it in the industry.
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She meets Seb (Ryan Gosling), also with ambitions of owning his own jazz club and becoming increasingly successful as a jazz pianist. The pair embark on a whirlwind romance, but as they both start to get the recognition they deserve, it puts more pressure on their relationship, with a couple of decisions they need to make that will have life-changing ramifications for the pair of them.
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She managed to take the award ahead of Natalie Portman (Jackie), Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins), Ruth Negga (Loving) and Isabelle Huppert (Elle).
Meryl Streep was nominated for her 15th best leading role accolade, playing Florence Foster Jenkins, in the movie of the same name, but was unable to make it her fourth success in this category. (She has previously won for her roles in Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's choice and The Iron Lady).
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Jenkins, a socialite from 1920s, is desperate to become a singer, but getting dubbed the worst on the planet. Yet, undeterred, and with encouragement from her husband, played by Hugh Grant, the Manhattan heiress continues to try and make it big with often humorous outcomes.
Portman was hoping for her second Best Actress award after her success with Black Swan, portraying Jackie Kennedy in Jackie, wife of president John F. Kennedy in the aftermath of his assassination, with Portman portraying the way she held herself with dignity and distinction in such horrendous circumstances with aplomb.
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Isabelle Huppert plays Michèle Leblanc in French movie Elle, raped in her home by a masked man, and getting her life back on track after the horror she suffered.
She has a strained relationship with her son and her mother, as well as her colleagues, also haunted by her father who is a murderer. She also gets involved in flings with married men.
And finally Ruth Negga in Loving, who moves back to Virginia with her husband (played by Joel Edgerton), to be with their families.
Mildred (Negga) is black, and Richard (Edgerton) is white, with interracial marriage against the law in the state.
They are both arrested and then exiled, before deciding to bravely take the case to the Supreme Court.
Here's a list of all the nominees and confirmed winners so far.
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BEST PICTURE
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight (winner)
BEST DIRECTOR
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
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
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
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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Viola Davis, Fences (winner)
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea (winner)
20th Century Women
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight (winner)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Arrival
La La Land (winner)
Lion
Moonlight
Silence
BEST FILM EDITING
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge (winner)
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book (winner)
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land (winner)
Passengers
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (winner)
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad (winner)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Jackie
La La Land (winner)
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)," La La Land
"Can't Stop the Feeling," Trolls
"City of Stars," La La Land (winner)
"The Empty Chair," Jim: The James Foley Story
"How Far I'll Go," Moana
BEST SOUND EDITING
Arrival (winner)
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully
BEST SOUND MIXING
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge (winner)
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zotopia (winner)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America (winner)
13th
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman (winner)
Tanna
Toni Erdmann
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe's Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets (winner)
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Ennemis Entreniers
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing (winner)
Timecode
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper (winner)
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Topics: Oscars