LOS ANGELES — Will the 89th Academy Awards be a parade of political speeches or landslide for "La La Land"? Probably both.

Sunday night's Oscars are shaping up to be one of the most turbulent and politically charged ceremonies in recent memory. The three-hour-plus telecast, which begins at 8:30 p.m. on ABC, is expected to resemble one very glitzy protest against President Donald Trump, whom award-winners — like Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes — have railed against throughout Hollywood's awards season.

An unusually tense atmosphere has coalesced before the Dolby Theatre ceremony, with protests, rallies and boycotts swirling around this year's Oscars. Even the normally sunny California weather has been stormy, with rain drenching Los Angeles early Sunday — though only clouds are expected for red carpet arrivals.

Yet most expect another day of sun for Damien Chazelle's celebrated musical "La La Land," up for a record-tying 14 nominations. A best picture upset, while unlikely, isn't out the question, though. Barry Jenkins' eight-time nominated "Moonlight" on Saturday took best feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, where "La La Land" wasn't eligible.

The other films up for best picture are Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival," Denzel Washington's "Fences," Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," David Mackenzie's "Hell or High Water," Theodore Melfi's "Hidden Figures," Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester by the Sea" and Garth Davis' "Lion."

The "OscarsSoWhite" crisis of the last two years was largely quelled this season by a richly diverse slate of nominees, thanks to films like "Moonlight," ''Fences" and "Hidden Figures." A record six black actors are nominated. For the first time ever, a person of color is nominated in each acting category. And four of the five best documentary nominees were also directed by black filmmakers.

The nominees follow the efforts by Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs to diversify the membership of the largely white, older and male film academy. In June, the academy added 683 new members: 46 percent of them were female; 41-percent were nonwhite; and they pulled from 59 countries.

But just how political the ABC show becomes will depend in part on the tone set by host Jimmy Kimmel, who'll have a delicate balancing act to maintain. Play it too light and he'll appear out of sync with the mood. Hammer too hard and he'll alienate viewers already inundated by politics. Some Trump supporters, expecting political speeches, have said they will boycott the broadcast.

The academy and ABC will be hoping to improve on last year's telecast. The Chris Rock-hosted show drew 34.4 million viewers, an eight-year low. Ads this year are still going for $2.1 million for 30-second spots.

There are some sources of suspense at this year's Oscars, most notably in the best actor category. While Casey Affleck ("Manchester by the Sea") was the favorite through most of awards season, Washington ("Fences") took the highly predictive Screen Actors Guild award, setting him up as the odds-makers' favored pick.

Affleck, wearing a shirt with the word "love" in Arabic, was among those to speak bluntly against Trump at Saturday's Spirit Awards.

"The policies of this administration are abhorrent and will not last," said Affleck, accepting the best actor award.

Politics pervaded Oscar weekend, usually a time of frothy anticipation of Hollywood's big night:

— On Friday, the United Talent Agency, forgoing its usual Oscar party, instead held a rally protesting President over immigration. "We will not tolerate chaos and ineptitude and war-mongering," Jodie Foster told attendees.

— Also on Friday, the six directors of the foreign film nominees released a joint statement condemning "the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S. and in so many other countries." The signees included the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose "The Salesman" is favored to win him his second foreign language Oscar. He isn't attending the awards in protest of Trump's proposed travel ban of seven predominantly Muslim nations, including Iran.

— U.S. immigration authorities are barring entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on the documentary short nominee "The White Helmets," about the nation's civil war.

— The Academy of Motion Pictures also made a late but notable addition to its presenter best actress nominee Streep ("Florence Foster Jenkins") to its lineup of A-list presenters. Her fiery remarks at the Golden Globes prompted Trump to call her "overrated."</s>Will the 89th Academy Awards be a parade of political speeches or landslide for "La La Land"? Probably both.

Sunday night's Oscars are shaping up to be one of the most turbulent and politically charged ceremonies in recent memory. The telecast, which begins at 8:30 p.m. (ET) on ABC, is expected to resemble one very glitzy protest against President Donald Trump, whom award-winners — like Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes — have railed against throughout Hollywood's awards season.

An unusually tense atmosphere has coalesced before the Dolby Theatre ceremony, with protests, rallies and boycotts swirling around this year's Oscars. Even the normally sunny California weather has been stormy.

Yet most expect another day of sun for Damien Chazelle's celebrated musical "La La Land," up for a record-tying 14 nominations.

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Meet Justin Hurwitz, the man most likely to win an Oscar</s>A moment before he walked out onstage with his Bonnie and Clyde co-star Faye Dunaway to present the best picture award at the 89th Oscars, Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope, one containing the name of best actress winner Emma Stone for La La Land . As seen by millions of viewers, when Beatty opened the envelope, he paused, as if not quite sure what he was seeing, but then passed it to Dunaway, who announced " La La Land !" One studio publicist, who was standing next to someone backstage who had a headset on, heard a stage manager say, "That's the wrong envelope.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Hollywood Reporter.</s>The Academy Awards is hours away and the whole world is at the edge of their seats trying to figure out who will win, who will lose, and who will give the most memorable acceptance speech this year.

The front-runner for bagging the Best Picture Award is the hit musical film La La Land. According to ABC News, Damien Chazelle’s musical is the first film to be nominated in several categories for a long time.

So far La La Land has been nominated in 14 categories for the Academy Awards including Best Actor for Ryan Gosling, Best Actress for Emma Stone, and Best Original Score for Justin Hurwitz (who also worked with Chazelle for his other film Whiplash).

The film is also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay with Damien Chazelle potentially bagging both trophies and if successful, La La Land might also get the Best Picture Award.

Although La La Land is the top pick in the Academy Awards with Emma Stone as the favorite for the Best Actress, award there’s a possibility that Ryan Gosling might go home without an Oscar statuette.

Some are saying that Denzel Washington might end up winning the Best Actor award for Fences or even Casey Affleck, who has already won a Golden Globe and BAFTA for Manchester by the Sea.

As for the Supporting Actor/Actress categories, ABC News said that awards experts are predicting that Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis might win those awards this year.

After a controversial awards year last time, there might be a chance that African American actors/actresses might finally get the recognition they deserve this year, at least according to Yahoo! Movies senior editor Kevin Polowy.

Polowy spoke with ABC News and he told them that this year could be different in that the Academy Awards will be more color blind.

He said, “After two years of #OscarsSoWhite, you’re going to see a much different Oscars this year,” he said. “This was a really good year for films with people of color.”

Hopefully, his predictions end up being accurate.

Another thing that viewers will get to see in this year’s Academy Awards is a new face to host the acclaimed event, and he might be the right person to help the audience and the celebrities get through an evening that is looking to be the most politically-charged awards show this year.

Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is set to host this year’s Academy Awards and a lot of people are saying that he might be the right kind of comedian to instill some comic relief at a time when everyone’s on edge due to the political turmoil brewing in the country.

The New York Times spoke with Kimmel, and they asked him what his thoughts are about the Oscars and about those who might vent their frustrations against Donald Trump or those who might encourage the audience to oppose the current administration.

Kimmel told the NY Times that seeing the situation that America is in right now, there’s the big possibility that a lot of actors and actresses will give political speeches during the Academy Awards, but he’s open to it.

The only concern Kimmel has about the atmosphere of the upcoming Academy Awards show is that hopefully most of the attendees will be in a good mood when they arrive for the prestigious event.

He said, “There definitely is a point at which that becomes too much. There’s also a point at which it becomes too little. And finding that balance is, for me, the most difficult hurdle, when it comes to this broadcast. We don’t know what our mood in this country is going to be on Sunday. We seem to be in a very temperamental period. We’re having wild mood swings as a nation right now. Hopefully, everyone will be in a good mood that night.”</s>Emma Stone reacted backstage to the strange moment at the at the 2017 Oscars by saying: “I f—ing love Moonlight.”

Well, that clears this giant mess. A bizarre mix-up took place at the end of the 2017 Oscars, where La La Land was named Best Picture winner instead of Moonlight.

Poor Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who were handed the wrong envelope, announced that La La Land had taken the most prestigious prize of the night.

The entire cast of the musical beaming with joy and pride came to the podium.

However, while producer Jordan Horowitz was giving his acceptance speech, he noticed the giant Oscar mix-up and immediately corrected things.

A very gracious Horwitz handed over the trophy he had in his hand to the Moonlight producer.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins struggled through the awkward moment to deliver what should have been a very profound and moving speech.

A visibly shaken and confused Jenkins said: “Even in my dreams this could not be true, but to hell with dreams, I’m done with it because this is true. Oh my goodness.”

Stone spoke backstage to reporters and dropped an F-bomb to explain what occurred.

She said: “I was looking down at (the Oscar) as if it was my newborn child. And then I was like, this is a naked man? I f–ing love Moonlight. God, I love Moonlight so much! (But) of course it was an amazing thing to hear La La Land.”

In reference to Beatty‘s revelation that he was handed a card for Best Actress – Emma Stone in La La Land, the star shared: “I was also holding my Best Actress card at that time … I don’t know what happened.”

This giant award moment will go down in history.</s>-- La la land parody (mi mi land) wins 5 awards at last night's toscarsHidden figures parody (hidden spaces) wins 3 awardsCelebrity pictures available upon request – see celeb attendees belowAward winners:Best film la la land parody – mi mi landBest screenplay hidden figures parody - hidden spacesBest editing a tie between lion and la la land parodies (lionel and m mi land)Best score or song mi mi landBest production value mi mi landBest director hidden figuresBest supporting whactor john mawson – mi mi landBest supporting whactress juliet lemar for moolight - moolight parodyBest whactor julian grant for whacksaw fridgeBest whactress nadia witt for hidden spacesPersonality of the year award james cordenLast night's event was held at la's prestigious renberg theatre/lgbt centre and was a night filled with glitz, glamour and laughter.Hosted by craig robert young, the toscars has become one of the must-attend events during the awards season, as well as being one of the only predominately british ceremonies in hollywood during this period.This year the personality of the year was awarded to tv host and actor james corden, who has made a huge impact in the us in a very short space of time with 'the late late show' and the hilarious segment 'car pool karaoke.'Celebrities attended include: andrene ward-hammond, ashley scott, bai ling, britt ekland, christy mcginity, cisco reyes, craig robert young, cynthia bailey, dario, elke madler, gretchen rossi, gene farber, jack betts, jack kilmer, jack vale, jay lee, joey luthman, joshua lee young, kat kramer, kitty brucknell, leslie thurston, lorynn york, maria russell, melissa bolona, nick hardcastle, phoebe dynevor, robby lariviere, robin shelby, ron jeremy, ruth connell, sean maguire, shayla souliere, slim jim phantom, sohm kapila, steve hart, tamsin eames, tehmina sunny, terra jole, aldis hodge.The toscars was initially inspired by michel gondry's film 'be kind rewind' starring jack black and mos def, the twist being that the current year's oscar nominated films are parodied instead. the day the oscar nominations were announced, on 24january, teams were chosen at random to parody the best picture nominated films, then it was an exciting race against time as 10 teams (over 100 artists) had 4 weeks to produce a 5-minute spoof of their given film.The awards allowed both the celebrity judges and attendees a chance to let their hair down and have a good old-fashioned giggle. the red carpet awards ceremony was a black-tie affair, bringing out the glitz and glamour of old hollywood.The toscars are produced every year by brits in la.To view all of the parody clips, please click here https://vimeopro.com/ britsinla/toscars- 2017-films/video/ 2... #toscars2017 #toscarssofake #toscarssowhack #britsinlacheck out the brits in la blog ( http://britsinla.blogspot.com/ like us on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/britsinla/)subscribe to our weekly newsletter</s>ABC/Tyler Golden(LOS ANGELES) — Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Viola Davis and Emma Stone didn’t let the Best Picture Oscar flub affect their award-winning night. The three actors, who all won in their respective categories, are addressing the Oscar mix-up head on and how they recovered from the uncomfortable moment.

After it was revealed that an envelope mix-up caused Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway to incorrectly announce La La Land as the winner of Best Picture instead of Moonlight, the film’s Best Supporting Actor winner Ali, reflected on the surreal moment backstage.

“I didn’t even know what to do,” Ali tells ABC News’ Amy Robach. “I think I needed to hear them say it multiple times and really pull us up, but [producer] Jordan [Horowitz] who was speaking and accepting on behalf of La La Land is such a great guy, such a generous generous guy, that of course he was the one who said, ‘Oh, we didn’t win? Bring them up here.’ And I just absolutely love all of those folks up there.”

Davis, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Fences and gave an epic speech, also was dumbfounded by the mix-up.</s>This year’s Oscars had a major “Steve Harvey” moment when the presenters mistakenly announced La La Land as Best Picture instead of Moonlight. Just when they thought that they can finally celebrate their sweet victory, the cast and crew of the romantic musical film were caught in a middle of an awkward situation on stage.

The recently concluded 89th Academy Awards shocked everyone when the presenters announced the wrong winner for the biggest recognition of the night. This marks the first time that such mishap happened in the prestigious event and is now considered to be one of the most epic moments in the Oscars history.

To recall, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were chosen to present the coveted Best Picture award. Beatty, who opened the red envelope, appeared to be confused upon seeing whatever was written on the card. He even took a long look at his co-presenter, Dunaway, before hesitantly handing her the result and announced La La Land as the winner.

As the producers and stars of La La Land deliver their acceptance speech, Oscars producers ran up the stage to deliver the unexpected news – Moonlight is the real winner. La La Land producer, Jordan Horowitz, confirmed the mistake and even showed the card which indicates Moonlight as the Best Picture winner. Horowitz even called out the cast and crew of Moonlight on stage to hand them the trophy.

The unfortunate event definitely shocked the unsuspecting audience and of course, La La Land stars and crew members. The online community was quick to catch their epic reactions as the news of their mistaken award started to sink in. Emma Stone, who won Best Actress for her portrayal of Mia in La La Land, couldn’t hide her disbelief and repeatedly uttered, “Oh my God, oh my God” as soon as she realized the gaffe.

Meanwhile, her co-star, Ryan Gosling, who was nominated for his role as Sebastian, also had a priceless reaction when it was confirmed that Moonlight is the real winner. The actor seems to be holding back a stunned laugh amidst the Oscars Best Picture fiasco. Fans were quick to notice Ryan’s precious expressions and voiced out their admiration to the actor.

One fan commented, “Is there a channel that’s just broadcasting Ryan Gosling’s reaction to everything?” Another one wrote, “Ryan Gosling’s reaction to not actually winning the Oscar for best picture. A picture is worth a thousand words.” Gosling was also praised for being a sport, saying, “Ryan Gosling’s reaction is everything. this is why I love him so much, and he went straight to congratulate the moonlight producers/cast.”

On the other hand, La La Land director Damien Chazelle, who also grabbed the Best Director award for this year’s Oscars, couldn’t hide his shock when he realized that his film was not the real winner. Despite the loss, Chazelle, 32, has a lot to celebrate particularly being the youngest director to win an Oscars.

Although caught in what many considered as the most embarrassing gaffe in Oscars, the entire team of La La Land managed to handle the situation with grace. Even Emma gushed about how incredible Moonlight is. The actress even revealed how much she likes the movie and that she’s very happy about the movie’s feat.

“I f—ing love ‘Moonlight!’ God, I love ‘Moonlight’ so much! I’m so excited for ‘Moonlight.’ ” Emma exclaimed. “Of course, it was an amazing thing to hear ‘La La Land’ [named best picture]. I think we all would’ve loved to win best picture. But we are so excited for ‘Moonlight.’ I think it’s one of the best films of all time, so I was pretty beside myself.”

In total, La La Land took home five awards including Best Actress for Emma Stone, Best Director for Damien Chazelle, Best Original Music Score for Justin Hurwitz, Best Cinematography for Linus Sandgren, and Best Production Design for David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco.</s>It has to be one of the most shocking moments in Oscars history.

While La La Land took home six of its fourteen nominations, it was the biggest prize of the night that became an accidential seventh.

Co-star Emma Stone, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress earlier that evening, looked shocked just like everyone else.

However it was Gosling who was snapped mid-snigger, when Moonlight was revealed as the real winner of Best Picture.</s>La La Land has been phenomenal and it’s projected to make history at tonight’s 89th Academy Awards. Here’s how Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling made that happen.

Accolades and public praise already decorate La La Land and it will come into the 89th Academy Awards tonight bearing an astounding 14 nominations, a feat that only two other movies were ever able to achieve: 1950’s All About Eve and 1997’s Titanic.

La La Land has been nominated at the Academy Awards for the following: Best Picture, Best Director (for Chazelle), Best Actor (for Ryan Gosling), Best Actress (for Emma Stone), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, two nominations for Best Original Song (“City of Stars” and “Audition”), Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. But Mashablenotes that while the best it could win is only (only, yes, we used only) 13 Academy Awards, it is possible that La La Land will really only bag 11 Oscars, on par with Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Ben-Hur (1959).

But apart from the numbers and the odds and the speculations, there is no denying that much of the success and sparkle that La La Land held is also thanks to the masterful performances and input of its stars, Emma Stone as Mia Dolan and Ryan Gosling as Sebastian Wilder.

La La Land director Damien Chazelle tells Entertainment Weekly that much of the rewriting of the scenes were based from input and experimentation of lead actors Stone and Gosling. Apparently, these two had put much insight into how their characters approached the conflict, which then made it into the rewrite of the final cut.

This exact scene was one that Chazelle shares the team has written and rewritten numerous times.

This was one of the scenes that I think I wrote and rewrote and rewrote more than any other in the script. The scene was always there structurally. In earlier drafts, I think it used to get even more explosive toward the end. Then we kind of paired it down into something simplified and made it slightly more under-the-surface in the final version.

Apparently, Emma and Ryan ultimately were the key to getting the final version of this scene pat down to a tee.

Once Ryan and Emma came on board, it went through a whole new set of rewrites because it was one of the scene that we spent the most time rehearsing. Sometimes they would just improvise whole versions of it, and I would transcribe the improvisations, then kind of curate and see what I liked from that and put those into script form. Other times, I would also have separate conversations with each of them about their particular side of the scene and where their character was coming from.

Another scene, the breakup scene where Mia and Sebastian blew the top of their heads over a special dinner prepared by Sebastian, was also topped off by Ryan Gosling himself.

The specific ending to that La La Land scene where Sebastian pulls out a burnt apple pie from the oven, Chazelle shares, was suggested by Gosling.

Another crucial part of La La Land, if not the most crucial, is the singing and dancing that went into the musical parts of it, which were made magical by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling (well La La Land did score two nominations on the Academy Awards’ Best Original Song alone).

And if you wondered whether it was really Emma and Ryan doing the singing and the dancing and the playing of the piano, Pop Sugar confirms that it was them. In fact, Ryan Gosling spent three months learning and perfecting his piano solos.

Thankfully, Lions Gate, one of the producers and distributors of La La Land, pushed Chazelle to ram up his budget for La La Land to $30 million, Live Mint reports. This additional budget has made way for La La Land able to get the very expensive Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling on board the ship that’s now sailing to the Academy Awards—and it was all worth it.

How many Awards do you think will La La Land land at the Academy Awards tonight? Will the team set Academy Awards history with 13 Oscars?
La La Land 's director Damien Chazelle wins the Oscar for Best Director and Emma Stone wins the Best Actress.