The film world is still recovering from Best Picture blunder unlike anything the Oscars has seen, but let’s not let that overshadow the rest of the night.
The evening was not short on inspirational speeches, one of the most powerful coming from someone who wasn’t even there: Asghar Farhadi. The Iranian filmmaker won Best Foreign Film for “The Salesman,” and engineer and the first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari, accepted the Oscar from his behalf, read from a prepared statement from the director who spoke about against Trump’s “inhumane law” regarding the Muslim ban.
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Elsewhere, Viola Davis put another acceptance for the ages into the books, and uh, “Suicide Squad” became an Oscar winner. And then yes, there was the Best Picture mixup between “La La Land” and “Moonlight.” It was quite a night. Check out the acceptance speech highlights below.
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