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2016 (89th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2016 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Winner markerMoonlight, An A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions production; A24. Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Winner markerCasey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea, A K Period Media/B Story/CMP/Pearl Street Films production; Roadside Attractions/Amazon Studios.

Actress in a Leading Role

Winner markerEmma Stone in La La Land, A Black Label Media/TIK Films Limited/Impostor Pictures/Gilbert Films/Marc Platt Productions production; Summit Entertainment. (USA, Hong Kong)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner markerMahershala Ali in Moonlight, An A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions production; A24.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner markerViola Davis in Fences, A Bron Creative/Macro Media/Scott Rudin Productions Production; Paramount. (USA, Canada)

Directing

Winner markerLa La Land, A Black Label Media/TIK Films Limited/Impostor Pictures/Gilbert Films/Marc Platt Productions production; Summit Entertainment. (USA, Hong Kong) Damien Chazelle.

Animated Feature Film

Winner markerZootopia, A Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios production; Walt Disney. Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer.

Cinematography

Winner markerLa La Land, A Black Label Media/TIK Films Limited/Impostor Pictures/Gilbert Films/Marc Platt Productions production; Summit Entertainment. (USA, Hong Kong) Linus Sandgren.

Costume Design

Winner markerFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, A Heyday Films production; Warner Bros. Pictures. (UK, USA) Colleen Atwood.

Documentary

(Feature)

Winner markerO.J.: Made in America, An ESPN Films/Laylow Films production; ESPN Films. Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow.

(Short Subject)

Winner markerThe White Helmets, Netflix. (UK) Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara.

Film Editing

Winner markerHacksaw Ridge, A Pandemonium Films/Permut Productions/Vendian Entertainment/Kylin Pictures production; Summit Entertainment. (Australia, USA) John Gilbert.

Foreign Language Film

Winner markerThe Salesman, A Memento Films Production/Asghar Farhadi Production/Arte France Cinéma production; Filmiran/Memento Films Distribution. (Iran, France)

Makeup and Hairstyling

Winner markerSuicide Squad, A DC Entertainment/RatPac-Dune Entertainment/Atlas Entertainment production; Warner Bros. Pictures. Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson.

Music

(Original Score)

Winner markerLa La Land, A Black Label Media/TIK Films Limited/Impostor Pictures/Gilbert Films/Marc Platt Productions production; Summit Entertainment. (USA, Hong Kong) Justin Hurwitz.

(Original Song)

Winner markerCity of Stars from La La Land, A Black Label Media/TIK Films Limited/Impostor Pictures/Gilbert Films/Marc Platt Productions production; Summit Entertainment. (USA, Hong Kong) Music by Justin Hurwitz; lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

Production Design

Winner markerLa La Land, A Black Label Media/TIK Films Limited/Impostor Pictures/Gilbert Films/Marc Platt Productions production; Summit Entertainment. (USA, Hong Kong) Production design by David Wasco; set decoration by Sandy Reynolds-Wasco.

Short Films

(Animated)

Winner markerPiper, A Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures production; Walt Disney. Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer.

(Live Action)

Winner markerSing. (Hungary) Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy.

Sound Editing

Winner markerArrival, A Lava Bear Films/21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment Production; Paramount. (USA, Canada, India) Sylvain Bellemare.

Sound Mixing

Winner markerHacksaw Ridge, A Pandemonium Films/Permut Productions/Vendian Entertainment/Kylin Pictures production; Summit Entertainment. (Australia, USA) Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace.

Visual Effects

Winner markerThe Jungle Book, A Walt Disney Pictures/Fairview Entertainment production; Walt Disney. (UK, USA) Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

Winner markerMoonlight, An A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions production; A24. Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; story by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

(Original Screenplay)

Winner markerManchester by the Sea, A K Period Media/B Story/CMP/Pearl Street Films production; Roadside Attractions/Amazon Studios. Written by Kenneth Lonergan.

Honorary Award

Winner markerTo Jackie Chan, an international film star who has captivated millions with his wit, boundless energy and unparalleled athletic artistry. [ [Statuette]]
Winner markerTo Anne V. Coates, in recognition of a film editing career of remarkable breadth and exceptional collaborative achievement. [ [Statuette]]
Winner markerTo Lynn Stalmaster, a true pioneer whose keen insight and inspired creativity transformed the art of motion picture casting. [ [Statuette]]
Winner markerTo Frederick Wiseman, whose masterful and distinctive documentaries examine the familiar and reveal the unexpected. [ [Statuette]]

Scientific and Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

Winner markerTo ARRI for the pioneering design and engineering of the Super 35 format Alexa digital camera system. With an intuitive design and appealing image reproduction, achieved through close collaboration with filmmakers, ARRI’s Alexa cameras were among the first digital cameras widely adopted by cinematographers.
Winner markerTo RED Digital Cinema for the pioneering design and evolution of the RED Epic digital cinema cameras with upgradeable full-frame image sensors. RED’s revolutionary design and innovative manufacturing process have helped facilitate the wide adoption of digital image capture in the motion picture industry.
Winner markerTo Sony for the development of the F65 CineAlta camera with its pioneering high-resolution imaging sensor, excellent dynamic range, and full 4K output. Sony’s unique photosite orientation and true RAW recording deliver exceptional image quality.
Winner markerTo Panavision and Sony for the conception and development of the groundbreaking Genesis digital motion picture camera. Using a familiar form factor and accessories, the design features of the Genesis allowed it to become one of the first digital cameras to be adopted by cinematographers.
Winner markerTo Marcos Fajardo for the creative vision and original implementation of the Arnold Renderer, and to Chris Kulla, Alan King, Thiago Ize and Clifford Stein for their highly optimized geometry engine and novel ray-tracing algorithms which unify the rendering of curves, surfaces, volumetrics and subsurface scattering as developed at Sony Pictures Imageworks and Solid Angle SL. Arnold’s scalable and memory-efficient single-pass architecture for path tracing, its authors’ publication of the underlying techniques, and its broad industry acceptance were instrumental in leading a widespread adoption of fully ray-traced rendering for motion pictures.
Winner markerTo Vladimir Koylazov for the original concept, design and implementation of V-Ray from Chaos Group. V-Ray’s efficient production-ready approach to ray-tracing and global illumination, its support for a wide variety of workflows, and its broad industry acceptance were instrumental in the widespread adoption of fully ray-traced rendering for motion pictures.
Winner markerTo Luca Fascione, J. P. Lewis and Iain Matthews for the design, engineering, and development of the FACETS facial performance capture and solving system at Weta Digital. FACETS was one of the first reliable systems to demonstrate accurate facial tracking from an actor-mounted camera, combined with rig-based solving, in large-scale productions. This system enables animators to bring the nuance of the original live performances to a new level of fidelity for animated characters.
Winner markerTo Steven Rosenbluth, Joshua Barratt, Robert Nolty and Archie Te for the engineering and development of the Concept Overdrive motion control system. This user-friendly hardware and software system creates and controls complex interactions of real and virtual motion in hard real-time, while safely adapting to the needs of on-set filmmakers.

(Technical Achievement Award)

Winner markerTo Thomson Grass Valley for the design and engineering of the pioneering Viper FilmStream digital camera system. The Viper camera enabled frame-based logarithmic encoding, which provided uncompressed camera output suitable for importing into existing digital intermediate workflows.
Winner markerTo Larry Gritz for the design, implementation and dissemination of Open Shading Language (OSL). OSL is a highly optimized runtime architecture and language for programmable shading and texturing that has become a de facto industry standard. It enables artists at all levels of technical proficiency to create physically plausible materials for efficient production rendering.
Winner markerTo Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy and Maurice van Swaaij for the pioneering development of the CGI Studio renderer at Blue Sky Studios. CGI Studio’s groundbreaking ray-tracing and adaptive sampling techniques, coupled with streamlined artist controls, demonstrated the feasibility of ray-traced rendering for feature film production.
Winner markerTo Brian Whited for the design and development of the Meander drawing system at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Meander’s innovative curve-rendering method faithfully captures the artist’s intent, resulting in a significant improvement in creative communication throughout the production pipeline.
Winner markerTo Mark Rappaport for the concept, design and development, to Scott Oshita for the motion analysis and CAD design, to Jeff Cruts for the development of the faux-hair finish techniques, and to Todd Minobe for the character articulation and drive-train mechanisms, of the Creature Effects Animatronic Horse Puppet. The Animatronic Horse Puppet provides increased actor safety, close integration with live action, and improved realism for filmmakers.
Winner markerTo Glenn Sanders and Howard Stark for the design and engineering of the Zaxcom Digital Wireless Microphone System. The Zaxcom system has advanced the state of wireless microphone technology by creating a fully digital modulation system with a rich feature set, which includes local recording capability within the belt pack and a wireless control scheme providing real-time transmitter control and time-code distribution.
Winner markerTo David Thomas, Lawrence E. Fisher and David Bundy for the design, development and engineering of the Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless Microphone System. The Lectrosonics system has advanced the state of wireless microphone technology by means of an innovative digital predictive algorithm to realize full fidelity audio transmission over a conventional analog FM radio link, by reducing transmitter size, and by increasing power efficiency.
Winner markerTo Parag Havaldar for the development of expression-based facial performance-capture technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks. This pioneering system enabled large-scale use of animation rig-based facial performance-capture for motion pictures, combining solutions for tracking, stabilization, solving and animator-controllable curve editing.
Winner markerTo Nicholas Apostoloff and Geoff Wedig for the design and development of animation rig-based facial performance-capture systems at ImageMovers Digital and Digital Domain. These systems evolved through independent, then combined, efforts at two different studios, resulting in an artist-controllable, editable, scalable solution for the high-fidelity transfer of facial performances to convincing digital characters.
Winner markerTo Kiran Bhat, Michael Koperwas, Brian Cantwell and Paige Warner for the design and development of the ILM facial performance-capture solving system. This system enables high-fidelity facial performance transfer from actors to digital characters in large-scale productions while retaining full artistic control, and integrates stable rig-based solving and the resolution of secondary detail in a controllable pipeline.