LAST year's Oscars ceremony went swimmingly, right up until the final award for Best Picture when Warren Beatty announced the wrong winner!

There were so many incredible films released in 2017 that it was harder to call the winners than usual. Here's the lowdown on all of last year's Academy Awards results and who was predicted to win.

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Best Actor

Casey Affleck - Manchester By The Sea WINNER

Other nominees;

Denzel Washington – Fences

Ryan Gosling - La La Land

Andrew Garfield

Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic

Best Actress

Emma Stone - La La Land WINNER

Natalie Portman – Jackie

Isabelle Huppert – Elle

Ruth Negga – Loving

Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins

6 Emma Stone is nominated for the Academy Award for best actress Credit: Getty Images

Best Director

Damien Chazelle - La La Land WINNER

Barry Jenkins – Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester By The Sea

Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

Denes Villeneuve – Arrival

Best Original Song

City of Stars WINNER

Other nominees;

Can’t Stop the Feeling

Audition

How Far I’ll Go

Empty Chair

Best Picture

Moonlight WINNER

Other nominees;

La La Land

Manchester By The Sea

Hidden Figures

Lion

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Arrival

Hell Or High Water

6 Dev Patel has been widely praised for his role in Lion and is nominated for best supporting actor Credit: Avalon

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight WINNER

Other nominees;

Dev Patel – Lion

Jeff Bridges - Hell Or High Water

Lucas Hedges - Manchester By The Sea

Michael Shannon - Nocturnal Animal

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis – Fences WINNER

Other nominees;

Michelle Williams - Manchester By The Sea

Naomie Harris – Moonlight

Nicole Kidman – Lion

Octavia Spencer - Hidden Figures

6 La La Land led the nominations with a staggering FOURTEEN nods Credit: AP:Associated Press

Which films looked likely to win an Oscar?

After the nominations were released these movies looked set to set to land multiple gongs:

La La Land (Best picture, best score, best visuals)

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star as two wannabe dreamers trying to make it in the big city of Los Angeles.

This film has already bagged an impressive sixteen gongs this awards season already – including SEVEN Golden Globes.

La La Land is a callback to the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of days gone by but transplanted into a modern setting.

Emma Stone plays a struggling actor, whose relationship with her jazz pianist boyfriend (Ryan Gosling) becomes strained when his career begins to overtake hers.

There are even a couple of La La Land special bets;

Jackie (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Costume Design)

Natalie Portman takes on the role of the glamorous former first lady Jackie Onassis in this biopic. The gritty film follows the direct aftermath and her downward spiral following the death of her husband John F Kennedy.

Spanning across the space of just a week, Jackie has to overcome her grief over watching her husband die in the infamous Texas killing, leave the house she called a home and console her two children.

The film has been nominated for three BAFTA's and earned three Critic's Choice Awards.

Hacksaw Ridge (Best picture, best cinematography, best director)

This war epic sees the true story of Desmond T Doss, who becomes the first soldier in American history to receive the medal of honour without ever firing a shot in battle.

6 Natalie Portman was tipped for Best Actress for her roll in Jackie Credit: Fox Searchlight

Andrew Garfield plays the war hero, and stars alongside an all-star cast including Hugo Weaving, Sam Worthington and Luke Bracey.

It has already been put up for five BAFTA awards and was nominated for three Golden Globes.

Mel Gibson has been praised for his turn in the director's chair, with many considering this film his 'comeback'.



Which actors were nominated to take home an Academy Award?

Denzel Washington - Fences (Best Actor)

Prediction site AwardsCircuit.com has put its money on Denzel Washington winning his third acting Oscar for his role in Fences.

If he does, he will become one of a handful that have ever won more than two - joining the likes of Katherine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson in the party of six.

He stars alongside Viola Davis as they tell the story of a failed baseball player who faces discrimination as a rubbish collector in the 1950s.

Denzel was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture, but lost out to Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea.

Emma Stone - La La Land (Winner of Best Actress)

It appears to be almost a dead cert that Best Actress will go to one of two people - and Emma is one of them.

In La La Land, Emma showed off her vocal chords to take on the role of Mia, a wannabe actor who never quite gets the break.

6 Jimmy Kimmel has confirmed he will be hosting the 2017 Oscars ceremony Credit: Getty Images - WireImage

Natalie Portman - Jackie (Best Actress)

After bagging the same award in 2011 for her role as the torn ballerina in Black Swan, Natalie is in the running for the show once again.

Critics have named the role of Jackie her "best performance ever" as she tackled the harsh realities surrounding the mourning widow in bright pink.

Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea (Best Supporting Actress)

Michelle Williams has been tipped for her fourth Oscar nomination (having previously been nominated for Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine and My Week with Marilyn.)

In Manchester by the Sea she plays Randi, whose estranged husband returns to their home town with his nephew after the sudden death of his brother.

Other contenders include Naomie Harris, Molly Shannon and Lupita Nyong'o, who won the category in 2013 for 12 Years a Slave.

Dev Patel - Lion (Best Supporting Actor)

British actor Dev, who started life in TV drama Skins before being launched to stardom in Slumdog Millionaire, looks set to be in the running for his new film, Lion

Starring alongside Nicole Kidman, Patel plays Saroo Brierley, who was separated from his family at the age of 5 and, 25 years later, uses Google Earth to track down his birth mother in India.

Nicole plays Saroo's adoptive mother, who finds it hard to come to terms with her son's plans.