Oscars 2017 In Pictures

Let the pictures at the Oscar ceremony tell the story...

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Image captionThe biggest story of the night came right at the end with the announcement that Moonlight had been awarded best picture.

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Image captionThe award was initially given to La La Land as the wrong envelope had been handed to Warren Beatty who was presenting the award.

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Image captionChaos ensued for a few moments before Jordan Horowitz of La La Land graciously announced it should have gone to Moonlight.

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Image captionOrder was restored as the cast and crew of Moonlight took to the stage to accept the award.

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Image captionCasey Affleck saw off strong opposition including Denzel Washington to win the best actor category. Affleck said: "It means so much to me thank you. One of the first people who taught me how to act was Denzel Washington and I just met him for the first time tonight."

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Image captionLa La Land took seven awards including one to Emma Stone for best actress. It's Stone's first Oscar win, although she was nominated for Birdman in 2015.

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Image captionMahershala Ali from the film Moonlight won the best supporting actor award.

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Image captionViola Davis won the best supporting actress award for her portrayal of Rose in the adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences.

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Image captionThe four winners of the individual actor awards lined up in the press room. Left to right: Best supporting actor Mahershala Ali, best actress Emma Stone, best supporting actress Viola Davis and best actor Casey Affleck.

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Image captionThe ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Image captionJustin Timberlake began proceedings with a performance of his Oscar-nominated song Can't Stop The Feeling.

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Image captionHost Jimmy Kimmel joked that the ceremony was being watched by "countries that now hate us".

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Image captionNasa mathematician Katherine Johnson (second left) appeared with Hidden Figures stars Janelle Monae, Taraji P Henson and Octavia Spencer. The film tells the little-known story of a group of African-American women and their contribution to the space race in the 50s and 60s.

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Image captionAlessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson accepted Oscars for best make-up and hairstyling for the film Suicide Squad.

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Image captionColleen Atwood won her fourth Oscar, for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, after winning in 2011 for Alice in Wonderland, in 2006 for Memoirs of a Geisha and in 2003 for Chicago.

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Image captionJimmy Kimmel spotted Meryl Streep and paid tribute to her "many uninspiring and overrated performances", to much laughter from the audience. Earlier in the week, designer Karl Lagerfeld accused Streep of rejecting one of his dresses because she found a different designer who was willing to pay her - he has since said he "misunderstood" the situation.

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Image captionJust in case the audience needed a bite to eat, small parcels of sweets fell from the ceiling.

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Image captionProducer Caroline Waterlow and director Ezra Edelman of OJ: Made in America accepted the award for best documentary feature.

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Image captionUntil this moment, Kevin O'Connell was the most-nominated person in Oscars history without a victory, with 21 nominations. Here he finally lifts the award - for best sound mixing for his work on Hacksaw Ridge.

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Image captionJimmy Kimmel organised for people taking an LA bus tour to unwittingly appear in the auditorium. Two of the guests told Kimmel they're getting married in December, so he got Denzel Washington to perform an impromptu ceremony in the front row of the auditorium.

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Image captionKimmel followed this by lifting actor Sunny Pawar, from Lion, above his head as music from the Lion King played - to the delight of co-star Dev Patel.

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Image captionThe winners of the best animated feature film award, Zootopia, posed in the press room with their Oscars. Left to right: co-directors Byron Howard, Rich Moore and producer Clark Spencer. Actors Hailee Steinfeld and Gael Garcia Bernal presented them with their awards.

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Image captionIn a tribute to Back to the Future, Michael J Fox and Seth Rogen, along with a Delorean, appeared on stage.

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Image captionBritish producer Joanna Natasegara and British director Orlando von Einsiedel accept the award for best documentary short for The White Helmets. It tells the story of the Syrian first responders who risk their lives to rescue victims from frequent airstrikes.

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Image captionActors Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, both nominated this year, took to the stage to introduce John Legend who performed his songs from La La Land.

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Image captionLegend sang City of Stars and Audition (The Fools Who Dream).

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Image captionThe names of some of the actors, directors, writers, producers, musicians and artists who have died in the past year were flashed up on the screen as Sara Bareilles performed Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now.

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Image captionActress Salma Hayek and producer Joanna Natasegara navigated the stairs in the press room.

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Image captionAmy Adams presented the Oscar for best adapted screenplay to Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins (not pictured) for the film Moonlight.