Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the. La La Land was announced as the best film winner at the 2017 Oscars on Sunday night – but then had to hand the award over to Moonlight after a mistake was noticed.

This year's Oscar- nominated shorts illuminate the world in which we live. This year’s batch of Oscar- nominated shorts, whether animated, live action or documentary, deal primarily with sadness and strife, but a handful do so sublimely. Of the animated films, most clock in at under 1. Robert Valley’s noirish half- hour epic “Pear Cider and Cigarettes,” a spiky, skewed- angles memory piece about helping a hard- drinking, self- destructive friend secure a new liver in China. Bulgarian- born Theodore Ushev’s “Blind Vaysha” uses a hypnotic, churning woodcut- like technique to tell the gloomy fable of a village girl born with one eye that sees the future, while the other sees the past. Similarly steeped in loss, the Pixar- inspired (but darker) “Borrowed Time,” directed by Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou- Lhadj, depicts a sheriff’s son returning to the cliff where the tragedy of his youth played out.

The 87th Oscars get underway tonight at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Here is the full list of winners.

Find Oscars 2017 news and blogs about Oscar History. Read news about the Academy Awards nominees, winners, red carpet, awards night predictions and more. This year’s batch of Oscar-nominated shorts, whether animated, live action, or documentary, deal primarily with sadness and strife, but a handful do so sublimely. See the list of 2017 Oscar Nominations including best picture, best actors and actresses, and more. View trailers, photos and detailed information from the 89th. The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took.

Two gems address individuating from parents. Perennial nominee Pixar has “Piper,” directed by Alan Barillaro, in which a sandpiper hatchling learns how to feed itself by figuring out the beautiful tandem of sand and surf. Oscar winner Patrick Osborne (“Feast”) returns with the music- driven, time- collapsing masterpiece “Pearl,” wherein a young woman playing an old tape recorder in a beat- up hatchback ignites a montage of memories. The car is the setting, as we see a busking, country- crossing young musician turn into the suburban father of a budding rock star.

It’s the animated equivalent of the perfect three- minute pop song (even if it’s six minutes). Shorts HDA still from the short documentary . Dan Krauss’ “Extremis” — which directly and compassionately observes end- of- life decisions in a hospital’s ICU — is more indicative of this field’s coverage of grimmer topics. For the rest, that means refugees and Syria. Daphne Matziaraki’s immersive “4. Miles,” part of the New York Times’ Op- Doc series, shadows a sleepy Greek island’s coast guard captain over one day as he’s called upon almost hourly to rescue Afghans risking death at sea to cross over from Turkey. There are many moments of charm, heartbreak and hope, but the prevailing takeaway is that to ignore the challenges of people struggling just to be safe is to deny a fundamental human right.

This is the rare year when the live- action collection is strongest, even if Denmark’s “Silent Nights,” directed by Aske Bang, is the clunkiest entry, packing a season’s worth of soap opera story lines into its romance between a Ghanan immigrant and a homeless shelter volunteer. More confidently winning is Timo von Gunten’s “La Femme et le TGV,” a Swiss confection about a lonely, train- loving boulangerie owner (Jane Birkin!) awakened by the promise of companionship. What enriches this category are three sharply observed stories of pushback, starting with S. Whose sense of . Hungarian Kristof De. As in the best of these nominees, to be who you are and do what you must is so much more than a short subject.- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2. Oscar Nominated Short Films. Animated program: 1 hour, 2.

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