{"id":1745,"date":"2017-02-27T00:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T00:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:18:35","slug":"backstage-89th-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/backstage-89th-academy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage at the 89th Academy Awards | ANIMATIONWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Moana\u2019 voice talent and singer Auli\u2019l Cravalho mugs it up with \u201cHow Far I\u2019ll Go\u201d composer Lin-Manuel Miranda backstage during the 89th Oscars.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

ANIMATIONWorld<\/em> \u2014 February 2017
Backstage at the 89th Academy Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of a tiny, barely noticeable snafu surrounding the winner of the award for best picture, the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night went off pretty much as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Host Jimmy Kimmel continued his \u201cfeud\u201d with BFF Matt Damon, trolled President Trump on Twitter, and mocked several difficult-to-pronounce foreign-sounding names. Meryl Streep cemented her position as America\u2019s leading actress. The audience got free candy parachuted from the ceiling. And Walt Disney Animation Studios won the Oscar — for the ninth time in the past 10 years — for best animated feature for Zootopia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backstage, the mood was hectic and celebratory as the filmmakers and talent behind some of the biggest movies of 2016 headed into the press room to pose with their awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marking the first Academy Award for Piper<\/em> director Alan Barillaro and producer Marc Sondheimer, the pair were all smiles in the press room after accepting the award for best animated short film on stage, where they thanked the entire Pixar team, including John Lasseter and Ed Catmull. (Read full story\u2026<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n