Hollywood’s biggest moments in 2017

2017 saw some big moments in Hollywood, which made us drop our jaws.

Harvey Weinstein and sexual predators

In September this year, actors Ashley Judd and Rose Mcgowan broke the silence and exposed Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his harassment. The two actors spoke about being sexually harassed the producer. Their revelation propelled an entire movement against sexual harassment and caused countless other women to share their accounts. Because of the movement, other Hollywood bigwigs including Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Charlie Rose and Bret Ratner also came under the fire and were named and shamed for their deeds and misuse of power. The movement doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon though.

The Oscar mix up

When La La Land producer Jordon Horowitz accepted the Best Picture Oscar for his film La La Land, little did he know that he would be announcing that his film hadn’t won the Best Picture Award and instead the romantic drama Moonlight had won the coveted trophy. The gaffe was done by presenters, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who had received the wrong Oscar Envelope. They had been given the envelope for Best Actress ( Emma Stone for La La Land), and in the midst of all this confusion, Beatty announced that the Ryan Gosling-Emma stone starrer had won the award.

Anna Faris and Chris Pratt

A Hollywood separation is a usual occurrence in the entertainment industry but when actors Anna Faris and Chris Pratt issued a joint statement together, announcing their separation, a million hearts were broken. And the news of their separation even made people question the “happily ever after” theory.

Reports even suggested that, the separation happened because of the off-screen romance between actor Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. While the news about Pratts’ affair with Lawrence didn’t get much attention, the news about his separation with Anna after their marriage for eight years certainly was one of the biggest news this year.

Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington’s suicide

Chris Cornell, the frontman of popular grunge band Soundgarden committed suicide. Then two months later, in a shocking turn of events, Cornell’s best friend who sang Hallelujagh at the Cornell’s funeral ceremony, Chester Bennington, frontman of the rock group, Linkin Park, also committed suicide. Both iconic singers committed suicide by asphyxiation and both were in severe depression. The deaths of the rock singers reignited the subject of depression.