Every 12 months on the Oscars, the world waits with bated breath because the Big Three awards are introduced with gusto: Best Actress, Best Actor and – of course – Best Picture.
The nominees and recipients of these Academy Awards are sometimes debated and generally fraught with controversy. But it is uncommon that such a catastrophic blunder would happen just like the incident in 2017.
The Best Picture gong that 12 months was a hotly-contested race between fan favorite La La Land and the coming-of-age indie drama, Moonlight.
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Emma Stone had already taken house the coveted Best Actress award, so it did not strike anybody as odd that the movie would additionally win Best Picture.
Little did the viewers know, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had been handed the improper winner’s card. The envelope named Emma Stone because the winner of Best Actress, however all they noticed had been the phrases La La Land.
This had by no means occurred earlier than in the historical past of the Academy Awards.
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La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz was mid-acceptance speech with the whole solid and crew surrounding him on stage, when he discovered the award was not truly theirs.
“This is not a joke,” he stated, shocked. “Moonlight has won Best Picture… they have read out the wrong thing.”
Host Jimmy Kimmel then got here out to verify this was “not a joke”, holding up the misinterpret winner card to show that Moonlight had justly gained the award.
Once the viewers decided the second was not a poorly-thought out skit, their faces dropped. One snap can see the likes of Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams and Meryl Streep with their mouths agape in shock.
“We almost missed it. Michelle and I almost left early because we really had to pee – because we’re veteran Oscar attendees,” actress Busy Phillips instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2018.
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“We know that the line right after the ceremony is insane for the women’s room. But we stayed. Thank God!”
Horowitz additionally recalled pondering one thing was improper whereas he was in the center of his speech.
He observed “somebody with a headset” frantically working onto the stage. “You could just feel something starting to turn,” he stated.
Actor Ryan Gosling, who starred in La La Land, truly thought there was a medical incident happening behind-the-scenes, whereas singer John Legend believed there had been a tie between Moonlight and La La Land.
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The Moonlight crew then lastly took to the stage to bask in the second they so genuinely-earned.
Director Barry Jenkins and producers Adele Romanski and Jeremy Kleiner all gave brief speeches, whereas Jenkins gave a shout-out to the La La Land crew: “My love to La La Land, my love to everybody. Man.”
“I noticed the commotion but I was speechless when the result was altered. I’ve never seen that happen before,” he later instructed Forbes.
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In the aftermath of the Oscars blunder, some blamed actor Warren Beatty for the mix-up.
But ultimately, PriceWaterhouseCoopers – the account agency used for the Oscars voting course of – took duty.
“PwC takes full responsibility for the series of mistakes and breaches of established protocols during last night’s Oscars,” the corporate wrote in a assertion.
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It blamed accountant and government Brian Cullinan for handing Beatty and Dunaway the improper envelope.
“Once the error occurred, protocols for correcting it were not followed through quickly enough by Mr Cullinan or his partner.”
The media went wild over the Oscars gaffe, with headlines starting from #OscarsSoWrong to ‘You Had One Job!’
Presenter Jimmy Kimmel, who spoke concerning the incident at size on his discuss present, had one final comment in 2018 concerning the notorious 89th Academy Awards.
“To this day, there are people who think I caused that envelope problem,” he instructed The Hollywood Reporter.
“Hopefully history will be kind to me in that regard, because one thing I definitely didn’t screw up was that.”
