Oscars 2017: So who in the heck screwed up?

Initially confused, Beatty hesitated and checked the card again, before showing the envelope to Dunaway which prompted her to read the words: “La La Land”.

Adrien Brody-Halle Berry Adrien lip lock: It was one of the most viral Oscar moments of all time. You could say she captured a feeling, one of Old Hollywood nostalgia, that Academy voters just couldn’t ignore.

The blunder wasn’t picked up straight away because only two people know who has won before the winners are announced.

“La La Land” producer Jordan Horowitz was the one who stopped the celebrations: “I am sorry, there’s been a mistake”. They took the envelope I had. “This is not a joke”, offered multiple La La Land producers. Instead, Iranian-American businesswoman Anousheh Ansari read out a statement from Farhadi in which he denounced the ban, and the anti-democratic nature of us-versus-them fear mongering before arguing that film transmits shared human values.

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway initially announced the night’s final award for Best Picture as belonging to La La Land, which had already won an armful of trophies, including Best Actress and Best Director.

Streep: another win on the cards? . And with that, the Moonlight cast crew made their way to the stage.

Host Jimmy Kimmel tried to make light of the situation, blaming the incident on Steve Harvey, the comedian who infamously announced the wrong victor of the Miss Universe pageant in 2015.

Check out the goof-up at Miss Universe 2015. Beatty explained that he was handed the wrong card, which read “Emma Stone – La La Land“, and that he wasn’t trying to be amusing when he hesitated and then gave it to Dunaway to read. “I’m going to be really proud to hand this to my friends from Moonlight“, Horowitz said, before a clearly flustered Beatty explains what he saw when he opened the envelope. That’s why he paused. “I wasn’t trying to be amusing”, a flustered Beatty later clarified. Emma Stone, who claimed best actress, was cordial when asked about the confusion by reporters.

Kimmel, 49, faces the stiff challenge of keeping the more than three-hour show – usually the most-watched non-sports telecast in the United States – upbeat in a year where no major surprises are expected and where the Oscars So White controversy seems to be a thing of the past.

And those producers and other folks running up on stage?

It was a moment that would go down in Oscars history, for all the wrong reasons. PwC accountants, the only people who know who the winners are, always print two copies of the cards. Best we can tell. he walked off the stage holding Emma’s envelope. During the presentation for Best Picture, it was announced that La La Land won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Fans of film, frocks and famous faces have turned their eyes to Hollywood tonight for the 89th annual Academy Awards. They also added that they were now investigating “how this could have happened”.