Oscars 2017: Warren Beatty announces wrong movie as best picture victor

“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.

Sunday’s awards proceeded mostly as expected, until the final award for best picture, when PricewaterhouseCoopers gave the wrong envelope to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who announced La La Land as best picture when Moonlight had won.

Attention will focus on a provision meant to make the system failsafe: there are duplicate envelopes of the complete set of results, held in the wings in case anything should go wrong with a presenter or an envelope.

“You know it’s a unusual night when the word “envelope” is trending on Twitter”, he said on his ABC show “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.

“This was confusing, obviously, so. we thought he was being coy and cute and milking it but, in reality, he was perplexed by why her name was on it”, host Jimmy Kimmel told ABC after the show.

“I knew I would screw this up”, hel joked. As La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz recounted to The Hollywood Reporter, “Guys in headsets starting buzzing around”.

“I want to tell you what happened”. In addition to Stone and Chazelle’s trophies, it won the awards for best production design, best original score, best original song and best cinematography. This is how an envelope for the category main actress could have been handed out twice. He came upstairs and he walked over to me, and he showed the card. “La La Land” star Stone had been awarded that Oscar moments before.

Aside from a statement read out on behalf of Asghar Farhadi, director of Iran’s The Salesman, which won Best Foreign Language film, attacking the Muslim ban, and Mexican actor presenter Gael García Bernal criticizing the Mexican wall, there was little in the way of political protest.

Moonlight claimed two other awards Sunday night; the 37-year-old Jenkins earned Best Adapted Screenplay honors, while Mahershala Ali claimed the Best Supporting Actor prize. Kimmel didn’t stray entirely from politics.

Bosses said Pricewaterhouse Coopers – the accountancy firm that oversees the counting of the Oscars ballots – has taken “full responsibility” for the blunder, which the company put down to “human error”. A record six black actors are nominated. He asked the crowd to stand for Meryl Streep, who memorably slammed Trump at the Golden Globes. He also led a standing ovation for the actress before telling her: “Nice dress, by the way”.

Twitter is thrilled by the Oscar blooper and been sharing tweets that will crack you up. For about five seconds (slash an actual eternity) no one seemed to know, and then a voice (possibly Platt) can be heard saying “This is not a joke, I’m afraid they read the wrong thing”, into a microphone. The couple welcomed their daughter four days ago. Another person to get a standing ovation at the Oscars was former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” by Taraji P. Henson.

“Wow. Thank (expletive) we didn’t have Warren Beatty doing the auction”, said Elton John to laughs at his AIDS Foundation viewing party. Another stand-out victor of the night was 59-year-old sound re-recording engineer Kevin O’Connell.