Oscars Fuck Up Best Picture Announcement [UPDATES]

I’m glad Moonlight won Best Picture.

He then held up the card that proved “Moonlight” was the victor.

At which point, chaos reigned for a few moments, Jimmy Kimmel tried to do his job, which was to make everything less awkward with comedy.

Jordan Horowitz, producer of “La La Land”, shows the envelope revealing “Moonlight” as the true victor of best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

“We lost, by the way”, one of the producers said into the microphone before trailing off, amid growing confusion on the stage and in the audience. “I wasn’t trying to be amusing”. But host Kimmel, in his opening monologue, quickly acknowledged that he “was not that guy” to heal a divided America.

‘I knew I would screw this up, ‘ Kimmel, a first-time host, joked.

Check out the goof-up at Miss Universe 2015.

Hot favourite for best picture, the musical La La Land, won six Oscars – best director for Damien Chazelle, best actress for Emma Stone plus best cinematography, production design, score and original song for City of Stars.

It also came after a night filled with jokes about President Donald Trump.

“I mean, we hate to see people disappointed”.

Later in the show, Kimmel trolled Trump by tweeting at him: “U up?” and “Meryl says hi”.

“I wasn’t trying to be amusing”.

“It’s so easy to reach out and heal”.

“I think they were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end”, President Trump told Breitbart. It had my wheels turning and returning to the Simpson trial in a way that I’ll confess influenced how I later saw Ezra Edelman’s now Oscar-winning documentary. “That’s gone, thanks to him!” Kimmel ordered that CNN, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times all be removed from the ceremony; he offered faux-concern to a Swedish cinematographer about the bad thing that happened in Sweden; and even tried to goad Trump by tweeting directly at him on stage. Faye Dunaway read out La La Land as the victor and the cast and crew took to centre stage where they gave their acceptance speech.

By the time the Moonlight team made it up to the stage, the confusion was beginning to iron out: this wasn’t a joke or a gag; this wasn’t a tie; Warren Beatty had explained himself as best he could: Moonlight was the Best Picture victor.

Another Canadian victor was Ontario’s Alan Barillaro, co-director of Piper, which took the Best Animated Short Film trophy for a charming Pixar story about a baby sandpiper bird and its mother. In response to complaints about a lack of diversity, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences last year brought in 683 new members, nearly double the number added the previous year, to include a more diverse group of people.

So, assuming this story has a moral, the moral of the story is: Don’t tweet and hand out Oscars like Brian Cullinan did, or YouTube videos like the one below will gain a new, painfully ironic resonance.

Ezra Edelman’s O.J.: Made in America took best documentary, making it – at 467 minutes – the longest Oscar victor ever, beating out the 1969 Best Foreign Language Film victor War and Peace (431 minutes).