Golden girl! Emma Stone wins Best Actress Oscar for La La Land
Side note: If you didn’t see Poldark’s Aidan Turner taking a steamy turn as the artist is the BBC series Desperate Romantics, we highly advise it. Were there hacking and Russians involved?
Following a similar mess-up at the Miss Universe pageant, host Steve Harvey has also been blamed for the mishap. Or was the nail-biting finish directed by Manoj Night Shyamlan?
Thanks to Emma Stone, the internet is already awash with conspiracy theories about how Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced La La Land Best Picture when the Academy Award was meant to go to Moonlight.
Damien Chazelle, the Hollywood wunderkind behind this year’s most loved movie “La La Land”, became the youngest filmmaker to win best director trophy at the 89th Academy Awards today.
“There were times I wasn’t being sent to auditions, and my agent would stop sending me because I wasn’t getting enough call-backs”, she said. I think we all would have loved to win Best Picture. “I’m so excited for ‘Moonlight, ‘” she said. A mystery of two Best Actress envelopes, then?
The wrong envelope fiasco stirred memories of Australia’s Next Top Model 2010 and Miss Universe 2015. “But listen, things get thrown at you and you’ve got to kind of roll with it. So I’m not sure what happened and I really wanted to talk to you guys first”. He came upstairs, walked up to me and showed it to me.
“Reading the script, I definitely felt inspired and struck by it”.
“But we’re so excited for Moonlight”.
The 51-year-old, a nominee in 2009 and 2012, beat the likes of two previous Oscar winners – Nicole Kidman (“Lion“) and Octavia Spencer (“Hidden Figures”) – as well as Michelle Williams (“Manchester by the Sea”) and Naomie Harris (“Moonlight”). Ultimately, the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone starring motion picture won six Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song and Best Production Design.
There was La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz, who had to take on the awkward task of breaking the news to a stunned audience that Moonlight actually won.
“I noticed the commotion that was happening and I thought that something unusual had occurred”, Jenkins said backstage. But removing her performance out of the context of the controversies, Isabelle Huppert is mind numbingly terrific as the corporate woman, whose life takes a hard turn after she was raped by a masked intruder.