Moonlight & La La Land’s Casts & Crews React To That INSANE Oscars Mix-Up!

The 89th Annual Academy Awards had one of the most embarrassing moments in award-show history when La La Land was announced the victor for Best Picture and halfway through the team’s acceptance speech, the goof-up came to light and Moonlight was presented with the award.

La La Land producer Justin Horowitz spoke to Good Morning America Monday, just hours after his film was accidentally named Best Picture victor following an epic Oscars error. Host Jimmy Kimmel approaches the microphone and alludes to Steve Harvey, whose 2015 reading of the wrong Miss Universe victor instantly becomes the second most-embarrassing awards show flub. Instead of reading from the best picture envelope, Beatty and Dunaway opened the “backup” envelope for best actress, which was awarded to La La Land star Emma Stone. There was no Oscar for Ryan Gosling, nominated in the Best Actor category, the prize going to Casey Affleck for Manchester By The Sea.

When presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway came up to present the award, I got a little hopeful. Warren Beatty, who was on stage to present the Best Picture trophy when everything fell apart, today called out Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs to explain the snafu. He went on to give his love to La La Land.

“La La Land” producer Jordan Horowitz was the one who stopped the celebrations: “I am sorry, there’s been a mistake”.

I want to tell you what happened.

It added, “For the past 83 years, the Academy has entrusted PwC with the integrity of the awards process during the ceremony, and last night we failed the Academy”. They also added that they were now investigating “how this could have happened”.

Conan O’Brien defended Beatty, saying that the envelope he was given “was pretty confusing”.

A short while later, after the cast and crew of La La Land had taken to the stage, the mix-up was declared, and the golden statue was handed to director Barry Jenkins and his team.

The card in the envelope read “Emma Stone, La La Land”. “I wasn’t trying to be amusing”, the Bonnie and Clyde actor said.

“I know all about that this”.

The first man to enter was Gary from Chicago and his fiancee and the pair of them instantly became the internet’s favorite part of the Oscars – that is until the best picture award was announced.