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“I’m sure you’ve at least heard, “La La Land” was simultaneously the biggest victor and loser last night”.

“I feel so weird”, best supporting actor victor Mahershala Ali says.

It was a completely unforgettable ending to what was, until that point, a largely forgettable night.

As the La La Land filmmakers take the stage to accept best picture, the accountant from PriceWaterhouseCoopers jumped up and said, “He (Beatty) took the wrong envelope!” and goes running onstage.

Once the awards got underway, though, they started to go in interesting directions in a hurry.

Most expected another day of sun for Damien Chazelle’s celebrated musical “La La Land”, which was nominated for a record-tying 14 categories. Leading up to the ceremony, everyone on Earth had already come to the same two conclusions. Kimmel’s joke was especially inappropriate given how he made fun of multiple people of color’s names, especially Mahershala Ali, the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar for his role in “Moonlight”.

La La Land’s two main rivals scored first. It’s just what the Academy does. “You felt embarrassed for Dunaway and Beatty, who clearly knew something was amiss when he opened the envelope but didn’t know how to proceed”, wrote Entertainment Weekly critic Jeff Jenson.

Trump has regularly criticized the Oscars on Twitter as “boring” and a “sad joke” in years past, but refrained from tweeting last night. The presenters announced the wrong Best Picture; Moonlight was the victor, not La La Land. At the time, we all believed he was pausing for dramatic effect.

“I’ve known Matt for a long time now”.

“The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected”. He handed it to Dunaway, and she read the card: “La La Land”. “They hesitated quite a bit in announcing the victor as they were trying to make an on the spot judgment of the validity of the card in the envelope to which they judged incorrectly”.

How is that possible? Stone told the Washington Post that from that moment on she had been standing backstage clutching both her Oscar and the card that said she’d won.

“I was elated because what I thought was the best film actually won”, said writer and activist April Reign, who created the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag in 2015.

In the wake of last year’s #OscarsSoWhite firestorm, the academy took dramatic steps aimed at diversifying its overwhelmingly white and male ranks, inviting the largest, most diverse class ever to join the institution.

Only two people know the Oscars winners list and supervise the counting procedures – PwC tax adviser Martha Ruiz and Brian Cullinan an accountant who is the chairman of PwC’s U.S. board.

PWC has had Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz as co-ballot leaders overseeing the process for several years. They took the envelope I had. Movie fans can only hope that the inevitable controversy and conspiracy theories bound to swell won’t overshadow the dramatic triumph of “Moonlight“. “That’s how we can make America great again”. Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won best foreign language film for The Salesman, but he was not present (as he had announced he wouldn’t be). “I was wondering if you could just describe your relationship with Jimmy for me”, he said. Shameful. That’s why an American/Russian/Dalek/Reaper operative switched the envelopes before it was too late.