Here’s How Huge Mistake Expert Steve Harvey Responded to That Oscars Mix-Up

‘Moonlight” wins Best Picture over “La La Land’ in one of the biggest snafus in Oscars history.

The mixup occurred thanks to the wrong envelope being handed to the presenters. We don’t know what happened backstage, but somehow that card ended up in Warren and Faye’s hands. In the middle of the confusion, Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel even quipped about Harvey.

In fact, the error was realised halfway through the La La Land team’s acceptance speech, and Moonlight was presented with the award.

Meanwhile, if you want an insider account of the immediate aftermath of the whole debacle, this Vanity Fair clip should get you up to speed.

Actress Jane Fonda tweeted it was “jaw-dropping” and said she had not seen anything like it in 60 years of Oscar watching.

In a never-before-seen moment of the Oscars, the wrong Best Picture victor was announced – and wasn’t discovered until the wrong recipient had already begun giving acceptance speeches. Finally, Dunaway announced, “La La Land”. It was a confusing and exciting moment, but the La La Land cast response to losing Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars proved they were good sports about the mix up. “@VisionExpress, what you got?”

Emma – whose name was on the duplicate card that was read out – also spoke about the huge gaffe following the mix-up, saying: “Moonlight is one of the great films of all time”.

“It’s up to Brian and I to fully count everything together once, twice and sometimes multiple times to make sure it’s correct”, Ruiz told the BBC. Things just happen. I will say, I saw two cards, and so things just happen.

As to why everything unfolded the way it did, it turns out that Beatty was holding the wrong envelope. This would explain the snafu in spite of Stone’s insistence that she still had her winning card when the mistake happened.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that has overseen the Oscars ballot-counting process for 83 years, apologized for an on-air flub that saw La La Land announced as Best Picture ahead of real victor Moonlight. I knew it wasn’t a joke because I was with the stage manager and I could hear him talking about what to do.