Miami got #Moonlit last night, here are all the emotions we felt

“Warren, what did you do?” a grim-faced Jimmy Kimmel demands onstage as the worst gaffe in Oscar history, and Beatty’s biggest flop since Ishtar, unfolds.

The cast of Moonlight celebrates as Moonlight wins the best picture award at the Oscars after La La Land was incorrectly named the victor.

‘We apologize to the entire cast and crew of La La Land and Moonlight whose experience was profoundly altered by this error. However, his hesitance seemed like a cheesy effort to build suspense, causing his “Bonnie and Clyde” co-star, Faye Dunaway, to take the card and name “La La Land” as the victor. “Moonlight has won best picture”, reiterated Horowitz.

Amid chaos, the rightful winners, the Moonlight filmmakers, accepted the award. With Emma Stone revealing that she already had a copy of the Best Actress card, it is possible that the second copy were given to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, instead of the Best Picture card. Beatty noticeably paused when he opened the envelope to announce which film won Best Picture, ultimately passing it over to Dunaway, who announced, “La La Land!“.

There were too many memorable moments to fully cover all of them: candy fell from the ceiling, Viola Davis made everyone cry, Seth Rogen and Michael J. Fox sang a song from “Hamilton” and a living person’s picture was displayed during the “in memoriam” sequence. “That last day is when Brian and I will start memorizing the winners of each category and start quizzing each other”, Ruiz said in a February 10 interview published by the academy’s public relations arm.

The statement came after almost a day of speculation about the fiasco, which launched countless punchlines, memes and a probe of what went wrong.

Eagle-eyed viewers soon noticed that the envelope Beatty was handed was, in fact, labelled “Actress in a Leading Role”, which itself went to La La Land’s Emma Stone; except, Stone herself noted she was still holding her winning envelope. And the category-like Best Picture-is listed in tiny type at the bottom.

“Brian was asked not to tweet or use social media during the show”, a source told People. This even happened at the Grammy’s, everyone was sure Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” would take best album.

An Oscars presenter announced the wrong victor before, according to the Los Angeles Times. Even for veteran actors, that moment is nerve-wracking.

On paper, the process for announcing Oscars winners seems straight-forward.

Those people – from accountancy firm PwC – stand on either side of the Oscars stage and hand the envelopes to the award presenters just before they step on stage.

Last week, Cullinan told the Huffington Post the procedure for dealing with the hand-off of an incorrect envelope, other than signaling to a stage manager, was unclear. I’m 20 years behind, plus I’m not sleeping with Annette Bening, but otherwise, I can appreciate what he’s going through. Accountants attended rehearsals to learn whether presenters would enter from the right or left.

“Wow. Thank (expletive) we didn’t have Warren Beatty doing the auction”, said Elton John to laughs at his AIDS Foundation viewing party.

PwC also said that Cullinan and his associate, Martha Ruiz, did not follow protocol for correcting the error “quickly enough”.

“It was more insane onstage”.

Host Jimmy Kimmel said: “Well, I don’t know what happened”.

“There’s a stack for the back-ups and the ones that are not the back-ups and he took from the wrong stack”, he said.

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ captivating story of a sensitive, vulnerable black boy in search of acceptance and human connection, isn’t either of those things.

One observer said PwC is scrambling now.

Brand management experts said it could take years for PricewaterhouseCoopers to recover.

“The people reading these cards are sometimes older, they’ve probably been drinking, and they’re in the spotlight in front of their peers delivering some of the most important industry information of the year-these cards should be bulletproof”, says Jameson.