Oscar best picture blunder leads to red faces all round

The problem was that Moonlight actually won.

He was a stand-in for the night’s actual big victor.

“PwC takes full responsibility for the series of mistakes and breaches of established protocols during last night’s Oscars”, PwC wrote. The tweet, sent moments before the best picture announcement, raised the question of whether the accountant was distracted from the task at hand. Confused, he and co-presenter Faye Dunaway announced “La La Land” the victor.

“I’m holding onto them”, Beatty said.

Post the historical debacle of announcing the wrong victor at the 89 Oscar Awards 2017, there’s finally an explanation as to how it happened.

“Very clearly, very clearly, even in my dreams, this could not be true”, Jenkins said. And by the way, the producers of La La Land were very gracious, on stage and off.

Casey Affleck and Emma Stone took home their first Oscars for Manchester by the Sea and La La Land respectively. News after the ceremony that the envelope was a duplicate of the Best Actress card.

Despite the error, La La Land still achieved a historic night with its record-tying 14 total nominations.

Producer Jordan Horowitz holds up the card for the Best Picture victor Moonlight.

La La Land producer Jordan Horwitz immediately called up the producers of Moonlight and graciously passed his statue over.

The telecast’s weird ending overshadowed big wins by Casey Affleck and Emma Stone for best actor and best actress, respectively, as well as Damien Chazelle for best director for “La La Land'”. We are Chiron. And you don’t think that kid grows up to be nominated for eight Academy Awards. Benj Pasek, who is Jewish, and Justin Paul wrote the song’s lyrics. During the acceptance speeches Pasek thanked his mother, who he said “let me quit the JCC soccer league to be in a school musical”. PEOPLE reported, meanwhile, that she had the “time of her life” at the Vanity Fair party.

Based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue and adapted for the screen by him and Jenkins, Moonlight unfolds over three chapters in the life of a young, gay black man growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood.

Each year, two members of the company’s Los Angeles office are tapped to be “balloting leaders”, putting them in charge of the process, according to an overview PwC published on its website in 2009.