Oscars: ‘La La Land’ Becomes 11th Film With Six Wins

Later, the goof-up was fixed and Moonlight was declared the victor.

After the La La Land group joyfully got on-stage, there appeared to be some confusion.

“I did”, she said.

Barry Jenkins Reacting to Moonlight Not Winning and Then Winning Best Picture: The telecast cameras were focused on stage as the La La Land producers said their thanks, realized the error, and graciously gave their trophies away and so missed director Barry Jenkins taking it all in. “I wasn’t trying to be amusing”. I don’t even know what to say. “This is not a joke, Moonlight, you won best picture”.

Stone, who played aspiring actress Mia opposite Ryan Gosling’s Sebastian in the Damien Chazelle-directed film, began her acceptance speech by thanking her fellow nominees.

It went into the evening with a record-tying 14 nominations. Already “La La Land” has stunned everyone with its fantastic run as it grabbed awards for Best Production Design, Cinematography, Original Score, Original Song, Best Director and Best Actress awards as well. Her half-spoken, half-sung monologue – “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)”- was one of the most poignant moments from the movie. “But we are so excited for ‘Moonlight.’ I think it is one of the best films of all time”. It’s the sort of inglorious yet exhilarating moment that the Academy Awards aren’t going to be able to shake off, ever.

In the press room, Emma Stone said, “I was holding my Best Actress in a leading role card all the time”. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi did not attend the ceremony to protest USA president Donald Trump’s executive order banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.

Next up for the star is a Netflix series opposite Jonah Hill and, according to IMDB, five future films, including one as tennis champion Billie Jean King and as 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil.

Did you wake up this morning still in disbelief about the on-stage mix up during the Oscars’ biggest award? Though many debated whether Ezra Edelman’s documentary really qualified as a movie-it initially ran as a docuseries on ESPN, though it had a qualifying theatrical run-it made the cut and, at 467 minutes, beat War and Peace by more than half an hour.

Isabelle Huppert: At this year’s Academy Awards, Isabelle Huppert is nominated for her role in Elle.