Oscars shock as wrong film named Best Picture

“They read the wrong thing”.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that oversees the awards, issued an apology following the Best Picture mix-up, taking responsibility for giving presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope. They only appeared onstage after multiple La La Land creators gave speeches – more than two minutes after La La Land was incorrectly named the victor. Jordan insisted repeatedly, “This was not a joke, Moonlight is the winner”. He then explained, “I’m sorry, there’s a mistake”. The biggest moment of the night unexpectedly turned into a fiasco.

Steve Harvey holds up the card showing the winners after he incorrectly announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the victor at the Miss Universe pageant on December 20, 2015, in Las Vegas. Warren Beatty has always looked puzzled.

“Because I consider it a very serious [accusation] when they say it and I have to write it off as purely politics”.

Popular German comedy “Toni Erdmann” lost the Oscar for best foreign film.

The Salesman won as Best Foreign Film. “We got to hear more acceptance speeches”, he said before ending with a “good night”. But two of the winners did allude to the USA president’s controversial actions.

Someone mispronounces an award winner’s name.

Iranian astronaut Anousheh Ansari accepted the award on behalf of the director.

Despite the cruellest bait and switch imaginable, Horowitz and the entire La La contingent handled the the situation extremely graciously, passing their gongs over to Barry Jenkins and the Moonlight team.

“I want to tell you what happened”.

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The Oscars comprised just one part of a lengthy interview, which ranged in topics from healthcare to tax cuts to immigration to trade and more. Ali didn’t mention the milestone in his speech, but was asked about it in the press room backstage.

“Moonlight” bests “Hidden Figures”, “La La Land” (obviously), “Hacksaw Ridge”, “Manchester by the Sea”, “Lion”, “Hell or High Water”, “Arrival” and “Fences” to win the coveted award. “I promise to never come back”. Fewer people were watching.

In his fourth year of handling envelopes for the winners of the Academy Awards, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Brian Cullinan picked a bad time for a miscue – pulling the envelope for what was supposed to be the Best Picture victor from the wrong pile.