Social media roasts ‘Moonlight’ snafu, other Oscars moments — Twitter reactions

Cullinan accidentally gave Beatty a duplicate copy of the envelope containing Stone’s name as Best Actress.

“[‘Moonlight’ playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney] and I are this kid”. But we are so excited for Moonlight. On the weekend of January 27, following the film’s eight Academy Award nominations, the film played in 1,104 theaters. “It’s a dream I never allowed myself to have”. I still feel that way. It’s a rough break for the La La Land guys, too (never thought I’d be saying THAT), who had to hand back their Oscars nearly immediately.

Let’s try to unpack just what exactly happened. “The thing has happened”. These are writers Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins accepting the award. Oh my goodness. It is true, it’s not fake.

“That was so great and generous of them”.

While many are trying to wrap their head around it, social media went berserk with gifs and memes about the biggest goof-up till date on the Oscars stage.

“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. When the initial wrong announcement was made by the presenters, the entire crew of “La La Land” came up to the stage. Thank you very much.

Host Jimmy Kimmel tried to make light of the situation, blaming the incident on Steve Harvey, the comedian who infamously announced the wrong victor of the Miss Universe pageant in 2015. “I expect us to get something like this right and our focus right now is just on making sure the academy and the rest of the folks know that and the rest will play out”, Ryan said. But something must be said. “As long as our relationship is good and strong and we do a good job, which we always do, the academy has been pleased I think with how we’ve been involved”.

“It will be remembered and I think in a lovely way”, Jenkins added. “It’s why I was speechless – I wasn’t speechless because I won, I was so speechless that they had to do that”. I’m never going to forget Jordan Horowitz.