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PwC, the accounting firm which has been responsible for Oscars votes for 83 years, has blamed their auditor Brian Cullinan for the Best Picture Oscar fiasco at the 89th edition of the gala.

Speaking to Variety the morning after an Oscars ceremony that will be remembered for the final-reel fiasco that saw La La Land wrongly named best picture, before the award was rightly given to Moonlight, Barry Jenkins and Damien Chazelle discussed the camaraderie they found had come with a long campaign, climaxing in such odd style.

Movie buff John Axford followed the Oscars at a Mesa-area restaurant Sunday night long enough to learn that La La Land had won, as he’d predicted it would. Each had an identical set of sealed envelopes to hand to the presenters before they waltzed into the spotlight. “The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected”. They also added that they were now investigating “how this could have happened”. He added that Emma Stone’s name was on the card inside the envelope. He looked at Faye and she read “La La Land“, but that was the envelope for Best Lead Actress. Hollywood’s biggest A-list stars then looked on aghast – after several “La La Land” producers made their thank you speeches – as show organizers in headsets rushed on stage to announce the real victor was actually “Moonlight”. That’s when people associated with this film went to the stage to accept their award. “It became clear that something was wrong”.

According to TMZ, in the moments before the Best Picture award was announced, Cullinan tweeted a photo of Stone backstage after her Best Actress win, suggesting he was possibly distracted at the time of the blunder.

La La Land director Damien Chazelle took home the award for best director and gave a heartfelt thank you to his crew and the film’s stars’ Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, and John Legend. “I wasn’t trying to be amusing”, Beatty clarified to the audience after the mistake was revealed. I’m done with it. Cause this is true.

“I will say, the folks from La La Land were so gracious”.

“Even in my dreams this can not be true”, said director Barry Jenkins when he unexpectedly picked up the statuette for his low-budget coming-of-age drama.

As far as Barry Jenkins, Moonlight’s director, it’s safe to say it was one of the craziest moments of his life.

Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, the director explained that because of the shock of “what happened in those last 10 minutes of the ceremony, I don’t know how I managed any words at all” onstage.