Wins Best Picture In Most Shocking Upset in Oscar History

But whatever you want to call it, the ending of the 2017 Academy Awards sparked an uncontrollable social media firestorm after the wrong victor of the top award – Best Picture – was announced. Shortly after his win, Jenkins praised the La La Land team for their handling of an impossible situation.

Mahershala Ali, who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Moonlight, also commented on the surreal chain of events.

Moonlight is the first Best Picture victor with an all-black cast.

La La Land won six awards on the night. The night’s biggest prize went to Barry Jenkins’ drama about three phases in the life of a gay African-American man, played as an adult by Trevante Rhodes, a teenager by Ashton Sanders, and a boy by Alex Hibbert.

Accounting firm PwC, which is in charge of vote counting, has vowed to investigate the spectacular mix-up, which saw Warren Beatty ending up with the wrong envelope live on stage. Actually, Beatty looked at the card and was confused.

He showed her the card, and Dunaway read it aloud.

The Moonlight cast and crew, visibly shocked, then walked on stage to accept the honor in stride, though the all-black cast’s shining moment was, unfortunately, lost amid the confusion of the snafu that almost broke the internet.

In 2003’s Michael Moore’s critically-acclaimed “Bowling for Columbine” won best documentary feature, but while giving his speech, Moore was met with boos when he condemned then president George W. Bush – surprising since Hollywood is known as being liberal. “I’m so sorry about this.it was fed to me wrong”, said Murdoch. He said the card read “Emma Stone”, rather than the title of either “La La Land” or “Moonlight“. Emma Stone asked backstage. Beatty had by now been given the correct card which revealed the real victor to be Moonlight. It became clear that was something wrong. “I knew I would screw this show up!” “We sincerely apologize to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for best picture”, the company said in a statement on Monday, February 27. Team La La Land must’ve been disappointed, of course, but they handled the chaos with nothing but class.

The crowd had to rouse itself from its stunned stupor to try to give “Moonlight” its just due for winning the big award. “I’ve never seen that happen before”. But please write this down, the La La Land crew was so gracious. Moonlight didn’t have singing and dancing, but it had performances and a story that were better than simply mediocre. The night’s first victor was Mahershala Ali for his performance in “Moonlight“, making him the first Muslim actor to win a gold statuette. It was shot beautifully, and the film’s use of color was astonishing. Horowitz reiterated that this wasn’t a joke or stunt by showing the Best Picture results to the Oscar audience and the millions watching at home. With some claiming it was a publicity stunt and others blaming Leonardo Dicaprio, conspiracies now run abound, but this isn’t the first time the Oscars have had conspiracists question the awards.