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Oscars 2017: Moonlight wins best picture after La La Land mix-up
The most coveted award of the Oscars has descended into chaos, with an unprecedented blunder seeing La La Land mistakenly named the Best Picture winner, instead of Moonlight.
The celebrated musical had been widely tipped to win, and its cast and crew were on the stage accepting the gong when they were interrupted with the awkward words no Oscar winner wants to hear: "I'm sorry, there's a mistake."
Shockwaves rippled through the Dolby Theatre as it became apparent there had been a major mishap.
Presenter Warren Beatty tried to explain that he and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong winner because they had been given the wrong envelope to open.
"I opened the envelope and it said 'Emma Stone, La La Land'. I wasn't trying to be funny," said Beatty, who had looked confused as he fumbled with the card for a long time before the ill-fated announcement.
Host Jimmy Kimmel came forward to inform the cast that Moonlight had indeed claimed an upset win, showing the envelope as proof.
La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz repeatedly said "this is not a joke" before graciously passing his statue to the Moonlight team, saying they deserved the golden statuette.
"It is true. It's not fake. My love to La La Land, my love to everybody," Moonlight director Barry Jenkins told the stunned crowd.
He went on to attempt to salvage a normal acceptance speech, saying: "There was a time when I thought this movie was impossible."
"So I just want to thank everybody up here behind me. Everybody out there in that room. Because we didn't do this, you guys chose us," he said.
Backstage, Stone — who had won the best actress award for her La La Land role minutes before the embarrassing gaffe unfolded — asked if it was "the craziest Oscar moment of all time".
"It's a very strange happening for Oscar history. I think everyone is in a state of confusion ... and so excited for Moonlight," she added, saying it was "one of the best films of all time".
Kimmel tried to focus the audience's attention firmly on the silver lining, joking that he knew he would "screw this show up".
"I don't know what happened. I blame myself for this. Let's remember it's just an awards show," he said.
"I mean, we hate to see people disappointed. But the good news is we got to see some extra speeches."
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The most coveted award of the Oscars has descended into chaos, with an unprecedented blunder seeing La La Land mistakenly named the Best Picture winner, instead of Moonlight.
The celebrated musical had been widely tipped to win, and its cast and crew were on the stage accepting the gong when they were interrupted with the awkward words no Oscar winner wants to hear: "I'm sorry, there's a mistake."
Shockwaves rippled through the Dolby Theatre as it became apparent there had been a major mishap.
Presenter Warren Beatty tried to explain that he and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong winner because they had been given the wrong envelope to open.
"I opened the envelope and it said 'Emma Stone, La La Land'. I wasn't trying to be funny," said Beatty, who had looked confused as he fumbled with the card for a long time before the ill-fated announcement.
Host Jimmy Kimmel came forward to inform the cast that Moonlight had indeed claimed an upset win, showing the envelope as proof.
La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz repeatedly said "this is not a joke" before graciously passing his statue to the Moonlight team, saying they deserved the golden statuette.
"It is true. It's not fake. My love to La La Land, my love to everybody," Moonlight director Barry Jenkins told the stunned crowd.
He went on to attempt to salvage a normal acceptance speech, saying: "There was a time when I thought this movie was impossible."
"So I just want to thank everybody up here behind me. Everybody out there in that room. Because we didn't do this, you guys chose us," he said.
Backstage, Stone — who had won the best actress award for her La La Land role minutes before the embarrassing gaffe unfolded — asked if it was "the craziest Oscar moment of all time".
"It's a very strange happening for Oscar history. I think everyone is in a state of confusion ... and so excited for Moonlight," she added, saying it was "one of the best films of all time".
Kimmel tried to focus the audience's attention firmly on the silver lining, joking that he knew he would "screw this show up".
"I don't know what happened. I blame myself for this. Let's remember it's just an awards show," he said.
"I mean, we hate to see people disappointed. But the good news is we got to see some extra speeches."
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