Those two factors occurred simultaneously to make what was quite possibly the most shocking, thrilling, genuinely rewarding, and flat-out best moment in Oscars history. Even the greatest writers in Hollywood couldn’t create this level of odd. As it reached the final and most anticipated award of the evening, Best Picture, actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (who starred together in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde) walked onto the stage to announce the victor. Watch, Warren’s explanation is an instant Hollywood classic. but basically he and Faye were handed the wrong card.
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Either way, it produced a surreal moment. However, three speeches in, their celebrations were interrupted with the realisation that there had been a mix-up.
Barry Jenkins, foreground left, and the cast accept the award for best picture for “Moonlight” at the Oscars. “Whether that entails stopping the show, us walking onstage, us signaling to the stage manager – that’s really a game-time decision, if something like that were to happen”. (“La La Land’s” team handled it well, to their credit).
The Best Picture gaffe at this year’s Oscars will be a tale told for generations to come.
“A moment like this is a huge confluence of luck and opportunity, so I want to thank Damien Chazelle for the opportunity to be part of a project that was so special and once of a lifetime”, the Oscar victor added.
“La La Land” was a film criticized by some for white-washing jazz as an art form. The red carpet event for the awards night has already begun and present are several celebs of the fraternity.
When Viola Davis accepted the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in August Wilson’s “Fences”, and gave the most inspiring speech of the night, it was getting a little hard to contain my excitement.
“The acceptance speech always changes over the years, but the one constant would be thanking my mother for getting me into this business 40 years ago”, he said of his mom, Skippy O’Connell, who died on the night of the 2007 Oscars. That journey is both universal and comforting and an important reminder that if you pursue the impossible, at least you’ll have good company. Especially since Casey has two pending sexual harassment cases. Affleck truly seemed surprised to beat out the likes of Denzel Washington (“Fences”) and Ryan Gosling (“La La Land”).
Conversely, Emma Stone has claimed she was holding her Best Actress announcement card, telling press backstage: “I was also holding my Best Actress in a leading role card that entire time”. In the auditorium, host Jimmy Kimmel caught up with Miranda and his mother. Made In America, the ESPN TV miniseries (which also played in theaters and at film festivals with an eye on Oscar qualifications).
The orchestra performed “La La Land” music.
Presenter Gael Garcia Bernal goes off script to protest Trump’s Mexican border wall and immigration policies, and receives a huge applause.
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The 89th Annual Academy Awards aka Oscars 2017, are to be held in a couple of hours.
