In one of the most jaw-droppingly awkward moments in Oscars history, the wrong best picture winner was announced at the 2017 Academy Awards.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway told the audience that Damien Chazelle’s la la land had claimed the award – when in fact the winner was Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight.
In extraordinary scenes, the La La Land team were halfway through their victory speeches, when it was noticed that the wrong film name had been read out by Warren Beatty and that Moonlight was actually the winner.
“There’s a mistake. Moonlight, you won best picture,” Fred Berger, the La La Land producer announced to the gasps of a shocked crowd. He held up the card clearly showing the winner was Moonlight.
The stars and crew of La La Land shuffled off the stage and handed their gold statuettes to a jubilant Moonlight team.
Beatty said he had been given the wrong envelope to open. “I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone, La La Land,” he said, adding he had not done it “to try to be funny”.
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