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Moonlight wins Best Picture at Oscars after shocking La La Land mix-up
Entertainment ^ | 27 Feb 17 | Jessica Derschowitz

Posted on 02/27/2017 2:55:33 AM PST by SkyPilot

In the most shocking mix-up in Oscars history, Moonlight won best picture at the Academy Awards — but only after presenter Faye Dunaway announced La La Land as the winner, setting off mass confusion inside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

“I want to tell you what happened,” co-presenter Warren Beatty explained after the mix-up was revealed. “I opened the envelope, and it said ‘Emma Stone, La La Land.’ That’s why I took such a long look at Faye and at you. I wasn’t trying to be funny.”

“Well, I don’t know what happened. I blame myself for this,” Kimmel joked after the moment. “Let’s remember, it’s just an awards show. I mean, we hate to see people disappointed, but the good news is we got to see some extra speeches. We have some great movies. I knew I would screw this show up, I really did. Thank you for watching. I’m back to work tomorrow night on my regular show. I promise I’ll never come back. Good night!”

Speaking after the mix-up had been rectified, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins said, “Very clearly, very clearly in my dreams this could not be true. But to hell with my dreams. I’m done with it because this is true. Oh my goodness.”

He added a note of praise to his La La Land opponents: “And I have to say it is true. It’s not fake. We’ve been on the road with these guys for so long. My love to La La Land. My love to everybody. Man.”

After the Oscars, PricewaterhouseCoopers — which tabulates the Oscar votes — released a statement apologizing for the flub: “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...

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KEYWORDS: bestpicture; blunders; fakenews; fakeoscars; gaffe; hollywood; hollywoodreds; homosexualagenda; lalaland; lavendermafia; moonlight; mustvebeenhacked; oops; oscars; oscarsfiasco; photoops; reds; snafu; trump; warrenbeatty
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To: iontheball

I googled the term “The Trump Effect” and this is what I got (Wikipedia—so damn biased!):

“The Trump effect is a purported increase in school bullying in the United States caused by the rhetoric Donald Trump used during his 2016 presidential campaign.”

Of course this is NOT what you meant, but the Left has already branded the term.


61 posted on 02/27/2017 4:34:10 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: SkyPilot

Steve Harvey has to secretly be really happy with this. His flub is minor by comparison.


62 posted on 02/27/2017 4:34:20 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SkyPilot

These clowns are too busy lecturing the president to know what is going on. They’re clueless.


63 posted on 02/27/2017 4:35:20 AM PST by boycott
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To: Liz

Nope!

Surely you know Kimmel would rather the media be talking about his trash talk of the President

....but

Ha ha......we’re laughing at Kimmel’s giant SPLATTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

88 years....this never happened

GIANT SMILE ON MY FACE THIS AM


64 posted on 02/27/2017 4:36:21 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: SkyPilot

Just another example of God’s sense of humor.

I’ll NEVER be able to tell you if it deserved best picture or not. Not going to watch a movie about a black gay guy.

Still have not seen, nor ever will see, Brokeback Mountain.

Hollywood can just “SUCK IT”.


65 posted on 02/27/2017 4:37:39 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SkyPilot

Steve Harvey’s whereabouts is still not known


66 posted on 02/27/2017 4:37:57 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: SkyPilot

FAKE people getting FAKE awards.


67 posted on 02/27/2017 4:38:27 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

One of my all time favorites! Hilarious!


68 posted on 02/27/2017 4:39:48 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: SkyPilot

If mental midget Warren Beatty wasn’t so focused on his subtle effort to lecture our president, he may not have looked like such an idiot.


69 posted on 02/27/2017 4:40:48 AM PST by boycott
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To: SkyPilot

Hacked by the Russians using alien mind control technology...


70 posted on 02/27/2017 4:43:17 AM PST by indthkr
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To: SkyPilot

Just manufacturing some fake news.


71 posted on 02/27/2017 4:43:26 AM PST by PAR35
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To: SkyPilot

No one can convince me that “Moonlight” winning Best Picture was not Affirmative Action and political correctness.

The ns story would have never been a movie of ont for political correctness.


72 posted on 02/27/2017 4:46:07 AM PST by boycott
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To: teeman8r

At least Steve Harvey had an excuse, he was drunk.


73 posted on 02/27/2017 4:46:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mewzilla

Yep. A complete bomb by Hollywood standards.


74 posted on 02/27/2017 4:46:51 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: eclecticEel
Why not just give it to La La La anyway; since it doesn’t matter at all.

Seriously! Why didn't La La Land get a trophy too? They tried their best. Now all those people that went up on stage are going to need counseling.

I don't understand this whole awards show thing anyway. I thought this nation was done with awarding excellence in any area.

This is not who we are........ :-D

75 posted on 02/27/2017 4:48:13 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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To: SkyPilot
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76 posted on 02/27/2017 4:48:27 AM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Of course this is NOT what you meant, but the Left has already branded the term.
___________________________________

After slinging arrows all night at the man “on loan from God,” the Hollywood Elites
were rendered a stinging rebuke. Have you been keeping a tally of the number of times this has occurred from all sectors of society since President Trump first answered the call? They are blind and can’t see.


77 posted on 02/27/2017 4:50:26 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Guenevere; GOPJ; Jane Long; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; Just mythoughts; Grampa Dave; ...
Kimmel would rather the media be talking about his trash talk of the President...

Yeah, but Kimmel trashing Trump doesn't sell tickets.

The film must be a real bomb w/ a big investment going down the drain.

Not to diminish having Al Sharpton on their backs and the specter of "racism" haunting them.

Flubbing the Oscars w/ as a last-ditch effort to get a failed movie some momentum.

78 posted on 02/27/2017 4:50:58 AM PST by Liz (Dems plan to regain power by stressing their "deep inate goodness" over "Trump's evil.")
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To: SkyPilot

These low grad morons want to tell the President how to run the country.


79 posted on 02/27/2017 4:51:14 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: iontheball

Just take over the term, “Trump Effect”. It will drive the alt-left / left batty as a moonbeam. LOL It was the Trump Effect.


80 posted on 02/27/2017 4:55:25 AM PST by healy61
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