[SkyPilot]

In defense of the clueless Beatty and Dunaway, they were handed the wrong envelope by the Price Waterhouse guy Brian Cullinan, who apparently is so star struck he spent his time backstage photographing celebrities and posting the pictures on his Twitter account (which was forbidden).

I was more outraged that a fairly decent movie (La La Land), which had a traditional heterosexual love story, good music, and very good choreography lost out to a political piece of garbage (Moonlight) because it had black LGBT characters and themes.

Moonlight became the first film with an all-black cast, the first LGBT film...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think the 1929 production Hallelujah was the first major film with an all-black cast.

[SVTCobra03]

I never heard of Moonlight. My favorite movie of 2017 was Wind River.

[MuttTheHoople]

Dude looks like Fatt Damon.

[LibertyOh]

“I was more outraged that a fairly decent movie (La La Land), which had a traditional heterosexual love story, good music, and very good choreography lost out to a political piece of garbage (Moonlight) because it had black LGBT characters and themes.”

It is interesting that the “Best Picture” grossed only $65M worldwide. Compared to La La Land grossing nearly $450M worldwide. Both had comparable multiples of production costs to revenue, so even with the award it wasn’t seen by theo world as in the same class.

I point this out as the comparison to Trump and his election is thus even more stark. The presenters should probably have accepted they really read the right name and been done with it - but unlike the electoral process where the real winner could not be easily overturned, they were able to “correct” their mistake and read the winner only the left would choose.