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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According to Marc Snetiker of Entertainment Weekly Best Actress Emma Stone said she had her Best Actress card on her person the entire time. "I also was holding my Best Actress in a leading role card that entire time, so whatever story... I don't mean to start stuff, but whatever story that was, I had that card," she reportedly said backstage after the Oscars.
So, it wasn't ALL bad................
A PWC account was off stage and stopped the error in about 30 seconds.
I know because I watched the show.
Leftists can’t read right. Its part of the lefty syndrome illness. They always read between the lines instead of the lines themselves. That allows them to dwell inside of their alternate reality.
You get to see it with people like Steve Harvey and Kimmel.
They also have trouble reading their voting ballots.
There's a fourth possibility.
Beatty was given an envelope that contained a card that said, 'Emma Stone', and underneath, 'La La Land'.
Beatty was confused and handed the card to Dunaway, who interpreted it to mean La La Land won Best Picture.
IOW, someone at PWC put a duplicate of the Best Actress card inside the envelope meant to be read when awarding Best Picture.
Or, at least that's what I saw when I was watching the show.
What did you see?
“While there was a woman, who was 1/4 black, who worked at NASA, the entire story is complete bunk and massive exaggeration.”
I grew up in Hampton, VA in the 1950s and 1960s, the setting for the movie “Hidden Figures.” I have seen the movie and read the book on which the movie was based. As is typical, the movie takes some liberties with the facts. Most notably, it portrays events that transpired over a 15 year period, from 1947 to 1963, and compresses them into a couple of years in the early 1960s. However, your critique of the movie contains several errors of its own.
1. Neither the movie nor the book claimed that NASA was “saved” by the women who made the calculations for launch trajectories and orbits. That women were employed to make such calculations and, subsequently, some of them learned computer programming to keep their jobs is beyond dispute. The practice of employing women to make orbital calculations goes back at least 120 years, when the Harvard College Observatory employed women to make calculations of planetary orbits.
2. Katherine Johnson wasn’t the only African-American woman employed at NASA at the time. The other two African-American women portrayed in the movie, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughn, were also employed there during the same time. You make the point that Katherine Johnson was “only” 1/4 black. That was more than enough to relegate her to the “colored” bathrooms at the Langley Research Center at NASA, which existed until 1958. And since you are interested in skin tone, Mary Jackson’s skin was quite dark.
3. I interpreted the movie as bringing to the fore the role of women, as much as blacks, in the space program. There is a book, “Rocket Girls,” that came out about the same time as “Hidden Figures,” and recounts the similar role that women played at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA in the 1940s and 1950s.
How `bout this? PWC effed up and put a duplicate of the Best Actress card inside the Best Picture envelope?
Looks like God judged the glitterati for their incessant Trump bashing speeches!
Shockeroo.....ROTFLOL.
No, no no, it was won by the movie “Sodomy after Dark!”
That horrible gaffe at the end of the Oscar ceremonies has effectively overshadowed any Trump bashing that was going on during the ceremonies. If it was contrived--and Jimmy Kimmel was involved--there could be pressure for ABC to dump Jimmy Kimmel Live! post haste.
“The film must be a real bomb w/ a big investment going down the drain. “
I worked in Hollyweird. You NAILED it 100%
Not buying it Liz
Trump was SUPPOSE to be the next morning’s topic of conversation....
...so they could run him down some more.
Instead we’re talking about their EPIC FAIL
I never would have gone on my own. Someone else wanted to see it.
Anyone have a video link to the entire fiasco from the beginning when la la gets the award?
1. While you defend the movie as taking "some liberties with the facts" - those warped "facts" are the core message and premise of the entire film. This isn't a case of an oblique reference to what type of car the lead character actually drove. This movie portends that Johnson's calculations were requested by John Glenn, and that the "heroic" numbers crunching of Johnson was responsible (in a very large way) for the success of a significant event in the space program. I called that "saved." You don't like that term. That's OK by me. But this story is largely fiction. And there are many articles that also believe it is nothing short of propaganda.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=hidden+figures+propaganda&*
2. That was more than enough to relegate her to the “colored” bathrooms at the Langley Research Center at NASA, which existed until 1958. And here we have victimization being played once again, and whites should cower in submission to guilt for the sins of the past - again. Sorry, but that card has been dealt too many times. I could re-hash the discrimination that my great-grandfather suffered for being an Irish immigrant, but Hollywood won't be interested in making a movie about it. I would guess that Johnson never made any statement about being discriminate by NASA because she didn't suffer any real discrimination. Moreover, she has never been cited in any contemporaneous or historical accounts as having any great contribution towards NASA, until now. That's because (I believe) her role and that of other "computers" was negligible. We are taking 10th grade math here, not something in the "genius" category. I am an Aerospace Engineer. Am I a "genius?" Hardly.
And since you are interested in skin tone
Oh please. Now you are just being ridiculous. This movie was made with an "in your face" weapon against "racism." It was also made in response to the #OscarsSoWhite protest of the black race hustlers. I believe that 100%. Those folks want race to be an issue - not me. By responding to it, we have to talk about the issue of race, because they brought it up.
No one laughed because he was wrong.
I had previously read that Emma Stone said that she was given her Best Actress card as a memento from DiCaprio, and had it on her person when the Best Picture category was announced. So the story refuted that possibility, until it came to light this morning that Price Waterhouse has said they gave a duplicate envelope to Beatty and Dunaway.
It that is what occurred, then that's what happened.
But none of that will disabuse me of the notion that Moonlight winning was because of Hollywood affirmative action and a response to the black protests that the Oscar winners were "too white" last year.
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