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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The narrative all over the media is that there were two cards, and that Beatty and Dunaway were given the Best Actress envelope instead.
As I posted, even if that is the case, this trashy movie (black homosexual?) winning Best Picture was a PC move to thwart the criticism and protests from blacks last year.
Lol.
He gave Dobie Gillis some good advice: “When you hang up your suits and sport coats, don’t have them touching.”
I’ve tried to live by that credo.
Steve Harvey was no where to be found...
Well, there would be at least one: Me.
I take there was some movie awards last night?
Kimmel missed his best line last night:
“What a bonus, we got to see Matt Damon LOSE AN OSCAR.... TWICE!!!”
I'd heard about it. Saw the trailer. Talked to one friend who had seen it. I was never planning to pay money to watch it. MAYBE, one day.... when, it's available on free tv... if I'm bored, broke, and only getting one channel on my TV.
.....what to do w/ a flop picture ....as Al Sharpton’s racist drums get louder.....
The Oscar flubbing seemed like the best solution.
Look. You can't have it both ways.
If that woman was black, and they made a whole movie celebrating her blackness, then Dwight Eisenhower, who also had one black grandparent, deserves to be the first black President and not Obama. Period.
Can you say “over-compensation”? I thought I was watching the BET awards.
Old Yeller, I think they “arranged” a quote check in advance. That Academy President (who now is black) said they amended their membership rules. They probably did something to dump all the tangential old Jewish cochers out and had some lowering of the bar to engender “diversity” which means dump white people.
I don’t care who wins Hollywood awards. I don’t care who is in the movie I watch. I prefer to be colorblind.
I don't see many movies but I was kind of dragged to this last week during my Florida beach vacation when it poured rain for most of the day. There was not much else to do so my wife said I either take her to a movie or take her shopping - so easy choice for me. Hidden Figures seemed to be best of the lot that was playing that day - the preview had me at "NASA".
While it was obvious some artistic license was taken and that those women mathematicians did not literally save the space program, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. The black women in the movie exhibited conservative family values, putting achievement based on merit ahead of entitlement. One of the women (widowed) married a black black man who immediately took responsibility for fathering her already existing children. Another woman fought for the right to go to a white high school, not to grab attention and headlines, but to take advanced math courses that were unavailable in her black school.
I won't put any more spoilers in but this is the kind of movie that conservatives ought to support. Maybe it's not 100% factually correct but what movie is? One of my favorite NASA movies is "The Right Stuff" and it was laughable how they portrayed LBJ and some of the astronauts. But all in all "The Right Stuff" was a worthy flick that made you proud to be an American (the book by Tom Wolfe is even better).
This movie had the same effect on me. Much better than that other black movie given the best picture award that features blacks dealing drugs. Way to go perpetuating racist stereotypes Hollywood.
Hidden Figures is much better and worth a few dollars to see on a rainy day.
Love it because they have to own this poop.
Anyone from Hollywood dares open his or her trap to tell us how to run our country from now on gets YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO RUN EVEN YOUR OWN SELF CONGRATULATORY AWARDS SHOW
So shut up and act.
Oh wow, I didn’t get that. Now it makes sense. The only “happy ending” in this year’s films was in the middle of Moonlight. Ha. Actually a good joke.
But yeah, no one saw the dang film, clearly!!! And that room was the group who voted for it?!
They had to call an audible when they realized not enough Oscars went to blacks this year. Quota check.
Agree.
Plus they got a two fer in Moonlight.... sexual choice and race....
Every year they pick another meme to sneak by the unobserving...
No, that is real. There were two best actress cards. The one Beatty was handed ALSO had best actress written on the outside. He probably just took the envelope from whoever and didn’t check the flowery script on it. I think he made zero mistake, and he tried to show that something was amiss. Pretty damn good for someone with Alzheimer’s I think.
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I rewound and watched the whole thing again.
Unless one of those extra speeches blasted Hillary for stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders, I'd pass. Wouldn't such a speech be a hoot? Those Hollywood progressives wouldn't know whether to cheer or boo.
The speeches are the reason that I don't watch any of the awards shows. Why can't they turn of the mics when these self-important airheads go on stage?
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