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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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.
Steve Harvey has to secretly be really happy with this. His flub is minor by comparison.
These clowns are too busy lecturing the president to know what is going on. They’re clueless.
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
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”.
Steve Harvey’s whereabouts is still not known
FAKE people getting FAKE awards.
One of my all time favorites! Hilarious!
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.
Hacked by the Russians using alien mind control technology...
Just manufacturing some fake news.
No one can convince me that “Moonlight” winning Best Picture was not Affirmative Action and political correctness.
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The ns story would have never been a movie of ont for political correctness.
At least Steve Harvey had an excuse, he was drunk.
Yep. A complete bomb by Hollywood standards.
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
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Of course this is NOT what you meant, but the Left has already branded the term.
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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.
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.
These low grad morons want to tell the President how to run the country.
Just take over the term, “Trump Effect”. It will drive the alt-left / left batty as a moonbeam. LOL It was the Trump Effect.
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