And the Academy Award for Best Picture goes to La La Land. Oops sorry, Moonlight. That’s pretty much how it went last night at the 2017 Oscars. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were presenting the best-picture award when Faye Dunaway announced that La La Land was the winner. The La La Land team excitedly accepted the award and the speeches began, before one of the film’s producer realized the mixup and announced that Moonlight was instead the winner.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that tallies the Oscars voting, told ABC News in a statement that presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were given the wrong envelope when they went on stage to announce the winner of the coveted best picture award.
PricewaterhouseCoopers issued a statement shortly after apologizing, “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 for Best Picture. The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred. We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC, and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation.”
Winners of the 89th Academy Awards
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
CASEY AFFLECK
Manchester by the Sea
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MAHERSHALA ALI
Moonlight
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
EMMA STONE
La La Land
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
VIOLA DAVIS
Fences
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ZOOTOPIA
Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer
CINEMATOGRAPHY
LA LA LAND
Linus Sandgren
COSTUME DESIGN
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Colleen Atwood
DIRECTING
LA LA LAND
Damien Chazelle
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA
Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
THE WHITE HELMETS
Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
FILM EDITING
HACKSAW RIDGE
John Gilbert
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE SALESMAN
Iran
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
SUICIDE SQUAD
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
CITY OF STARS
from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
BEST PICTURE
MOONLIGHT
Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
PRODUCTION DESIGN
LA LA LAND
Production Design: David Wasco; Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
PIPER
Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
SING
Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy
SOUND EDITING
ARRIVAL
Sylvain Bellemare
SOUND MIXING
HACKSAW RIDGE
Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
VISUAL EFFECTS
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
WINNER
MOONLIGHT
Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Written by Kenneth Lonergan
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