Only thing that would have made that better was if they had mistakenly announced Manchester By the Sea and Kimmel got to yank an Oscar out of Damon's hands.
The ****-up to surpass all previous Oscar ****-ups. NOT the way you want to go down in cinematic history. Inconceivable!
That was terrible. Not only does Moonlight NOT get their surprise moment, the mix-up overshadowed the win.
Eh, chances are it gets remembered even more now. I had to struggle to remember who won last year's best picture. Kept thinking Birdman, then the big short. (It was actually spotlight). But I agree... you can't make this sort of mistake at this award show... let alone for the most important and LAST award of the night (that probably baffles me the most...they get every 2 bit costume design and best subtitle award right... but flub the best picture one). It's almost too big of a mistake to have been done unintentionally. It would be tremendously easy to intentionally hand the presenter the wrong card. Probably just need to go digital now. End the card madness.
Obviously we all know it was a goofed up envelope and not Warren Beatty that messed up but why was he blamed to begin with? She's the one that read it.
Probably because in the moment when all the confusion hit and trophies were being taken away from the La La land people, he was the one who came back on stage and tried to explain the mix-up. I actually give him slightly more credit now... he didn't foolishly announce the wrong card like Dunaway did... and he seemed to take on more blame than he should have by trying to explain himself afterwards (although there would have been no "right" way to do that... everybody ends up looking bad no matter what).
Watching the replay it seemed like he knew something was wrong but was unsure of himself and then Dunaway just said it.
The card said what category the award was for at the bottom. But, I don't think Faye or Warren could read it without their glasses. Warren could have said something. He messed up by showing it to Faye who just read the title she saw not knowing any better or even thinking anything was wrong. He kind of set her up. Warren handled it best he could after with his explanation but he was just in a situation where he's on live TV and didn't know what to do knowing it was likely wrong. Would have been great if he just stopped and said "this isn't right...can we get someone out here!". Instead, it looked a bit like he was having a senior moment but can't blame him really.
Same old perverse, agenda laden, political, "balancing act" by the Academy. In 2017, poetic justice/inevitable, that it should end like that. As a lover of film, and it's history....I've continued to watch each year, but this.....
I need to see Moonlight and a lot of the other best picture nominees. Only one that doesn't sound too interesting to me is Fences, but maybe I'll see it someday. The three movies I did see were all great (Arrival, Hell or High Water, and La La Land). All in all, I think it was a pretty good set of nominees this year. By the way, that producer of La La Land did about as good of job as anyone could have to resolve the mistake. Kudos to that guy.
He's old and was probably a little tipsy. He doesn't do much in the way of public speaking anymore, so maybe he was stumped. I know he won some award a few years ago where he gave a rambling speech and appeared drunk off his butt to me. Clearly a big screw up.
