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This could have been the big mixup of the Oscar show Sunday night until, you know …
A producer whose picture appeared in the In Memoriam segment declared she is “alive and well.”
The show got the deceased’s name correct in the montage ― Australian costume designer and four-time Oscar nominee Janet Patterson ― but got the photo wrong, Variety reported.
The image showed Jan Chapman, an Australian producer who worked with Patterson on “The Piano” and “Bright Star.” Patterson earned nominations for both films, the Telegraph noted.
Some Twitter users caught the blunder.
Chapman told Variety she was devastated that her image was used instead of her “great friend and longtime collaborator” Patterson.
“I am alive and well and an active producer,” Chapman wrote in an email to the trade publication.
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THE OSCARS GOT POLITICAL To no one’s surprise, President Donald Trump and his policies (and tweets) featured heavily in the evening’s ceremonies. Yet the big news of the night was the massive mix-up after Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope and “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as having won Best Picture when in fact “Moonlight” had taken home the top trophy. Here’s a minute-by-minute breakdown on how that went so, so wrong. Twitter understandably freaked out over the debacle, with all the Steve Harvey and election jokes (and so many fake envelope memes). In things the Oscars got right ― the Academy broke records for the number of wins by black stars and the first win by a Muslim actor. Here’s who else actually won, as well as some killer red carpet fashion. [HuffPost]
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Oh, what a night.
The 89th annual Academy Awards was mere minutes from wrapping a somewhat boring broadcast when backstage staffers started running to the microphone to interrupt the final acceptance speeches.
Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had just awarded the Oscar for Best Picture to “La La Land.” The only problem was they were supposed to give “Moonlight” that honor, and there had been a terrible mix-up behind the scenes.
Here’s the entire moment as it played out on live TV:
The veteran actors took to the stage to present the final award of the night. As Beatty read the card in the envelope, he looked visibly confused. He checked the envelope more than once, paused, looked to Dunaway, started to announce the winner, and then passed the envelope to his co-presenter, who promptly said, “La La Land.”
According to Jeffrey Fleishman, senior writer on film, art and culture at the Los Angeles Times, the ceremony’s backstage crew immediately began to panic:
“As the ‘La La Land’ cast was taking the stage to celebrate, a stagehand in the wings said, ‘Oh … Oh my god, he got the wrong envelope.’ They walked back and forth repeating it.”
Only two humans on the planet know the Oscar winners in advance, and that’s PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz. After stuffing the envelopes and locking them in a briefcase, they memorize the list of winners. Just last week, the duo blogged on The Huffington Post about the process, and described a meticulous system for ensuring there were no mistakes:
“We hand each envelope directly to the presenter in each category. We are positioned on either side of the stage, so we can hand envelopes from stage right or stage left, depending on where the presenter is entering. We don’t leave for the entire show ― not even for a bathroom break! We’re so focused on doing our jobs that we don’t mind the hours of standing.”
In the photo below, Cullinan appears to be checking envelopes with a stagehand as “La La Land” producer Fred Berger thanked his family.
“La La Land” cast and crew quickly learned they were erroneously awarded the Best Picture honor.
“There’s a mistake,” “La La Land” producer Jason Horowitz said. “’Moonlight,’ you guys won best picture. This is not a joke.”
“This is not a joke. I’m afraid they read the wrong thing,” “La La Land” producer Marc Platt added.
Los Angeles Times film writer Amy Kaufman described the atmosphere at the Dolby Theater.
The producers and cast of “Moonlight” were invited to the stage as the stunned crowd applauded and host Jimmy Kimmel joked about the blunder. Beatty took to the microphone to explain what went wrong:
“I want to tell you what happened. 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.”
Kimmel elaborated on Beatty’s confusion in an interview with ABC.
“I know that the envelope Warren Beatty was handed said ‘Outstanding Female Actor’ on it,” Kimmel said. “This was confusing, obviously. We thought he was being coy and cute and milking it to make everybody suffer, but in reality, he was perplexed by why her name was on it.”
Soon after the show ended, photos started circulating on Twitter of Beatty appearing to hold an envelope that read “actress in a leading role.”
Emma Stone was also confused by the mix-up, as she told reporters backstage that she was holding her winning envelope when Dunaway announced the Best Picture winner, suggesting that she didn’t understand how Beatty’s card could have been the same.
But as Cullinan and Ruiz confirmed last week, there were two copies of each envelope.
A few hours after the awards show, the accounting firm released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter confirming Beatty was given the wrong envelope:
The accounting firm vowed to investigate how the mistake occurred. Meanwhile, the cast and crew of “Moonlight” celebrated their surreal win.
“It’s very hard to feel joy in a moment like that,” Mahershala Ali, who won Best Supporting Actor for his work in “Moonlight,” told the Hollywood Reporter. “But I feel very fortunate for all of us to have walked away with the best picture award. It’s pretty remarkable.”
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Republican lawmakers are moving closer to repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with… well… ???
As John Oliver pointed out on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” the GOP hasn’t created an alternative to Obamacare at all, and what they do have looks more like a dad in a thong than a program that provides decent coverage.
Check it out above.
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You may have heard that something wonderfully unexpected happened at the Oscars last night.
Best Picture presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway pulled one more Bonnie-and-Clyde stunt (this time by accident) when Beatty procured an envelope and Dunaway announced that “La La Land” had won the night’s top honor. But there had been an envelope mix-up. “Moonlight” had truly won the prize, so producers quickly sprung into action, jumping onstage to let everyone from “La La Land” know about the error.
Learning the news, Ryan Gosling, who plays the jazz-obsessed Sebastian in the dreamy musical, reacted appropriately:
Gosling’s co-star Emma Stone, who plays wannabe-actress Mia, could also be seen onstage mouthing “oh my god,” before turning away from the camera with a slight smile.
Backstage, Stone recalled her mixed emotions in the moment while heaping praise onto the night’s real Best Picture winner.
“I fucking love ‘Moonlight.’ God, I love ‘Moonlight’ so much!” she enthused. “And, of course, it was an amazing thing to hear ‘La La Land.’ I think we all would have loved to win Best Picture.”
“But we are so excited for ‘Moonlight.’ I think it is one of the best films of all time.”
As for “La La Land” director Damien Chazelle, who had won earlier in the night for Best Director, the revelation was a truly shocking one ― at least in the moment he was caught on camera.
Find all the night’s winners, including Viola Davis, Mahershala Ali and “Manchester by the Sea,” here.
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Who wouldn’t react like this if heartthrob Ryan Gosling was suddenly mere centimeters away?
After Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel led a group of tourists into the Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, one woman captured the attention of Twitter. Folks seemed to wonder: What did Gosling whisper to her? The suggestions were hilarious:
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