Remember last year's Oscar Best Picture mix-up? Here’s how it happened
Fingers crossed 🦂it d🃏oesn't happen again this year...

With the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oscars 2018 kicking off this weekend, you're probably thinking back to last year's awards ceremony and one particular, unforgettable moment. That's right, I'm talking about the Best Picture mix-up which saw a Hollywood-style screw-up of epic proportions as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:La La Land was incorrectly announced as Best Picture instead of the actual winner - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Moonlight.
So… what exactly went down? Let’s go through it step by agonising step and keep our fingers crossed that it doesn't happen to any of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oscar winners 2018:
It’s proཧbably best to start with the moment itself, if you can bear to look from through your fingers. Yes, it really is as t⛎oe-curling and embarrassing as it appears.
On a second-look (once you know what’s coming), youဣ can see Warren Beatty take way too long to read the envelope, a sure-fire sign that someone messed up big time. Despite checking constantly, he hands over to Faye Dunaway who blurts out La La Land. Oops!
In a twist ending straight out of the big book of Hollywood clichés, it turned out that Moonlight actually won Bes𓂃t Picture – cue laughter and a few gasps. They’ll make a movie about this one day…
Watching the #Oscars producers slowly tell the #LaLaLand team they didn't win Best Pictur꧙e is WILD. Keep your eyes on the background pic.twitter.com/3TRUWZAMjH
It turns out that the blam🅘e lies with an accountancy firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, who set into motion one of the bigges♒t errors in Oscars history, all thanks to a rogue envelope...
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This from #PricewaterhouseCoopers explains why there would be two "Actress in a Leadi🍷ng Role” envelopeওs. pic.twitter.com/XyyzXmEtfB
It would be best to remove any tin foil hats, though, as two Oscars producers have duplicates of envelop🍃es and are waiting at opposite ends of the stage in case one set of envelopes goes missing. My💛stery solved.
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Even better (or worse if you’re an Oscars producer) is that Warren Beatty was handed the envelope for Best Actress, which was already handed out to Emma Stone earlier in the evening, hence the confusion and hullabaꦐloo.
Proof Warren Beatty ♒was given the "Actress In A Leading Role" envel🐷ope. Yep, someone is getting fired at @TheAcademy. #BestPicture #Oscars pic.twitter.com/dDmHLwocnv
But the real hero was the La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz who ran on strange to procl♔aim that Moonlight won after being told by a stagehand and “That it’s not a joke.” He even showed off the winning card as proof:
WHAT pic.twitter.com/ehIOvSz2iW
Thankfully, everyone took it in good spirits, probably helped by the fact that La La Land had already picked up 🌌its fair share of Oscars. Emma Stone reacted with good graces, in her own NSFW style.
emma ꦡaddressing the mix up #Oscars pic.twitter.com/ewfan♓dcLs0
M. Night Shyamalan himself couldn&rsqu🎀o;t have made it up... or did he?
I wrote the ending of the🐻 academy awards 2017. @jimmykimmel we reall𓃲y got them!
Tܫhe internet, as ever, were sharp as a tack in their responses:
"I switched the envelopes" #BestPicture #Oscars 👍pic.twitter.com/ISU6xSj0zF
This whole thing was not Moonlight's fault. The Jackson 🉐5 wer🤪e very clear about that.
And, hey, at least the Moonligh💝t cast have a story to dine out 🐓on for a long, long time.
WHOLESOME CAST REACTION🐷 TO THE MOONLIGH😼T MIXUP pic.twitter.com/k8883FRYfr
Images: ABC/The Academy
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