Oscars 2017

Thanks all. Its been an entertaining evening. Nothing better than ending on a bit of controversy.

I would imagine so. Would love to know exactly what happened in the build up to that moment.

Sorry it sounds over the top, but if I had been told I had won an Oscar, in front of the whole world, after three hours of high emotion, and got on stage, held it and started thanking my family and loved ones, only to be told it wasn't mine, it was someone elses, I would genuinely throw it at someone. Not the person who did win, and probably not the person who announced my name as I said previously, but I would kick off. It was very classy of them to be kind, but I am not that classy.

After a pretty uneventful (read predictable and boring) night, they injected some jeopardy at the last minute. What a twist!!

I keep watching it back and I am still stunned by what I am seeing. Like, this is a thing that really happened.

Am sure there will be more on this but apparently: There are two sets of envelopes for each category as the presenters may enter from either side. Beatty was handed the extra 'Best Actress' envelope rather than Best Film one. When he opened it it said Emma Stone for LaLaLand. He knew something was wrong, so showed it to Dunaway, who, thinking he was messing around for comic effect, read out 'LalaLand.' As the LalaLand people approached the stage you can hear Beatty saying 'but it said Emma Stone.'
Felt a bit bad for everyone - lots of Twitter stuff about Beatty not being able to read or being too old, etc. which is unfair. The Twitter sleuths have already enlarged the envelope Beatty was holding which says 'Best Actress in a Leading Role' on the outside.
What's impressive is how classy both the 'Moonlight' and 'LalaLand' people were about it.
Vanity Fair, as always, has some fun, online coverage of the ceremonies.

Just woke up to a very confusing BBC headline - sounds as if I missed the drama! After all the interviews the counting team gave earlier in the week about how meticulous their preparations are it's a shocking mistake to make, but both the La La Land and Moonlight teams dealt with it well, and neither would have been an undeserving winner.

Just watched Viola Davis's speech - what a classy, brilliant woman she is. So well deserved, and the audience reaction said it all. So glad she is now Academy Award winner Viola Davis! Mahershala Ali also gave a great speech, and I'm pleased for Emma Stone, she was wonderful in La La Land.

Lots of lovely dresses as well - Emma, Viola, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Alicia Vikander and Taraji P Henson all looked stunning.

I just watched it on YouTube.

For such a (generally) slick production that is screened to millions across the world, the fact that such a monumental error could occur is unacceptable. I'm sure that somewhere head will roll and someone will be out of a job.

That said, it's reassuring that even the best can get it wrong.

In fairness, the actual card on the indside doesn'r say the catagory, it just says, as the inital card he had "Emma Stone - La La Land". So he didn't make anything up, he read what he was given. And with that amount of pressure, Warren would of safely assumed any idiot backstage would of done their job right and given him the correct envelope.

... adn that person who gave him the envelope is the person I would of murdered if it were me.

Well fair enough.
Just watched the you tube clip in full. They took an awful long time to stop what was going on. A couple of minutes into the speech at least.
Still makes good watching.

Do they have the category on the front of the envelope? Just asking. Haven't watched. And I expect next year we will see different coloured envelopes 😂😂

Oh if it does then my boo boo.

But, to defend Warren for a moment, he can't be to blame for this. Could he of handled this better, yes, but someone handed him the wrong envelope. He didn't pick it up hk self someone gave it to him and told him to get onstage. There probably wasn't time for him to even check the front as there is about a minute of turnaround from award to award, he was nervous too. And, with the world watching, and the Oscars thought to never of made such a cock up he probably just assumed that this doesn't look right but they gave it to me mentality.

I did watch an interview with Emma afterward however, and she said that she had the card saying Best Actress in her hand at the time it happened. So whether they have doubles, which is not needed as there wasn't two hosts for Best Actress, then someone could potentiallt of done it on purpose.