One of two PricewaterhouseCoopers employees charged with managing the envelopes containing the names of Oscar winners mistakenly handed off the wrong one for best picture.
Director Barry Jenkins said he "speechless" after his movie "Moonlight" was announced as the winner of best picture on Sunday night, following an unprecedented moment in Oscars history. And he wasn't the only one.
Hollywood contributes to its own image problems in two worthwhile new TV dramas about stars behaving badly premiering this week, "The Arrangement" and "National Treasure," both with ripped-from-headlines undertones.
Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly last week sought the expert advice of a man calling himself Nils Bildt during a segment on refugees in Sweden. The problem is nobody in the Swedish government has ever heard of him.
For an Oscars expected to be awash in politics, an upset finish felt somewhat appropriate. Yet the bizarre mix-up that capped off the Academy Awards -- with "La La Land" being announced as best picture, before it was revealed that "Moonlight" actually won -- was one for the ages.
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty presented "La La Land" as the winner of the best picture award, and the celebration began on stage but was quickly ended when one of the "La La Land" winners pointed out that in fact "Moonlight" had won the award.
Setting aside the tumultuous way it happened, "Moonlight" capped off an astonishing award-season run with its best picture victory at the Oscars, having swept the Independent Spirit Awards the night before.
