Moonlight Mistake Unraveling The Shadows Of A Common Blunder

Sunday night's 89th academy awards were marred by one major mistake: The erroneous announcement of la la land as best picture over moonlight. In the final category. La la land is announced the best picture in the biggest gaffe in oscars history after warren beatty is given the wrong envelope. Moonlight has been awarded the best picture.

Moonlight is now permanently inscribed in the book of best picture winnerscozy in the company of casablanca and on the waterfront and the godfather. But it goes down. The biggest oscars blunder in years saw the best picture award mistakenly given to la la land when in fact the real winner was moonlight. Sunday evenings show saw. Not only did moonlight pull out a surprise win over la la land for best picture, but their big moment came after presenters warren beatty and faye dunaway accidentally. We sincerely apologize to moonlight, la la land, warren beatty, faye dunaway, and oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for best. Oscars host jimmy kimmel tried to lighten the mood with a joke as the cast of moonlight made their way to the stage. (cnn) director barry jenkins said he was speechless after his movie moonlight was announced as the winner of best picture on sunday night, following an unprecedented.