And the Oscar for best screw up goes to……….

[Blue in Munich]

Whoever mucked the envelopes up!! The two sets of cards came back to bite them on the backside there.

Best actor in the supporting a screw up role; I think that's you Mr. Beatty. Having realised that there was something wrong with the card, handing it off to Ms. Dunaway to take the flak was a little low.

And the best actress in stirring the proverbial in a screw up goes to Emma Stone for her I was holding the card routine.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Was very funny listening to it on 5live as it happened

 

[Blue in Munich]

Only person to emerge with any credit for me was the guy from the announced winning film for calling it & in wanting to present the Oscar that he had just "won" to the crew who had actually won. Names deliberately left out to avoid giving it away for anyone with it on catch up.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

PWC to blame....big egg on their faces

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Don't get how it went wrong (two envelopes - different films - how come?) - and how it seemed that FD and WB seemed to know that they were reading out the wrong film as winner.

 

[MegaSteve]

Well, I reckon it was done as a distraction tactic just in case anyone took the opportunity to grab the headlines stating the bloomin' obvious about Trump...

Anyhow, feel real sorry for FD one of my all time favourite actresses...

 

[User62651]

Slightly off tack but sad news re Bill Paxton's passing, maybe not a classic actor but very memorable turns in Aliens, True Lies, Titanic and Twister amongst others and maybe a generational thing but my favourite as Chet in 80s teen classic Weird Science.

 

[JohnnyDee]

Saw it as it happened and it was totally surreal as the clips only paint half the awkwardness of the moment.

I think WB knew it was a screw up and didn't know what to do so showed FD the card and she just blurted out the name with out rumbling what had happened.

Made old Sir Tel's blunder on the Euro-Song selection show a few years back look pretty competent really

 

[Dasit]

Pretty certain they do these stunts on purpose

Oscars is losing it's importance. This guaranteed every news site/media outlet/forums in the Western world featured the Oscars at the top of it's coverage.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

OK - so as I understand it - one of the PWC folks was still holding the duplicate envelope for Emma Stone (of La La Land) winning best actress - and gave that to Warren Beatty by mistake. He opened it up and got confused as all he could see was Emma Stone - La La Land He had another look in the envelope - but no other card - so just went with what was in his hand and gave it to Faye Dunaway, and she just also went with it and read out La La Land - ignoring the fact that it mentioned Emma Stone on the card also.

Schadenfreude is not a very nice emotion - however...

 

[JohnnyDee]

OK - so as I understand it - one of the PWC folks was still holding the duplicate envelope for Emma Stone (of La La Land) winning best actress - and gave that to Warren Beatty by mistake. He opened it up and got confused as all he could see was Emma Stone - La La Land He had another look in the envelope - but no other card - so just went with what was in his hand and gave it to Faye Dunaway, and she just also went with it and read out La La Land - ignoring the fact that it mentioned Emma Stone on the card also.

Schadenfreude is not a very nice emotion - however...

This exactly. It was right riveting stuff in the end though but...

 

[patricks148]

Slightly off tack but sad news re Bill Paxton's passing, maybe not a classic actor but very memorable turns in Aliens, True Lies, Titanic and Twister amongst others and maybe a generational thing but my favourite as Chet in 80s teen classic Weird Science.

Me too, fav line is "it time to pay the fiddler ....boozehounds"

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Poor old Warren had a rabbit in a headlights look. He realised the card was wrong and at that point clearly he should have looked to the sides and got this resolved. However, he was under pressure and he is 79. Apologies to 79yr olds on this forum but you are asking a lot for him, under that pressure, to think on his feet. Maybe 20 years ago he would have been fine. Then again, he is an actor, he reads lines that other people write for him.

 

[JohnnyDee]

Poor old Warren had a rabbit in a headlights look. He realised the card was wrong and at that point clearly he should have looked to the sides and got this resolved. However, he was under pressure and he is 79. Apologies to 79yr olds on this forum but you are asking a lot for him, under that pressure, to think on his feet. Maybe 20 years ago he would have been fine. Then again, he is an actor, he reads lines that other people write for him.

I don't know, think he thought pretty quickly - palmed it over to Faye Dunaway and kept schtum

 

[njrose51]

So mistakes happen and all that, I'll accept that. But what is unforgivable is the amount of time it took them to actually correct the mistake? I mean surely someone should have jumped up straight away and send "WAIT! Don't let them on stage!" They actually had the Oscar in the hands!! It didn't take them 30 seconds to get from table to stage! That's pretty shoddy organisation.

Oh and as for the very sad passing of Bill Paxton, surely nothing beats... "I say we grease this rat fu*k son of a bitch!"

 

[MegaSteve]

Begs the question on how much pooh would've hit the fan if it was the folk from Moonlight on stage only to be told there was an error...

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Begs the question on how much pooh would've hit the fan if it was the folk from Moonlight on stage only to be told there was an error...

That sure is a good question, probably a lot of blood on the streets.

 

[Beezerk]

Either way, the best film won thankfully.

 

[srixon 1]

Has the lawsuit been raised yet? Some of those luvvies must be suffering from emotional stress.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

You couldn't make it up could you. Have to feel for both Beatty and Dunnaway and the spot they were put in and PWC got it horribly wrong. Surely it wouldn't take much, as the presenters are walking on stage to tell them the winner verbally. Surely a way can be done for this to be done without leaks (or Russian intervention)