It was super awkward and everyone was confused. Someone handed Beatty the wrong card (for best actress) and Faye just read it out and then they had to correct it.

One of the La La Land peeps was super classy and said he wanted to hand his award off to Moonlight and sort of made them come up on stage.

So they got to give speeches too.

Kimmel blamed Steve Harvey.

XD

Oh also the guy from La La Land who stayed was also the one who announced that Moonlight had actually won. Super classy.

Talk show writers around the world are furiously writing an election joke about this because that was my first thought.

yup. I've already seen like five different election jokes on twitter alone.

Both the "wow the sure winner didn't win" and the "whoops we've made a huge mistake!" jokes are there

Anyway this would be a good opportunity to get rid of the envelopes and just have someone from PwC type the winner into a teleprompter

That's easier to hijack though (and hack), haha

Apparently Emma Stone had her actress card in her hand the whole time, so she's saying she's not sure what actually happened. >>

Apparently, for whatever reason, there are two PwC accountants with two sets of envelopes at the opposite ends of the stage

I guess to allow for the producers to make switches on the fly

So that explains why there are two envelopes, but not how Beatty got the other best actress one

Ahhhh

Thanks for that clarification.

So someone dun fucked up handing him the envelope.

"You had one job"

somebody's gon get fired

I feel bad because everyone's blaming Beatty despite that (1) it was allegedly a bad card and (2) Faye's the one who actually read it

Yeah. Warren Beatty Did Nothing Wrong

Re: the prompter, you don't actually have to plug it in anywhere. You can make it practically as secure as the envelopes. I guess it's just that the envelopes look better

rofl twitter. "Guy on ABC citing 'a source backstage' describing 'screaming' when wrong card was read for Best Picture" and "RIP to whoever handed #WarrenBeatty the wrong card. See you in next year's #Oscars In Memoriam montage"

artell: Yeah I feel like the envelopes look more tamper proof, whether they are or not.

It maintains the ~mystery~ and, tbh, I'm sure some of it is tradition too

Sure, and for stuff like voting etc. I always advocate for the secure low-tech solution, like the paper ballot

Here's one to keep you up at night while I go to work: Hannah Keyser on Twitter

OMG for real.

Less classy was the guy giving his speech who turned around and was like "we lost, by the way" into the mic.

I don't blame him, but. Kinda awkward.

man I've never even heard of some of these movies, now I'm gonna have to look up Moonlight

Moonlight, Lion, and Manchester by the Sea are all amazing human stories. Arrival was my personal fave of the year.

Oh Fences too, for human story.

I gotta see Lion

It's so good.