When time came to honour Previn, who died on 28 February this year aged 89, a photo of conductor Leonard Slatkin was shown instead of an image of Previn.
The Emmys accidentally showed the wrong photo while trying to pay tribute to late composer André Previn in the ceremony’s in memoriam segment.
“I saw that @theemmys posted a photo of me ‘In Memoriam’ rather than the intended André Previn,” Slatkin wrote.
As is customary during the ceremony, a video honoured the cultural personalities who have died in the past year.