The 2017 Academy Awards ceremony was mostly uneventful and typical, until it was time to announce Best Picture.
Due to an unfortunate envelope mixup that saw presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read off a duplicate Best Actress card, Damien Chazelle’s musical La La Land was proclaimed the winner, instead of the actual Best Picture, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight.
Many people probably won’t be surprised by this development, which is possibly just the first step in determining the right solution.
Maybe all the presenters should heed the words of Martin Scorsese, who jokingly asked for the envelope to be double-checked when he won for The Departed.