'La La Land' wins best picture at Academy Awards

[Rollo]

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Source: Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The showbiz fairy tale "La La Land" has won best picture at the 89th Academy Awards, winning a leading seven awards at an Oscars filled with messages - direct and indirect - sent to Donald Trump.

"La La Land" won awards for best actress Emma Stone, its jazz-infused songs and its director, Damien Chazelle. The 32-year-old Chazelle became the youngest ever to win best director.

Protest, boycotts and rallies swirled around Sunday's ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, hosted by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel.

Best actor went to Casey Affleck, who edged out Denzel Washington.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OSCARS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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See? Even the premier news organization gets it wrong...

[question everything]

1. Nope. Was a mistake. Read below (nt)

[Rollo]

5. Of course it was a mistake

A mistake on the part of the AP by rushing out a story without confirming the results.

[question everything]

7. Then why post it? To be the first story on the Home Page?

If you'd looked first you'd realized that you should not have posted it.

You really should remove it. It is embarrassing to DU where LBN is so closely monitored.

[Rollo]

19. It was posted to question everything

[Beartracks]

8. Confirming the results?

It was right there on live TV, just like it's been for decades. That would be like watching the Superbowl, seeing the final scoreboard... and then wanting to confirm the results before publishing.

I imagine AP and everyone had stories and pictures to post, ready-to-go, for each of the nominated films. As soon as Faye Dunaway read that card, they just clicked "upload" on La La Land.

Who would've thought Price Waterhouse (or whoever it is these days) would hand out the wrong envelope?

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[ToxMarz]

11. Yeah, I watched it too

Kinda of stretch in order to cast aspersion on the "lying media". Guess we should all just wait until Donald tweets it so we know the truth.

[murielm99]

15. Was it Price Waterhouse,

or was it a mistake by Warren Beatty? Did he need reading glasses? (I wear them myself). Why were there too many envelopes floating around? Is Beatty getting dementia? That is a serious question, not meant as an insult.

I Tivoed the program, and I rewound it and watched it again. I still can't figure out what happened.

I feel sorry for the La La Land people. What a terrible letdown.

[christx30]

17. What happened was...

They gave Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty the wrong card. The card said "Emma Stone, Laa Laa Land", and that's why Beatty took so long announcing it. You can see the production team come in during the speeches just before that guy says "we lost, by the way."

[Beartracks]

18. When Beatty went back to the mic...

... he said the card read, "Emma Stone - La La Land," which is why he looked at it for so long. I presume he meant, because it didn't say "Best Picture" or because it didn't have just a movie title on it.

I haven't heard why there was an apparently second Emma Stone card.

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[C Moon]

24. I recall him looking the winner over, smiling, looking confused, and finally passing it to

Faye Dunaway to read.
Someone else messed up—it wasn't Warren and Faye.

[Alice11111]

29. Well, it clearly said BEST ACTRESS...duh,

Feel a bit for him, but one of them should have said something, stepped off stage to check, geez.
Price Waterhouse should be fired!

[C Moon]

33. The phrase "don't shoot the messenger" comes to mind here for me.

[Cha]

25. yeah, I was thinking about the people who thought they won..

crushing.

[TeamPooka]

2. Moonlight won. There was a mistake reading the winner. Congrats Moonlight!

[Ken Burch]

3. "Dewey Defeats MOONLIGHT"

n/t.

[Beartracks]

9. LOL

[calimary]

13. Yep. Something like that!

I've covered a LOT of Academy Awards in my career. NEVER saw anything like this. Local reporters say it's the first time anything like this has happened in 89 years of Oscar.

[Ken Burch]

16. Not true, surprisingly. Will Rogers did about the same thing in 1934

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Academy_Awards

[calimary]

26. Oooh, good find!

First time in 83 years, then. Not 89. So says my calculator.

As I read through the link, it actually appears that we're both correct, Ken. The one in 1934 involved the Best Director Oscar, not Best Picture. I think in the Best Picture category, the 89-year record stands.

[regnaD kciN]

32. It also wasn't a case of reading the wrong winner, but of just reading his first name...

...without realizing there were two nominees with that name.

[Chipper Chat]

4. I saw people running behind the LaLaLand winners. I thought they were streakers.

Then I thought no, something's up.
What a fuck-up.

[Javaman]

6. Nope. Moodlight. someone fucked up the envelopes nt

[lunasun]

10. AP has corrected so why

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Moonlight” has won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset that followed Warren Beatty first reading the wrong winner.

Shock and chaos spread through the Dolby Theatre when producers of “La La Land” were stopped in the middle of their acceptance speeches to be informed that Beatty had incorrectly read “La La Land” as the winner.

[HoneyBadger]

14. Awesome prank Mr Beatty

[yeoman6987]

20. Which he didn't yell it out. Faye did

[Ken Burch]

27. Would have been better if she'd shouted "Marisa Tomei, MY COUSIN VINNY!"

[yeoman6987]

28. That would have been classic.

[Alice11111]

30. LOL

[miyazaki]

12. Personally, I blame Steve Harvey. n/t

[Rollo]

22. So did Jimmy...

But I won't let Trebek off the hook...

[KeepItReal]

21. Please correct this OP. Moonlight is the winner.

Thanks.

[Rollo]

23. Try reading the comment...

[Tanuki]

31. Not helpful. Don't assume people have time to read everything in detail.

There are better ways of making your point. I agree that your OP should be changed or deleted.

[TubbersUK]

34. Would you add the AP correction to the OP please? n/t