Confusion reigns at the Oscars as Moonlight wins Best Picture after Faye Dunaway first says La La Land

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      A major gaffe in the final minutes of tonight's Oscars is going to be talked about for years.

      Faye Dunaway announced that the Academy Award for Best Picture had gone to La La Land.

      But it turned out she read the wrong name and the actual winner was Moonlight.

      After the La La Land group joyfully got on-stage, there appeared to be some confusion.

      Then producer Jordan Horowitz stunned the crowd with this statement: "There’s a mistake. Moonlight you guys won best picture. This is not a joke, come up here. Moonlight has won best picture.”

      Dunaway's copresenter, Warren Beatty, got up to the microphone to offer an explanation. He had earlier passed the envelope to Dunaway after a long pause.

      "I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone La La Land," Beatty said. "That's why I took such a long look at Faye and at you. I wasn't trying to be funny."

      He then repeated that Moonlight was winner of the Oscar for Best Picture.

      Moonlight director and coscreenwriter Barry Jenkins seemed baffled before realizing his film had won the big prize. Then he and others from Moonlight went up on-stage.

      "I have to say it's true and it's not fake," Jenkins said.

      The Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar was also presented to Jenkins, as well as to Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight

      In addition, the first Academy Award of the night went to Moonlight: Mahershala Ali was honoured as Best Supporting Actor.

      Ashton Sanders was one of three actors playing a gay character in Moonlight.

      La La Land, a musical love story about a struggling actor (Emma Stone) and a jazz singer (Ryan Gosling), picked up six Oscars.

      It went into the evening with a record-tying 14 nominations.

      La La Land won for Best Actress (Stone), Best Director (Damien Chazelle), Best Cinematography (Linus Sandgren), Best Original Song ("City of Stars" by Jason Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul), Best Original Score (Hurwitz), and Best Production Design (David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco).

      In accepting her first Oscar, Stone praised the four other nominees, saying it was the greatest honour to stand alongside them.

      "I realize a moment like this is a huge confluence of luck and opportunity," Stone added before thanking Chazelle, Gosling, and the crew on La La Land.

      Casey Affleck won the Best Actor Oscar for Manchester by the Sea.

      "One of the first people who taught me to act was Denzel Washington," Affleck said, paying respect to the director and star of Fences and one of his fellow nominees.

      The Academy Award for Best Screenplay went to Affleck's director, Kenneth Lonergan, for Manchester by the Sea.

      Viola Davis won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences.

      Things didn't quite work out as planned when La La Land was mistakenly announced as the Best Picture.

      The Salesman won as Best Foreign-Language Film. It was the second time that Iranian director Asghar Farhadi had been honoured in this category. However, he chose not attend the ceremony to protest U.S. president Donald Trump's executive order banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.

      John Gilbert won for Best Film Editing for Hacksaw Ridge. The Jungle Book won for Best Visual Effects.

      Zootopia captured the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and Piper won for Best Animated Short.

      The Best Documentary Feature went to OJ Made in America. The Best Documentary Short was awarded to The White Helmets, and the Best Live Action Short was Sing.

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