In the unlikely event that this programme is your First Contact with the outside world, im sure you have heard that the war was a mistake at the oscars. And the Academy Award for best picture. La la land. There is a mistake. You guys won best picture. This is not a joke, im afraid they read the wrong thing. This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture. Moonlight, best picture. Pricewaterhousecoopers may be error. It has been counting the oscar ballots for 83 years and it had to issue an apology. It said that the presenters had been mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope. Even in my dreams this could not be true, but to hell with dreams because this is true. My heart was a little broken, but it is one of those things that get thrown at you. You can lean into its push away from it and as i said, it was a real honour to be able to give it to them. What a gracious man he was last night. As you can imagine this has been a very popular story with headline writers. The Los An
In the unlikely event that this programme is your First Contact with the outside world, im sure you have heard that the war was a mistake at the oscars. And the Academy Award for best picture. La la land. There is a mistake. You guys won best picture. This is not a joke, im afraid they read the wrong thing. This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture. Moonlight, best picture. Pricewaterhousecoopers may be error. It has been counting the oscar ballots for 83 years and it had to issue an apology. It said that the presenters had been mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope. Even in my dreams this could not be true, but to hell with dreams because this is true. My heart was a little broken, but it is one of those things that get thrown at you. You can lean into its push away from it and as i said, it was a real honour to be able to give it to them. What a gracious man he was last night. As you can imagine this has been a very popular story with headline writers. The Los An
beatty just handed it to faye dunaway. he even looked inside the envelope before fate declined la la land. some invoked steve harvey since he himmed miss colombia miss universe. call me, warren beatty. reporter: the accounting firm apologizing, saying the presenters mistakenly had been given the wrong category envelope. right before the mistake was consummated, the presenter s eyes met. eerily similar to the last moments of bonnie and clyde. [ gunfire ] no point in chooting the messenger. jeanne moos, cnn, new york.
present the best picture prize. they were out partying all night. they did win six prizes for la la land. moonlight was the dark horse of this oscar season. some people thought it wasn t going to beat la la land, but it sure did. it s an incredible film. i think the best thing to do today given that people think it s been snubbed by la la land, go see moonlight. they should buy everyone in america tickets. 83 years pricewaterhousecoopers has been running this. here is their statement. they re taking full responsibility not saying who was at fault, but someone at the company was at ought. we sincerely apologize during the broadcast. the presenters had been given the wrong category envelope. we are investigating how this could have happened and we deeply regret this occurred. we don t know exactly who
la la land. i m afraid they read of the wrong thing. this is not a joke, moonlight has won best picture. tom: one of the great live tv moments in history, and a disaster for the voting committee. the accounting firm explained that the presenters had been mistakenly given the wrong category envelope. we are in currently investigating how this could have happened. i don t think they immediately corrected the problem, they let at least three people give longer thank you speeches to their wives and families and then they said oh, wait, hold on. i wish someone would have sprinted out on stage of the minute they said it. tom: don t you think he made up for it by leaning into