▶ "Moonlight" has won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset that followed Faye Dunaway first reading the wrong winner. There was La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz, who had to take on the awkward task of breaking the news to a stunned audience that Moonlight actually won. Thank (expletive) we didn’t have Warren Beatty doing the auction,” said Elton John to laughs at his AIDS Foundation viewing party. Some screenshots appear to show that Warren Beatty, who was supposed to announce the winner, was handed the envelope for Best Actress instead of Best Picture. “We sincerely apologize to ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land,’ Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture,” PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a statement.

Source: thestar February 27, 2017 14:03 UTC