89th Academy Awards - Oscars Awards Show - Producer Jordon Horowitz holds up the card for the Best Picture winner Moonlight. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
La La Land was mistakenly awarded the best picture Oscar, only to have it taken away from the cast and crew and handed to Moonlight in an unprecedented Oscars mix up.
#Oscar for Best Picture goes to ‘La La Land.’ #Oscars pic.twitter.com/XekFviYCpL
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 27, 2017
Moonlight won Best Picture after a mix-up on stage where La La Land was initially named the winner.
BREAKING UPDATE: Following incorrect announcement, 'Moonlight' has won Best Picture at @TheAcademy Awards. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/qoPw93WlCM
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 27, 2017
UPDATE: Best picture Oscar mistakenly awarded to 'La La Land,' 'Moonlight' is real winnerhttps://t.co/HqqtZPB54P
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 27, 2017
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BREAKING UPDATE: Following incorrect announcement, 'Moonlight' has won 'Best Picture' at the #Oscars. https://t.co/o8KUR4ZHUm pic.twitter.com/euLTgShYlN
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 27, 2017
WATCH: Moment where crew/cast of 'La La Land' realizes a mistake had been made and 'Moonlight' actually won Best Picture. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/WCCopwsJ66
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 27, 2017
Moonlight won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, beating favorite La La Land for the movie industry's most prestigious award.
But in a highly unusual mishap, presenter Warren Beatty first, mistakenly initially announced that musical La La Land had won, causing confusion and uproar on Hollywood's biggest night. Beatty said he had been given the wrong envelope to open.
Emma Stone won best actress for the musical, and Manchester by the Sea star Casey Affleck was named best actor on a night where U.S. President Donald Trump was the butt of numerous jokes, capping a Hollywood awards season marked by fiery protests at his policies.
La La Land director Damien Chazelle, 32, became the youngest person to ever win a best director Oscar.
Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali won their first Oscars for their supporting roles in African-American stories "Fences" and Moonlight, in stark contrast to the 2016 Academy Awards when no actors of color were even nominated.
Black actors triumph at very political Oscars
Moonlight, the coming of age tale of a young black boy in Miami, also won the best adapted screenplay statuette, while grief-driven independent drama Manchester by the Sea took home original screenplay.
Romantic musical La La Land, the tale of a struggling actress and a jazz pianist in Los Angeles, went into the Oscars with a leading 14 nominations and emerged with six, including for its score and theme song City of Stars.
Trump's presence loomed large at the three and a half hour show as host Jimmy Kimmel fired off political zingers and even tweeted at the Republican president, getting no immediate response.
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