WHERE WERE YOU WHEN The wrong film won an Oscar - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity WHERE WERE YOU WHEN The wrong film won an Oscar By You Magazine - February 24, 2019 Moonlight’s Best Picture award was overshadowed by that envelope mishap, says BBC LA correspondent Peter Bowes. Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Polaris / eyevine. From our outside broadcast position – a street corner on a particularly chilly night in Hollywood – I joked on BBC TV that I had the golden envelope and that the winner was… La La Land. At the end of a long Oscars day (I’ve been covering the ceremony since 1996), we are usually a little giddy by the time the Best Picture award is announced. Little did I know that the envelope would become the night’s big story. I had just heard in my earpiece that the romantic musical had taken the top prize, bringing its final tally (we thought) to seven wins out of 14 nominations. I went on to explain to the global audience that the story of dreams – and broken dreams – had won because it resonated with people, especially Oscars voters. It was an archetypal portrait of life in Los Angeles. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images. As I was speaking, envelope-gate, as it became known, was unfolding on the stage of the Dolby Theatre. The unthinkable had happened. Was it a joke? No, Faye Dunaway had announced the wrong winner. The mighty Academy Awards had blundered at the final hurdle. One of the accountants responsible for adding up the votes had handed Faye and her co-presenter Warren Beatty the wrong envelope containing a duplicate card for the previous award, Best Actress, which had been won by Emma Stone for her performance in La La Land. I went back on TV to explain the kerfuffle and to analyse Moonlight’s victory – a ground-breaking film with an all-black cast and a worthy winner. In a year focused on diversity, the coming-of-age story resonated with voters. But the embarrassing moment overshadowed Moonlight’s achievement. The Academy Awards of 2017 will forever be remembered – and ridiculed – for the envelope mishap, and the two minutes and 23 seconds that La La Land (final tally, six Oscars) was the Best Picture winner. Also that month… MPs voted to give Theresa May the power to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, allowing the government to begin the two-year process of Brexit negotiations. Adele won five awards at the 59th Grammys, including Best Song for ‘Hello’ and Best Album for 25. Photo by Vince Bucci/REX/Shutterstock Harrison Ford was involved in a near-miss with a passenger jet while landing his plane in California. The discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting star Trappist-1 was revealed in the journal Nature – raising hopes of finding alien life. Photo by Joanne Davidson/REX/Shutterstoc​k Black Sabbath played their last ever show in their home town of Birmingham. Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died aged 45. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved