“There’s been a mistake.
One year later, we look back at the Oscar moment that will live on in infamy.
She readLa La Landaloud, and the cast and crew took to the stage.
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Horowitz, still holding the Oscar, took the card and showed it to the audience.
“I’m sorry, no, there’s been a mistake,” he said.
“Moonlight,you guys won Best Picture.
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This is not a joke.
Come up here.”
“I just knew it needed to be fixed,” Horowitzexplained later.
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Luckily, he quickly zoomed in on the envelope, really fast.
He totally nailed it.
The audience was equally baffled.
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And then I remember, oh, I’m the host.”
Even those on stage were confused.
I opened the envelope and it said: ‘Emma Stone,La La Land.’
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That’s why I took such a long look at Faye and at you.
I wasn’t trying to be funny."
“Well, you were funny,” Kimmel cracked.
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“I couldn’t bring myself to tell another story.
And so everybody behind me on this stage said, ‘No, that is not acceptable.’
Thank you for the choice.”
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Jenkins later revealed that despiteMoonlight’seventual triumph, the win was bittersweetand he still regrets the circumstances.
“It’s not the kind of thing where you go running off with pompoms.
I wasn’t sure that thing was mine or who it belonged to because of how everything happened.”
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In December 2017, the Oscars introduced new rules to prevent another envelope mixup.
As for the rest of the show?
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