Al Pacino's chaotic slip up at Oscars is being called biggest mistake since La La Land mix up
People are calling Al Pacino's premature announcement of Best Picture at the Oscars one of the biggest mistakes since the La La Land and Moonlight mixup.
It wouldn't be the Oscars without one mixup during the ceremony, and this year Al Pacino caused a stir after he skipped over the nominees for Best Picture.
In fact, people are even comparing the gaffe to the disastrous debacle around La La Land and Moonlight at the 89th Academy Awards.
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This saw the announcement mistakenly being made for La La Land, when in fact the Best Picture category was won by Moonlight.
People had even been in the middle of speeches when the mistake was communicated.
The mistake reportedly happened as the announcer was given the envelope for Best Actress, won by La La Land's Emma Stone, rather than for Best Picture.
Luckily on this occasion, no one had to be awkwardly escorted from the stage to be replaced by someone else.
But it's safe to say that it did bring things to something of an anticlimax with the announcement of the final, and biggest, award of the evening - Best Picture.
I'm sure you will have noticed that usually before the award is announced, they first go through all the nominees.
This ensures that even those that don't win get the recognition they deserve, and also to just remind everyone of the nominations.
But announcer Al Pacino skipped right through this bit, and instead of introducing the nominees before announcing the award, he just opened up the envelope straight away and announced the winner of Best Picture.
This, of course, was Oppenheimer, which ended up taking home an impressive haul of seven awards at the Oscars this year.
In addition to Best Picture, those included a win for Christopher Nolan in Best Director, as well as for Cillian Murphy in Best Actor, and Robert Downey Jr. in Best Supporting Actor.
People have taken to social media to share their thoughts on Al Pacino's gaffe at the Academy Awards, with some even comparing it to the La La Land / Moonlight fiasco.
One wrote: "Al Pacino creating a Moonlight/La La Land moment while still reading the right name. Master class."
Another wasn't convinced it was quite the same magnitude, writing: "Whatever just happened with the Best Picture presentation wasn't a La La Land/Moonlight screwup, but Pacino just blurting out 'I see Oppenheimer here!' was definitely not how it was supposed to go."
A third tweeted: "If Al Pacino said the winner was La La Land that would have been the best moment of the night."
Here is the full list of this year's Oscar winners:
Best supporting actress
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
America Ferrera - Barbie
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers - WINNER
Best animated short
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - WINNER
Best animated feature
The Boy and the Heron - WINNER
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
Best adapted screenplay
American Fiction - WINNER
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best make-up and hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Society of the Snow
Best production design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Best costume design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Best international feature
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers' Lounge
The Zone of Interest - WINNER
Best supporting actor
Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer - WINNER
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
Best visual effects
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One - WINNER
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Best film editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Poor Things
Best documentary short
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop - WINNER
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Best documentary feature
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol - WINNER
Best cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Poor Things
Best live action short
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - WINNER
Best sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest - WINNER
Best original score
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Poor Things
Best original song
'The Fire Inside' - Flamin' Hot (Diane Warren)
'I'm Just Ken' - Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
'It Never Went Away' - American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)
'Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)' - Killers of the Flower Moon (Scott George)
'What Was I Made For?' - Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell) - WINNER
Best actor
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer - WINNER
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
Best director
Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet
Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan - WINNER
Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos
The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer
Best actress
Annette Bening - Nyad
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Emma Stone - Poor Things - WINNER
Best picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
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Kit Roberts