89th Oscars: Best Picture

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Sonic Youth wrote:So, I would like to know if anyone here saw La La Land win Best Picture, and then immediately turned the set off.
I almost did, but decided to leave it on while I went to the bathroom first.
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Other than this, how many other times has the wrong envelope been given. Someone said Sammy Davis Jr. got the wrong envelope sometime back in the 1960s.
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So, I would like to know if anyone here saw La La Land win Best Picture, and then immediately turned the set off.
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Largest sign that the Academy membership is now much more sophisticated.

11 years ago, they couldn't award best picture to the much more vanilla Brokeback Mountain.
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dws1982 wrote:I will say, and then I have to go to bed, that I don't that the parties involved could've handled that with more grace or class.
Agreed.
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inky wrote:Reminds me of the Oscar Ceremony scene in Naked Gun 33 1/3 ...
Reminds me of the myth perpetrated by Rex Reed that Maria Tomei really didn't win for My Cousin Vinny.

For a moment I thought maybe Beatty and Dunaway couldn't read the card and were winging it.
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I will say, and then I have to go to bed, that I don't that the parties involved could've handled that with more grace or class.
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This was actually quite a flop for La La Land. 14 nominations and it couldn't win Best Picture? And this just felt cruel, having it snatched out of its hands like that. And I don't mean metaphorically.

Can't they be co-winners?
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Reminds me of the Oscar Ceremony scene in Naked Gun 33 1/3 ...
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Too bad something like that didn't happen in the general election...
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greatest wtf moment ever
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So this is a four-year streak: Both Independent Spirit Awards & Oscars agree with the Best Picture winners!
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Oops
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You know what sucks about the Academy Awards lately? There are no surprises anymore.
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