{"id":91594,"date":"2017-02-28T02:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91594"},"modified":"2017-02-28T02:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T07:16:58","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-shares-insights-on-best-picture-oscar-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/28\/jimmy-kimmel-shares-insights-on-best-picture-oscar-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel shares insights on best picture Oscar gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel shared his perspective on the show’s best-picture gaffe during his Monday monologue on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live !\u201d (Photo: Jimmy Kimmel Live\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES\u2014Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel shared his perspective on the show’s best-picture gaffe during his Monday monologue on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live !\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I’m sure you’ve at least heard, ‘La La Land’ was simultaneously somehow the biggest winner and loser last night,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n

Presenters announced \u201cLa La Land\u201d as the best picture winner at Sunday’s Academy Awards, though \u201cMoonlight\u201d was the actual winner. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had been given the best actress envelope to open instead of best picture. The accounting firm responsible for the integrity of the awards has taken responsibility for the error and apologized to all involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the weirdest TV finale since ‘Lost,\u201d’ Kimmel cracked.<\/p>\n

He said the plan had been for him to end the Oscar show in the audience, seated next to Matt Damon, when rumblings began that there’d been a mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re sitting there and we notice some commotion going on,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cAnd Matt says, ‘I think I heard the stage manager say they got the winner wrong.’ …So you just kind of figure, well, the host will go onstage and clear this up. And then I remember, oh I’m the host.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three \u201cLa La Land\u201d producers gave acceptance speeches before the error was corrected and \u201cMoonlight\u201d received the award.<\/p>\n

Kimmel said it was \u201cmass confusion\u201d when he got onstage and no one seemed sure what to do. Then Denzel Washington, sitting in the front row, got Kimmel’s attention and shouted, \u201cBarry!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually I figured out that Barry Jenkins, the director of ‘Moonlight,’ is standing behind me and Denzel wanted me to get him to the microphone to make a speech, which makes sense,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cThank God Denzel was there to make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

After ending the show, Kimmel spoke to Beatty backstage, who showed him the envelopes. Dunaway, \u201cmade quite a getaway,\u201d Kimmel said, leaving immediately after the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave any of you here ever hosted the Oscars before?\u201d Kimmel joked with his Monday night audience. \u201cWell, except for the end – it was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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