{"id":99738,"date":"2017-04-25T02:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99738"},"modified":"2017-04-25T02:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:39:31","slug":"faye-dunaway-speaks-on-oscars-best-picture-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/25\/faye-dunaway-speaks-on-oscars-best-picture-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Faye Dunaway speaks on Oscar&#8217;s best picture fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99739\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2617402303_7879a35cfc_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99739\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2617402303_7879a35cfc_o.jpg\" alt=\"Actress Faye Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope that should have contained the Oscar's best picture winner. (Photo: David Shankbone\/ Flickr)\" width=\"588\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2617402303_7879a35cfc_o.jpg 588w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2617402303_7879a35cfc_o-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress Faye Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope that should have contained the Oscar&#8217;s best picture winner. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shankbone\">David Shankbone\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013Actress Faye Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope that should have contained the Oscar&#8217;s best picture winner.<\/p>\n<p>Dunaway tells Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News she thought Beatty was stalling for effect.<\/p>\n<p>Dunaway read \u201cLa La Land\u201d as best picture winner rather than \u201cMoonlight\u201d after PwC partner Brian Cullinan mistakenly handed them the back-up envelope for Actress in a Leading Role instead of the envelope for Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>She says she read the movie&#8217;s title on the card but didn&#8217;t notice Emma Stone&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Dunaway says she felt \u201ccompletely stunned\u201d and later felt guilty because she thought she could have done something to prevent the debacle.<\/p>\n<p>Holt&#8217;s interview with Dunaway will air Tuesday on the \u201cToday\u201d show<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013Actress Faye Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[18314,740],"class_list":["post-99738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-faye-dunaway","tag-oscars","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}