Murtada here. If there is one thing we can take away from last night best picture announcement, hopefully it’s the love and respect the teams behind Moonlight and La La Land have for each other. La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz took charge of the situation on stage and announced Moonlight as the rightful winner while everyone else on stage was utterly confused. He’s already being hailed as “the truth teller we need right now”.
Both Barry Jenkins and producer Adele Romanski started their acceptance speeches by mentioning the La La Land team. Jenkins went further acknowledging the many months the teams behind both films spent together on the Oscar campaign trail:
I have to say — and it is true, it’s not fake — we’ve been on the road with these guys for so long, and that was so gracious, so generous of them. My love to “La La Land,” my love to everybody.
When Damien Chazelle understandably chose not to speak to the press post his best director win, it fell on the shoulders of this year’s best actress to address the situation backstage. Emma Stone of course handled it with aplomb and her usual charm. She landed her opening joke “Phew… you guys see that?”, delivered with a knowing wink. She sorta tried to start a conspiracy theory “ I was holding my best actress in a leading role card that entire time… I don’t mean to start stuff”. You totally did, Emma. At least for a few hours until Price Waterhouse Cooper took responsibility for the error and said that they had duplicate envelopes for all 24 categories and that they handed the wrong envelope to Warren Beatty.
The clincher though, as what she said about Moonlight.
And of course it was Emma who verbalized what everyone was thinking last night "Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time?". Yes Emma, it was. We are still in shock. Comment away with your Monday feelings about the snafu and Emma's win, too.