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[00:04.28]"There's a mistake. ¡®Moonlight,' you guys won best picture."
[00:11.61]And with those words, producer Jordan Horowitz of "La La Land,"
[00:19.88]told the cast and crew of a competing film
[00:25.17]that it had won the Oscars' biggest award.
[00:30.03]Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway
[00:35.20]were given the wrong category's envelope before they went on stage.
[00:41.87]They may have been given the back-up envelope for the "best actress" award,
[00:48.70]which earlier was given to Emma Stone of "La La Land."
[00:56.16]Beatty was clearly confused about what he saw when he opened the envelope,
[01:03.52]but Dunaway read the name of the film listed below Stone's name.
[01:10.04]The actors and producers from "La La Land"
[01:14.48]left their seats and filled the stage to accept their Oscar statues.
[01:21.92]They gave many speeches before Horowitz interrupted.
[01:27.88]"This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture," he said.
[01:34.12]He took the card from Beatty and held it up for the cameras.
[01:39.82]"Moonlight. Best Picture," he said as the camera moved closer.
[01:47.12]The show's host, comedian and late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel,
[01:54.12]made the best of the situation.
[01:57.56]He went up to Beatty, and exclaimed "Warren. What did you do?"
[02:04.16]Kimmel also said, "personally, I blame Steve Harvey."
[02:11.40]That was in reference to the mistake Harvey made in 2015 at the Miss Universe pageant.
[02:20.29]He announced the wrong winner,
[02:23.31]first saying it was the contestant from Colombia,
[02:28.55]and then realizing the correct winner was actually from the Philippines.
[02:36.32]Once order had been restored, Beatty tried to explain what happened,
[02:42.68]saying he had been given the wrong envelope.
[02:47.44]Barry Jenkins is the writer and director of "Moonlight."
[02:52.64]Once he reached the stage, he said "even in my dreams, this cannot be true."
[03:00.31]Stone, happy to have won the best actress award,
[03:05.52]later said "is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time? Cool!"
[03:13.48]Many people are wondering how the mistake was made.
[03:18.08]The accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has been handling Oscar votes
[03:25.76]for over 80 years without any problems.
[03:30.36]The firm apologized to all of the people who were made uncomfortable by the mistake.
[03:37.64]It promised to investigate what caused the error.
[03:42.70]Horowitz is being credited for staying calm and stopping the show to correct the error.
[03:51.36]People are calling him "gracious," "a great producer," and "classy."
[04:01.08]Even Jenkins said "much respect to that dude."
[04:06.30]A story from USA Today detailed the backstage moments of the show.
[04:14.32]The newspaper said people could be heard shouting
[04:18.96]"Best show ever!" at the end of the night.
[04:25.00]The other major award winners  will always remember their victorious night
[04:31.36]because of the best picture mix-up.
[04:35.40]They included: Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali
[04:40.71]for their supporting roles in "Fences" and "Moonlight;"
[04:47.48]"Manchester by the Sea," for best original screenplay
[04:53.52]and "Moonlight" for best adapted screenplay;
[04:59.00]Casey Affleck for best actor and Damien Chazelle for best director.
[05:07.97]"The Salesman," a film from Iran, won the award for best foreign film.
[05:17.16]Director Asghar Farhadi did not attend the ceremony.
[05:25.28]He wrote a letter that said he chose not to attend
[05:30.68]in protest of President Donald Trump's attempts
[05:35.72]to ban immigrants to the United States
[05:39.84]from a number of majority Muslim countries, including Iran.
[05:46.68]And that's What's Trending Today.
[05:50.58]I'm Dan Friedell.