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‘Moonlight’ Wins Best Picture Oscar … In A Do-Over – Deadline’s Live Blog

UPDATE with complete winners: In what might be one of the most bizarre endings to any awards show in Hollywood history, Moonlight was crowned with the Best Picture Oscar. But it took a while, as presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway actually pronounced the favorite La La Land the winner, with the resulting confusion creating chaos both on the stage and in the crowd as it became clear something had gone horribly wrong. Up until then, what the Oscar producers producers had promised to be a stripped-down show had gone off swimmingly, with host Jimmy Kimmel keeping the action going (much to the chagrin of foil Matt Damon.

Here’s how our live blog went down including the play-by-play as everything went off the rails:

 

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