It was widely predicted to win this award. With 14 nominations, La La Land tied with All About Eve and Titanic as the most-nominated film in Academy history. Dunaway, reading the card, confidently announces, ' La La Land' and the room dissolves into cheers. Beatty shows the card to Dunaway, who has just muttered, 'You're impossible,' in his direction. Visibly panicking, he seems to stall, slowly stating-and by the end, essentially sputtering-'And the Academy Award.

Beatty looks at the card, glances at it again, raises his eyebrows, looks in the envelope for another card, checks the card again, then glances at Dunaway for help. So far, so good.Д«ut then they get to the envelope, and that's when the trouble starts. The two took the stage together, gave a cute speech about using art to find the 'truth,' and announced the nominees. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde, the Academy tapped Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty to announce the 2017 Best Picture winner. Let's revisit exactly what went down-and why it probably won't ever happen again.

At the very least, you'll probably be hearing about it a lot on Sunday night. accidentally announced the name of someone not even nominated in the category he was presenting at the 1964 Oscars-but in 2017, for the biggest category of the night, on the biggest night of the year in Hollywood, this was just about as bad as it could get.Д«ut a year has passed, and it seems like the Academy might be willing to joke about the situation now.

Quickly dubbed 'Envelopegate,' the mistake wasn't totally unprecedented-Sammy Davis Jr. It was, without a doubt, the most shocking moment in Oscars history. It was the gasp heard 'round the world: a sharp, near-simultaneous intake of breath from the audience at the Dolby Theatre after La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz stopped his colleagues' acceptance speeches to make this announcement: 'There's a mistake.

2017 best of the best nominees