The 2017 Oscars ended in an almighty mess early on Monday morning (February 27) as presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced that La La Land had won Best Picture.
As the La La Land cast and crew began to deliver their victory speeches, an interruption occurred somewhere in the back of the crowd and it was announced that the prestigious award had actually gone to Moonlight, which had won Best Adapted Screenplay earlier in the evening.
Confusion spread through the stage as host Jimmy Kimmel was forced to assure the Moonlight crew that it wasn’t a joke or a stunt (he later jokingly blamed Steve Harvey; a reference to his infamous Miss Universe disaster), beckoning them onto the stage. Beatty briefly took the microphone to explain that when he opened his envelope, the card read “Emma Stone — La La Land,” thus prompting his and Dunaway’s announcement. Emma Stone had won Best Actress in the previous presentation.
Madness aside, the win capped a magnificent evening for Moonlight, wherein actor Mahershala Ali became the first-ever Muslim to win an Oscar when he took the title of Best Supporting Actor.
Since the ceremony ended the internet has exploded, settling somewhere in the space between jubilation and not knowing what the hell just happened.
Here’s the moment that it all went nuts on the Oscars stage tonight:
And of course, Twitter reacted with its trademark savagery…
In amongst the celebrations of anyone who is Team Moonlight, the La La Land crew and cast appeared to be devastated, still consoling each other in the theater a half an hour after the show had been brought to a close.
What a failure from the out of touch Hollywood elites. They can’t even read. SAD! #MAKETHEOSCARSGREATAGAIN
I can’t believe how racist hiphopdx is. Nothing to do with hiphop but they post it because blacks are involving. Disgusting.
I feel like this was staged
NO shade … but that movie is horrible. Oscar for the BS. I am black and love and represent our culture well…but everything black isn’t good. we shouldn’t embrace that garbage ass movie.. no shade …just real. It’s flat with a horrible storyline. I saw it twice, because I wanted us to win, but it’s horrible … Fences a zillion times better with a purpose…
Just Hollywood promoting gays to black community, normalizing it
Is there a reason why these stormfront goofs don’t stay on their own website or go jerk off to cuckhold porn. HHDX you need to do better.
Member when oscars had nothing to do with politics and were all about good movies? Wait, oh, ok, nevermind
I mean Moonlight wasn’t THAT bad, but c’mon… Manchester By The Sea, Fences were so much better. Props To Denzel Washington for directing and acting the hell out of him in that movie. I LOVED it
La La Land is an amazing movie and should have won Best Movie Award.
Moon Man was outraged to see all the black faces take to the stage after La La Land was announced the winner of best picture. This is an awards show, but fear and reverse racism have turned it into an outlet to be politically correct. Moon Man longs for the days where no blacks were recognized as artists by the academy (circa. 2016).
Wtf is reverse racism?
affirmative action, same way Obama stole the white house, reverse racism
shouldn’t you be on breitbart or some shit, what you doing here?
I am on breitbart a lot. I enjoy hip hop music, that is why I am here. Why is this hiphop website reporting film awards? They make blacks winning/not winning awards into a racial and political event
You should go back to your white man safe space where you don’t have to face reality and can live in your own little cesspool of ignorance forever. Stupid racist.
black people love to call other people racist
“When the shoe fits…” Racism still exists, systemic oppression still exists. Fragile white males (and anyone else for that matter) who deny that are fucking idiots. Like you.
It is all their ignorant lazy worthless asses know how to do!
Black people want REPARATIONS!
keep hope alive. keep hope alive.
Yes we all know black people insist on getting something for nothing. You have a sickness which leads you to believe that your skin color makes you entitled.
Stop calling people racists, no one said anything racist except the original poster and you.
Aww… Poor fragile manbaby can’t take being called racist. Sad little thing, too bad you have to live in a world where people are so mean they won’t let racism slide anymore!
It is sad the black community and this person do not understand what racism is and choose to throw the term around
Yeah, you white people are definitely the experts on racism. You’ve owned that shit for centuries. Go look at a dictionary, read something other than Stormfront or Breitbart. That or go jump into a fire somewhere. Ignorant fuck.
I am mixed race , but mostly Asian thank you. You have made numerous racist comments on this thread and are becoming violent. Unfortunately the term racist is thrown around so much now it has lost its meaning. This thread looks like it was started in jest because of what took place at the awards last night and also all the backlash over last year’s “white-washed” awards ceremony. Inevitably the people behind last years event were feeling the pressure from the black community and threw out numerous nominations and even awards (including best picture) to black actors, actresses, directors, producers, writers, etc. It is unfortunate because of so much complaining, every nomination and award for black artists will have the underlying question of whether that was deserved or the people behind the scenes were feeling the pressures of “white guilt” that has been imposed upon anyone who isn’t considered “of color”.
Said like a fucking brainwashed ignorant racist supporting white supremacy. Look at you, condemning the “black community” as a whole, and in a patently offensive and idiotic way, too. “Racist” has lost its meaning? Look up at what the white supremacists on this site are saying. Look at the racism being perpetuated against people of color everyday in the US. “Becoming violent”? Again, you need a fucking dictionary. You don’t know what racism means, you don’t know what the word “violent” means. I don’t care if you’re mixed race, if you”re an ignorant fuck, you’re an ignorant fuck. Goddamn, go back to school and learn something this time.
You shouldn’t speak that way to us, we pay the taxes for your government aid.
Yeah, because there are no whites who make use of social programs. You can go drown in a urinal. It’ll be a better use of your life than racist trolling.
Pay reparations for the atrocities committed by non-blacks (devils) towards black people since its inception.
Its good to see moonman represent on this website. Fuck all these racists calling other people racists
“Madness aside, the win capped a magnificent evening for Moonlight, wherein actor Mahershala Ali became the first-ever Muslim to win an Oscar…”
This is absolutely not true. The first example that comes to my mind is the Bosnian director Danis Tanović and his movie “No Man’s Land”. Google’s your friend, DX.
Congratz to them. You won not because of talent or being the best but because you are black. You can be proud of that. the b*tching, whining and the false racism claims worked out. Keep on doing it, thats how you win
Racist alert. Fuck you.
How is that racist?? Its the same complaining Black people did last year. So that was racist too??
Is it a coincidence how last year people were complaining about #OscarsSoWhite and then this shit happens?
Nope. Non racist white people had to feel guilty because someone had to play victim again.
What has this got to do with hip hop? The correct answer is NOTHING.