Jimmy Kimmel was back on safer ground Monday night, when he addressed the craziest Oscar finale ever on his late-night talk show.
“Except for the finish it was a lot of enjoyable,” he mentioned about his 1st time hosting the Oscars Sunday evening.
Then, he mentioned, “all of a sudden it turned into 1 of those Maury Povich paternity test shows.”
He joked, “It was the weirdest Television finale considering that ‘Lost.'”
Displaying a clip of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, co-stars in the classic film “Bonnie and Clyde,” presenting the winner for most effective picture, Kimmel said it looked like Beatty was confused so he handed the card to Dunaway. She announced the winner as “La La Land.”
“In other words, Clyde threw Bonnie beneath the bus,” he quipped.
At the time, Kimmel explained he was sitting in the audience next to frenemy Matt Damon due to the fact he was going to finish the show from there. But then both could clearly see there was a commotion on stage and Damon overheard the stage manager say they got the winner incorrect, Kimmel recalled.
“We’re sitting there and you sort of figure, effectively the host will go on stage and clear this up and then I remember, ‘Oh I’m the host!'” he said.
By the time Kimmel returned to the stage, “La La Land” producer Jordan Horowitz had already corrected the mistake, announcing that “Moonlight” was in truth the winner for best image.
“I am feeling really bad for these guys, but also attempting actually challenging not to laugh,” Kimmel said.
Then Denzel Washington gestured and named to the host from the front row. He kept saying, “Barry,” Kimmel recalled.
“At some point I figure out that Barry Jenkins, the director of ‘Moonlight,’ is standing behind me and Denzel desires me to get him to the microphone to make a speech, which makes sense,” Kimmel stated. “Thank God Denzel was there to make sense.”
Jenkins did speak, followed by yet another swift speech from his producer.
Then, Kimmel stated, “everyone just stood there shell-shocked, so I ended the show.”
That’s when persons came up to him and asked if this had been 1 of his infamous pranks.
“I did not pull a prank,” Kimmel told his talk-show audience. “If I had pulled a prank, by the way, I would not just have the wrong winner’s name in the envelope, there would have been a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon in there.”
Later, backstage, he talked to Beatty and did, certainly, see the card that study Emma Stone for “La La Land.” As for Dunaway, he joked, she “created rather a getaway. She mentioned the incorrect name and she split. She wanted no element of it.”
As it turns out, the largest gaffe in Oscars history was neither Dunaway or Beatty’s fault.
A partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm which tabulates the votes and is responsible for handling the results, handed the incorrect envelope to the two presenters. The firm apologized to the teams from “Moonlight” and “La La Land,” Beatty and Dunaway and Oscar viewers.
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