IT Insights Blog — Academy Awards

At last year's Academy Awards, the big scandal was that Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong Best Picture winner. At this year's big ceremony, held Sunday night, nothing even remotely similar happened to disrupt the proceedings. Well, at least we at the IT Insights blog are pretty sure that nothing happened. We, er, didn't exactly watch the show.

Well, that was something you don't see every day. Last night at the 89th annual Academy Awards, Best Picture presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway teamed to up to incorrectly declare the showbiz strivers musical La La Land winner of the evening's biggest prize, the Oscar for Best Picture. It was only a matter of moments before the announcement of the actual winner, the coming-of-age drama Moonlight, but the legend of the biggest screw-up in Oscars history, played out in its entirety on live TV, is already off and running.