Most readers remember the night of February 26, 2017, when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty went on stage during the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony. It was the year when “La Land” was nominated for 14 Oscars, linking the record for nominating films like “Titanic” and “All About Eve”. In the best image category, he faced “Arrival” “” Fenses “,” Hell or High Water “,” Hacksaw Ridge “,” Hidden Figures “,” Lion “and” Manchester by the Sea “. They all have been defeated (most would rightly say) by the moderate queer drama of Barry Jenkins “Moonlight”.
Of course, when the best image was announced, a mixture has been revealed. Beatty and Dunaway received a backup envelope for the best actress in mistake. Emma Stone had just won the best actress for “La la Land”, but the “spare” envelope was still behind the scenes. When Beatty opened him in front of an audience of billions, he looked a little confused. He showed the envelope in Dunaway, and she simply saw the title, “La la Land” under the name of Stone. She announced that “La la Land” was the best film and that her producers jumped on the feet of joy. They went on stage and started to give thanks of thanks.
After two minutes, however, the host of the ceremony, Jimmy Kimmel, intervened in front of the microphone to announce that there had been an error. Fred Burger, a producer of “La la Land”, interrupted his own speech to say “we lost, by the way”. “Moonlight” was the best winner in the film. The real envelope was opened and the winner was revealed to the camera. It was an error that became an instantaneous part of the history of the Oscars.
And, a funny story was not the first time that such a mixture has happened. In 1964, Sammy Davis, Jr. was used to announce the winner of the best musical partition (adapted) to the 36th Oscars. He announced that the winner was John Addison for “Tom Jones”, who was not even nominated in the category.
Sammy Davis, Jr. announced the winner in the bad category of music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmmi9ksott4
It should be recalled that in 1964, there were two categories of score. One was called “better musical score – substantially original”, while the other was called “the best music score – adaptation or treatment”. The two categories were necessary, given the number of notable musicals on stage for the film at the time. The voters of the academy estimated that the adaptation of a broadway score existing on the big screen required a set of skills different from the writing of a new score roughly, they therefore separated the skills in two categories.
At the 39th Oscars, Sammy Davis, Jr. was to announce the winner of the adaptation or treatment category. The nominees that year were Johnny Green for “Bye Bye Birdie”, Leith Stevens for “A New Kind of Love”, Maurice Jarre for “Sunday and Cybele” and George Bruns for “The Sword in the Stone”. The ultimate winner was to be Andre Previn for his work on “Irma the sweet”. Davis, however, opened the envelope and proudly announced that the winner was John Addison for “Tom Jones”, the winner of the substantially original category. The public, having already witnessed Addison to accept its price, was confused.
You can see the Kerfuffle in the clip above, as well as the total professionalism of Davis. He quickly pointed out that “they gave me the bad envelope”. Then he immediately joked “wait until the NAACP hears about this.” When he received the appropriate envelope, he put a pair or read glasses saying “I’m not going to be wrong this time, baby.” What a class act. PREVIN received its award, and the rest of the evening went well. “Tom Jones” won the best film.
The Oscars, we must all remember, are a live show, generally constructed without casting rehearsal and errors occur frequently. Since there were only two notable envelope exchanges in the history of 98 years of the show, I would say that the history is fairly clean.
Sammy, meanwhile, is still planned for a biopic.
